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Attorney General Pam Bondi faced harsh grilling on Capitol Hill Wednesday from Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), who demanded to know, among other things, why her Justice Department pulled down a report on the dangers of violent right-wing extremists — and the congresswoman grew visibly frustrated as Bondi sidestepped the question.

"I want to go back to what [President Donald Trump] said about [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz," said Kamlager-Dove, referring to the president's promotion of conspiracy theories that Walz had a hand in the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. "Do you agree that President Trump undermined public trust in law enforcement by suggesting that Governor Walz was involved in the murders?"

Attorney General Pam Bondi's testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill went off the rails as Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) grilled her about why she was not releasing the totality of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and she tried to cut him off as he pointed out her excuses were insufficient.

"I am looking forward to your detailed explanation for why you have withheld almost half of the documents, which is required by the bill," said Goldman, an attorney and former prosecutor by trade. "One thing I didn't see was the 'client list' that you said you had on your desk a year ago. I did, however, find a couple of important documents: an 86-page prosecution memo from the Southern District of New York, and a draft indictment from Florida against Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators. For reasons that I cannot understand, nor are permitted by the bill, they were still redacted, even for members of Congress."

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Andrew Paul Johnson was convicted of five counts, including molesting a child under 12 and exposing himself to children.

NPR reported that Johnson was found guilty by a jury in Hernando County, Florida, on Tuesday. He faces up to life in prison, according to prosecutor William Forgie.

Revised federal data released Wednesday shows that the US economy under the stewardship of President Donald Trump added hundreds of thousands fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported, further undercutting the president’s claim to have ushered in the “greatest” economy in history.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday that US employers added just 181,000 jobs last year, an average of roughly 15,000 per month. That’s roughly 69% fewer than the previous estimate of 584,000 jobs created in 2025.

Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi after the nation's top law enforcement official refused to say whether she had investigated Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"The Epstein files contain evidence of a multi-decade international criminal conspiracy involving some of the wealthiest and the most powerful people in the world," Balint told Bondi during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. "And obviously, as you know, President Trump's name is all over them, but so are the names of other senior Trump officials. Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, John Phelan, the Secretary of the Navy, and Stephen Feinberg, the Deputy Secretary of Defense."

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took aim at the Trump administration during an appearance on Fox News, chastising the president and his cabinet for their failures to address – or even discuss – the issue of affordability, The Hill reported Wednesday.

“Fiscal conservatism has not been talked about at all during this administration,” Haley told Fox News’ Brett Baier during an appearance on the network Tuesday evening.