What Happened Today – March 5, 2026

I believe we’re growing numb to stories that should stop us cold.

Tonight the Justice Department released FBI interview summaries it had been accused of suppressing from the Epstein files. A woman told federal agents four times that the president sexually assaulted her when she was a child. She brought an attorney to three of those interviews. After the second, she described threatening phone calls and cars trying to run her off the road. She was brave enough to sit down with the FBI two more times.

CNN and NPR independently discovered that the three interviews where she named Trump had been excluded from the archive, and the government’s explanation for why has not held up under scrutiny.

You may have missed this story tonight. We’re deep into a chaotic stretch. More than 6,400 stories shared with you across 399 consecutive nights, and the sheer volume of crisis has a way of burying everything into background noise.

Go back and find this story outside the noise. This woman did everything she could. She sat with federal agents four times and described what was done to her as a child while her life was being threatened. We owe it to her to hear what she said. Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only person in prison for a global sex trafficking operation that the FBI’s own files say involved dozens of powerful men.

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