Senate agrees to automatically pass bill to release Epstein files as Trump claims to not care – as it happened

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• Senate agrees to pass Epstein files bill after near-unanimous House vote

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The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed email exchanges between Summers and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who called himself Summers' wing man".

Politico reported on Monday that Summers, a former treasury secretary, expressed deep regret for past messages with Epstein.