The longest government shutdown in history could conclude, after Speaker Mike Johnson called House representatives back into session following a nearly eight-week absence. The House is scheduled to take up a bill Wednesday to reopen the government. President Donald Trump called the measure a “very big victory." Meanwhile, according to communications released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, sex-offending financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Trump “knew about the girls.” The White House quickly accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the president.