A federal judge in New York on Wednesday declined the federal government's request to unseal grand jury material in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in federal custody ...

The judge said that the papers contained testimony from a single F.B.I. agent and that far more information about the case was held in Justice Department files.

“The information contained in the Epstein grand jury transcripts pales in comparison to the Epstein investigation information and materials in the hand of the Department of Justice,” the judge wrote....