files

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In November, Congress overwhelmingly voted to force the Justice Department to release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an effort that Trump unsuccessfully tried to thwart for months.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Queen Elizabeth II was "very keen" for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to become a trade envoy in 2000, according to newly released files.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

HM Prison and Probation Service found four of those officers accessed files legitimately, but three did not have a legitimate reason to do so.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Hall thought the files named people who just happened to be there incidentally, which the voter described as “horrible.”

From Slate • May 20, 2026

“They don’t care. The only people who knew about those files were you and Katherine and me. And I didn’t tell anyone. Did you? Did Katherine?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix