A cabinet official was notably absent and stayed under a special security arrangement as Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union speech today.

Bill Gates told staff that he began meeting Epstein in 2011 and was aware of his legal trouble that restricted his travel, but admitted that he did not conduct a thorough background check at the time.

Pakistan is rattled by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s pitch for a “hexagon of alliances” with India, with Islamabad calling it an “anti-Muslim Ummah bloc.”