Larry Summers resigned from his advisory role at Yale’s budget club and his fellowship at the Center for American Progress following the release of messages between him and Jeffrey Epstein, which detailed Summers’ pursuit of a romantic relationship with an economist. Summers, who holds a prestigious position at Harvard, is criticized for seeking advice from Epstein about a mentee. The conversation broadens to a generalized suspicion about the moral integrity of powerful individuals, citing numerous examples of public figures who have fallen from grace due to scandals. The discussion questions whether such behavior is pervasive among the elite.
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services.
The Justice Department engaged in a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a federal judge ruled Monday in directing prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with all grand jury materials from the case.
The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency left his job Monday after just six months, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the agency charged with managing federal disaster response.
President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.
