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Geoffrey Epstein is running for mayor of a major Boston suburb. Not that Jeffrey Epstein.
But the shared name does draw some comments from people online pleading with him to 'show us the list,' Geoffrey Epstein said. Take one Redditor, who recently posted a photo of an Epstein for Mayor mailer under the header, 'Is this guy for real?' Other commenters, familiar with the former Framingham School Committee member, offered support: 'He's got good ideas about the city's finances,' wrote one. The Framingham mayoral hopeful — who goes by Geoff — says it's not much of an issue among locals, who know him from his work with public schools. 'No one locally cares about that at all,' said Epstein, a former theoretical physics professor who moved to the U.S. from Australia decades ago. Among the abundance of differences between the two: 'He's a dead American, and I'm an alive Australian,' Epstein said. Epstein, who served on the school committees in both Newton and Framingham, both major Boston suburbs, got in the race to tackle problems he sees the city facing. His campaign, he said, is focused on education, infrastructure and environmental action, and he has no shortage of solutions he's pitching — from expanding solar installations on school roofs and in school parking lots, to shifting more of the city's budget toward education. He'll face a demanding fight against incumbent Mayor Charlie Sisitsky, who had more than $61,000 in his campaign coffers as of last month, compared to Epstein's roughly $5,000. Luckily for Epstein, a tough name doesn't necessarily tank a campaign. Look at Harvey Epstein, the New York state assemblymember, whose name unfortunately evokes two of New York's 'most notorious sex perverts,' as comedian John Mulaney put it in a spoof campaign ad on 'Saturday Night Live.' That Epstein recently won the Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat, spoiling the attempted political comeback of former Rep. Anthony Weiner— yet another notorious sexual miscreant — in the process. Harvey's tip: 'My advice to Geoffrey would be to lead with your values and who you are as a candidate,' the New York Epstein said over the phone. 'People will support you if you do the work and follow through.' This reporting first appeared in Massachusetts Playbook. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every weekday.
CNN
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A maternity hospital was the safest place for ‘ray of sunshine' expecting her first baby. Then Russia hit it with a missile
Diana Koshyk's friends said the 23-year-old struggled to get pregnant and suffered several miscarriages before she and her husband finally got the news they were hoping for: they were expecting. Doctors said the pregnancy was high risk, so Koshyk was sent to what she believed was the safest place for her and her baby – the maternity hospital in Kamianske in eastern Ukraine. Early on Tuesday morning, the Russian military struck the hospital with a ballistic missile, killing Koshyk, her unborn child, and two other people. At least 22 were injured, including several nurses and midwives, a doctor and patients. Koshyk's sudden death, at a time when she was so filled with hope, shocked her loved ones. 'She and her husband wanted a child, but she had miscarriages … and then life smiled at her and she got pregnant, and she was already seven months, and then this happened,' Koshyk's friend of 10 years, Yana Belobrova, told CNN. Another longtime friend, Anna Bunich, described Koshyk as a 'ray of sunshine.' 'She loved children very much and was eagerly awaiting her own … and now Russia cut their thread of life,' Bunich told CNN. The maternity hospital in Kamianske was one of several clearly civilian targets that were struck by Russia just hours after US President Donald Trump announced he was slashing the 50-day deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war to just '10 or 12 days.' Speaking to reporters in Scotland on Monday, Trump indicated his patience with Putin was running out. 'We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,' Trump said, threatening to impose secondary sanctions on Russia's oil and gas exports if his demand is not met. Ukraine welcomed the new deadline, saying that Putin only responds to shows of strength. 'Clear stance and expressed determination by (Trump) – right on time, when a lot can change through strength for real peace,' Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X. But Trump's new deadline did not deter Russia from launching deadly attacks. At least 27 civilians were killed across Ukraine overnight into Tuesday morning, an exceptionally high death toll even considering the big rise in the number of drones and missiles Russia has been launching towards Ukraine recently. Five people were killed when a rocket launcher strike hit a small food store in the village of Novoplatonivka in Kharkiv region and 16 civilian inmates died in an attack on a prison in Zaporizhzhia region. Zelensky said the deadly attacks show Russia has no interest in peace. 'The Russian leadership is wasting the world's time by talking about peace while simultaneously killing people,' he said, 'Every killing of our people by the Russians, every Russian strike – at a time when a ceasefire could have long been in place, if not for Russia's refusal – all of this shows that Moscow deserves very harsh, truly painful, and therefore just and effective sanctions pressure.' But the Kremlin seemed unphased by the new threats. 'We have taken note of President Trump's statement yesterday,' Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. 'The special military operation continues as before,' he added, using Moscow's term for its war on Ukraine. CNN's Daria Tarasova contributed reporting.
Politico
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Ghislaine Maxwell plays hardball with lawmakers on giving Epstein testimony
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted co-conspirator of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is asking to postpone her scheduled congressional deposition — and making a series of other demands as conditions of her cooperation with Hill investigators. It comes following a recent vote by a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee to subpoena Maxwell amid mounting pressure from House Republicans to release materials related to the larger Epstein investigation. Full committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) subsequently sent a letter to Maxwell, who is in prison, compelling her to speak with the committee on Aug. 11. Maxwell's attorneys indicated last week she was declining to cooperate with the subpoena. But in a letter obtained Tuesday by POLITICO, the lawyers noted their client now wants to reach a compromise to facilitate her testimony. Among her asks is to be granted immunity from further criminal proceedings; to receive committee investigators' questions in advance of the interview; to delay the deposition until after her appeals; and to relocate the deposition outside the prison where Maxwell is held. Otherwise, the attorneys wrote, Maxwell will invoke her Fifth Amendment right. 'We remain open to working with the Committee to find a path forward that respects her constitutional rights and enables her to assist the American people and the Committee in its important oversight mission,' the attorneys wrote. A spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee said the panel would soon respond to Maxwell's request but would not consider granting her Congressional immunity. Many House Republicans have been pushing Comer and GOP leaders to make the interview with Maxwell as public as possible. According to three Republicans with direct knowledge of the talks, members worry the closed-door setting — and the possibility of granting her some level of immunity — would only increase distrust among their constituents who've been pressing for answers relating to Epstein's activities. Meredith Lee Hill contributed to this report.
