The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday sent lawmakers home early for a six-week summer break to avoid being forced into awkward votes on the probe into the late, politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Show" correspondent Josh Johnson took his first spin in the late night series' hosting chair, wasting no time calling out President Trump on all of his efforts over the past week to distract from his administration's ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Hayes: “Yesterday alone, they mentioned the ex-president more than 120 times, which is three times as much as they talked about Epstein” CHRIS HAYES (HOST): A little after 6PM today, three hours after that Wall Street Journal first broke the story,

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.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, denounced Donald Trump's recent allegations against Barack Obama, calling the Trump administration's claims 'politically motivated to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.' Trum

Trump says the Epstein controversy is helping him instead of hurting him, and accuses Barack Obama of treason - without providing any evidence.

Trump accused of ‘running scared’ over Epstein files as he peddles Obama-Russia ‘hoax’: Live - President Donald Trump also released thousands of documents on Martin Luther King Jr, prompting his daughter Bernice King to tweet: ‘Now,

Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal over claims he once wrote a letter to Epstein that included a doodle of a nude woman & an ode to the pair's secrets.