A federal judge is seeking more information before he decides on the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein grand jury testimony. While Judge Richard Berman intends to rule quickly, he indicated in a Tuesday order that the government needs to supply more legal arguments and clarification on what transcripts should be unsealed before he can proceed.

The Justice Department has asked lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell if she would be willing to speak with U.S. prosecutors, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he expected to meet with her in the coming days.

Instead, the longtime Harvard professor lobbied for Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell to be granted immunity in exchange for testifying in front of a congressional committee.

Trump has tried to damp down speculation, fanned mainly by Democrats, that the withheld files contain evidence of a deep connection between Trump and Epstein. Trump has reacted with outrage and disdain, even at members of his political base who have pressed for the files to be released.

This is the extraordinary—and moving—true story of how two teenage girls set off events which have engulfed Trump and hundreds of others.

A judge who faced Republican impeachment calls has been assigned to handle the Trump DOJ's request to release testimony tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump targeted former President Obama at the White House earlier today in an attempt to distract from the fallout over the Jeffrey Epstein files. Independent journalist Philip Bump, 'The Red Letter' author Tara Palmeri,

Through any number of controversies over the years, President Donald Trump’s modus operandi has been to never give an inch. Steve Bannon calls it Trump’s “fight club mentality,” and it’s certainly more pronounced in his more bare-knuckle second term.