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President Donald Trump has attacked reporters who raise questions about the Epstein files, demanding that the country “move on to something else,” but that is highly unlikely. Many of the documents have not been made public, and those now public have been heavily redacted.
The Justice Department will allow members of Congress to review undisclosed files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein starting Monday, according to a letter to lawmakers. The letter obtained by The Associated Press says lawmakers will be able to review unredacted versions of the more than 3 million files the Justice Department released to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.
While investigators gathered ample evidence that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found little evidence that the well-connected financier ran a sex-trafficking ring that catered to powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.
Meanwhile, Trump said he would not apologize for a racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama. Eventually, the White House put the job down to a staffer, and Trump said “I did nothing wrong.”
And Dr. Mehmet Oz is urging people to get vaccinated against measles amid outbreaks in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles-elimination status. “Take the vaccine, please,” said Oz, “we have a solution to our problem.”
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US Olympians face backlash over politics
President Trump criticizes Olympians for political remarks
Trump said it’s hard to applaud U.S. Olympians who speak out against his administration’s policies.
Asked at a news conference at the Cortina Games in Milan how he felt about representing the U.S. while ICE agents were detaining immigrants at home, freestyle skier Hunter Hess said he had mixed emotions: “If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it,” Hess said. “Just because I carry the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that happens in the US”
“Hess, a real loser, says he’s not representing his country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the team and it’s a shame he’s on it,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
The numbers show that Trump’s Bad Bunny claims are not true
Trump, a former reality TV star and dominant social media presence, is usually in touch with ratings and what they mean in the worlds of entertainment, politics and sports. But his take on Bad Bunny is off. By a lot.
Contrary to Trump’s assertion that Bad Bunny has no appeal, the singer from the US territory of Puerto Rico has been among the most popular artists in the world for years. He was Spotify’s most streamed artist in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025, eclipsing Taylor Swift — another frequent target of the US president — with nearly 20 billion streams last year.
Last week, he took home album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” the first Spanish-language album to win the top prize.
Trump calls Super Bowl halftime show a ‘slap in the face’
In a social media post late Sunday, the president said Grammy-winning megastar Bad Bunny “does not represent our standards of success, creativity or excellence. No one understands a word this guy says and his dancing is disgusting.”
Bad Bunny performed almost entirely in Spanish, recreating his native Puerto Rico, from sugar cane fields to a raucous wedding with Lady Gaga. And in a country where masked ICE agents remove people from their homes and neighborhoods, his patriotism was political:
He carried a football with “Together We Are America” written on pigskin, and wound up leading a phalanx of dancers carrying the flags of many Latin American nations and Canada along with the Stars and Stripes, shouting “God bless America—all America!”
Behind him, a screen read “The only thing stronger than hate is love,” echoing comments he made at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
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The FBI concluded that Jeffrey Epstein was not running a sex-trafficking ring for powerful men, the files show
The FBI scrutinized Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. They searched their houses. He spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people.
But while investigators gathered ample evidence that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found little evidence that the well-connected financier ran a sex-trafficking ring that catered to powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.
Videos and photos seized from Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands do not show victims being abused or implicate anyone else in his crimes, a prosecutor wrote in a 2025 memo.
A review of Epstein’s financial records, including payments he made to entities linked to influential figures in academia, finance and global diplomacy, found no link to criminal activity, another 2019 internal memo said.
While one Epstein victim made highly public claims that he “loaned” her to his wealthy friends, agents could not confirm that and found no other victims to tell a similar story, records say.
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The masks are emerging as a symbol of Trump’s ICE crackdown and a flashpoint in Congress
Beyond broken windows, people being attacked on city streets — or even a toddler wearing a bunny-eared snow cap being detained — images of masked federal officers have become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
Not in recent US memory has an American police operation so consistently masked its thousands of officers from the public, a development the Department of Homeland Security sees as important to protecting employees from online harassment. But experts warn that masking has another purpose, inciting fear in communities and risks destroying norms, accountability and trust between the police and its citizens.
Whether to ban masks — or allow mask-wearing to continue — has emerged as a central question in the congressional debate over Homeland Security funding ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, when the agency faces a partial shutdown.
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‘Do the vaccine, please,’ top US health official says in call as measles cases rise
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, listens as President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A top U.S. health official urged people on Sunday to get vaccinated against measles as outbreaks erupted in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles-free status.
“Get the vaccine, please,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services whose chief has raised doubts about the safety and importance of vaccines. “We have a solution to our problem.”
Oz, a heart surgeon, defended some recently revised federal vaccine recommendations, as well as past comments by President Donald Trump and the nation’s health chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., about the effectiveness of vaccines. From Oz, there was a clear message about measles. “Not all diseases are equally dangerous and not all people are equally susceptible to those diseases,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But measles is one you should get vaccinated for.”
An outbreak of hundreds in South Carolina has surpassed the number of cases recorded in the 2025 Texas outbreak, and there is also one on the Utah-Arizona border. Several states have had confirmed cases this year. The outbreaks have mostly affected children and come as infectious disease experts warn that growing public distrust of vaccines in general may be contributing to the spread of a disease once declared eradicated by public health officials.
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