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The House Oversight Committee deposed Ghislaine Maxwell during a video call to her Texas prison camp Monday.

But the convicted sex trafficker and girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her fifth amendment rights and declined to answers the lawmakers' questions.

Fallout from the sex trafficking case is creating a full-blown political crisis in Great Britain.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now battling to hold onto his job following last year's appointment of Peter Mandelson to be ambassador to the U.S., despite Mandelson's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. (February 9)