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The records request concerned the July decision not to release the files. The Department of Justice is facing new scrutiny over the decision to withhold the Jeffrey Epstein files earlier this year. A ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Some wealthy and powerful figures including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson have already suffered reputational damage. Under immense pressure, Donald Trump is backing the disclosure of ...

Mr. Trump announced on social media that he had signed the legislation, but the release of all the files is not guaranteed. Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington President Trump announced in a ...

For more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here’s the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here. Years in the system, the case of Jeffrey Epstein has reached another turning point and is ...

Lawmakers in both the House and Senate have ordered the US Justice Department to make public its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The House approved the measure overwhelmingly, 427-1, ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Overwhelming votes in both chambers of Congress directing the Justice Department to release the full files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation sent a clear message: Make it all public.

Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker. “It’s a call to ...

If President Donald Trump has nothing to hide vis-à-vis Jeffrey Epstein, he sure has a weird way of showing it. Trump hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the convicted sex ...