Tracy Mumford

And in files released by the Justice Department, there is email correspondence between someone named Melania and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's co-conspirator.

Maxwell called the woman sweet pea, and the woman signed her note, love.

It's not clear why Melania chose to speak out now.

At the end of her remarks, she shifted the focus to Epstein's victims and called on Congress to hold a public hearing where she said the women could share their experiences.

Across the country, America's furniture stores are struggling.

Anyone who wants to go wander through and test out a couch or peruse end tables may have noticed the going out of business signs and the everything must go sales.

Over the last few years, a number of retailers have gone bankrupt and closed, like Kahn's 550 stores around the South or American Freight, which was based in Ohio, closing its 300 plus stores.

The industry has basically been ravaged by high mortgage rates and home prices that have frozen the housing market.

That's left fewer people looking to furnish new places or dropping thousands of dollars on a dining set or a sectional.

More recently, President Trump's tariffs have added pressure to the already strained market, with 25 percent levies on imported furniture and cabinets and more increases set for next year.

The chief executive of RH, the upscale furniture retailer formerly known as Restoration Hardware, told investors on a conference call this month that the furniture industry had never seen fallout like this before.

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There's going to be a lot of competition that's not going to make it through these times.

And finally, a study from researchers at Harvard Medical School has found that on days with big album releases, like Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny, traffic fatalities go up.

They looked at crash data from 2017 to 2022, the last year that had full stats when they started their analysis.

And they overlaid that crash data with the release dates of the 10 most streamed albums in that period, Swift, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, etc.

They found that traffic fatalities increased nearly 15% on the days when the albums dropped.

To try to ensure it wasn't an anomaly or related to something else, they did things like compare crash data on each release date to randomly selected dates or the same date, different year.

They also ruled out seasonal or holiday travel as a contributing factor.

One of the researchers said he would bet the danger on release days is because of the physical task of listening to a new album.