Lawmakers upset with Epstein file release
CBS News has learned at least 15 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were initially released online by the U.S. Department of Justice have disappeared. Cristian Benavides reports.
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CBS News has learned at least 15 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were initially released online by the U.S. Department of Justice have disappeared. Cristian Benavides reports.
The Justice Department released additional documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case. At the same time, at least 15 newly released Epstein files disappeared from the Justice Department’s website.
The Justice Department has released records from the Epstein files, the first documents to come to light under a new law signed by President Trump.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released 19 photos from a trove of images obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
A federal judge granted the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury transcripts and evidence from a sex trafficking case in New York against Ghislaine Maxwell, co-conspirator and friend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Justice Department can release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled.
The Department of Justice asked a federal judge in Florida to unseal grand jury materials related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. A judge previously rejected a DOJ request to make the transcripts public, but the department is trying again after Congress passed a bill demanding the release of all documents related to the convicted sex offender's case.
Those transcripts are from the initial federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in Florida two decades ago.
The Justice Department now has 30 days to release the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
President Trump signed legislation on Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The House sent to the Senate a bill that would force the release of the Epstein files, the final procedural move before President Trump's signature.
The measure compelling the Justice Department to release materials related to Jeffrey Epstein won congressional approval. In a sudden reversal, President Trump told lawmakers they should vote for it.
Whiplash. That’s how Tuesday is being described on Capitol Hill, from a vote rebuking Congressman Chuy Garcia to rapid movement on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. In moves that couldn’t have predicted just days ago, the release of the Epstein files has now been fast-tracked.
It now goes to the Senate, and that vote could happen as soon as Tuesday night.
The U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote Tuesday on legislation to make public all unclassified and investigative materials related to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Natalie Brand reports.
This comes after President Trump changed course and publicly urged Republicans to support the effort to release the documents on the activities of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Bradley Blackburn reports on what could happen next.
The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a measure compelling the Justice Department to release all its files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Their release could be politically explosive for President Donald Trump, and the issue is causing a rift within the republican party.
A handful of Republicans joined Democrats in supporting a bill that would require the release of the Justice Department's files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The House is expected to vote as early as next week. President Trump has repeatedly called the focus on Epstein a Democratic “hoax.”
The House could vote in just a matter of days on releasing the files related to the government's investigation on Jeffrey Epstein.
Thousands of pages of Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee include emails and texts with close contacts that often touched on President Trump.
The three emails appear to be exchanges between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as the author Michael Wolff and Epstein.
A House committee on Wednesday released tens of thousands of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
The House is expected to vote next week on the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
An effort to force a House vote on compelling the Justice Department to release materials related to Jeffrey Epstein secured the final signature it needed Wednesday.
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The three men accused in a crime spree that involved an attack on a CBS News Chicago crew last week were due back in court Wednesday morning.
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