First Thing: US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files

Good morning. The US House of Representatives oversight committee yesterday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice. The Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls. The 33,000 pages included years-old court filings related to Epstein and his former girlfriend and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as what appears to be bodycam…