Por Adán Cancryn, CNN

Cuando el Departamento de Justicia publicó el viernes un primer lote de archivos de Jeffrey Epstein que incluía fotografías del expresidente Bill Clinton, los funcionarios de la Casa Blanca se apresuraron a amplificar la importancia de los nuevos documentos.

Pero días después, en medio de un segundo hallazgo que contiene varias referencias al presidente Donald Trump, la Casa Blanca está impulsando una visión diferente: no creas todo lo que ves.

El martes, funcionarios de Trump restaron importancia a la reciente divulgación de más de 30.000 archivos relacionados con Epstein, desestimando la importancia de los materiales y sugiriendo que algunos de los que mencionaban a Trump no estaban verificados o incluso eran pura invención.

Mientras el resto de Washington examinaba minuciosamente los registros que mostraban que Trump voló repetidamente en el avión de Epstein, asesores de la Casa Blanca intentaron destacar otros asuntos que el presidente está más interesado en abordar.

El cambio de mensaje —el último de un esfuerzo en gran medida infructuoso del Gobierno para tomar el control de la historia— ha generado frustración en la órbita de Trump y en partes de la Casa Blanca, donde algunos vieron la respuesta confusa de los últimos días como solo el último tropiezo en un año de errores relacionados con Epstein y desconcertantes fallos de comunicación.

“Ha sido confuso y agravante”, declaró Matthew Barlett, estratega republicano y exfuncionario designado por Trump en su primer mandato, sobre los mensajes contradictorios de la administración. “Ha perpetuado este ciclo de noticias, sigue causando un enorme dolor de cabeza a la Casa Blanca y a la administración, y no veo ninguna solución a corto plazo”.

Los nuevos registros reavivaron el debate sobre la exhaustividad de las revelaciones del Departamento de Justicia y el grado en que la administración ha cumplido con la ley que exige su divulgación.

El Departamento de Justicia pareció intentar adelantarse a cualquier revelación desfavorable para Trump, haciendo un llamado al escepticismo al analizar los nuevos materiales, al menos en lo que respecta a las afirmaciones sobre el presidente.

“Algunos de estos documentos contienen afirmaciones falsas y sensacionalistas contra el presidente Trump, presentadas al FBI justo antes de las elecciones de 2020”, declaró el Departamento de Justicia, y añadió que “si tuvieran un mínimo de credibilidad, sin duda ya se habrían utilizado como arma contra el presidente Trump”.

Un funcionario de la Casa Blanca se negó a hacer comentarios más allá del comunicado del Departamento de Justicia.

En cuanto a Trump, el locuaz presidente pasó la mitad del día en el campo de golf antes de regresar discretamente a Mar-a-Lago. Para las 2:00 p.m., hora de Miami, los funcionarios habían declarado un límite, lo que significaba que no se vería ni se sabría de Trump durante el resto del día.

El silencio casi total del mundo de Trump representó un marcado contraste en comparación con apenas unos días atrás, cuando asesores y aliados se apresuraron a hacer circular las numerosas fotos de Clinton en los archivos de Epstein como parte de un intento de ejercer nueva presión sobre los demócratas.

Y subrayó la lucha continua de la Casa Blanca para gestionar una saga que ha frustrado a Trump y a sus principales asesores y lo ha herido políticamente, incluso cuando su base MAGA sigue profundamente involucrada en el caso Epstein y la controversia no muestra señales de desaparecer.

“Esto es horrible. Trump me llamó traidora por luchar contra él para que se publicaran los archivos de Epstein y por apoyar a las mujeres que fueron violadas, encarceladas en cubículos y traficadas con hombres”, pu

Por Svitlana Vlasova y Caitlin Danaher, CNN

Dos policías y una tercera persona murieron la madrugada del miércoles por una bomba en Moscú, cerca del lugar donde hace dos días ocurrió un atentado con vehículo con explosivos que mató a un alto general ruso.

Dos agentes se acercaron a una persona sospechosa que detonó un dispositivo explosivo cerca de un coche policial, informó el comité de investigación de Rusia en un comunicado el miércoles.

“Los investigadores y expertos forenses del Comité de Investigación de Moscú continúan examinando la escena del incidente”, manifestó Svetlana Petrenko, representante del comité de investigación, en el comunicado.

La policía también está estudiando las imágenes de CCTV y entrevistando a testigos en un intento de descubrir al autor, agregó el comunicado.

La explosión mortal se produce apenas unos días después de que un general ruso muriera a causa de un coche bomba en una calle vecina de la capital rusa.

El teniente general Fanil Sarvarov, que dirigía el departamento de entrenamiento operativo de las fuerzas armadas, murió después de que un artefacto explosivo instalado debajo del chasis de un automóvil explotara el lunes por la mañana, según los investigadores.

Funcionarios rusos sugirieron que Ucrania podría estar detrás del aparente asesinato del alto oficial militar.

“Los investigadores examinan diversos motivos del asesinato. Una de las teorías es que el crimen fue organizado por los servicios especiales ucranianos”, declaró el comité de investigación el lunes.

Ucrania no ha asumido la responsabilidad del ataque contra Sarvarov, pero varios rusos destacados han muerto en Moscú en ataques atribuidos a los servicios de seguridad ucranianos desde la invasión rusa a gran escala al país europeo en 2022.

El comité de investigación no hizo comentarios sobre si los dos incidentes están relacionados.

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By Tricia Escobedo, Andrew Torgan, CNN

Three inmates, all accused of violent crimes, are back in custody after escaping from an Atlanta-area jail. It’s still unclear exactly how they got out, but police say their recorded jailhouse phone calls reveal how they plotted their escape.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Epstein files

The latest release of Epstein files featured more mentions of President Donald Trump than last week’s drop, and raised additional questions about the Department of Justice’s handling of the documents. Another revelation is that prosecutors sought to investigate and potentially charge more people. A series of apparent FBI emails from 2019 cite “10 co-conspirators.” To date, only Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend, have been charged. Here are more takeaways from the latest release.

2⃣ National Guard

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a major loss for the administration. The decision, which came over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, appeared almost certain to jeopardize deployments of the National Guard in other cities as well.

3⃣ Nursing home explosion

Two people are dead and others are missing after an explosion and fire tore through a nursing home outside Philadelphia, spurring first responders, bystanders and staff to rush the elderly residents to safety, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but the preliminary belief of officials is that it was a gas leak, Shapiro said. A local utility company was on site responding to reports of a gas odor in the facility when the explosion occurred, the company said in a statement.

4⃣ Student loans

The Trump administration will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default starting in January, the Education Department told CNN on Tuesday. The move comes months after the administration restarted collecting federal student loans in default, which happens after 270 days without payment. The process, known as administrative wage garnishment, allows the agency to order non-federal employers to withhold a portion of an employee’s income to pay off the loans. In April, the department said that more than 5 million borrowers were in default and nearly 4 million more were delinquent, which means they hadn’t made a payment in more than 90 days.

5⃣ Weight loss drugs

The FDA this week approved a daily pill version of the weight loss drug Wegovy — creating a new option for how patients can take medicines in a class of drugs that has revolutionized obesity treatment. The drug, which maker Novo Nordisk calls simply the Wegovy pill, uses the same active ingredient that’s in the original version, along with its sister drug for diabetes, Ozempic. Both Wegovy and Ozempic, which mimic the hormone GLP-1, are given as weekly injections, as are rival drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro from Eli Lilly. About 1 in 8 adults in the US say they’re currently taking one of the medicines, according to data from health

By Elyssa Goodman, CNN

New York (CNN) — In a windowless room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Antonio Ratti Textile Center, several swaths of lace hundreds of years old are spread out on a giant expanse of black paper. The tiniest of stitches have been formed into circles, swirls and even animals, some of which took years to make by hand with painstaking precision.

In previous centuries, making lace even a few feet long would have required a years-long commitment. Today, it can be produced much faster by machine, and over the past year, was seen all over fashion week runways including those of Chloé and Fendi. During the holiday season, lace styles are particularly popular – adding a touch of sexiness or sophistication to partywear.

Lace historian Elena Kanagy-Loux traces lace’s origins to the late 15th century, when it was likely used on a smaller scale “as these tiny, little, kind of minor, pointed edgings and trimmings,” she said. What started as a “little decorative ornament” later became more elaborate and subsequently a status symbol, costly because of its laborious creation process, not to mention its intricacy and fragility, she explained.

Lace was not something a garment needed. As the 17th century English historian Thomas Fuller declared, the fabric was “superfluous wearing, because it doth neither hide nor heat, seeing it doth adorn.” The ability to wear it on one’s clothing, especially in places like collars and cuffs where it could easily become dirty, was a powerful pronouncement of one’s stature, Kanagy-Loux said. Not only did one require the means to afford lace, one also needed the resources to maintain it.

At one point, lace became so in demand that it was regulated by 16th and 17th century sumptuary laws “restricting extravagance in consumer goods,” according to the Smithsonian Institution. These kinds of laws were not uncommon — there were also limits on velvet, gold embroidery, and satin, among other textiles — but the bans didn’t always work and smuggling became an active part of lace’s history.

With the Industrial Revolution’s arrival in the 19th century, rudimentary machines attempted to duplicate the fabric’s delicate stitches, but to no avail. Kanagy-Loux notes that Luddites, British weavers and textile workers who protested against the mechanization of their craft, even took to smashing lace machines. And while many lacemakers eventually found themselves out of a job at the hands of industrialization, handmade and antique lace subsequently became more valuable.

With the onset of World War I, some lacemakers in Belgium found success in keeping their practice alive by making American-commissioned “war lace” — lace featuring Allied symbology — during German occupation. But interest in it faded some 10 years later, with the onset of the Great Depression. There became less effort and attention paid to lacemaking, and it developed “fuddy-duddy associations” in the latter half of the 20th century, according to Kanagy-Loux. For a long time, a common stereotype in parts of the West was that only elderly ladies made the fabric, but this was only partly true as it would have been a skill they picked up in their youth and didn’t give up, she explained.

While lace would fall in and out of popularity in subsequent decades, it continued to be used in bridal attire and lingerie. Lace had been used as trimming on linen undergarments, but the pieces got smaller over time, morphing from long-sleeved constructions into “a little nylon slip.” As technology evolved, clothing became more fitted and made from thinner materials, so underwear naturally became sexy, Kanagy-Loux said. Sexiness also increased the demand for lace.

When Kanagy-Loux first started posting videos on TikTok, where she shares lace history with over 400,000 followers, some commenters said they didn

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, Amy O’Kruk, and Kathryn Squyres CNN

(CNN) — Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say.

But if they had the chance to tell Washington something, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, they’d say plenty, much of it about the economy.

That was the most common response when Americans were asked to share in their own words what they’d tell President Donald Trump to make life in the US better.

Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 40% mentioned economic or cost-of-living concerns.

“My message to him right now would be, ‘Please take care of the economy because it’s awful,’” said Betty Glazebrook, a 78-year-old Trump voter from Massachusetts who spoke to CNN after taking the survey. “You know, being out of work now, I wonder down the road, you know, how will I survive? And I just don’t know what’s gonna happen.”

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say that neither the president nor Democratic leadership is listening to people like them. Just 34% of US adults say that Trump cares even somewhat what they have to say and just 36% say that the leadership of the Democratic Party does.

Glazebrook said she feels like Trump cares more about himself than people like her, but she’s also unconvinced that Democrats have her best interests in mind. “I’m starting to feel like nobody does, honestly,” she said.

While Trump has often downplayed affordability as a concern, the issue remains top of mind for many voters and likely to dominate next year’s midterms. Mentions of the economy dwarf other political issues in the survey. Just 5% of Americans said their advice to Trump would touch on immigration with fewer still mentioning foreign policy.

Not all messages have to do with policy. Many simply want a chance to make their feelings about Trump known; 16% say they’d call on him to resign or leave office, while 8% say they’d pay him a compliment. Around 15% say Trump could most help Americans by changing something about his personal conduct, with 6% wanting him to modulate his tone or to be more respectful, thoughtful or presidential. A few say they would refuse to speak with him at all.

Many Americans also have advice for Democrats on how they should deal with Trump. Ten percent say Democratic leaders could most help by standing their ground or fighting harder against Trump or the GOP, while another 10% say they should instead focus more on compromising or working across the aisle.

The sentiment among the Democratic base is more clear-cut: 19% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say they’d tell their party’s leadership to take more of a stand compared with just 2% who say they’d advocate for greater compromise.

“Stop being gentle and palatable to the opposing side,” one Democratic-leaning independent from New Jersey in their 20s wrote in response to the survey. “They take extreme and aggressive measures to force change backwards, and when laws get broken, even constitutional ones, many remain silent. We should have an equal reaction to balance out the scales of power.”

That desire for increased forcefulness from their party doesn’t map as neatly onto a preferred set of political views. Few Democratic-aligned adults said that they’d share a message about the party’s ideological direction, and those who did were about equally as likely to suggest that the party should move to the left as they were to say it should become more moderate.

Many Americans, meanwhile, just want to feel like they’re being heard: 8% say they’d tell Democratic leaders to help people, listen to people, or put the people over partisan politics; 5% say they’d deliver a similar message to Trump.

“Take a step outside and look in your own neighborhood, your own backyard and see that who’s really struggling and who’s actually needing the help,” said