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The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released. The files, which were no longer available Saturday after being uploaded to the site Friday, included photographs showing paintings of nude women and a credenza holding various photos of people including President Donald Trump. The discrepancies fueled online speculation about whether they were intentionally removed and why the public wasn't notified — questions the Justice Department didn't immediately answer. The missing files contributed to the long-simmering intrigue about Epstein and the powerful people who surrounded him, which wasn't quelled by the Justice Department's much-anticipated release of records Friday.

More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath. One was that increasingly pervasive surveillance technology could help catch the culprits. Another was that amateur online sleuths on Reddit could not. But the intense search this week for a suspect in a Brown University shooting that killed two students and wounded nine other people turned the tables on those expectations. Only after a Reddit tipster cracked the case could police tap into mass surveillance of the suspect's car.

The Department of Justice has released some of its records related to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted sex offender and wealthy financier was known for his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people, including President Donald Trump, who long sought to keep the files sealed. The department faced a Friday deadline to release the files. Among the thousands of records released are photos, call logs, grand jury testimony and interview transcripts. Trump plans a Friday evening speech on the economy in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor shifted when authorities discovered evidence that indicating they were committed by the same man. He was found dead Thursday in New Hampshire from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The attacker at Brown killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on Saturday. Some 50 miles away, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed Monday night in his home in the Boston suburb of Brookline. The FBI had earlier said it knew of no links between the cases.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office says Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor of nuclear science and engineering, was shot Monday night in Brookline and died Tuesday at a local hospital. Officials say no suspects are in custody. Loureiro, who is from Portugal, joined MIT in 2016 and had been named last year to lead its Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Authorities are again searching for the person seen in grainy video walking away from the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine. Officials said late Sunday that they released a person of interest they had detained earlier in the day, finding no reason to keep him in custody. This setback left law enforcement without a known suspect. The shooting happened Saturday during a busy time on campus, causing chaos and a lockdown. During a news conference Monday, authorities released three new videos that showed a masked man in a dark jacket two hours before the attack. Although the footage didn’t show his face, the video provided the clearest images yet of the suspect.