There’s no pretending otherwise: disgraced and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein has hijacked Washington. Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday announced he was starting the August recess a few days early to avoid the chamber having to vote on whether Congress should force the Justice Department to publish everything it has on Epstein,

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the White House can’t seem to kill his story. President Donald Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government's investigation of Epstein,

The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier.

The Wall Street Journal has also published an article alleging that Trump was among prominent figures named in the Epstein files.

The convicted sex offender was asked about his "personal relationship" with the future president in this 2010 deposition video.

Roy Black, the high-profile Miami lawyer who defended Jeffrey Epstein, William Kennedy Smith, and other major public figures, has died at 80.

Black, who died Monday at his Coral Gables home, was hired as a possible trial attorney in Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach sex-abuse case but Epstein never went to trial. Instead, he took a plea deal.