Washington | In a rare moment of bipartisanship in a deeply divided United States, politicians in both houses of Congress on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) came together to vote for the release of files related to an investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A mid-afternoon vote in the lower House of Representatives passed 427-1 for a bill to compel the Justice Department to release a trove of material around the disgraced financier who solicited prostitution from underage girls.