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Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 โ August 10, 2019) was an American financier, child sex offender, and sex trafficker. He began his professional career as a teacher, being hired without a degree at the Dalton School. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles, before starting his own firm.
Ilia Roman Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American competitive figure skater. He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, two-time World champion (2024, 2025), three-time Grand Prix Final champion (2023, 2024, 2025), seven-time Grand Prix gold medalist, four-time Challenger Series gold medalist, and four-time U.S. national champion (2023โ26).
Pamela Jo Bondi ( BON-dee; born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019. Born and raised in the Tampa Bay area, Bondi graduated from the University of Florida and Stetson Law School.
Igor Tudor (born 16 April 1978) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is the current interim manager of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. Capable of playing either as a defender or defensive midfielder, Tudor spent most of his playing career at Juventus, winning several trophies during that time.
2026 Bangladeshi general election
General elections in Bangladesh were held on 12 February 2026 to elect members of the Jatiya Sangsad. It was the first general election since the July Revolution that ended the 15-year-long rule of Sheikh Hasina.
Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Kim became the first woman to win two gold medals in halfpipe.
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Italian: Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the XXV Winter Olympic Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an international multi-sport event currently taking place from 6 to 22 February 2026 at multiple sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy, with competition in selected events beginning 4 February 2026.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontรซ, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' ethnically uncertain foster son, Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights (stylized with quotation marks) is a 2026 period romantic drama film written and directed by Emerald Fennell and adapted from Emily Brontรซ's 1847 novel. The film stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively, alongside Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell in supporting roles.
. xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bengali: เฆฌเฆพเฆเฆฒเฆพเฆฆเงเฆถ เฆเฆพเฆคเงเฆฏเฆผเฆคเฆพเฆฌเฆพเฆฆเง เฆฆเฆฒ, romanized: Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dal), abbreviated as BNP ([หbijenpi]), is a major political party in Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by President Ziaur Rahman, with a view of uniting people with a nationalist ideology.
Kathryn H. Ruemmler (born April 19, 1971) is an American attorney who was principal deputy White House counsel and then White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. Previously a partner at Latham and Watkins co-chairing its white-collar defense group, Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 and was Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British former socialite. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in the United States.
Mikhail Stanislavovich Shaidorov (Russian: ะะธั ะฐะธะป ะกัะฐะฝะธัะปะฐะฒะพะฒะธั ะจะฐะนะดะพัะพะฒ; born 25 June 2004) is a Kazakh figure skater. He is the 2026 Olympic Champion, 2025 World silver medalist, the 2025 Four Continents champion, a four-time Grand Prix medalist, a three-time Challenger Series medalist, the 2025 Asian Winter Games bronze medalist, and five-time Kazakh national champion (2019โ23).
Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American sports commentator and former competitive figure skater. A former competitor in women's singles, she was the 1997 U.S. national champion and world champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997โ1998), and the 1998 Olympic champion.
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance, commitment, and love in many regions of the world.
Myles Lorenz Garrett (born December 29, 1995) is an American professional football defensive end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, receiving unanimous All-American honors in 2016. Selected first overall by the Browns in the 2017 NFL draft, Garrett is the team's all-time career sacks leader.
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette Kennedy (nรฉe Bessette; January 7, 1966 โ July 16, 1999) was an American fashion publicist. She worked for Calvin Klein until her 1996 marriage to attorney and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. Her life and fashion sense became the subjects of intense media scrutiny afterwards.
Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986) is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a five-time Olympian and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. He holds the world record for the most X Games gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder.
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 โ July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defenseโas well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophiesโas a new school of martial arts thought.
John Garvin Weir (; born July 2, 1984) is an American television commentator and retired figure skater. He is a two-time Olympian (2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics), the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004โ2006).
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics
The figure skating events at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held from 6 to 19 February at the Forum di Milano in Milan, Italy. Medals will be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and the team event.
The Traitors (American TV series) season 4
The fourth season of the American television series The Traitors was announced on August 14, 2024. The season premiered on January 8, 2026.
Figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics โ Men's singles
The men's singles figure skating competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 10 and 13 February at the Forum di Milano in Milan, Italy. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan won the gold medal, Yuma Kagiyama of Japan won the silver medal, and Shun Sato, also of Japan, won the bronze medal. Shaidorov became the first man from Kazakhstan to win a gold medal in figure skating.
Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012. Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, regularly reporting on trials throughout the country.
Tatiana Valeryevna Malinina (Russian: ะขะฐัััะฝะฐ ะะฐะปะตััะตะฒะฝะฐ ะะฐะปะธะฝะธะฝะฐ; born 28 January 1973) is a Russian-Uzbek retired figure skater who competed for Uzbekistan. She is the 1999 Grand Prix Final champion, the 1999 Four Continents champion, a two-time (1998, 2001) NHK Trophy champion, and a ten-time (1993โ2002) Uzbek national champion.
The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Paul Feig. It is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and stars Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Brandon Sklenar. In the film, Millie Calloway, a young woman with a troubled past, becomes the live-in maid for a wealthy family whose household hides dark secrets.
O' Romeo is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language romantic action thriller film written and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. It is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. Based on the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai by Hussain Zaidi, the film stars Shahid Kapoor, Triptii Dimri, Nana Patekar, Avinash Tiwary, Tamannaah Bhatia, Disha Patani, Farida Jalal and Vikrant Massey.
Spider-Noir (stylized as โSPIDER-NOIRโ) is an upcoming American noir superhero television series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir. Set in 1930s New York City, the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero who grapples with his past. Uziel served as co-showrunner with Lightfoot.
Virginia Louise Giuffre (, JOO-fray; nรฉe Roberts; August 9, 1983 โ April 25, 2025) was an Australian American advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre also alleged she was trafficked by Epstein to Alan Dershowitz and sexually abused, but retracted this claim in 2022 as a "mistake".
On February 10, 2026, a mass shooting occurred in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. Eighteen-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed two relatives at a residence before killing five students and an education assistant at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Van Rootselaar, a former student at the school, died from a self-inflicted injury at the school.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; nรฉ Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239. 4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.
Angus James Taylor (born 30 September 1966) is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party since February 2026. He has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Hume since 2013. Taylor previously held ministerial positions in the Turnbull and Morrison governments.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011โ2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas, beginning with The Hedge Knight.
Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie, an 84โyearโold mother of three, including NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her home in Catalina Foothills, Arizona, United States. Evidence recovered at the residence indicated that she had been taken against her will, and the Pima County sheriff Chris Nanos stated that he believed she had been abducted.
Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics โ Men's tournament
The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics takes place in Milan, Italy between 11 and 22 February 2026. Twelve countries qualified for the tournament; eight via ranking by the IIHF, three via qualification tournaments, and Italy as hosts. Russia and Belarus are banned from competing due to their invasion of Ukraine.
The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the tenth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka from 7 February to 8 March 2026. Sri Lanka had previously hosted the competition in 2012 and India in 2016. A total of twenty teams are competing in 55 matches across five venues in India and three in Sri Lanka.
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020.
Love Story is an American biographical romance anthology television series created by Connor Hines and executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, D.V. DeVincentis, Kim Rosenstock, and Hines. The fifth installment in the American Story media franchise, it airs on FX and FX on Hulu.
Little Saint James is a small private island in the United States Virgin Islands, southeast of Saint Thomas. It was owned by American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 until his death in 2019. Due to Epstein's years of ownership, and especially its alleged use as a base of operations for underage sex trafficking, the island is most often nicknamed Epstein Island.
Leslie Herbert Wexner (born September 8, 1937) is an American billionaire businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and chair emeritus of Bath & Body Works, Inc He has been the principal in Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and La Senza, amongst several other retail corporations.
The Winter Olympic Games (French: Jeux olympiques d'hiver), also known as the Olympic Winter Games or simply the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France.
Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British former neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016. She came under investigation after an unusual cluster of deaths and collapses in the hospital's neonatal unit, three years after she began working there.
Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself.
2026 Winter Olympics medal table
The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXV Winter Olympic Games, is a winter multi-sport event held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February. A total of 2,885 athletes from 93 nations will participate in 116 medal events in eight sports across 16 disciplines. Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut as an optional sport.
Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year. For a month to have a Friday the 13th, the first day of the month must be a Sunday.
Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics
The ice hockey competitions of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be played at two venues located in the Milan cluster: the PalaItalia and one of the Fiera Milano pavilions. The men's tournament will have 12 teams competing, and the women's tournament 10.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2024. During her tenure, she became the country's longest-serving prime minister and one of the longest-serving female heads of government globally.
Begum Khaleda Zia (born Khaleda Khanam; 15 August 1946 โ 30 December 2025) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister in the Muslim world after Benazir Bhutto.
Predator: Badlands is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison from a story by Trachtenberg and Aison. The seventh installment in the Predator franchise, and set after the events of The Predator (2018), it stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in leading roles.
Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, the 2025 World champion, 2022 World bronze medalist, 2025โ26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Challenger Series champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). At age 16, she competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, placing sixth.
Dhurandhar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. The film features an ensemble cast including Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, and R. Madhavan, alongside several supporting actors.
Sarah Margaret Qualley ( KWAW-lee; born October 23, 1994) is an American actress. A daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballet dancer in her youth. She made her acting debut in the 2013 drama film Palo Alto and gained recognition for her supporting role in the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014โ2017).
Spider-Man Noir (Peter Parker), often referred to as Spider-Noir, Spider-Man, or simply Noir, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Part of the Marvel Noir universe (Earth-90214), this alternate version of Spider-Man is a noir-themed take on the character and emerges in a version of New York during the Great Depression.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, an American child sex offender, financier, serial rapist and human trafficker, occurred on August 10, 2019. Guards claimed to have found Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a. m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (Arabic: โุณูุทุงู ุฃุญู ุฏ ุจู ุณููู , born 1955) is an Emirati businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of DP World until February 2026, and is the chairman of the Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation. He is involved with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Sussan Penelope Ley (nรฉe Susan Penelope Braybrooks; born 14 December 1961) is an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2025 to 2026, the first woman to hold either role. She has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Farrer since 2001.
List of people named in the Epstein files
The Epstein files are over six million pages of documents, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos detailing the criminal and non-criminal activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his social circle of public figures that included politicians, royalty, business executives, academics, and celebrities.
Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and television host. In a career spanning over four decades, he is best known for his role as Carlton Banks on the NBC television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990โ1996), as well as his performances on Silver Spoons (1984โ1987) and In the House (1996โ1999).
Ziaur Rahman (19 January 1936 โ 30 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of the country's independence war, Zia broadcast the Bangladeshi declaration of independence in March 1971 from Chittagong.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul Sr. (born May 6, 1985), nicknamed "CP3" and "the Point God", is an American former professional basketball player. Regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, an NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists five times and steals a record six times.
The Pitt is an American medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle. It is Gemmill, Wells and Wyle's second collaboration, having previously worked together on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez.
Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled (or bobsleigh), down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. The sport and the sled may have been named for the sled's resemblance to a ribcage. Unlike other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge, the race always involves single riders.
Johannes Hรธsflot Klรฆbo (born 22 October 1996) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who represents Byรฅsen IL. He holds multiple records, most notably for being the youngest male skier in history to win the FIS Cross-Country World Cup, the Tour de Ski, a World Championship event, and an Olympic event in cross-country skiing.
Saint Valentine (Italian: Valentino; Latin: Valentinus) was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love. He is also a patron saint of Terni, epilepsy, and beekeepers.
Nikola Topiฤ (Serbian Cyrillic: ะะธะบะพะปะฐ ะขะพะฟะธั, Serbian pronunciation: [nikola topitษ], born 10 August 2005) is a Serbian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 6 ft 6 in (1. 98 m), he plays at the point guard position.