The News You Need on Thursday, April 30th, 2026.
The news you need today from Scott Horton and Charles Kaiser. New revelations about Epstein, Trump might have buyer's remorse, and a win for trans kids at the Supreme Court.
Epstein Probe Documents New Rape Allegations
The Independent & 60 Minutes Australia
Scott: British and European prosecutors report that they are consistently stonewalled by the Trump Department of Justice when they request assistance and access to evidence accumulated by the Federal Bereau of Investigation.
New Mexico’s specially constituted bipartisan commission of inquiry has apparently had the same experience. Now some of the early fruits of its work are being reported in media in Australia and the United Kingdom, though—as usual—not in the US.
Multiple young men were drugged and raped at Jeffrey Epstein’s remote New Mexico ranch, it has been claimed, as local authorities continue to investigate historic allegations of abuse.
Democrat congresswoman for New Mexico Melanie Stansbury, fighting for justice for survivors, says one alleged victim claimed he had been invited to a party at the late pedophile’s 7,500-acre Zorro Ranch, where he said he was plied with drugs and raped.
In the recently released 60 Minutes Australia episode, Stansbury says the unnamed man described “multiple young men... raped at the ranch in front of him after he was drugged”.
“Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were serial abusers; they really were super predators, and it was just how they lived their lives,” she added.
Harrowing testimonies heard in Sunday’s documentary aired as state authorities pressed on with their reopened probe into allegations of abuse at the compound.
Authorities in New Mexico are now trying to determine how many local women and girls were abused at the ranch, after a number of residents came forward with fresh allegations. To date, only one resident was known to be from the state.
But state representative Marianna Anaya, who co-sponsored the state’s Truth Commission probe into Epstein, said Monday that the group has been in contact with a number of locals who now say they were also abused at the ranch.
“I can confirm that we have been reached out to by local alleged victims,” she told Reuters. It marked the first time the commission has acknowledged contact with locals who say they were abused at the ranch during the quarter-century Epstein owned the property.
The Truth Commission is working with the New Mexico Department of Justice to help survivors who may have viable criminal cases bring charges against Epstein’s co-conspirators, Anaya added.
Is Donnie Finally Feeling Buyer’s Remorse?
Seymour Hersh
Charles: How far has Donald Trump had his head up Bibi’s derrière?
Far enough to be the first of four presidents to give into the the Israeli Prime Minister’s plea to start a catastrophic war which has fucked up the world even more than George Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. So far, the war on Iran is creating instant shortages of everything from fertilizer and gas to condoms and jet fuel, jeopardizing the planting season in Africa and causing the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights in Europe, because so many jets are facing the prospect of no more tigers to put in their tanks.
And how arrogant have the Israelis become because of Trump’s permanent position so far up Bibi’s posterior?
According to one of Sy Hersh’s Israeli sources, the Israelis are shocked–shocked–that Trump is so spooked by the amount of political damage he has done to himself he might actually be ready to cut and run from this spectacularly stupid misadventure. The Israelis may finally be beginning to realize that they have made their greatest strategic mistake since 1948.
They have so enraged the American people with the war on Iran, they may never get an American President to support them again.
He wants out,” the Israeli insider told [Hersh], and the Israeli leadership “is very upset because Trump”—in his fear of the political cost to him of a continuing blockade of the strait “has shown a willingness to ignore Israeli interests and desires.” [!!!] People in the Israeli leadership “say he’s lost it. He doesn’t think of the consequences. You cannot do negotiations with Iran because every step we make he immediately broadcasts it on his social media posts. He is so obtuse.”
