An extraordinary “criminal relic,” the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s original black book, could soon hit the auction block.

The black book of unredacted names and numbers will be offered for private sale by sealed bids on May 15 by Alexander Historical Auctions, whose owner said it could fetch $200,000.

Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big race. The 74-year-old trainer says it was all practice for Saturday, when he’ll saddle West Saratoga in the Derby.

Larry Demeritte is just the second Black trainer since 1951 with a horse in the Kentucky Derby, a race that was dominated in its early years by winning Black trainers.

Demeritte’s horse is an underdog too. While the costliest horse in this year’s Derby field, Sierra Leone, was purchased for $2.3 million, Demeritte bought West Saratoga as a y

The agency also announced it will spend some of its $60 billion bump in funding to look at big corporations, partnerships and multimillionaires over the next three years.

The IRS says it's taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and others filers

The Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. tax agency, said Thursday that it has taken steps to address a wide disparity in audit rates between Black taxpayers and other filers. And it said it is more closely examining the returns of larger numbers of wealthy people and major companies.