'The Simpsons' has predicted the future many times, here's the list

Michelangelo’s “David” will be censored

1990, Season 2, Episode 9: “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge”

Springfield tries to censor Michelangelo’s “David” — a plotline that became a reality in 2016 when Russians voted on covering up a copy of the famed statue.

There will be video chat, smartwatches and robot librarians

1995, Season 6, Episode 19: “Lisa’s Wedding”

Characters in this episode communicate via screen, have watches that can be used as phones and defer to robots when navigating libraries — sound familiar?

Sept. 11, 2001 will happen

1997, Season 9, Episode 1: “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson”

A coupon for a $9 New York bus features the Twin Towers in the background, making the ad appear to read “New York $9 11,” spawning many Sept. 11-related conspiracies.

Ebola will become mainstream news in America

1997, Season 9, Episode 3: “Lisa’s Sax”

Marge offers to read a book called “Curious George and the Ebola Virus,” to Bart, in this episode, which aired years before the virus became as well known to Americans.

The Higgs boson particle’s mass equation will be found to be correct

1998, Season 10, Episode 2: “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace”

Homer writes an equation on a blackboard that predicts the Higgs boson particle’s mass that, despite being first predicted in 1964, wasn’t proved until 2013.

Disney will buy a big chunk of 20th Century Fox

1998, Season 10, Episode 5: “When You Dish Upon a Star”

An opening shot in this episode shows the 20th Century Fox logo and “A Division of Walt Disney Co.” underneath it. In 2018, the Walt Disney Co. did indeed buy the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox.

Fruits and vegetables will mutate and hybridize

1999, Season 11, Episode 5: “E-I-E-I-D’oh!”

Tomacco plantHomer tries his hand at farming using nuclear materials from his job and creates a tomato-tobacco mutant hybrid called a “tomacco.” Mutant veggies indeed became a reality in Japan following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown.

Donald Trump will be the US president

2000, Season 11, Episode 17: “Bart to the Future”

“We inherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump,” Lisa, who is the US president, says in this episode, at the time referencing Trump’s Reform Party candidate run — but now thought to be predictive of his 2016 election.

The Beatles will belatedly reply to fan mail

1991, Season 2, Episode 18: “Brush With Greatness”

Decades after sending Ringo Starr a painting, Marge gets a response — as did two Essex women, who received a reply from Paul McCartney in 2013, 50 years after sending him a mixtape.

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Former NYC corrections official on Jeffrey Epstein case: 'This whole thing doesn't make any sense

A retired deputy warden for the New York City Department of Corrections reacted Thursday to the latest news regarding the death of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, telling "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that "something is not right."

Ed Gavin was reacting to reports that surveillance footage of Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt — which happened in July when he was sharing a cell with a former police officer accused of quadruple homicide — has been found after prosecutors initially believed the video was either missing or was never preserved.

"When the probe team initially responded to the attempted suicide, they should have responded to the area with a handheld camera. So in addition to the cameras that are fixed in stationary positions on the walls, the officers should have been recording everything going on during the response," Gavin said. "So really, they should have had two sets of tapes. So something is not right. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing."

Epstein, 66, was ruled to have died by hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan on Aug. 10. The initial apparent suicide attempt took place on July 23.

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Sentencing for NXIVM financier and billionaire Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman, 40, is postponed as judge considers giving her MORE jail time than the recommended two years

The sentencing for Clare Bronfman, the financier of the sex cult NXIVM, has been postponed, it was announced Thursday

The 40-year-old billionaire heiress to the Canadian conglomerate Seagram was due to be sentenced on January 8, but it was pushed back to February 14

Brooklyn Judge Nicholas Garaufis postponed it to consider giving her a longer prison sentence than the recommenced 21 to 27 months

Bronfman pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to harbor immigrants for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification in her time with NXIVM

She joined NXIVM in the early 2000s and became its legal enforcer, filing and financing lawsuits against the enemies of cult leader Keith Raniere

She used her family fortune from Seagram liquor to pay off Raniere's debts

The sentencing for the financier of the sex cult NXIVM has been postponed as a judge considers giving her more prison time than recommended amount, it was announced Thursday.

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Clare Bronfman, the 40-year-old billionaire heiress to the Canadian conglomerate Seagram, was due to be sentenced on January 8, but on Thursday Brooklyn Judge Nicholas Garaufis pushed the date back to February 14.

It was recommended that she serve 21 to 27 months in prison, but Garaufis is considering an even longer sentence.

However, Garaufis did not provide an explanation as to why he's considering a harsher sentence, according to the New York Post.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7812797/Sentencing-NXIVM-financier-Clare-Bronfman-postponed.html