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Daniel Bensky is an Epstein survivor.

She was speaking to ABC News.

Writing on Truth Social, President Trump was critical of Democrats in Congress who pushed for the release of the files, calling the effort a Democratic distraction, noting the Epstein files were not released during the Biden administration.

Later this morning, the Labor Department is due to report the U.S.

employment numbers for September.

NPR's Scott Horsleep says the release of the data was held up by the recent government shutdown.

Stocks in Asia were up sharply today after chipmaker Nvidia reported strong sales and earnings numbers for the third quarter.

The company says it made another $32 billion in the latest period.

NPR's Maria Aspin has more.

Wall Street futures are higher this morning.

Dow futures are up 188 points.

NASDAQ futures, the tech-heavy NASDAQ, is up 336.

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President Trump says he plans to meet with New York City's incoming mayor, Zoran Mamdani, at the White House tomorrow.

A spokesperson for the Democratic Socialists says the president and Mamdani will discuss affordability, economic security, and public safety.

Mamdani won New York's mayoral race earlier this month.

Novelist Robbie Alamandine is this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

NPR's Andrew Limbaugh says the award is one of the most prestigious in American literature and was given out at a ceremony in New York last night.

Officials in Colorado say they've arrested nearly a dozen people and seized more than a half ton of methamphetamine as the result of an investigation into drug trafficking.

Federal prosecutors say the investigation covered two years and was focused on an operation based in Mexico.