Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are asking a Justice Department watchdog to review the agency’s release of files related to the late convicted sex offender, saying the files released so far have failed to protect survivors.

Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado and five other lawmakers appeared in a video that urged U.S. service members to refuse legal orders.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it sued to block a California law requiring oil and gas drilling to be separated from schools, homes and hospitals by buffer zones of more than half a mile (1 km).

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon a Jim Crow-era civil rights law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is pressing its demands.

At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their jobs.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the investigation is "nothing more than an attempt at coercion," while House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill warned it would create "an unnecessary distraction.

Jerome Powell said he believed the investigation was due to Donald Trump's anger over the Fed's refusal to cut interest rates.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony about the Fed's building renovations.