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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. | Prince Andrew in 2023 Reuters |
For more on the Epstein files, check out USA TODAY's coverage: |
Epstein pulled strings, paid tuition across world for kids of powerful: The now-globally notorious sex offender served as an opportunity broker for powerful people. |
Bill Gates pulls out of AI summit amid Epstein scrutiny: The abrupt withdrawal of Microsoft's co-founder came hours before his scheduled keynote on Feb. 19, as scrutiny over his ties to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein intensified following the release of U.S. Justice Department emails. |
Economy is stabilizing but Americans still feel broke |
That's because remain significantly higher versus before the 2020 pandemic and that wage gains have not fully offset cumulative cost increases. Plus the labor market is not exactly booming and people have noticed. |
"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. |
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