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| A billionaire charged with sex trafficking, a flooded White House (!!) and a brawl at the "Happiest Place on Earth." It's Monday (welcome back), I'm Ashley and here's the news you need to know. |
| But first, shocking video: Watch this insane clip of a sailboat lit ablaze by lightning. |
The White House is all wet |
| Torrential rains in the Washington, D.C., area on Monday created floods all around the White House – and in the White House, including large puddles of water in the basement of the press room. "It's official: The White House basement is flooding," tweeted CNBC correspondent Eamon Javers. But to be fair, this situation isn't totally unique: The press basement is below ground level, and it frequently absorbs water after heavy rains. This particular storm included an explosion of 0.69 inches in 11 minutes, according to the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. |
A billionaire accused of paying victims to find victims |
| Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier, philanthropist and registered sex offender, pleaded not guilty after being charged with sex-trafficking girls as young as 14 in a federal indictment unsealed Monday. He is accused of paying dozens of minors for massages and molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York. The indictment says Epstein "incentivized his victims" by paying them hundreds of dollars for each additional girl they recruited. |
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 | | In this July 30, 2008 file photo, Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla. The wealthy financier and convicted sex offender has been arrested in New York on sex trafficking charges. | | Uma Sanghvi, AP | |
What people are talking about |
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'Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened' |
| A Florida principal is under fire for refusing to say the Holocaust happened because "not everyone believes" it. "I can't say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee," William Latson, principal of Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, Florida, wrote in an email to a mother of a student. Latson has since been reassigned to another district. The email was sent in 2018 after a parent reached out to the principal for information about how the historical event was taught. |
Kevin Spacey and the missing cellphone |
| The criminal groping case against Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey was thrown into confusion Monday when the accuser suddenly pleaded his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, leading the judge to immediately strike his testimony. The accuser, William Little, 21, had been ordered to testify about what happened to his cellphone – believed to be critical to both sides of the case – which has been missing for months. After Little's testimony was struck, Spacey's legal team demanded the case against Spacey be dismissed. Spacey faces a felony indecent assault charge that he groped Little, then an 18-year-old busboy, in 2016. |
 | | Kevin Spacey at a pretrial hearing on June 3, 2019, at district court in Nantucket, Mass. The Oscar-winning actor is accused of groping a teen in 2016. | | Steven Senne/ AP | |
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Blame it on the juice? ⚾💨 |
| Major League Baseball is on pace for 6,657 home runs for the season this year. That's nearly 1,100 more than a year ago, and 600 more than the record 6,105 in 2017. The overriding theory is that the baseballs themselves are juiced, or, as Commissioner Rob Manfred has said, there is less drag on the ball, which causes it to go farther. But what if there's more to it, and doping is back in a big way? "You can't help but wonder," said Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black. "You don't want to, but I think we all have our suspicions.'' USA TODAY's MLB columnist Bob Nightengale looks into why we're wondering about steroids in baseball – again. |
 | | MLB is on pace to set a league-wide home run record in 2019. | | Eric Bolte, USA TODAY Sports | |
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