New York Times cuts ties with Larry Summers over Epstein emails

Publication said it will not renew former treasury secretary's contract in latest fallout after release of emails

The New York Times is cutting ties with Larry Summers following the publication of a series of email exchanges the Harvard professor and economist had with Jeffrey Epstein.

The former US treasury secretary said on Monday he would step back from public commitments after House Republicans released thousands of files relating to the late paedophile who in a 2018 email described himself as Summers' wing man".