## FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show

Authored by snopes.com

Claim: FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi spent nearly $1 million in overtime pay for personnel to redact the files related to the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Snopes verified the records were authentic using public documents the FBI filed in response to the lawsuit.

A Nov. 28, 2025, post on X said the FBI had "quietly poured roughly $1M into overtime hours to scrub and redact the Epstein files," calling it "treason" (archived):.

Another version of the rumor appeared on X, where one user said the FBI "spent nearly $1 million for redaction training for the Epstein files," citing The Daily Beast.

In short, FBI documents confirm the agency spent more than $850,000 on overtime pay for agents tasked with processing and redacting files related to the Epstein case.

These documents, which Leopold said the FBI released following a FOIA request and lawsuit he filed, indicated that the FBI paid $851,344 in overtime to process the Epstein files — in other words, to scour and redact them, though the documents did not specify what information was being redacted.

The number of hours FBI personnel worked between March 17 through March 21 to process Jeffrey Epstein files. »

### Pentagon says every national guard soldier deployed in Washington DC ‘is now armed’

Authored by theguardian.com

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that every national guard member deployed in Washington DC would now be armed with live weapons, and that they had begun conducting joint patrols with the local police department.

The Washington Post first obtained an email about the joint patrol with the city’s Metropolitan police department last week.

The escalation also comes as a recent order finding the national guard deployment in Washington DC unlawful is on hold, pending consideration of the Trump administration’s appeal. »

### Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

Authored by arstechnica.com

By Valve’s admission, its upcoming Steam Machine desktop isn’t swinging for the fences with its graphical performance.

In our reviews of these GPUs, we’ve already run into some games where the RAM ceiling limits performance in Windows, especially at 1440p.

But for our purposes here, the two GPUs that highlight the issues most effectively are the 8GB Radeon RX 7600 and the 16GB Radeon RX 7600 XT. »

### Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel

Authored by theatlantic.com

“I am required to testify three times a week,” Netanyahu griped in his video posted to social media soon afterward.

By Netanyahu’s own admission, at a time when Israel faced war on four fronts, its leader was preoccupied by his legal predicament.

Netanyahu presents himself as paying a price for Israel, but in actuality, Israel’s people are paying the price for his unwillingness to cede power. »

### Larry Summers receives lifetime ban from prestigious economic association over Epstein ties

Authored by cnn.com

Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

But the AEA’s ban follows new details of Summers’ relationship with Epstein, after a House committee published years of email correspondence between the two men last month, including exchanges where Summers made sexist remarks and sought romantic advice from Epstein.

Summers has since taken leave from teaching at Harvard while the university investigates his relationship with Epstein. »

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