{"id":206635,"date":"2025-12-23T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206635\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:18:08","slug":"thousands-more-epstein-files-released-by-us-justice-department-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/206635\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands more Epstein files released by US justice department – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Epstein files released by US justice departmentpublished at 09:40 GMT<\/p>\n

09:40 GMTBreaking<\/p>\n

\"ScreenshotImage source, US DOJImage caption, <\/p>\n

The files appeared overnight on the US Department of Justice website<\/p>\n

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has released another tranche of documents relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

This latest batch contains thousands of files including images and investigative documents.<\/p>\n

It follows the passing of a law in Congress mandating the so-called Epstein files be released in their entirety by Friday.<\/p>\n

Due to the volume, the DoJ said it would not be able to release all of the documents by the deadline and would instead publish the material on a rolling basis, redacting any information relating to survivors.<\/p>\n

This has angered Democrats – and some Republicans, including those in Trump’s core MAGA support base – who argue the DoJ has violated its legal obligations.<\/p>\n

Today’s release is the eighth since Friday. We’ll walk you through what we’ve learned from the other seven in due course.<\/p>\n

It will take us some time – likely several hours – to go through all of the material released today. <\/p>\n

Our team in the newsroom, alongside colleagues from the investigations unit and BBC Verify, are picking through the files now.<\/p>\n

We’ll share any significant disclosures on this page – stay with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More Epstein files released by US justice departmentpublished at 09:40 GMT 09:40 GMTBreaking Image source, US DOJImage caption,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-206635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}