https://www.scmp.com/rss/522123/feed The latest news and top stories on James Comer. As a US Representative for Kentucky’s 1st Congressional District and Chair of the House Oversight Committee, he leads significant congressional investigations. Comer’s background is rooted in agriculture, having served as Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture and in the state legislature. His responsibilities include aggressively advocating for reducing government waste, fraud and abuse and ensuring federal agency accountability. Accomplishments... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters Former US attorney general Pam Bondi does not plan to appear for a planned interview with a House of Representatives committee on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files following her firing by US President Donald Trump, the Justice Department told Congress on Wednesday. Bondi was subpoenaed ‌last month to testify in her formal role as attorney general, rendering the demand invalid now that she no longer holds that title, a Justice Department official wrote in a letter to the House Oversight... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3349438/bondi-wont-appear-us-lawmakers-over-epstein-files-justice-department-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3349438/bondi-wont-appear-us-lawmakers-over-epstein-files-justice-department-says?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:39:44 +0000 Reuters Reuters Bill Clinton told American lawmakers on Friday that he “saw nothing that gave me pause” when he spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, as the former US president gave closed-door testimony about his relationship with the late sex offender. In a prepared statement, Clinton told the House of Representatives Oversight Committee that he would not have flown on the late financier’s plane if ‌he had known about his alleged sex trafficking of underage girls, and would have reported him if he did. “We are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344938/bill-clinton-grilled-over-epstein-ties-us-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344938/bill-clinton-grilled-over-epstein-ties-us-lawmakers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:40:35 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hillary Clinton used her forced appearance Thursday before a Republican-led panel probing Jeffrey Epstein to go on the offensive and demand US President Donald Trump testify about his own links to the sex offender. Clinton said after her deposition when asked if she was confident that her husband did not know of Epstein’s crimes, Clinton said “I am”. “I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein,” she added. “I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344784/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-testify-she-faces-us-house-epstein-panel?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344784/hillary-clinton-calls-trump-testify-she-faces-us-house-epstein-panel?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:39:02 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused on Monday to answer questions from US lawmakers but her lawyer said she was prepared to speak if granted clemency by US President Donald Trump. Maxwell, 64, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to discuss her relations with Epstein. Rather than answer the committee’s questions, however, the former British socialite invoked her Fifth Amendment... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342976/epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-seeks-trump-clemency-testimony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342976/epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell-seeks-trump-clemency-testimony?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:41:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:52:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls on Sunday for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic “chaos”. The Trump administration has faced intensifying pressure over its mass immigration crackdown, particularly after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, Saturday while scuffling with him on an icy roadway. That... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341185/minneapolis-killing-wake-call-us-values-are-under-assault-says-obama?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:59:22 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Former US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in a House committee’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons, in a letter released on social media, slammed the House Oversight probe as “legally invalid” even as Republican lawmakers prepared contempt of Congress proceedings against them. The Clintons wrote that the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339792/clintons-refuse-testify-epstein-probe-defying-republican-threats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339792/clintons-refuse-testify-epstein-probe-defying-republican-threats?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:49:25 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. The folders contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein and Maxwell. They also contained video files appearing to be body cam footage from police searches, as well as law enforcement interviews with victims with their faces obscured. The Justice... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324115/us-house-oversight-committee-releases-batch-files-epstein-and-maxwell-cases?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324115/us-house-oversight-committee-releases-batch-files-epstein-and-maxwell-cases?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:08:15 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein on Monday as congressional lawmakers try to determine who was connected to the disgraced financier and whether prosecutors mishandled his case. The committee’s subpoena is the latest effort by both Republicans and Democrats to respond to public clamour for more disclosure in the investigation into Epstein, who was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019. Lawmakers are trying to guide an investigation into who... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323119/house-committee-subpoenas-epsteins-estate-documents-including-will-and-contacts-list?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323119/house-committee-subpoenas-epsteins-estate-documents-including-will-and-contacts-list?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:15:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, joining two other judges who declined to release similar records from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse of young women and girls. Judge Richard Berman, who presided over the 2019 case, ruled a week after another Manhattan federal judge turned down the government’s request to release transcripts from the grand jury that indicted... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322579/judge-denies-justice-department-request-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322579/judge-denies-justice-department-request-unseal-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:40:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press It’s been six months since Joe Biden left the Oval Office. Republicans, including US President Donald Trump, can’t stop talking about him. The House has launched investigations asserting that Biden’s closest advisers covered up a physical and mental decline during the 82-year-old Democrat’s presidency. The Senate has started a series of hearings focused on his mental fitness. And Trump’s White House has opened its own investigation into the Biden administration’s use of the presidential autopen,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3319052/why-republicans-biden-fixation-risks-distracting-trumps-priorities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3319052/why-republicans-biden-fixation-risks-distracting-trumps-priorities?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:00:13 +0000