Two members of Congress have named six men whose names were redacted by the Department of Justice from the Epstein files.

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie used their parliamentary privilege to name the men on the floor of the House of Representatives.

"Seventy to eighty per cent of the files are still redacted," Khanna said.

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"There were six wealthy powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason."

The list includes two billionaires.

Nobody on the list is accused of taking part in any specific criminal wrongdoing or implicated in any crimes. And none of them have been charged in connection with Jeffrey Epstein.

The legislation passed late last year required the Department of Justice to release all the files connected to their investigation of Epstein.

The department was permitted to redact the names of victims.

But the millions of documents released have also redacted the names of countless other people – including some seemingly connected to serious crimes.

Massie and Khanna were able to go to the department yesterday to read unredacted files from the investigation for two hours.

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"If we found six men they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men there are covering up for in those three million files?" Khanna said.

"Donald Trump's FBI scrubbed these files in March, long before Thomas Massie and I passed the Epstein Transparency Act."

Another congressman granted access to the Epstein files, Jamie Raskin, alleged that Trump's name appeared in them "more than a million times". Nine is not implying that appearing in the files is an indication of any criminal offence.

Raskin said he had read an email between Epstein and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, which denied a central claim made by Trump.

Trump has repeatedly stated Epstein was asked to leave Mar-a-Lago.

But the 2009 email exchange included Epstein denying the assertion.

The president said he threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago because he was poaching spa workers.

Trump said Epstein "stole" victim Virginia Giuffre from the spa.

At the time, Giuffre was a teenage masseuse working for Trump.

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Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is answering questions about why a statement about Jeffrey Epstein's death was dated the day before his apparent suicide.

The press release was dated August 9, 2019, when Epstein died on August 10.

It was subsequently released in the Epstein files release.

The department told the BBC the date was merely a typo.

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The federal government is taking a second crack at reforming superannuation in a move that would give more than a million low earners a retirement boost while hitting the nation's wealthiest with a higher tax rate.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers this morning introduced the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions bill to parliament.

If passed, the new laws would change how superannuation is taxed for two groups of Australians at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum: about 90,000 people with the highest super balances, and roughly 1.3 million of the nation's lowest-paid workers.

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For the latter, the government is hoping to expand the threshold for the low-income superannuation tax offset (LISTO).

In its current form, the LISTO offsets the tax paid on superannuation for anyone earning less than $37,000 a year, effectively ensuring super is still tax-effective for Australians on low incomes.

Under the proposed new law, the threshold for the offset will be raised to the top of the second income tax bracket – which currently sits at $45,000 – covering an additional 1.3 million workers.

According to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), that change will deliver someone on $44,000 a year close to an extra $50,000 in their super balance by the time they retire.

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"Our reforms to the low-income superannuation tax offset will help deliver a more secure retirement for more than a million Australians, mainly young people and women," Chalmers said.

"These changes will help make the super system fairer from top to bottom."

Alongside the higher LISTO offset, the bill also increases the tax rate on superannuation earnings for accounts with more than $3 million.

This will impact the top 0.3 per cent of super account holders – a total of about 90,000 people.

Instead of the current flat concessional tax rate of 15 per cent, the bill proposes raising the tax rate on earnings for super accounts with a balance of between $3 million and $10 million to 30 per cent, and to 40 per cent for accounts worth more than $10 million.

The increased tax rates won't apply to an account's entire earnings – only to the proportion of the balance over each of the new thresholds.

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Combined, the changes will generate about $1.6 billion in extra tax revenue for the federal budget per year.

The introduction of today's bill comes after an aborted attempt to pass similar legislation during the last parliament and following May's federal election, when the government faced significant criticism, particularly on the proposal to tax unrealised gains and a refusal to index the thresholds for the higher tax rates.

Both of those elements of the laws have since been scrapped – the current bill only includes a higher tax for realised earnings, and the $3 million and $10 million thresholds will be indexed.

Despite the changes, the passage of the current bill is uncertain. The Coalition opposes the changes, meaning the government will require support from the Greens to get the laws through the Senate.

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According to the Australian Financial Review, the minor party could demand more stringent measures targeting wealthy accounts in exchange for its backing.

However, ASFA has encouraged the Greens and opposition to back the legislation.

"Together, these changes make super tax settings fairer and more sustainable," chief executive Mary Delahunty said. 

"I encourage the parliament to pass the legislation without delay. 

"Aussie workers on low incomes cannot wait another day for the fairness that this package delivers to them."

If passed, the higher tax rates on wealthy accounts will come into effect on July 1, while the LISTO boost will follow a year later.

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It was one of the biggest financial trends of 2025 and it doesn't appear to be changing in 2026: investors worldwide buying up gold and silver as a hedge against growing economic instability.

But it can come back to bite you at tax time.

H&R Block Australia director of tax communications Mark Chapman said precious metals had a "special place" in Australian portfolios, but were also among the most commonly misunderstood assets from a tax perspective.

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"Many investors assume gold and silver are taxed like shares, or that physical bullion is 'private' and therefore outside the ATO's (Australian Taxation Office's) line of sight," Chapman said.

"Others believe that because these assets do not produce income such as dividends or rent, they must be treated differently."

However, he said, the reality was that gold and silver sat squarely within Australia's capital gains tax (CGT) framework.

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And the tax outcome can vary depending on what is purchased, why it is purchased, and how it is held.

CGT assets include physical bullion bars, bullion coins, allocated and unallocated bullion accounts, gold and silver exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and shares in precious metal funds.

Chapman said if gold or silver was bought as an investment and later sold for more than its cost, the profit will usually be subject to capital gains tax.

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"H&R Block sees a common misconception among investors that holding bullion privately removes tax exposure," he said.

"In practice, tax applies regardless of whether the ATO is immediately aware of a transaction.

"CGT is triggered when the asset is disposed of, including when bullion is sold, gifted, exchanged, or transferred to another entity. Record keeping is critical, as investors who cannot substantiate their cost base often end up paying more tax than necessary."

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Some gold and silver coins may also fall under the collectables rules, particularly where they have numismatic or collector value.

Chapman cautioned that losses on collectables can generally only be offset against gains from other collectables, limiting their usefulness compared to other investment losses.

"While there are personal use asset exemptions under the tax law, H&R Block notes that investment gold and silver will usually not qualify. Where the asset has been acquired as a store of value or for investment purposes, it is unlikely to be considered a personal use asset," Chapman said.

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"For individual investors and trusts, the 50 per cent CGT discount can be a key tax advantage where gold or silver is held for more than 12 months. Companies, however, are not eligible for the discount."

Another important consideration he flagged was the distinction between an investor and a trader.

Where there is frequent buying and selling with a clear profit-making intent, gains may be treated as ordinary income rather than capital gains, removing access to the CGT discount and changing the overall tax outcome.

"Gold exposure through ETFs and pooled products is generally taxed under normal CGT rules, but outcomes can differ depending on the legal structure of the product," Chapman said.

"H&R Block recommends investors carefully review product disclosure statements and annual tax statements before assuming the tax treatment."

For self-managed super funds (SMFs), additional compliance considerations apply, including storage, documentation, valuation, and investment strategy alignment.

While Chapman said CGT still applies within super, the effective tax rate may be lower for assets held longer than 12 months, but ATO scrutiny in this area remains high.

"Gold and silver may feel like simple investments, but as H&R Block often sees in practice, the tax treatment can be complex," Chapman said.

"The focus should not be on trying to avoid tax, but on structuring investments correctly and maintaining records so the right amount of tax is paid – and not more."

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The Department of Justice is facing questions about why a statement about Jeffrey Epstein's death was dated before his apparent suicide.

The press release was dated August 9, 2019, when Epstein was found dead on August 10.

It was subsequently released in the Epstein files release.

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"Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Centre confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter," the draft statement from Southern District of New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman read.

The Southern District of New York covers Manhattan, where Epstein was being held at the time of his death.

The department told the BBC the date was merely a typo.

The statement officially released on the day of Epstein's death was very similar to the draft.

"Today's events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in Court," Berman's statement read. 

"To those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you, and our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment – which included a conspiracy count – remains ongoing."

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Berman had been appointed to the position by the Trump administration but sacked at Trump's request in 2020.

Officials say Epstein committed suicide in his cell overnight before his body was found at 6.30am on August 10 by a corrections officer delivering his breakfast.

No time of death has been determined.

The findings of suicide from the New York City Chief Medical Examiner have been highly scrutinised and criticised.

But despite countless claims of foul play, no evidence has disproven the conclusion that Epstein took his own life.

Millions of documents have been released in recent weeks connected to the investigation of the notorious sex trafficker.

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Two men are set to appear in court in Italy following a dramatic armed robbery on an armoured security truck on a highway on Monday.

A masked gang attacked the vehicle with Kalashnikov rifles and robbed a student of her car as they tried to escape in a heist attempt that concluded in a firefight with the Carabinieri, the Italian police.

The group, composed of at least six people, fired several shots at the Carabinieri, with one officer sustaining an injury.

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Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto described the event as "a bloody incident, with an exchange of fire, and an absolute priority: protecting the community endangered by the madness of criminals."

The gang stopped a vehicle in the road in front of the armoured truck belonging to security company Battistolli, before setting it on fire, forcing traffic to stop.

The security company described the widely shared footage of the incident as shocking, adding, "We express our closeness and solidarity to our colleagues, the bystanders involved, and their families."

It highlighted a surge in incidents of this nature, and called for more to be done to improve security.

"In the last two years, the Battistolli Group has suffered 14 attacks, a situation that requires attention and concrete action," it said.

The suspects, two men aged 38 and 62, will be charged with a range of offences including attempted murder, aggravated robbery and possession of war weapons, according to Italy's public broadcaster RAI.

The injured officer is still being treated in hospital, it added.

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While all football fans want their team to win every game, one Manchester United fan had extra reason to be hoping for a win this morning.

Frank Ilett, better known by his social media moniker The United Strand, has gained fame in football circles for refusing to give himself a haircut until his beloved Red Devils win five games in a row.

Illet made the pledge on October 5, 2024, but Manchester United's failure to live up to their end of the bargain means it has been nearly 500 days since he has been able to get a trim.

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He has gained a large following and notoriety on social media in the last year and a half, garnering 1.3 million followers on Instagram as he shares regular updates about his hair growth.

His unruly locks, a significant change from his previous hairstyle, has now become famous, but it could soon be a thing of the past.

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Manchester United have finally found some good form, four games in a row in all competitions.

That meant there was a massive chance Illet's wait would end if they could beat relegation battlers West Ham United this morning.

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Such was the anticipation of the drought potentially breaking, Ilett even live streamed a watch along for the game.

However, the drought was not broken, as Manchester United could only salvage a 1-1 draw late on thanks to a stoppage time goal from Benjamin Sesko, having been trailing for much of the second half at the London Stadium.

This means the clock resets, and Ilett's wait for a trim will extend well over 500 days. Given Manchester United's inconsistencies, it could even span into the two year mark.

Ilett has said when the time finally comes to shave off his iconic hair do, he will donate the hair to charity.

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Shortly after the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein became public in the mid-2000s, Donald Trump called the Palm Beach Police Department to express gratitude, according to a newly released document.

"Thank goodness you're stopping him," Trump said.

"Everyone has known he's been doing this."

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The document — a written record of an FBI interview that a former Palm Beach County police chief told the Miami Herald he gave in 2019 — is likely to fuel more questions about when and what specifically Trump knew about Epstein and his crimes.

President Trump and the White House have said repeatedly that Trump broke ties with Epstein in the early 2000s, believing Epstein to be a "creep".

The Miami Herald reported the interview memorialised in the document was with Michael Reiter, whose name is redacted.

He was the Palm Beach police chief at the time of the call, which appears to have occurred around 2006, according to the Herald. According to the FBI document, Trump told him on the call that people in New York knew Epstein was disgusting.

And he said Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was "Epstein's operative," adding of her, "she is evil and to focus on her".

Trump also said he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and "got the hell out of there," the document says.

Trump was one of the "very first people" to call the Palm Beach Police Department when people found they were investigating Epstein, according to the document, which was among millions released by the Justice Department under a new law passed by Congress.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday said she could not confirm whether the call happened, but argued that if it did, it "corroborates" Trump's account that he had a falling out with Epstein in the early 2000s and cut ties with the financier.

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"It was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006. I don't know the answer to that question," she said during a press briefing.

"What I'm telling you is what President Trump has always said, is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep, and that remains true."

A Justice Department official said, "We are not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago." Reiter's private security company said in response to an email requesting comment, "Michael Reiter is not participating in interviews at this time."

The question of what Trump knew about Epstein and his crimes has clouded the president's second term amid renewed interest in the story and the release of millions of pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender. Trump has said the two men were friends in the 1990s, and socialised in the same circles in Palm Beach, before having a falling out in the early 2000s that resulted in Trump kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club.

Trump has said the falling-out was motivated by Epstein's attempts to steal his employees but has denied having any knowledge of his crimes.

"The concept of people taking people that worked for me is bad," Trump told reporters in July. "People were taken out of the spa, hired by him, in other words, gone."

"When I heard about it, I told him, we don't want you taking our people – whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people, and he was fine and then not too long after that he did it again and I said 'outta here,'" Trump said.

Trump said he believed one of the people taken was Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent Epstein survivors who later died by suicide. But Trump later that week told reporters he didn't really know why the women were poached from his club.

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Trump's description of Maxwell as "evil" in the document contrasts with how he reacted to her arrest in 2020. He said at the time "I just wish her well." Maxwell is serving a lengthy prison sentence for sex trafficking.

While Maxwell pleaded the fifth during her latest deposition to the House Oversight Committee, her attorney said that she would be willing to "speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump." In a prior interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell said she "absolutely never" heard Epstein or anyone say Trump had done anything inappropriate.

Trump told CNN in July that he hasn't thought about giving a pardon or commutation to Maxwell, although he didn't rule it out.

"It's something I haven't thought about," he said. "I'm allowed to do it, but it's something I have not thought about."

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Young Aussies have become the most committed savers in the country, a new study claims.

Nearly 90 per cent of Generation Z Australians aged between 18 and 29 years-old are actively putting money away, according to new data released by NAB this morning.

The survey claims 89 per cent of young women and 85 per cent of young men are committed to growing their savings accounts despite being hit by cost-of-living pressures and uncertainty around interest rates.

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Sacrifices have to be made, however, with three-quarters of all Australians forced to cut back on spending according to the survey.

NAB Retail Executive Belionda Mamet said younger Aussies have understood the importance of saving even from an early age.

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"Young Aussies should give themselves credit for how much they've already done," she said.

"Cutting back and saving can feel boring, but our younger customers are managing their savings well."

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She encouraged Aussies looking to save to use the New Year period as a natural reset and to start small in their budgeting goals.

"Pause, reset, and make a couple of small changes that help you feel back in control after a busy summer of celebrations and higher than usual spending," she said.

"If you're exhausted with cut back fatigue, don't cut more, just don't quit what you're already doing. Small, repeatable actions can make a big difference."

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Pictures of a masked man on the doorstep of US TV anchor Savannah Guthrie's missing mother Nancy have been released for the first time, as the urgent search for her continues.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted the images online early this morning (Australia time), saying they had been recovered "from residual data located in backend systems".

"Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie's home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors – including the removal of recording devices," Patel wrote on X.

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"Working with our partners – as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance."

The images and video show a man wearing gloves, long sleeves, pants, and with a balaclava over his face, apparently attempting to block the door camera at the home, including by holding up a handful of plants.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tuscon, Arizona, on January 31, and was reported missing when she failed to attend church the next day.

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Her daughter, journalist and long-term co-anchor of the US Today television news program Savannah Guthrie, has issued repeated pleas for information and even appealed to the presumed kidnappers, offering to pay a ransom.

Law enforcement investigating Nancy's disappearance have confirmed they had received some demands for ransom from different sources, but have not said if any of them are considered credible.

In a number of video messages released in the days since their mothers' disappearance, Nancy Guthrie's children, including Savannah, appear to have addressed the kidnappers, including one video in which Savannah says, "We have received your message" before pleading for her mother's return.

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However, law enforcement say they are unaware of any ongoing communication between the Guthries and any purported kidnappers.

Nor have investigators identified any persons of interest in the case.

In her latest message yesterday, Savannah Guthrie, this time speaking alone, appealed to the public for the first time, asking anybody who noticed anything suspicious to report it to law enforcement immediately.

"We are at an hour of desperation," she said.

"We need your help."

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Exclusive: Australians say the soaring cost of living, including groceries, schooling and housing, is holding them back from having a second child or starting a family at all.

The national median house price is $1.28 million, median rent is $650 per week, and the price of groceries, food, energy and insurance is through the roof.

Casey Gardiner, a 36-year-old who owns a home in Queensland, tells nine.com.au that she and her partner can't afford children.

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Both work odd hours that most childcare doesn't cover, so they'd have to fork out thousands for private childcare services in their child's first few years.

That's on top of a mortgage, bills and groceries.

"The maths didn't work," Gardiner told nine.com.au.

"I'm sure we could have made it work, like so many people have done before, but that's a lot to ask without a village."

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