Remember last week when the House speaker pushed for transparency on Jeffrey Epstein materials? Six days later, he appears to have reversed course.

As a refresher: Epstein was a financier who paid teenage girls to perform sex acts. He used his onetime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell to recruit and manage his victims. He had a wide circle of influential friends and acquaintances, including Bill Clinton and Trump.

Maria Farmer, who once worked for Epstein, told The New York Times that she had encountered Trump in Epstein's Manhattan offices in 1995.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that Trump will be visiting Turnberry in Scotland, where he owns a hotel and golf course. The trip will also include a stop in Aberdeen, a northern Scottish town close to his other golf course, the Trump International Golf Links.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. The heat is on — and millions are about to feel it. A new heat dome will be sealing in hot, humid air in the central and eastern US this week,

The anchor explained exactly why and how the president is attempting to distract his way out of the controversy.

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The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 pages of FBI records related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the King family and civil rights advocates. Critics — including Rev.