NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein .

After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas.

On Tuesday, a federal judge said the department could release grand jury transcripts and other documents from the sex trafficking case brought against Ghislaine Maxwell , Epstein’s former girlfriend. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer had previously rejected the Justice Department’s unsealing requests before the transparency law was passed. In Tuesday’s ruling, he cautioned that people shouldn’t expect to learn much new information from the records, sayi

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