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The bill has not yet been presented to the president, and it wasn't clear when it might reach his desk.
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Congress has finally voted to compel the Justice Department to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased convicted sex offender and power broker. After a near-unanimous vote in both legislative chambers, President Trump now says he will sign the bill into law. We play statements from a press conference held by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, who are celebrating the long-awaited win for transparency and accountability.
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The former conservative lawyer built a social media following with his harsh criticism of President Trump, who was the boss of his wife at the time.
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A panel convened by President Trump is said to have rejected the president's idea that the agency should "go away."
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As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the COP30 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Kumi Naidoo, the longtime South African human rights and environmental justice activist who is president of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. He discusses U.S. absence from climate talks, Gaza, and wealthy countries refusing to take accountability for the climate crisis. "We're not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt."
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After a near-unanimous House vote, the Senate agreed to quickly clear the bill for President Trump's signature.
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Congress approved a bill demanding the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files. President Trump, who was once friends with Epstein, initially opposed the vote, but caved to pressure and said he would sign the bill.
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On Tuesday, the former vice president made her first campaign appearance for another Democrat since leaving office.
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Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace resisted pressure from the president and made the vote to release the Epstein files possible.
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The U.S. president whitewashed the Saudi crown prince's poor human rights record while giving him a red-carpet welcome.
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The president is offering the crown prince fighter jets, a nuclear agreement and other deals as part of his efforts to collect investment and push forward on Middle East peace.
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The move by a three-judge panel dealt a blow to efforts by Texas Republicans and President Trump to flip Democratic seats in the state.
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 Megan Varner/Getty ImagesDonald Trump told an all-woman town hall in Georgia on Wednesday that he's not "unhinged" as he doubled down, identifying the "enemy from within" as Nancy Pelosi and her husband who was nearly killed.
He aimed his fire at the former House Speaker, who nearly single-handedly snatched an easy election victory from Trump when she led the charge to oust President Joe Biden from the race, leaving Trump running dead even against a more formidable opponent.
"I wasn't unhinged. You know what they are?" he said, winding up to respond to Kamala Harris' assessment of him as "increasingly unstable and unhinged" for suggesting he would turn the U.S military against everyday American citizens. "They are a party of sound bites."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Donald Trump's ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen will continue to testify Thursday in the former president's criminal hush money trial in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee jointly raised $80.8 million in May, the Biden campaign said on Monday, the campaign's largest monthly sum of the presidential race.
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