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The Justice Department is facing new pressure to release more information about its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawmakers who sponsored the bill to compel the agency to unseal its documents were able to review the unredacted files.

Republican Thomas Massey says what he saw could lead to more criminal prosecutions.

Republican Thomas Massey was joined by Democrat Ro Khanna.

He described those six men as, quote, very powerful people who raped these underage girls.

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, appeared for a video deposition before the House Oversight Committee, but it didn't last long.

Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during the five-minute hearing.

It led the oversight panel's top Democrat, Robert Garcia, to ask, who is she protecting?

In related news, in the UK, Keir Starmer shored up his position as prime minister at the end of a dramatic day in Westminster that at times seemed like he might be forced to step down.

Figures across the governing Labour Party told Bloomberg that Starmer appeared to be safe in the immediate term after he secured the public support of every cabinet minister.

The source of Starmer's latest woes are his controversial appointment in late 2024 of Peter Mandelson to serve as Britain's U.S.