Members of the House of Representatives now have enough support to force a vote to release the Epstein files after Republican leaders desperately tried to avoid doing just that for months. A bipartisan group in the House,

Lawmakers in the House appear on track to be able to force a vote to demand that the Trump administration release investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and onetime friend of the president.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that someone at the U.N. may have purposely tried to "trip up" the president and the first lady.

Before his death was announced, House Speaker Mike Johnson held a moment of silence in his honor, which then shifted into a shouting match between Democrats and Republicans when Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) requested that the chamber also offer a spoken prayer for Kirk, saying, "I believe silent prayers get silent results."