Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are calling foul after the Department of Justice released only some of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Top Democrats claim this violates the Epstein Transparency Act, but they doubt Congress will sue the DOJ.

And peers Luke Garrett has more.

Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin is the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

He tells CNN he can't launch a suit against the DOJ.

It's not clear that we've got standing to do that.

Speaker Johnson would clearly, it's standing to do that on behalf of the whole

House of Representatives. But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells ABC News the DOJ is required by law

to explain themselves. The statute requires the so-called Department of Justice at this moment

within 15 days to provide a written explanation to Congress and to the American people as to why they've

withheld certain documents.

The Justice Department has defended its partial release of the Epstein files and the removal

of around a dozen files, including at least one that features President Trump's photo.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, says peace talks in Miami over the weekend

between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia.

On ending Russia's nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine, I've been productive.

But in P.R. Joanna Kikis' reports, several barriers to a peace deal remain.

Writing on social media, Ukraine's president

Volodymyr Zelensky said talks are moving in a fairly rapid pace and that his team is working

with Trump envoys. Speaking to reporters via voice message, Zelensky talked about the most

difficult issues in negotiations. He said the issue of Ukraine's territories remains the hardest, followed by the

Zaporizia nuclear power plant, funding for recovery, and technical issues about security

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