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The announcement follows reports from several news organizations that the files released so far are missing a series of FBI interviews with a woman who made an allegation against Trump in 2019.
Meanwhile, the fallout continues for people connected to Epstein.
Yesterday, former Treasury Secretary and economist Larry Summers announced his plans to resign as a tenured professor at Harvard University over his communications with Epstein.
And at a town hall on Tuesday, philanthropist Bill Gates admitted to his foundation staff members that he had two affairs with Russian women, but that they didn't involve Epstein's victims.
Gates said it was, quote, a huge mistake to have spent time with Epstein.
Neither Gates nor Summers have been accused of engaging in any illegal activity.
And finally, it's a sound that can invoke a gym class as a kid or the NBA finals.
As AP reports, scientists have been studying the symphony of squeaking that occurs when rubber soles hit the hardwood floor.
Inspired by a Boston Celtics game, one researcher wanted to know how exactly it happens.
In a study published in Nature, they concluded that as the shoe tries to keep its grip, tiny sections of the sole change shape as they momentarily lose then regain contact with the floor thousands of times per second at a frequency that matches the pitch of the loud squeak we hear.
The lead author described it as your shoe creaking wrinkles that travel fast at high frequency.
Other researchers have studied these kinds of bursts before, but this examined friction at much faster speeds.
And for the first time, it links the speedy pulses with the squeaking sound they produce.
What the research doesn't offer is a fix, but AP notes that the insights here may pave the way for a squeakless shoe.
That is, if we can imagine a basketball game without it.
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