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(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice is facing new scrutiny over the decision to withhold the Jeffrey Epstein files earlier this year.A federal judge on Monday ordered the DOJ to expedite processing of a Freedom of Information Act request related to the Trump administration’s decision in July not to release files from the investigation of Epstein.With the DOJ already facing a Dec. 19 deadline to turn over the Epstein files, as mandated […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A member of Congress is suing a Trump administration official who over the last year has triggered mortgage fraud investigations into several of President Donald Trump's political adversaries.U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., filed suit Tuesday against William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, for violating his First Amendment rights and privacy by allegedly using government databases to "concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud" against him. Swalwell alleges […]