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57 h. ago US congressmen ask judge to appoint official to force release of all Epstein files

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie seek to compel justice department to release full set of filesTwo US House of Representatives members have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to compel the justice department to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.On Thursday, Democratic representative Ro Khanna of California and Republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky asked US district judge Paul Engelmayer to release the full Epstein files, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty

The US president’s grotesque theatrics on the world stage are an opportunistic distraction from his falling domestic ratingsOf all the commandments for living under Donald Trump, the first is always this: don’t believe him. Nothing he says can be taken at face value; everything should be fed into a polygraph. Those of scrupulous courtesy can wrap it up in red ribbon, or uncork that aphorism about how the man must be taken seriously but never literally. All the same, scratch a Trump promise and underneath will glint a pretext. Scrutinise his grand plans and you find only shabby tactics.The Manhattan Democrat turns into a Florida-dwelling Republican; the troll who demanded Barack Obama’s birth certificate will hem and haw over releasing the Epstein files. From real-estate deals to Trump University, all that this guy swears is solid gold soon settles into so much bullshit.Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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4 d. ago US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals

Federal law required majority of documents to be released by 19 December, but only 125,575 pages have been publishedThe Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago DOJ tells court it has more than 2M Epstein documents to review ahead of redacted release

Less than one percent of department’s total holdings on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been seen so far

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1 week ago Lauren Boebert claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation

Colorado lawmaker , who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and SenateRepublican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Colorado lawmaker claims Trump’s veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation

Lauren Boebert, who pushed for Epstein files release, points to bill’s unanimous passage through US House and SenateRepublican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation.The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado’s eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Famous inventor says he has no memory of cozy Segway ride with Ghislaine Maxwell after embarrassing new Epstein photos emerged

Dean Kamen, 74, has broken his silence over photos depicting him with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in newly released files.

Culture

1 week ago Trump’s DOJ is seeking hundreds of lawyers to sift through more than 5 million Epstein files before release: report

Department of Justice reportedly looking to draft in as many as 400 more legal experts to help with review of files it was required by law to release in full on December 19

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2 w. ago The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files | Arwa Mahdawi

The year 2025 saw a Swift engagement, a rapid rollback of rights and a slow release of the heavily redacted Epstein filesThe year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to make do with Katy Perry spending 11 minutes on the edge of space as part of Blue Origin’s all-female crewed mission. Perry promised us all that, in service of women’s empowerment, the crew would “put the ‘ass’ in astronaut” and “make space and science glam”. Truly, one giant leap for womankind!Space may have got glam, but it was another glum year for many on Earth. The war in Ukraine continued, with increasing numbers of women volunteering to fight. The civil war in Sudan raged on, with the UN urging the world not to ignore harrowing details of targeted sexual violence, torture, and abductions from the region. The slaughter in Sudan is so extreme that the blood can even be seen from space. Although I’m not sure the billio...

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2 w. ago Republican behind Epstein files act responds to Trump ‘lowlife’ taunt

Kentucky’s Thomas Massie used the president’s insult to raise funds to run against a Trump-endorsed candidateA Kentucky congressman singled out by Donald Trump on Christmas as a “lowlife” after co-authoring a law requiring the federal government to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files says the president attacked him for keeping a commitment to “help victims”.Thomas Massie then successfully sought donations for his run for another term in the 2026 midterm elections against an opponent that Trump – his fellow Republican – has already endorsed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wild claims Andrew 'at UK paedo rings' where alleged sexual assault victims 'tortured'

British police are to seek further information from the FBI after newly released files included unsubstantiated claims that Jeffrey Epstein's victims were abused at alleged UK parties

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2 w. ago UK police ask FBI about outlandish claim Epstein victims were tortured at 'paedophile ring parties attended by Prince Andrew'

The alleged victim, whose claims have been published in the recent releases of the Epstein files, said they were driven to the parties by their father when they were between six and eight.

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2 w. ago UK police to ask FBI about Epstein file ‘abuse parties’ where ‘child victim was drugged and tortured’

The Epstein files, released in the United States this week, contain lurid claims against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

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2 w. ago The unanswered questions after trove of Epstein files released — and possibly a million more to follow

Latest tranche of records and photographs relating to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein published by the Department of Justice contained almost 30,000 pages of information or 10GB of data, Joe Sommerlad reports

Economics

2 w. ago All we know as a million more Jeffrey Epstein files due for release

Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young girls and women for sex and was convicted of offences back in 2008 - his death in a New York prison cell has sparked concern there would be no justice for his victims

Economics

2 w. ago US justice department says full Epstein file release could take ‘few more weeks’

‘Over a million’ additional documents uncovered that will take time to review, according to the DoJ

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2 w. ago There are over ONE MILLION more Epstein files that will be released in coming weeks, DOJ says

Pam Bondi's Department of Justice shared the update on Christmas Eve.

Economics

2 w. ago US justice department says it may need ‘a few more weeks’ to process 1m more Epstein documents for release

DoJ says more documents have been uncovered amid criticisms for missing 19 December deadline for full releaseThe US justice department said on Wednesday that it has been told by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the FBI that they have uncovered more than a million more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and processing these for release could take “a few more weeks”.In a post on X, the justice department said it had received the documents from the US attorney for the southern district of New York and the FBI in “compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders”. Continue reading...

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