https://www.scmp.com/rss/522054/feed Bill Clinton: A prominent centrist Democratic figure, he served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, overseeing a period of significant economic expansion and budget surpluses. His presidency saw the passage of NAFTA, welfare reform, and interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. Previously, he was Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas. Since leaving office, Clinton has remained active in public life, focusing on humanitarian efforts through the Clinton Foundation,... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Alex Lo Alex Lo It’s called the fundamental formula of accounting. During a friendly chitchat between Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton, perhaps to show how seriously China was liberalising its economy, the Chinese communist leader reportedly showed off his knowledge of modern capitalism by citing assets = liabilities + equities. Today, Xi Jinping might also quote the formula to his counterpart Donald Trump, the self-styled ultimate deal maker. After all, the formula shows one person’s asset is another person’s... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3348306/iran-has-shown-wests-containment-china-fools-errand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3348306/iran-has-shown-wests-containment-china-fools-errand?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:15:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge on Monday blocked US President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing a new policy that would subject thousands of refugees to arrest and detention if after a year in the United States they had yet to obtain green ‌cards. US District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston acted at the request of six refugees and two advocacy groups who argued the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy was an unlawful departure from decades of practice. The plaintiffs alleged the policy... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347643/us-district-judge-blocks-trump-administration-detaining-thousands-refugees?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347643/us-district-judge-blocks-trump-administration-detaining-thousands-refugees?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:40:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US congressional committee said ⁠on Tuesday it has ⁠issued a subpoena to Attorney General ⁠Pam Bondi to testify behind closed doors in its probe of the late convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi faces accusations that the Justice Department has concealed the names of powerful associates of Epstein in its release ‌of millions of documents related to the late financier. Under the subpoena, Bondi would give a sworn deposition to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee on ‌April... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346938/us-house-panel-subpoenas-pam-bondi-testify-epstein-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346938/us-house-panel-subpoenas-pam-bondi-testify-epstein-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:29:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Twice on Monday, US President Donald Trump said he had wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has been doing for more than two weeks. But there’s just a little problem: representatives for the four living former presidents – three Democrats and one Republican – said none had been in touch with Trump recently. Trump declined to name the former president when reporters asked... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346927/trump-claims-mystery-ex-president-backed-his-war-iran-no-one-owning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346927/trump-claims-mystery-ex-president-backed-his-war-iran-no-one-owning?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:15:45 +0000 Richard Harris Richard Harris So, the Trump administration has now decapitated two governments, Venezuela and Iran. You can be sure most world leaders will be videoconferencing from secure bunkers from now on. Iran’s leaders brought this upon themselves by being aggressively extremist, especially about their stated aim to destroy Israel, another sovereign state. They have sought to destabilise fellow Muslim states in the Middle East and beyond for decades. Iran’s antipathy towards its neighbours has caused it to attack no... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3345426/are-investors-spooked-iran-violence-market-response-suggests-not?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3345426/are-investors-spooked-iran-violence-market-response-suggests-not?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:30:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to subpoena US Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files regarding the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace in a sign of continued frustration among conservatives with the department’s review and release of a tranche of documents related to the disgraced financier. The move... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345486/us-lawmakers-vote-subpoena-pam-bondi-over-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345486/us-lawmakers-vote-subpoena-pam-bondi-over-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:40:47 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US president Bill Clinton said in sworn testimony released on Monday by a US congressional committee that he had no knowledge of the sex crimes of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton also said President Donald Trump, a one-time close friend of Epstein, “never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein either”. Bill Clinton and his wife, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, were deposed last week by the Republican-led... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345193/us-house-panel-releases-video-clintons-epstein-depositions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345193/us-house-panel-releases-video-clintons-epstein-depositions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:32:21 +0000 Reuters Reuters Bill Clinton told American lawmakers on Friday that he “saw nothing that gave me pause” when he spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as the former US president gave closed-door testimony about his relationship with the late sex offender. In a prepared statement, Clinton told the House of Representatives Oversight Committee that he would not have flown on the late financier’s plane if ‌he had known about his alleged sex trafficking of underage girls, and would have reported him if he did. “We are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344938/bill-clinton-grilled-over-epstein-ties-us-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344938/bill-clinton-grilled-over-epstein-ties-us-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:40:35 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hillary Clinton used her forced appearance Thursday before a Republican-led panel probing Jeffrey Epstein to go on the offensive and demand US President Donald Trump testify about his own links to the sex offender. Clinton said after her deposition when asked if she was confident that her husband did not know of Epstein’s crimes, Clinton said “I am”. “I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein,” she added. “I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344784/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-testify-she-faces-us-house-epstein-panel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344784/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-testify-she-faces-us-house-epstein-panel?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:39:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Brende, who became president of the WEF ‌in 2017, announced his decision in a statement following disclosures from the US Justice Department that showed the Norwegian had three business dinners with Epstein and had also communicated with the disgraced financier via email... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3344763/world-economic-forum-ceo-borge-brende-resigns-over-epstein-revelations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3344763/world-economic-forum-ceo-borge-brende-resigns-over-epstein-revelations?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:50:07 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers has resigned from his teaching post at Harvard University over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Ivy League institution said on Wednesday. Summers, who ran the US Treasury under former president Bill Clinton, was revealed in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice to have had extensive exchanges with the now-deceased financier. Clinton will testify before a congressional committee on Epstein on Friday while his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344654/ex-us-treasury-chief-larry-summers-quits-harvard-over-epstein-ties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344654/ex-us-treasury-chief-larry-summers-quits-harvard-over-epstein-ties?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:51:04 +0000 Victoria Bela Victoria Bela The Wassenaar Arrangement has long been seen as a symbol of China’s isolation from the global community. This major international regime controls the export of weapons and advanced technologies, and its 42 member states include nearly all developed Western countries, nations closely tied to China like Russia, and developing countries such as India. Together, they have worked to block non-members’ access to cutting-edge defence technologies and equipment. In China, the arrangement is viewed as... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342608/wassenaar-arrangement-will-china-join-or-kill-30-year-old-weapon-control-club?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342608/wassenaar-arrangement-will-china-join-or-kill-30-year-old-weapon-control-club?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:00:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Retail tycoon Les Wexner told US lawmakers on Wednesday that he was “conned” by Jeffrey Epstein and denied any knowledge of his crimes, as Democrats pressed him over his decades-long relationship with the notorious sex offender. The 88-year-old founder of L Brands – the former parent of Victoria’s Secret – gave closed-door testimony from his home in New Albany, Ohio, after being subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Epstein and his associates. “I was... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343948/ex-victorias-secret-ceo-les-wexner-says-he-was-conned-epstein?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343948/ex-victorias-secret-ceo-les-wexner-says-he-was-conned-epstein?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:37:43 +0000 Reuters,Agence France-Presse Reuters,Agence France-Presse Charismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South ⁠who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jnr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. “Our father was a servant leader – not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said. Jackson, an inspirational orator and long-time Chicagoan,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343832/us-civil-rights-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-84-leaving-legacy-political-firsts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343832/us-civil-rights-leader-jesse-jackson-dies-84-leaving-legacy-political-firsts?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:53:54 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has accused President Donald Trump of orchestrating a “cover-up” over files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to an interview with the BBC. “Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,” Clinton, who is due to testify before a Congressional committee on the issue, told the British broadcaster in an interview in Berlin published on Monday. The US Department of Justice last month released the latest cache of so-called Epstein files –... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343783/hillary-clinton-accuses-trump-epstein-cover-insists-nothing-hide?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343783/hillary-clinton-accuses-trump-epstein-cover-insists-nothing-hide?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:15:27 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused on Monday to answer questions from US lawmakers but her lawyer said she was prepared to speak if granted clemency by US President Donald Trump. Maxwell, 64, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to discuss her relations with Epstein. Rather than answer the committee’s questions, however, the former British socialite invoked her Fifth Amendment... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342976/epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-seeks-trump-clemency-testimony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342976/epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-seeks-trump-clemency-testimony?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:41:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Bill and Hillary Clinton will testify in a US House investigation surrounding deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a spokesman for the ex-president said, heading off a potential vote to hold the couple in contempt. They had originally refused to appear before lawmakers examining how authorities handled earlier investigations into the disgraced financier, who had connections and correspondence with the world’s business and political elite. “The former President and former Secretary of State... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342167/clintons-testify-us-house-epstein-probe-ahead-contempt-vote?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342167/clintons-testify-us-house-epstein-probe-ahead-contempt-vote?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:59:31 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump threatened legal action on Monday against the host of the 68th Grammy Awards over the comedian’s comment on the US president and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After congratulating Billie Eilish for winning the Grammy for Song of the Year for her track “Wildflower”, host Trevor Noah brought up Trump and Epstein. “Wow. That’s a Grammy that every artist wants – almost as much as Trump wants Greenland,” he quipped, referring to the president’s threats to seize the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342093/trump-vows-sue-dope-trevor-noah-over-grammys-joke-linking-him-epstein-island?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342093/trump-vows-sue-dope-trevor-noah-over-grammys-joke-linking-him-epstein-island?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:45:20 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:52:40 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Former US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons, in a letter released on social media, slammed the House Oversight probe as “legally invalid” even as Republican lawmakers prepared contempt of Congress proceedings against them. The Clintons wrote that the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339792/clintons-refuse-testify-epstein-probe-defying-republican-threats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339792/clintons-refuse-testify-epstein-probe-defying-republican-threats?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:49:25 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Thousands of new documents linked to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made available Tuesday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), amid mounting criticism over the pace of the publication and heavy redactions. The documents included a 2020 email from a prosecutor indicating US President Donald Trump had travelled aboard Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”. At least 8,000 files – around 30,000 pages – were posted online, including... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337534/us-releases-thousands-new-epstein-linked-documents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337534/us-releases-thousands-new-epstein-linked-documents?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:39:11 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US Justice Department officials on Sunday denied redacting the Epstein files to protect US President Donald Trump, as criticism mounted over the partial and heavily censored release of documents. Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have expressed anger after a cache of records from cases against the late sex offender were released Friday with many pages blacked out and photos censored. US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the release by the Justice Department, telling NBC’s Meet the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337250/top-us-official-defends-partial-release-epstein-files-democrats-cry-foul?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337250/top-us-official-defends-partial-release-epstein-files-democrats-cry-foul?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:54:50 +0000 Reuters Reuters Extensive redactions and the limited number of documents released related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein angered some Republicans and did little to defuse a scandal threatening the party ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The Trump administration touted this week’s release of a cache of Epstein-related files as a show of transparency, but a handful of Republican lawmakers and right-wing media figures joined Democrats in ‍blasting Friday’s disclosures as inadequate and possibly in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337207/trump-risk-becoming-deep-state-after-epstein-file-omissions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337207/trump-risk-becoming-deep-state-after-epstein-file-omissions?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:56:00 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, including a photograph showing US President Donald Trump – less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public. The missing files, which were available on Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337205/least-16-files-gone-epstein-release-site-including-1-trump-photo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337205/least-16-files-gone-epstein-release-site-including-1-trump-photo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:26:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday expressed anger after a long-awaited cache of records from cases against him were released with many pages blacked out and photos censored. The trove of material released by the US Justice Department included photographs of former president Bill Clinton and other luminaries in Epstein’s wealthy social circle including Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. But blackouts across many of the documents – combined with tight control over the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337204/epstein-victims-angry-over-gaps-and-censorship-long-awaited-file-release?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337204/epstein-victims-angry-over-gaps-and-censorship-long-awaited-file-release?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:12:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters The US Justice Department released thousands of heavily redacted documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former president Bill Clinton. The absence of references to Trump was notable given that pictures and documents related to him have trickled out of previous Epstein releases for years. Trump’s name appeared in flight manifests listing passengers on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337144/epstein-files-release-highlights-clinton-makes-scant-reference-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337144/epstein-files-release-highlights-clinton-makes-scant-reference-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:48:52 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department on Friday released only a partial set of documents related to its investigation into convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, an issue that has sparked the first major split between Trump’s Make America Great Again support base since he returned to office. The department was compelled by Congress to make the documents public after lawmakers passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, a measure that required the disclosure... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3337136/trump-justice-department-release-partial-set-epstein-files-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3337136/trump-justice-department-release-partial-set-epstein-files-now?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:11:49 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press House Democrats released several dozen more photos on Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, showing his associations with the rich and famous, as the US Department of Justice faces a deadline to release many of its case files on the late financier by the end of the week. The photos released Thursday were among more than 95,000 that the House Oversight Committee has received after issuing a subpoena for the photos that Epstein had in his possession before he died... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336971/new-epstein-photos-show-lolita-quotes-written-womans-foot-and-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336971/new-epstein-photos-show-lolita-quotes-written-womans-foot-and-body?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:41:25 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner was charged on Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved. Nick Reiner, 32, was charged with killing the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced at a news conference with LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell. “Their loss is beyond tragic and we will commit... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336685/rob-reiners-son-nick-facing-2-counts-murder-killing-his-parents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336685/rob-reiners-son-nick-facing-2-counts-murder-killing-his-parents?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:00:56 +0000 Agencies Agencies Democratic lawmakers released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of now-US President Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the UK’s former prince Andrew. Trump is featured in three of the 19 photos shared by House Oversight Committee Democrats, who said they are reviewing more than 95,000 images produced by the estate. The panel released roughly 70 more photos later on Friday, including images of the disgraced financier’s home, Epstein taking a bath, a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336293/trump-clinton-and-ex-prince-andrew-seen-new-photos-epsteins-estate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336293/trump-clinton-and-ex-prince-andrew-seen-new-photos-epsteins-estate?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:51:59 +0000 Yuanyue Dang Yuanyue Dang Chinese who came of age during the country’s economic boom are less supportive of liberal democratic values than older generations, a study has revealed, contradicting the predictions of Western policymakers and academics. The study by researchers based in China and Britain found that Chinese people born after 1990 were “less likely to support democratic values than the older generation”, despite greater economic security and “a higher level of post-materialist values”. Their findings were... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3335861/chinas-post-materialist-generation-says-no-liberal-democracy-confounds-west?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3335861/chinas-post-materialist-generation-says-no-liberal-democracy-confounds-west?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:01:18 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against two perceived adversaries of US President Donald Trump, former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling the US attorney he hand-picked to prosecute them was unlawfully appointed. The ruling throws out two cases Trump had publicly called for as he pressured Justice Department leaders to move against high-profile figures who had criticised him and led investigations into his conduct. Lindsey... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3334006/judge-dismisses-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3334006/judge-dismisses-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:51:02 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Left-leaning social media users have amplified an AI-generated audio clip purporting to show US President Donald Trump screaming at US officials to block the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, researchers said on Friday. In recent weeks, renewed public furore over the so-called Epstein files has consumed US politics, spurring a showdown between lawmakers and Trump, a former friend of the late convicted sex offender. “Not releasing the Epstein files,” a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333807/ai-fake-audio-clip-trump-not-releasing-epstein-files-goes-viral?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333807/ai-fake-audio-clip-trump-not-releasing-epstein-files-goes-viral?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:00:08 +0000 Agencies Agencies US President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to release many of the files on his own months ago. “Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories,” Trump said in a social media... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333459/bondi-says-shell-follow-law-release-epstein-files-bill-heads-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333459/bondi-says-shell-follow-law-release-epstein-files-bill-heads-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:26:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers abruptly went on leave on Wednesday from teaching at Harvard University, where he once served as president, over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Summers’ spokesperson said. Summers had been retreating from his public commitments amid the fallout of the emails revelation, but he had maintained that he would continue teaching economics classes at Harvard. Yet by Wednesday evening, Summers had... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333457/harvard-reopens-probe-larry-summers-after-release-epstein-emails?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333457/harvard-reopens-probe-larry-summers-after-release-epstein-emails?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:44:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters The Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition. Two days after Trump’s abrupt about-face, the House of Representatives passed the measure with a vote of 427-1, sending a resolution requiring the release of all unclassified records on Epstein to the Republican-majority Senate, which... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333318/us-lawmakers-vote-overwhelmingly-force-release-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333318/us-lawmakers-vote-overwhelmingly-force-release-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:50:19 +0000 Reuters Reuters Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers said on Monday he will step back from all public commitments, days after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats’ ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers, a former president of Harvard University, where he is a professor, told the university’s student newspaper that the move was to allow him “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me”. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333200/ex-us-treasury-chief-larry-summers-stepping-back-public-roles-after-epstein-emails?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333200/ex-us-treasury-chief-larry-summers-stepping-back-public-roles-after-epstein-emails?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:35:54 +0000 Reuters Reuters Donald Trump said Friday he knew “nothing” about an email from Jeffrey Epstein suggesting the US president knew about the disgraced financier’s sexual abuse. “I know nothing about that. They would have announced that a long time ago,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked what Epstein meant in a 2019 email saying “of course he knew about the girls”. Trump has sought to shift the focus from his relationship with the convicted sex offender, asking the US Justice Department to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332890/trump-demands-probe-epstein-ties-bill-clinton-he-faces-scrutiny-own-role?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332890/trump-demands-probe-epstein-ties-bill-clinton-he-faces-scrutiny-own-role?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:38:44 +0000 Thomas O. Falk Thomas O. Falk Donald Trump has cast himself as “the president of peace”. He presents himself as a leader who ends endless wars, brings troops home and rejects foreign entanglements. It is a beguiling conceit: in his world, war is defined only by mass landings and protracted occupations. Deaths from drones or missiles? They remain invisible footnotes in his narrative. However, peace is not absence; it is restraint. On that count, Trump fails entirely. In recent weeks, the US has carried out multiple strikes on... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3331314/myth-trump-president-peace?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3331314/myth-trump-president-peace?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:30:18 +0000 Reuters Reuters A new White House rule issued on Friday restricts the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other top communications officials in the West Wing, near the Oval Office. The new memorandum from the National Security Council bans journalists from accessing Room 140, also known as “Upper Press”, without a prior appointment, citing the need to protect potentially sensitive material. It said the change would take effect immediately. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331144/no-appointment-no-entry-white-house-press-officials-rooms-latest-trump-edict?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331144/no-appointment-no-entry-white-house-press-officials-rooms-latest-trump-edict?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:20:00 +0000 Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan Blame games, tit-for-tat threats, off-again on-again meetings between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and wild tariff swings seem to be the recent order of the day. According to former government officials and analysts, however, this should come as no surprise – it’s just the price you pay when diplomatic norms are brushed off. In the latest twist in the saga, Trump on Friday swung from tough to conciliatory, appearing to reverse threats made a week earlier to cancel... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3329484/will-trump-and-xis-shock-tactics-ruin-any-chances-ending-us-china-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3329484/will-trump-and-xis-shock-tactics-ruin-any-chances-ending-us-china-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:26:31 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Even as it ponders a diminished future facing cutbacks and questions of relevance, the United Nations will still draw foundations and non-profit to New York next week for a packed schedule of conferences, meetings, happy hours and dinners on the sidelines of its general assembly of world leaders. But the uncertainty has already had an impact. The Gates Foundation, which usually releases a report about progress towards global development goals before the UN General Assembly meets, has delayed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326262/diminished-un-flooded-non-profit-philanthropists-sidelined-funding-cuts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326262/diminished-un-flooded-non-profit-philanthropists-sidelined-funding-cuts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:37:13 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A US judge denied on Monday the Justice Department’s bid to unseal records from the grand jury that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges, writing that the records did not answer lingering questions from the public about their crimes or Epstein’s death. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that the government had suggested that the materials could be released publicly “casually or promiscuously”, which would risk... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321491/ghislaine-maxwells-grand-jury-testimony-wont-be-released-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321491/ghislaine-maxwells-grand-jury-testimony-wont-be-released-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:37:20 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional investigation that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials. The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and eight former top law enforcement officials. The committee’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3320869/us-house-committee-subpoenas-bill-and-hillary-clinton-epstein-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3320869/us-house-committee-subpoenas-bill-and-hillary-clinton-epstein-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:00:13 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The White House did not pressure the Smithsonian to remove references to US President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit and will include him in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks”, the museum said on Saturday. The revelation that Trump was no longer listed among impeached presidents sparked concern that history was being whitewashed to appease the president. “We were not asked by any administration or other government official to remove content from the exhibit,” the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3320567/smithsonian-denies-white-house-pressure-remove-trump-impeachment-references?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3320567/smithsonian-denies-white-house-pressure-remove-trump-impeachment-references?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:09:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arrived in Scotland on Friday for some golf and bilateral talks that could yield a trade deal with the European Union. Trump told reporters upon his arrival that he will visit his two golf properties in Scotland and meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, whom he called a “highly respected woman”. As hundreds of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3319669/trump-scotland-golf-and-trade-talks-amid-hopes-eu-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3319669/trump-scotland-golf-and-trade-talks-amid-hopes-eu-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:47:59 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Talks between China and the United States were “in a good place”, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said as negotiators work to turn a “framework” agreement reached at talks in Geneva and London into a concrete trade deal before a 90-day tariff war truce expires on August 12. Progress on a trade deal would help pave the way for a successful summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. That meeting could happen ahead of or on the sidelines of October’s Apec... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3319124/mixed-messages-us-ahead-possible-trump-xi-summit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3319124/mixed-messages-us-ahead-possible-trump-xi-summit?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:00:14 +0000