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Justice Department says it’s reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld

By ERIC TUCKER
Updated 8:25 PM CST, February 25, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was looking into whether it had improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.

The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted with an unidentified woman who came forward after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and claimed to have been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s.

“Several individuals and news outlets have recently flagged files related to documents produced to Ghislaine Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case that they claim appear to be missing,” the Justice Department said in a post on X. “As with all documents that have been flagged by the public, the Department is currently reviewing files within that category of the production.” Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime confidant, is serving a 20-year prison sentence on a sex trafficking conviction.

It said that if any document is found to have been improperly withheld and is responsive to the federally enacted law mandating the files’ release, “the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law.” ...

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Maduro's lawyer says U.S. blocking Venezuelan government from paying his legal fees

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The Trump administration is blocking Venezuela's government from paying for the cost of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's defense against drug trafficking charges in New York, a move that potentially interferes with his constitutional right to counsel, his lawyer says.

Attorney Barry Pollack told a Manhattan federal judge in an email dated Feb. 20 that the U.S. Treasury Department had blocked the authorization of legal fees that the government of Venezuela is required to pay for Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores under its law and custom...
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Trump administration blocks Venezuela from paying Maduro's legal bills amid federal charges

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The Trump administration has moved to block the Venezuelan government from covering the legal expenses of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as he fights federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in New York, according to a court filing from his attorney.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York on Jan. 5 to drug trafficking and weapons charges, days after American forces captured them at the presidential palace in Venezuela.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who is overseeing...
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US 'suitcase murderer' deported from Bali after 11 years in jail

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The 33-year-old will still face federal charges in the US and is due to appear in court on Thursday.
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Spain declassifies files on 1981 attempted coup in effort to dispel conspiracy theories

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The release comes on the same day as the death of the coup leader, Antonio Tejero Molina.
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2/25: CBS Evening News

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4 killed aboard U.S. speedboat that entered Cuban waters and opened fire, Cuba says; Moving crew helps rescue abducted toddler by blocking truck
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Some of the most notable guests at Trump's 2026 State of the Union: photos

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Prominent figures from across the media, business and political landscapes showed up as guests to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.

Notable attendees included Erika Kirk, the widowed wife of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, David Ellison, the media mogul and CEO of Paramount, and Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank media personality and businessman.

Several of the more notable attendees were highlighted by Trump during his address.

Kirk received a mention from the president as he condemned political violence of...
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'I can't breathe any more': Inside the night a mob burned a newspaper

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A journalist recounts the night a mob torched the Daily Star, trapping 28 staff on the roof.
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Mayor touts Baltimore as a changed city despite Trump's criticisms

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Baltimore — Walk a few blocks in Baltimore with Mayor Brandon Scott, and there's no missing the problem: The city has thousands of broken-down, boarded-up row houses, the result of a long civic spiral, with people and businesses leaving and blight and crime moving in.

"When it looks like someone doesn't care, right, people who want to do bad things are going to come," Scott told CBS News when asked about the relationship between building vacancies and crime.

Scott, who has served as mayor since 2020, counters, though, that despite the view on the...
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At least 10 FBI agents who worked on Mar-a-Lago case are fired, sources say

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At least 10 FBI agents who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, multiple sources told CBS News.

The firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed records of phone calls made by FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles when they were still both private citizens as part of Smith's probe into Trump.

The Reuters article quoted Patel, who alleged that the FBI had secretly...
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Trump’s fraud czar nominee touts Minnesota blueprint to root out Obamacare fraud, senior scams

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The crackdown on fraud in Minnesota will serve as a blueprint for a new Department of Justice office focused on protecting taxpayer funds from scams, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as the nation's "fraud czar" explained in his nomination hearing Wednesday.

"The work in Minnesota has been pivotal. The work of the U.S. Attorney's office there, and the personnel there, has been pivotal to highlighting the problems of fraud that permeate our taxpayer funded programs," nominee to serve as assistant attorney general for a new Justice Department...
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Trump's 'war on fraud' draws range of reactions during SOTU speech

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As President Donald Trump vowed to wage a "war on fraud" during his State of the Union address Tuesday, a panel of voters across the political spectrum had mixed reactions.

The panel, assembled by polling group Maslansky & Partners and comprising 29 Democrats, 30 independents and 41 Republicans, gave real-time reactions as Trump spoke. The reactions were displayed on a line graph where high values represented positive reactions and low values indicated negative reactions.

Trump said corruption was "plundering America" and said the most "stunning...
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Major moments from Trump's State of the Union address

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The White House is claiming a big win after President Trump's State of the Union address. Weijia Jiang has details about the major moments.
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Former top Harris adviser ignites backlash over 'political props' comment targeting USA men's hockey team

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Symone Sanders, who formerly served as a top adviser to then-Vice President Kamala Harris and the 2020 Biden campaign, complained during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night that the Olympic Gold-winning U.S. men's hockey team "allowed themselves to be used as political props."

"They should not be used as political props though, and frankly, allowed themselves to be used as political props," Sanders, who is currently co-hosting a weeknight show on MS NOW, said after the president introduced the team during his address...
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Legal experts react to Trump’s SCOTUS clash and tariff pivot in fiery SOTU

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Legal experts and commentators toed a careful line Wednesday in responding to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, with many using the moment to weigh in on the broader legal and political climate itself, rather than Trump’s actual remarks.

Some of the biggest moments of Trump's address included his response to the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling that invalidated his use of a 1977 emergency law to impose tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, as well as his administration's crackdown on violent crime in major U.S. cities, among other...
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Minnesota remains front line in Vance's 'war on fraud'; Walz given 60 days 'to clean up the systems'

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Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is temporarily halting Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota, giving Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz 60 days to clean up how the state doles out funding.

"We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money," Vance said Wednesday in a press event attended by Administrator for...
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What's behind the Anthropic-Pentagon feud

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Washington — The Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Give the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology or face a ban from all government contracts.

At the center of the issue is a question of who controls how artificial intelligence models are used, the Pentagon or the company's CEO.

The Pentagon awarded Anthropic a $200 million contract in July to develop AI capabilities that would advance U.S. national security.

Anthropic's rivals, including OpenAI, Google and xAI were also awarded $200 million contracts by the Pentagon...
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FBI's head of congressional affairs stepping down, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Marshall Yates, who led the FBI's congressional affairs office, is departing from the bureau, multiple sources told CBS News.

Yates, a former Capitol Hill staffer, last year served as one of the FBI's representatives on the Interagency Weaponization Working Group, which is composed of dozens of government officials from at least 12 different government offices who are tasked with carrying out President Trump's quest for retribution against his political enemies, according to other sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Yates was one of...
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FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel and Susie Wiles phone records in federal Trump investigation

  • News source: FOX News
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The FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel's and Susie Wiles' phone records in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens and as part of a federal probe into Donald Trump, Fox News has confirmed.

Patel is currently FBI director and Wiles is White House chief of staff.

Reuters first disclosed the subpoenas, which happened during the Biden administration while Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

In a statement to Fox News, Patel called the move...
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Voters react as Trump touts signature tariff plan at State of the Union

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Republicans were pleased when President Donald Trump spoke during the State of the Union on Tuesday about his plan to continue imposing global tariffs in the wake of the Supreme Court dealing him a setback, according to live reactions from a panel of voters.

The panel, assembled by polling group Maslansky & Partners and made up of 29 Democrats, 30 independents and 41 Republicans, gave real-time reactions as Trump spoke. The responses were displayed on a line graph, with higher values indicating positive reactions and lower values indicating negative...
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MAGA voter crashes 'scumbag' Dem senator's SOTU boycott speech: 'Go Trump!'

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Democrats were mocked on social media Tuesday night and Wednesday after multiple clips from their State of the Union boycott rally went viral, including when a Trump supporter crashed Sen. Chris Murphy's, D-Conn., speech.

The "People’s State of the Union," which is what the Democrats called their boycott rally, included several Democratic lawmakers like Murphy, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., among others.

"Go, Trump!" the protester said while throwing up the peace sign in front of Murphy, who...
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Watch: BBC on streets of Mexican city gripped by deadly cartel violence

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BBC international correspondent Quentin Sommerville travelled to Culiacán in northern Sinaloa state following an explosion in violence.
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Six months after two police officers killed, will conspiracy theorist who ran into bush ever be found?

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Conspiracist Dezi Freeman hasn't been seen again – but people in the small town of Porepunkah want closure.
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Politician brothers convicted in Brazil for ordering murder of prominent councillor

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Marielle Franco's murder at the age of 38 in Rio de Janeiro sparked protests across Brazil.
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Two charged with murder of Australian grandfather after 'mistaken identity' kidnapping

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Chris Baghsarian, 85, was taken from his home and murdered, in what authorities believe was a case of mistaken identity.
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