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Fri Feb 20 2026

 

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor , the former prince, was arrested this week on suspicion of misconduct in public life, marking one of the most prominent figures in the files related to the late convicted  sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to face charges.

Welcome, This is America readers, I'm Phillip M. Bailey, chief political correspondent at USA TODAY.

Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, who was released from custody on Feb. 19, denied any wrongdoing and said he regrets the friendship.

British police have not released details on the specifics of the investigation, but that they arrested a man on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

No charges have been filed against Mountbatten-Windsor in connection with allegations that surfaced in the latest batch of files, but other reports have said he might have wrongly shared confidential government documents with Epstein while serving from 2001 to 2011 as a trade envoy for the British government.

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Prince Andrew in 2023

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"This kind of post-pandemic puzzle has been with us for a while and looks like it's not resolving overnight," Bill Adams, the chief economist for Comerica Bank, told USA TODAY. "It tends to be a slow painful process for economies to get back to normal after these really large shocks."

Take inflation, which is running at 2.4%. That is close to the Federal Reserve of 2%, but slower inflation does not mean cheaper prices at the grocery store but rather that prices are rising at a slower pace than they were before.

Thanks for reading! See you back next week with more stories of justice from across the country.

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