A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.

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Beyond the question of why Trump let his cabinet secretaries (and top military adviser) waste their time marketing a soon-to-be-jettisoned policy, there is the question of why he pressed pause at all.

The flare-up represents the greatest challenge so far to a four-week-old ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran that has constrained fighting but failed to lead to a peace agreement or sustained negotiations.

After popping back to the White House, Charles and Camilla headed out to small-town rural Virginia at the end of their state visit.

A single-page list of dot points is more akin to a meeting agenda than a proper peace deal. But Trump is as bullish as ever about its prospects.

The reason for the 81-year-old’s admission has not been disclosed as his spokesman asks “that you join us in prayer” for the former New York mayor.

A US biotech firm used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species.

The US president’s decision came just hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a news conference talking up the so-called Project Freedom mission, as he declared combat operations were “over”.

Cultural connections and shared strategic interests have meant that the US typically sends an ambassador with close personal ties to the president. Not this time.

A federal judge released the note that Epstein’s former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel.

Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade passed through the Washington Monument area “not long before” the incident, in which a teenage bystander was grazed by a bullet.