EPSTEIN, DEEMED DANGEROUS, DENIED BAIL IN SEX ABUSE CASE

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N E W Y for jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges Thursday, saying he poses a danger to the public and might use his “great wealth and vast resources” to flee the country.

Epstein, with his hands folded before him, showed no reaction to the announcement by U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman. His lawyers did not comment afterward.

“I doubt that any bail package can overcome danger to the community,” Berman said, citing a danger for the “minor victims in this case and prospective victims as well.”

The decision means Epstein will remain behind bars while he fights charges that he exploited dozens of girls in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.

Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia as labor secretary.

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Trump said he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, a prominent Washington lawyer and son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new labor secretary.

“Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer but as a lawyer with great experience,” Trump said in tweets Thursday night.

Scalia, a partner at the firm Gibson Dunn, received a law degree from the University of Chicago. If confirmed by the Senate, he would replace Alex Acosta, who announced his resignation last week amid an outcry over his handling of a decade-old sex crimes case against financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Soldiers, police to enforce Ebola emergency measures.

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» Congolese soldiers and CON G O police will enforce hand-washing and fever checks now that the deadly Ebola outbreak has been declared an international health emergency, authorities said Thursday.

Soldiers and police will “force” people who resist taking the key steps to help contain the disease that has killed more than 1,600 people in the past year, said the outbreak response coordinator at Congo’s health ministry, Dr. Aruna Abedi.

“It’s not possible that someone refuses to wash their hands and have their temperature checked at a very critical moment in this outbreak,” Abedi told reporters in Goma, the city of more than 2 million people where a first Ebola case was announced this week.

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» “Manmade” soon will be “human made,” “chairman” will become “chairperson” and “manhole” will change to “maintenance hole” — at least, in the city’s municipal code.

To make Berkeley more inclusive for its nonbinary residents, the City Council voted Tuesday night to make the language more gender-neutral, following a city clerk review that found that the municipal code primarily contained masculine pronouns. That means many professions such as firemen and firewomen will be firefighters, and brothers and sisters will instead be siblings.

“Having a male-centric municipal code is inaccurate and not reflective of our reality,” council member Rigel Robinson, the primary backer of the terminology change, told The Washington Post.

The procedure still requires a second reading at the council for the proposal to be official, followed by a 30-day waiting period. — Denver Post wire services