The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a vote of 427-1 on Tuesday, with pro-Israel Clay Higgins(R-La) the only 'nay' vote. The legislation, co-authored by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky), mandates the Justice Department to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days of enactment, in a searchable and downloadable format, while allowing redactions for victim protection and active investigations.

Several of Epstein's survivors were present in the House chamber during the vote as well and appeared to erupt in cheers when the resolution passed.

The Senate swiftly followed, with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requesting unanimous consent to pass the bill without amendment, which was granted, sending it directly to President Donald Trump for signature.

Trump, who had previously opposed the release and labeled the issue a "hoax," reversed his position on Sunday in a Truth Social post, urging Republicans to support the bill, and confirmed on Monday that he would sign it into law if it reached his desk.

President Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, as he welcomed Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, said he would sign the bill and defended his reversal, saying, “Some of the people that we mentioned are being looked at very seriously for their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, but they were with him all the time — I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all,” while also expressing concern that the issue could detract from Republican achievements, including the government shutdown blame on Democrats.

“I do want to say, here’s what I want. We have nothing to do with Epstein," Trump told reporters Monday. "The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this Reid Hoffman, you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton—they went to his island all the time, and many others. They’re all Democrats.”

Trump added: "All I want is for people to recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down, but they go way lower, on energy, on ending eight wars, and another one coming pretty soon, I believe. We’ve done a great job, and I hate to see that deflect from the great job we’ve done. So I’m all for it. You know, we’ve already given 50,000 pages—you do know that.

"Unfortunately, like with the Kennedy situation, with the Martin Luther King situation, not to put Jeffrey Epstein in the same category, but no matter what we give, it’s never enough. You know, with Kennedy, we gave everything and it wasn’t enough. With Martin Luther King, we gave everything and it’s never enough. We’ve already given, I believe, the number is 50,000 pages—50,000 pages. And it’s just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans now.

"I believe that many of the people that were—some of the people that were mentioned are being looked at very seriously for their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, but they were with him all the time. I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all. And we’ll see what happens. What I just don’t want Epstein to do is detract from the great success of the Republican Party, including the fact that the Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown. You know, they cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars with that and a lot of inconvenience. So I’m for… They can do whatever they want. We’ll give them everything.

“Let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much because honestly I don’t want to take it away from us. It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends.”

The House vote was a bipartisan victory, with all Democrats and a majority of Republicans supporting the bill after a discharge petition forced the vote despite leadership opposition. Epstein survivors were present in the House gallery during the vote, embracing each other as cheers erupted.

Rep. Thomas Massie emphasized that the Senate should not delay or amend the bill, warning that any changes would undermine the effort to achieve transparency, though he acknowledged the need for victim protection  He stated, “If you do anything that prevents any disclosure, you are not for the people... Do not muck it up in the Senate.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., praised the vote as a triumph for survivors and declared she would read the names of individuals named in the files if they are fully released, saying, “Americans are done being lied to. These survivors deserve full transparency. Every document, every truth, every name... And if those names reach me, I will read them on the House floor” 

The bill was introduced in July 2025 by Khanna and Massie, with Massie leading a discharge petition that gathered 218 signatures, forcing a floor vote.

The Justice Department has already released tens of thousands of documents to the House Oversight Committee, including emails from Epstein to Maxwell and journalist Michael Wolff.

Trump had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats and financial institutions, and the DOJ previously concluded Epstein had committed suicide and compiled no “client list.”

Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model to date, with CEO Sundar Pichai declaring it "the best model in the world for multimodal understanding." The announcement was made Tuesday, via a post on X, where Pichai highlighted the model's enhanced agentic and coding capabilities, stating it can "bring any idea to life" by quickly grasping context and intent with less prompting.

Gemini 3 is described as the company's most intelligent model yet, combining state-of-the-art reasoning, multimodal understanding, and a 1 million-token context window. It excels at interpreting complex information, such as translating handwritten recipes across languages, generating interactive learning materials, and analyzing sports performance videos.

The model achieves top scores on major benchmarks, including a groundbreaking 1501 Elo on the LMArena Leaderboard, 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 91.9% on GPQA Diamond, and 87.6% on Video-MMMU. It also leads the WebDev Arena leaderboard and shows strong performance in coding-agent tests.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis emphasized that Gemini 3 represents a significant step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), with the model capable of solving complex problems in science and mathematics reliably. The model is also designed to act as a "true thought partner," offering genuine insight rather than clichéd responses.

A specialized reasoning mode, Gemini 3 Deep Think, is currently in preview for safety testers and will eventually be available to Google AI Ultra subscribers. This mode is intended for tackling highly complex analytical tasks with enhanced tool-use abilities.

For developers, Google introduced Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform enabling AI agents to autonomously plan and execute workflows across code editors, terminals, and browsers.

The launch comes as Google seeks to strengthen its position in the competitive AI landscape, following the release of rival models like xAI's Grok 4.1, OpenAI’s GPT-5.

Gemini 3 Pro is being released in preview across Google's ecosystem and products, including the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and developer platforms like AI Studio and Vertex AI, with full availability starting today.

SpaceX launched the Sentinel-6B ocean-monitoring satellite at 0521 UTC, Monday, (Nov. 17) from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, marking the 500th orbital mission using a reused Falcon 9 first stage, highlighting the company’s advancements in reusable rocket technology.

The Falcon 9’s first-stage booster, B1097.3, completed its third flight, landing successfully at Landing Zone 4 about nine minutes after liftoff, while the satellite separated from the second stage about 57 minutes later, with the first signal received by European Space Operations Center(ESOC) via the Inuvik ground station at 0654 UTC.

The Sentinel-6B mission, a critical component of the European Copernicus climate program and NASA’s Earth observation efforts, aims to extend over 40 years of continuous sea-level measurement with high-precision data. It's a joint effort led by the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA), EUMETSAT, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA), and French space agency, CNES, with funding from the European Commission and technical support from CNES.

"Sentinel-6B rising, extending nearly four decades of the precise sea-level record from space," NASA spokesman Derrol Nail said during the agency's launch webcast.

The satellite is designed to operate for 5.5 years after entering service, continuing the legacy of the Jason satellite series. It is the second Sentinel-6 satellite Falcon 9 will launch after delivering the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite to orbit in November 2020.

Sentinel-6B carries advanced instruments including the POSEIDON4 radar altimeter developed by ESA, Advanced Microwave Radiometer (AMR-C), GNSS POD receiver, DORIS receiver, Laser Reflector Array (LRA), and GNSS Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) receiver.

During its first year of observations, Sentinel-6B will work with Sentinel 6 Michael Frelich, "enabling greater accuracy with precise cross-calibration between the two instruments," ESA officials wrote about the mission.

Together, the two Sentinel spacecraft will measure sea-surface height with centimeter-level precision over approximately 90% of Earth’s oceans every 10 days, providing critical data for tracking sea-level rise, ocean currents, climate change impacts and improve forecasts of wind and wave conditions.

"Monitoring sea-level rise is high on the global agenda," European Space Agency ESA officials wrote in a Sentinel-6B mission description.

"In the past 25 years, the average height of the world's oceans has risen by almost 10 cm [4 inches], according to data from Copernicus," they added. "The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission has become the gold standard reference mission to monitor and record this key consequence of climate change."

Data from Sentinel-6B will improve weather forecasts, storm surge predictions, coastal planning, and national defense strategies by providing real-time ocean topography and environmental data.

The satellite’s data will also support NASA’s Artemis lunar missions by aiding in the development of safer reentry procedures for returning astronauts.

SpaceX highlighted the Falcon 9 reuse milestone during Monday's mission in a post on X, as did company president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell.

"Congratulations to the SpaceX team on completing 500 (!!!!) missions with flight-proven rocket boosters. You’ve made the impossible possible with reusable rockets, paving the way to land huge amounts of cargo and lots of people to establish permanent human presence on the moon and beyond with Starship!" Shotwell wrote.

The fully reusable Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. SpaceX is developing it to help get humanity to the moon and Mars, among other feats. Starship has launched 11 times to date, but those don't contribute to the 500 count; all of Starship's liftoffs so far have been suborbital test flights.