By Brad Heath, Sarah N. Lynch, Andy Sullivan and James Oliphant WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The thousands of documents released by the U.S. Justice Department related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were filled with the names of some of the world's most famous people,

Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman, alleged, “The DOJ still is covering up for prominent men who abused or raped young girls or were at parties where these young girls were being paraded and abused.

The Justice Department has rewritten a decades-old civil rights provision, disparate impact, changing how governments view discrimination.

The U.S. Justice Department faces a backlog of more than 170 appeals filed by law enforcement organizations and crime victim support groups seeking to restore grants that the Trump administration abruptly canceled earlier this year,