The turmoil in Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein probe isn't going away anytime soon after the House Speaker ended the legislative session early before the August break.

Beijing sees Trump’s disruptive actions — his gutting of institutions of U.S. soft power, his launching of trade wars, his steady eroding of trust in the U.S. alliance system — as acts of self-sabotage that need no Chinese prompting. Better for now, as Gen Z would say, to let him cook.

The House on Wednesday broke for its weeks-long August recess, closing up shop one day earlier than planned as the chamber remained in a logjam over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. The lower chamber is not scheduled to reconvene until Sept.

Faced with controversy over the release of any records related to the late pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump has again tried the same defenses, but they don't seem to be working as well.

After Trump described the Epstein saga as a "hoax," Musk wrote: "Wow I can’t believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax."

Epstein died of an apparent suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial in 2019. His alleged accomplice and sometimes girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite, was later charged and convicted of sex trafficking in 2020. Bondi has said her office will meet with Maxwell to get to the bottom of the alleged scheme between Epstein and her.

Jeffrey Epstein, the abuser at the center of a conspiracy theory creating political headwinds for President Donald Trump, was facing federal charges of sex trafficking underage girls when he was found dead in his New York prison cell.

Trump promised a lawsuit after The Wall Street Journal described a sexually suggestive letter that the newspaper says bore Trump’s name and was included in a 2003 album for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sent U.S. representatives home a day early as a debate over whether to release records from the federal investigation into convicted sex

The attorney general reportedly told President Donald Trump in the spring he was named multiple times in the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein.