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 measure is a response to the dozens of children who died at Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country during the July 4 flood.

Here’s where the proposed laws to address camp safety, flood warnings and emergency response stand in the Legislature.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives returned to Austin on Aug. 18, 2025, but their protest of redistricting efforts continues.

Democrat activists are protesting the confinement of Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier after the state representative spent Monday night in the Texas House chamber after refusing to submit to around-the-clock surveillance by the Department of Public Safety.

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