• US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department faces a deadline to release documents from its investigations into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after Congress overwhelmingly approved a new law forcing their disclosure last month.
  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will hold a year-end news conference at 11:30pm (16:30GMT), with Gaza, Venezuela and USAID cuts likely to top the agenda.
  • A US judge accused of helping an undocumented man evade federal immigration agents was found guilty of obstruction on Thursday and now faces possible jail time, US media reported.
  • The Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the US.