Even as top Justice Department officials brokered an interview with a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, they asked the Supreme Court to reject her appeal. Read full article

In an interview, the lead prosecutor, Bill Thompson, decried how some of the wild speculations surrounding the case made life “hell” for innocent people. Read full article

With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein. Read full article

The top Democrat on the foreign affairs panel cast the deciding vote to allow Michael Waltz’s nomination to go to the floor in exchange for a promise from the administration to release money for Haiti and Nigeria. Read full article

For years, Republican and Democratic administrations have sent officials to national security and foreign policy conferences around the world. Read full article

Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow. Read full article

There was a single goal in mind: find something — anything — that could be released to the public to satisfy President Trump’s supporters. Read full article