It's Friday, February 27th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that wants to congratulate Romisa Oz Turk.

You might remember her as the Tufts PhD student detained by ICE for co-writing an op-ed in her student newspaper.

But now, you can call her Dr. Oz Turk. She earned her PhD.D. from the Tufts Department of Child Study and Human Development last Friday.

On today's show, the U.S. and Iran hold more indirect talks over Tehran's nuclear program.

And a federal judge rules that the Internal Revenue

Service broke the law nearly 43,000 times by sharing confidential taxpayer data with the Department of

Homeland Security. Overachievers. But let's start with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The fallout from the so-called Epstein files has been global in scale. In January, the Department

of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents related to its investigation into

Epstein. Since then, dozens of people with ties to Epstein have faced both legal and professional

repercussions, from the man formerly known as Prince Andrew to the Chief of the World Economic Forum,

who resigned Thursday.

But in the United States, it feels like the impact has been muted. Sure, there's been lots of

sound and fury, but not much else, especially since we haven't even gotten all of the files yet

from the DOJ. That reportedly includes files related to allegations made against President

Donald Trump. To be clear,

these allegations have not been corroborated. The DOJ also said in January that the Epstein files

included, quote, untrue and sensationalist claims about Trump. There have been some efforts by Congress

to investigate who knew what and when about Epstein's crimes, but they've been bogged down by

DOJ slow walking and political

showmanship. For example, last week, House Republicans skipped a deposition in Ohio by Les Wexner,

the billionaire businessman who helped Epstein build his wealth. But they sure were there in New York

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