‘We have nothing to hide,’ former secretary of state says ahead of her and Bill Clinton’s depositions next week – key US politics stories from Tuesday 17 February Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” over the Epstein files, while claiming that she and her husband are being forced to testify before Congress to deflect scrutiny from Donald Trump. In an interview with the BBC, Clinton said the US Department of Justice was “slow-walking” the release of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s catalogue of crimes and urged the administration to “get the files out”. Despite periodic document dumps of the files since Congress mandated their release late last year, the justice department is still withholding about 3m files. Continue reading...

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Conservation and historical organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing the National Park Service of implementing policies that erase historical and scientific information.

Essex Police are reviewing private flights at Stansted Airport connected to Jeffrey Epstein, following an investigation that identified 87 flights linked to Epstein arriving or departing from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018.