Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. A federal judge says he wants to quickly resolve the government's request to release grand jury documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case. But the judge says he first needs more information from the Justice Department. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.

The Justice Department filed papers on Friday asking

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman to unseal the grand jury transcripts from the investigation into

the disgraced financier and sex offender. Grand jury proceedings are generally secret, but the

department says an exception should be made here because of the level of public interest in the Epstein case. Now Judge Berman says in an order that he wants to resolve the request, quote, expeditiously,

but that the government has failed to adequately address key factors when seeking to unseal

grand jury materials. He has given the Justice Department a week to address those factors.

The judge has also set a two-week deadline to hear from an Epstein representative

and from his victims on making the grand jury transcripts public.

Ryan Lucas and Pierre News, Washington.

The Justice Department says it plans to interview Epstein's former girlfriend,

Gieland Maxwell, in the coming days.

She's in prison for her role in a scheme of

sexual exploitation and abuse. Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76. He'd been

battling a condition with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. Steve Futterman reports.

Ozzy Osborne first leaped to fame in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Black Sabbath,

one of heavy metals pioneering groups. Its songs like Paranoid often focused on dark topics.

And Osborne became known as the Prince of Darkness. After Black God, nothing but nothing seems to say.

And Osborne became known as the Prince of Darkness.

After Black Sabbath came a solo career and perhaps his most iconic song, Crazy Train.

Osborne's colorful life included tattoos and repeated abuse of drugs and alcohol. It helped lead him to become a reality star in 2002 with the debut of the Osbournes on MTV.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.

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