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Justice Dept. Will Begin Sharing Epstein Files on Friday, Top Republican Says

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said the department would miss a Tuesday deadline his panel set in a subpoena but would begin sharing some records on Friday.

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Representative James R. Comer, the Kentucky Republican who leads the Oversight Committee, at the Capitol in Washington on Monday for a deposition with former Attorney General Bill Barr.
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Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat

Republicans in Congress managed to recess for the summer without voting on the issue, but it has continued to dog them and awaits them when they return.

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Speaker Mike Johnson has said that the House could not address the Epstein files while the courts were weighing in.
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Congressional Democrats Move to End Trump’s Control of D.C. Police

The legislation has little chance of success, given that Republicans control Congress.

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Officers with the Department of Homeland Security and Washington Metropolitan Police Department at a traffic checkpoint Wednesday in Washington.
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Senator Gallego Brings a Message of Hope for Democrats to Iowa

Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.

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Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona visited the Iowa State Fair, showing his eagerness to become a leading messenger for Democrats as they try to appeal to voters ahead of the midterms and the 2028 election.
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House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoenas for Epstein Files

The committee’s Republican chairman requested that the documents from the Justice Department and former government officials be delivered by Aug. 19.

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Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, at President Trump’s inauguration in January. They were among the former officials who received subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks for George Santos’s Sentence to Be Commuted

Ms. Greene, the hard-right House Republican from Georgia, called her former colleague’s seven-year sentence “excessive” in a letter to the U.S. pardon attorney.

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Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos during a vote on Capitol Hill in 2023.
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Senate Passes Its First Spending Bills, but Battles Lie Ahead

Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $488 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the government before a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

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The U.S. Capitol on Friday.
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House Democrats Sue ICE for Barring Them From Detention Facilities

The 12 Democrats accused the Trump administration of violating the law when it turned them away from immigrant detention sites and imposed a new policy limiting congressional access.

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Representative Dan Goldman at an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in New York last month. He is one of the dozen Democrats seeking to have the new ICE guidance on congressional visits dismissed.
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