By Tierney Sneed, CNN

(CNN) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, is making another effort at overturning her conviction for child sex trafficking and other crimes, with new court filings Wednesday claiming evidence has emerged showing that she did not receive a fair trial.

Maxwell’s latest maneuver faces extremely long odds and comes after her previous bids to challenge her conviction were rejected by courts, including the Supreme Court.

Having run out of the typical avenues for appeal, Maxwell is now using an unusual legal mechanism known as a habeas petition, which seeks extraordinary relief from a court. Her submissions with the federal court in Manhattan were also filed pro se, meaning that they were filed by Maxwell herself, rather than by her attorneys.

She argued that there were a number of flaws in her prosecutions that have not been addressed by courts, pointing to evidence she claims has newly surfaced with the various investigations, legal cases and media reports surrounding the Epstein saga.

She also alleged that lawyers for Epstein’s victims “conspired and colluded” with government investigators, while also claiming the some jurors were biased.

“The newly discovered evidence referenced above is such that when taken as a whole it constitutes a miscarriage of justice in that, the Petitioner did not receive a fair trial by independent jurors coming to Court with an open mind,” she wrote.

The court filings were first reported by ABC News.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the new petition. It faces a Friday deadline to release a collection of documents related to its Epstein investigations.

CNN’s Casey Gannon contributed to this report.

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Por Pablo Antonio García Escorihuela, CNN en Español

Terence Crawford sacudió al mundo del boxeo dos veces en el mismo año. En septiembre de 2025, en Las Vegas, venció por la vía unánime en las tarjetas a Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez para convertirse en el primer campeón indiscutido en tres divisiones en el boxeo.

Pero aún más impactante, fue la decisión que tomó el 16 de diciembre. Su retiro, que había dejado entrever en la entrevista posterior al combate contra el tapatío en Nevada, se hizo efectivo y los rankings comenzaron a moverse.

Canelo, efectivamente, aparece como el primer retador en tres de las cuatro coronas de las distintas organizaciones boxísticas del peso super mediano, y pudiera pensarse que en el próximo combate que tendrá en 2026, atacará a alguno de estos cetros para recuperarlos.

No obstante, aunque la tentación de bolsas más elevadas espera a pocos kilos de distancia, tras la derrota ante Crawford los planes del mexicano pudieran ser distintos.

“A mi me gustaría volver a ver pelear a Saúl con Dimitri Bivol”, expresó a CNN su manager Eddy Reynoso antes del combate contra Crawford, apuntando a que tal vez la última pelea del tapatío podría ser contra el actual campeón del peso semipesado de la Federación Internacional, de la Organización Internacional, y de la Asociación Mundial de boxeo.

Bivol además, comparte este último cinturón con el otro sospechoso habitual que ha rondado la carrera del Canelo Álvarez: David Benavidez. El púgil estadounidense con raíces mexicanas y ecuatorianas, es dueño además de la otra diadema de este peso, la del Consejo Mundial de Boxeo.

El escenario que se puede plantear es interesante: un combate entre Bivol y Benavidez, para quedarse con un campeón unificado en el peso semipesado y, mientras tanto, Canelo Álvarez pudiera medirse con el vencedor entre ambos, pensando siempre que va en desventaja, al tener que subir tres kilos y medio para pasar del peso super mediano a la categoría inmediatamente siguiente.

Pero ya sin Crawford en el camino, la ruta de Álvarez para al menos retomar un poco de gloria puede ser acceder nuevamente a alguna de las coronas del peso supermediano, y de allí, dar el salto para enfrentarse, tal vez, como colofón de su trayectoria, con Bivol o Benavidez, por un premio superior: volver a ser rey en el peso semipesado, algo que logró ya en 2019, cuando ganó la faja de la Organización Mundial de Boxeo ante Sergey Kovalev.

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By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN

(CNN) — Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino is stepping down soon from the job after eight months marked by clashes with his boss, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, and fighting off the conspiracies he once fueled.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Bongino is leaving the role.

“Oh, Dan, Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, referring to Bongino’s radio show.

Trump did not elaborate on when Bongino is expected to depart.

Before the president’s remark Wednesday, Bongino was seen at a gingerbread house decorating contest at FBI headquarters.

Inside the White House and FBI, it has long been believed that Bongino would depart after a year. In recent days, Andrew Bailey, the co-deputy director, has taken over some of the meetings that Bongino was expected to handle.

Bongino has complained both publicly and privately about the tedious nature of the job and the toll it took on his personal life.

Some FBI officials believed Bongino would depart the agency after the arrest of a suspect in the 2021 pipe bomb case earlier this month. Bongino took a leading role in the case, which he was fixated on before joining the agency, dedicating many of his shows to conspiracy theories that claimed the planting of pipe bombs near Republicans and Democratic Party headquarters on the eve of January 6, 2021, was an inside job.

But in the days after the charges were brought, Bongino told officials he had not made up his mind and might stay through the start of the new year. Some officials inside the FBI were surprised by the President’s announcement Thursday.

The FBI declined to comment on Trump’s comments.

A former Secret Service agent who once protected President Barack Obama, Bongino came to the job after a lucrative podcasting career where he vocally supported Trump.

It was a sharp turn for a job that in recent decades has been held by a career agent, not a partisan appointee. The old career — which Bongino had vowed to return to — ended up being a thorn in the deputy director’s side as he tried to reshape the agency.

Earlier this year, Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel expressed frustrations to top Trump officials about how Bondi and the Justice Department handled the aborted release of documents related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Bongino took it a step further and threatened to leave the agency after officials reneged on promises to release the documents.

Like Patel, Bongino favored releasing more documents. In a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Bongino implied that he couldn’t serve