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A photo of US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is displayed, as US Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a US House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
February 11, 2026, 9:52 pm
Rep. Jamie Raskin accuses Trump’s AG of ‘Epstein cover-up’ in stormy House hearing
Questioning of Pam Bondi over slow rollout of Epstein files comes after report that sex offender sought to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin via contact with former PM Ehud Barak
By AFP and Luke Tress
Screen capture from video of Ghislaine Maxwell testifying via video to the US House Oversight Committee, February 9, 2026. (X)
February 10, 2026, 9:33 am
Epstein accomplice Maxwell seeks clemency from Trump to testify to US lawmakers
Former British socialite serving 20 years for sex trafficking repeatedly invokes her right to remain silent during video questioning when subpoenaed by House Oversight Committee
By Robin LEGRAND
This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025, shows photographs the US Justice Department released from the investigation into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
December 21, 2025, 8:34 pm
Top Trump official defends slow release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul
US Deputy AG Blanche maintains heavy redacting of files meant to ‘protect victims’; House Dem: ‘It’s all about covering up’ things Trump ‘doesn’t want to go public’
By AAMER MADHANI
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks to reporters before the Democratic National Convention August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/ Brynn Anderson/ File)
August 18, 2025, 11:43 pm
Jewish Democrat Jamie Raskin joins lawmakers backing bill to restrict arms to Israel
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark becomes highest ranking member of Congress to call war in Gaza ‘genocide,’ amid notable decline in party of support for Israel
By Grace Gilson
Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a rally at the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council headquarters in New York, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
July 10, 2025, 9:26 am
Some Jewish Democrats in US Congress raise concerns about Mamdani’s anti-Israel stances
NYC mayoral candidate’s refusal to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ chant, support for BDS, show ‘his callous disregard for antisemitism,’ says Florida’s Wasserman Schultz
By Grace Gilson
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meets with US presidential adviser Jared Kushner in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 1, 2020. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)
October 25, 2024, 6:35 am
Democrats urge probe of Kushner for speaking to MBS about Israel-Saudi normalization
Pair of lawmakers ask AG to appoint special counsel to probe Trump’s son-in-law, saying he ‘appears to be influencing US foreign policy’; Kushner ‘There’s no conflict of interest’
By Aram Roston and Alexandra Ulmer
Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 9, 2024, 6:00 pm
US lawmakers press White House to secure release of Israeli researcher kidnapped in Iraq
House Democrats urge Biden in letter to ramp up negotiations for Elizabeth Tsurkov’s release ahead of Iraqi PM’s visit to Washington, deny rumors Tsurkov worked as ‘Western spy’
By ToI Staff
US Representative Elise Stefanik arrives to a House Republicans caucus meeting at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2023. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson / AFP)
December 12, 2023, 4:29 pm
‘Is that really her?’: Liberal Jews split on Stefanik after antisemitism hearings
Some back Republican’s campus hate speech fight, but others note she has echoed white supremacist great replacement theory, supports Trump ‘who traffics in antisemitism all the time’
By Ron Kampeas
US Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks during the final US House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2022. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
November 19, 2023, 5:44 pm
2 more US Jewish Democrats join growing calls for a Gaza ceasefire
Jamie Raskin, Sarah Jacobs join fellow party members whose positions have shifted following protests by critics and Jewish anti-Israel groups held at lawmakers’ offices
By Ron Kampeas
Rep. Jamie Raskin at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
December 29, 2022, 10:14 am
Leading Democrat Jamie Raskin announces he has ‘serious but curable’ cancer
Jewish lawmaker, lead investigator into Trump’s role in deadly riot at US Capitol and promoter of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation, says he’ll undergo chemo-immunotherapy
By Ron Kampeas
Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
December 20, 2022, 9:22 am
5 takeaways from US congressional report calling for criminal charges against Trump
New findings from panel probing January 6 Capitol storming show former US president was instrumental in organizing the insurrection, those close to him were ‘not forthcoming’
By Frankie TAGGART
(L-R) Democratic Reps. Melanie Stansbury, Jennifer Wexton, Madeleine Dean and Sean Casten address the J Street conference in Washington on December 5, 2022. (J Street)
December 7, 2022, 9:44 pm
With Biden cautious on new Israeli gov’t, Dems at J Street ready to take gloves off
As White House takes wait-and-see attitude, Congress members addressing group’s conference blast ‘extreme right-wing’ coalition being formed by Netanyahu, liken him to Trump
By Jacob Magid
Former US president Donald Trump, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, February 26, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
June 12, 2022, 11:32 pm
Members of Jan. 6 panel: There’s enough proof to indict Trump over Capitol storming
After first public hearing, several lawmakers in the US House committee leading the investigation say they believe there is a case against the former president
By Hope Yen
In this January 6, 2021, photo, violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump scale the west wall of the the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
June 8, 2022, 6:33 am
January 6 committee hearings promise bombshell revelations on Capitol assault
In first of 6 live presentations on Thursday, panel of lawmakers will aim to demonstrate that Trump, inner circle committed felonies in conspiracy effort to overturn 2020 election
By Frankie TAGGART
Insurrectionists loyal to then-president Donald Trump swarm the Capitol, January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 6, 2022, 8:06 am
‘One saw me and said, There’s the big Jew’: Recollections of January 6
The events at the Capitol in DC had a massive impact on the lives of all who were there — both the rioters and those who were trapped by them
By Ron Kampeas
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