From “Trump” to “Russian” to “dentist,” the only way to gaze into the Epstein-files abyss is through a keyword-size hole.

Patrick Healy, an assistant managing editor who oversees The Times’s journalistic standards, talked with four of the journalists who are working on the Epstein files to kick around those questions.

A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

What originated as a narrow procurement notice has grown into a broader effort that links machine-learning models with ...