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A federal judge in New York is criticizing convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein's longtime girlfriend, Jalene Maxwell, after Maxwell's recent court filing contained confidential victims' names as she seeks to set aside her 2021 conviction and possibly be released.

Maxwell filed the paperwork on her own without a lawyer.

The document is being kept under seal and out of the public's views until the judge reviews it and redacts the names of the victims.

In Florida, President Trump was asked about the release of the latest Epstein files and photographs.

Meanwhile, the Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, is urging colleagues to take action against the Justice Department over the law enforcement agency's heavily redacted and incremental release of the files on both Epstein and Maxwell.

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, the man deported to El Salvador by mistake, may continue to stay out of detention while his cases play out in various courts.

NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports.

China is criticizing the U.S.

seizure of Venezuelan ships, saying it is a violation of international law.

NPR's Emily Fang reports.

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The nation's oldest active park ranger, Betty Reed Suskin, has died.

Long before she began working at the World War II home, the Front National Historical Park, in her 80s, she worked for an all-black boilermakers union in California.

Later, she got involved with the civil rights movement.

Here she tells NPR about how her outlook evolved.

Betty Reid Suskin died at her home in Richmond, California.

She was 104 years old.

Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky says the recent U.S.