Ryan Lucas

The Justice Department in November asked a federal judge in New York to release the investigative materials from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Now, U.S.

District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer has granted that request and authorized the department to publicly release the grand jury materials as well as the investigative records while redacting personally identifiable or other victim-related information.

A similar request to make public investigative records from Epstein's prosecution in New York is still pending before a different federal judge.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and other offenses.

Epstein died in a federal lockup in 2019.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

In a statement posted on social media, Alina Haba says she is resigning as the acting U.S.

attorney for New Jersey.

She says she's not surrendering in the face of legal challenges, but instead stepping down to protect the stability and integrity of the office.

Still, she's leaving after a three-judge panel for the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously found that Haba had been unlawfully put into the U.S.

attorney's job and disqualified her from supervising cases.

That ruling was the latest blow to how President Trump has tried to install some U.S.

attorneys.

In her statement, Habas says she will continue to serve the Justice Department as a senior advisor to the Attorney General for U.S.

attorneys.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

The suspect in custody is 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr.

He was arrested in Woodbridge, Virginia, south of Washington, D.C.