The latest release of FBI files reveals little evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a sex-trafficking ring, Vice President JD Vance becomes the highest-ranking American official to visit Armenia, and the Chinese government sentences pro-democracy British businessman Jimmy Lai to prison. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.

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