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President Donald Trump has lashed out at reporters elevating questions concerning the Epstein recordsdata, demanding that the nation “get onto something else,” however that’s extremely unlikely. Many of the paperwork haven’t been launched, and those now public have been closely redacted.

The Department of Justice will permit members of Congress to evaluation unredacted recordsdata on the convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein beginning on Monday, in response to a letter that was despatched to lawmakers. The letter obtained by The Associated Press says that lawmakers will have the ability to evaluation unredacted variations of the greater than 3 million recordsdata that the Justice Department has launched to adjust to a regulation handed by Congress final yr.

While investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage women, they discovered scant proof the well-connected financier led a intercourse trafficking ring serving highly effective males, an Associated Press evaluation of inner Justice Department data reveals.

Meanwhile, Trump mentioned he will not apologize for a racist social media submit that includes former President Barack Obama and his spouse, Michelle Obama. The White House in the end blamed the submit on a staffer and Trump mentioned “I didn’t make a mistake.”

And Dr. Mehmet Oz is urging individuals to get inoculated towards the measles at a time of outbreaks throughout a number of states and because the United States is susceptible to dropping its measles elimination standing. “Take the vaccine, please,” mentioned Oz, “We have a solution for our problem.”

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FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t operating a intercourse trafficking ring for highly effective males, recordsdata present

The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s financial institution data and emails. It searched his properties. It spent years interviewing his victims and analyzing his connections to a number of the world’s most influential individuals.

But whereas investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage women, they discovered scant proof the well-connected financier led a intercourse trafficking ring serving highly effective males, an Associated Press evaluation of inner Justice Department data reveals.

Videos and pictures seized from Epstein’s properties in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands didn’t depict victims being abused or implicate anybody else in his crimes, a prosecutor wrote in a single 2025 memo.

An examination of Epstein’s monetary data, together with funds he made to entities linked to influential figures in academia, finance and international diplomacy, discovered no connection to felony exercise, mentioned one other inner memo in 2019.

While one Epstein sufferer made extremely public claims that he “lent her” to his wealthy buddies, brokers couldn’t verify that and located no different victims telling an identical story, the data mentioned.

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Masks emerge as image of Trump’s ICE crackdown and a flashpoint in Congress

Beyond the automotive home windows being smashed, individuals tackled on metropolis streets — or perhaps a little little one with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the pictures of masked federal officers has grow to be a flashpoint within the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.

Not in latest U.S. reminiscence has an American policing operation so persistently masked its 1000’s of officers from the general public, a growth that the Department of Homeland Security believes is necessary to safeguard staff from on-line harassment. But consultants warn masking serves one other objective, inciting concern in communities, and dangers shattering norms, accountability and belief between the police and its citizenry.

Whether to ban the masks — or permit the masking to proceed — has emerged as a central query within the debate in Congress over funding Homeland Security forward of Friday’s midnight deadline, when it faces a partial company shutdown.

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‘Take the vaccine, please,’ a high US well being official says in an attraction as measles circumstances rise

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens as President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx within the South Court Auditorium within the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A number one U.S. well being official on Sunday urged individuals to get inoculated towards the measles at a time of outbreaks throughout a number of states and because the United States is susceptible to dropping its measles elimination standing.

“Take the vaccine, please,” mentioned Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator whose boss has raised suspicion concerning the security and significance of vaccines. “We have a solution for our problem.”

Oz, a coronary heart surgeon, defended some not too long ago revised federal vaccine suggestions in addition to previous feedback from President Donald Trump and the nation’s well being chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., concerning the efficacy of vaccines. From Oz, there was a transparent message on the measles. “Not all illnesses are equally dangerous and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses,” he instructed CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But measles is one you should get your vaccine.”

An outbreak in South Carolina within the a whole bunch has surpassed the recorded case depend in Texas’ 2025 outbreak, and there’s additionally one on the Utah-Arizona border. Multiple different states have had confirmed circumstances this yr. The outbreaks have largely impacted kids and have come as infectious illness consultants warn that rising public mistrust of vaccines usually could also be contributing to the unfold of a illness as soon as declared eradicated by public well being officers.

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