Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., will issue the subpoenas, according to a committee spokesperson. This follows Comer issuing a subpoena for Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell today after a different subcommittee voted to force that yesterday.

House lawmakers ran to catch flights Wednesday afternoon -- leaving for their August recess a day early -- without taking a substantive vote on releasing the Epstein files. On their way out the door, some Republicans acknowledged they're bracing for serious Epstein-related questions from the MAGA base when they get home.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon as the Trump administration wades through controversy around its handling of the probe into disgraced

Director of National Intelligence took over White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’’s briefing to rant about Obama ‘coup’ as the Epstein misdirection campaign carries on