The TOI correspondent from Washington: In a head-spinning pivot from fiscal brinkmanship to scandalous revelations, the United States emerged from its longest government shutdown in history on Thursday only for Congress to unleash a fresh torrent of Jeffrey Epstein documents that ensnare President Donald Trump in a web of unflattering emails. The 43-day impasse, which furloughed 700,000 federal workers and shaved an estimated 0.1% off GDP weekly, concluded with a bipartisan sigh of relief, before a fresh tranche of the so-called Epstein files set the stage for potentially explosive hearings in the coming days on the late sex offender's ties with political elites, including President Trump. The shutdown's end came swiftly after weeks of partisan trench warfare after some half doz

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