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The Justice Department says it may take a few more weeks to finish releasing the investigative files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Congress had set a deadline for last Friday to release all of the records.

NPR's Sam Greenglass reports on what's behind this latest delay.

The Justice Department has released hundreds of thousands of records since Friday, and now

reports receiving a million more documents potentially related to the Epstein case from the U.S.

Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI. The Justice Department wrote on

social media that lawyers are working around the

clock to make required redactions and will release the documents as soon as possible.

Members of Congress who pushed to make the records public have already complained about

the missed December 19th deadline. So far, the initial batches have not contained any explosive

revelations, and some of the remaining

records could be duplicates of files already made public. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been ordered by Federal Appeals Court to build more

than 2,500 housing units at its location in Los Angeles. Steve Futterman has details.

The battle has been going on for years. Veteran groups have been trying to get the VA to build

homes on the land to help vets who need housing. In recent years, the land has been leased out,

and some of it has been used as a sports complex for a private school.

Attorney Mark Rosenbaum, who represented the veterans in their lawsuit,

says this all goes back to when the land was originally donated. In 1888, 388 acres was given to the predecessor of the VA with the specific requirement

that had become a soldier's home for disabled

veterans. And Rosenbaum says this could impact other VA properties across the nation that have

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