House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said his “goal” is to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein quickly once the Justice Department starts turning them over Friday, but stressed they want to be careful not to do anything that could harm victims.

A House Oversight Committee spokesperson said the files will be made public after sensitive information is redacted.

US President Donald Trump has once again been dealt another blow after a federal judge denied his administration’s requests to release grand jury testimony from the Jefferey Epstein case. District Judge Richard Berman said that Mr Trump’s Department of Justice did not have adequate reasoning to unseal the highly protected materials.

Offices gave various reasons for the pause, including “construction projects,” “extensive renovations” and “because of construction on the new White House ballroom.”

The White House is suspending public tours because of the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom initiated by President Donald Trump, a White House official said.

The White House has canceled tours for September, and it’s unclear when the long-standing tradition will resume.

The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.

The Texas state House on Aug. 20 passed a new election map that President Donald Trump has embraced to boost his party’s chances of holding its U.S. House majority in the midterms.

California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own

The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, one week after announcing that eight of the institutions

Another senior aide to former President Joe Biden testified Thursday before the House Oversight Committee as part of the GOP-led panel’s investigation into what it charges was a “cover-up” of Biden’s mental decline.

Ian Sams, who was a White House spokesman and senior communications aide to former President Joe Biden, arrived Thursday morning on Capitol Hill for a closed-door, voluntary interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.