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Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer questions during a virtual appearance before the House Oversight Committee.
09 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What happened during Ghislaine Maxwell's virtual appearance before the House Oversight Committee?
She's not talking. Elisa Brady, Fox News. Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell appearing virtually from federal prison in Texas before a House panel's Jeffrey Epstein investigation and taking the fifth, not answering questions.
We sincerely want to get to the truth to the American people and justice for the survivors. That's what this investigation is about.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Ghislaine Maxwell taking the Fifth Amendment?
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer had hoped Maxwell's testimony could provide key information. Former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton are scheduled for a deposition later this month. In Britain, police are now looking into claims that the former Prince Andrew sent confidential reports to Epstein.
Maintaining contact with the financier after Epstein became a convicted sex offender in 2008. There's been no word of any proof of life in the search for Nancy Guthrie after another video from daughter Savannah and her siblings saying they'd received a message and were willing to pay. There have been reports of a $6 million ransom demand. It's day nine of the search.
It may get harder for fired federal workers to be reinstated. under a proposal from the Office of Personnel Management that would end appealing to an independent agency.
The Merit Systems Protection Board acts as a mediator in disputes between federal employees and the agencies they work for.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein?
And since President Trump took office, cases have surged 266 percent. But under a plan from the administration, fired workers would instead appeal to the OPM, the administration's HR office that reports to the president.
The proposal comes days after the OPM announced a new rule last week reclassifying thousands of federal workers to at-will and limiting protections from dismissal or other penalties.
Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. A nearly month-long nurses' strike is ending at two major hospital systems in New York City with a tentative agreement announced today for about three-quarters of the nurses who hit the picket lines over staffing, workplace safety, and other issues. The walkout continues for now, though, at a third hospital.
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Police in Rhode Island released recordings made during the response to a deadly mass shooting in December.
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Chapter 4: How are former political figures involved in the ongoing Epstein investigation?
Police body cam video shows a frenetic but dutiful response by officers searching for victims and a gunman inside a building at Brown University in Providence this past December. Two people were killed and another nine injured. The gunman would be located days later, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says the dramatic footage won't likely impress many.
If there's one big outstanding question, it's why did these poor kids get targeted by someone? None of the camera footage will answer that question. And in fact, those questions may never be answered.
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The Brown shooter also killed an MIT professor in his Massachusetts home. Opening statements begin in the first of several landmark cases against the world's biggest social media companies. In California, Instagram parent Meta and Google's YouTube face claims their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. A grocery giant gets a new leader.
Kroger has a new CEO, Greg Foran, who ran Walmart's U.S. operations from 2014 to 19. He then was CEO of Air New Zealand. At Walmart, he's credited with stepping up digital ordering and introducing online ordering and pickup. Kroger is parent company of many supermarket chains, including Ralph's, Fred Meyer, Dillon's, Metro Market, Food for Less and others.
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Chapter 5: What recent developments are there in the search for Nancy Guthrie?
Foran was born in New Zealand, where he started his career as a shelf stacker at Woolworths at age 17.
Fox's Jenny Kosola. Kroger has been searching for more than a year since the previous CEO stepped down. Stocks turning mixed right now. The Dow's down 32 points, but still over 50K. The S&P is in the green. The Nasdaq is up 235. and Lisa Brady. This is Fox News.