{"id":81157,"date":"2026-11-10T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/house-republicans-urge-doj-to-further-investigate-key-witnesses-in-epstein-case\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:55:00","slug":"house-republicans-urge-doj-to-further-investigate-key-witnesses-in-epstein-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/house-republicans-urge-doj-to-further-investigate-key-witnesses-in-epstein-case\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans urge DoJ to further investigate \u2018key witnesses\u2019 in Epstein case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on House panel criticize US government\u2019s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the House oversight committee released a report on Tuesday criticizing the federal government\u2019s handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and called on the Department of Justice to interview \u201ckey witnesses, investigate Epstein associates accused of criminal activity, and ensure survivors have access to their records\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government has failed the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s horrific crimes for decades,\u201d James Comer, the Republican congressman who chairs the committee, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/house-oversight-committee-releases-report-on-the-federal-governments-mishandling-of-epstein-and-maxwell-criminal-investigations\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/10\/house-republicans-epstein-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on House panel criticize US government\u2019s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Republicans on the House oversight committee released a report on Tuesday criticizing the federal government\u2019s handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and called on the Department of Justice to interview \u201ckey witnesses, investigate Epstein associates &#8230; <a title=\"House Republicans urge DoJ to further investigate \u2018key witnesses\u2019 in Epstein case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/house-republicans-urge-doj-to-further-investigate-key-witnesses-in-epstein-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Republicans urge DoJ to further investigate \u2018key witnesses\u2019 in Epstein case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}