Newly disclosed government files on Jeffrey Epstein shed more light on his ties to the rich and famous after his Florida sex-crimes sentence, and on what investigators knew about his abuse of underage girls when they declined to indict him federally nearly two decades ago.

House GOP’s already fragile majority to further shrink after Democrats’ ballot box victory
Democrat Christian Menefee, a former attorney for Houston’s Harris County, has won a special congressional election in a left-leaning congressional district in Texas, which has
