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America's Senate quickly approved legislation

that would force the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein,

a deceased sex offender.

The manoeuvre, called unanimous consent, automatically sends the bill to Donald Trump's desk

without a roll-called vote.

Earlier, it passed the House of Representatives by 427 to 1.

In a dramatic reversal this week, the president, who insists Epstein is a, quote,

Democrat problem, said he would sign the bill. Meta, a social media giant, won an antitrust

case against America's Federal Trade Commission. A federal judge ruled that Mehta did not illegally

maintain a monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp, two small arrivals. The FTC first brought the case

against the tech firm in 2020. The trust buster had asked the judge to force Mehta to divest

from the companies.

Mr. Trump said that Muhammad bin Salman, quote, knew nothing about the murder in 2018 of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist.

Quote, things happen, he said. That contradicted an earlier American intelligence report that Saudi Arabia's

crown prince authorised his killing. Meanwhile, Prince Mohammed, on his first trip to Washington in seven

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