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Republican Senator Tom Tillis says he will oppose President Trump's nomination for chair of the Federal Reserve until the controversial criminal probe of current chair Jerome Powell is resolved.

NPR's Franco Ordonez has the latest.

The Justice Department released more than 3 million pages tied to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein today.

NPR's Kerry Johnson reports the new videos and photos are emerging weeks after a deadline from Congress had passed.

Brown University has begun to pay out workforce grants under a deal with the Trump administration that restored the school's federal research funding.

NPR's Elisa Nadwarni reports the payments, which so far total $3 million, marked the first step toward fulfilling a settlement reached last summer.

On Wall Street, the Dow closed down 179 points to end at 48,892.

The Nasdaq closed down 223 points.

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More faith leaders across the country are asking Congress to withhold funding for federal immigration enforcement following the fatal shootings of two Minnesotans this month and the arrest of journalists who covered a protest at a Minnesota church.

Earlier in the week, more than a thousand organizations, including prominent churches, signed a letter to Congress demanding DHS to, quote, stop these out-of-control agencies from continuing to violently attack our immigrant communities and communities of color.

The U.S.

government has told Gavi, the international vaccine alliance, to remove thimerosal from its vaccines.

And until that happens, NPR's Gabriel Emanuel reports the U.S.

says it won't fund the organization.

The S&P closed down 29 points to end at 6,939.

This is NPR News from New York.

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel.