A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department’s efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case.

Trump's administration has been under enormous pressure to release more files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

In response to a public clamor for more information about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, the Trump administration has asked federal courts to unseal grand jury transcripts.While seeking the files’ release allows President Donald Trump to claim that he has nothing to hide about the late,

Donald Trump is fuming. As the president marked six months in office this week, the MAGA civil war over the Epstein files continued to dominate the news cycle, leaving the White House scrambling to find a way to stave off a growing political firestorm.

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the White House can’t seem to kill his story. President Donald Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government's investigation of Epstein,