Department of Justice officials are in their final sprint to assemble by Friday a tranche of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, but the extent of material that will be made public remains unknown. The DOJ could withhold large portions of the material under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill passed last month requiring the government to release within 30 days all unclassified material in its possession related...

Zohran Mamdani’s newly named director of appointments abruptly resigned Thursday after resurfaced social media posts showed she made antisemitic remarks, according to reports. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, tapped to serve in the incoming New York City mayoral administration, stepped down after the Anti-Defamation League of New York/New Jersey raised concerns about her past online activity. The posts, reportedly made between 2011 and 2012 on a now-deleted X account,...

Senate Republicans confirmed nearly 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees, leapfrogging previous administrations and his own first term in the process in their sprint to finish off the year.  The confirmation of 97 of Trump’s picks Thursday with a 53-43 vote marked one of the final bits of floor action in the upper chamber following a blistering pace set by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., once Republicans...