Dua Halisa-Cautel

A federal judge has ruled the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelans to El Salvador were illegal.

NPR immigration correspondent Jimeno Bastillo reports early in the Trump administration, the U.S.

deported numerous men to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

She said some of the imprisoned men described to NPR reporters unsanitary conditions, sexual abuse, and one man called it, quote, hell on earth.

The men have since been returned to their home country.

The Commerce Department says the U.S.

economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3 percent.

That's much faster than expected in the third quarter.

And Perzelina Seljuk reports.

And this is NPR from New York.

The Department of Justice appears to be doing a kind of rollout of files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A batch of nearly 30,000 files were released early today.

Many reference President Trump.

The DOJ released a statement this morning saying the latest files contain untrue and sensationalist claims against Trump.

The president said yesterday a lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress and signed into law by the president mandated the complete release of the Epstein investigation by last Friday.

Many state-run psychiatric hospitals have largely lost the ability to treat patients unless they are charged with a crime.

Sarah-Jane Tribble with our partner KFF Health News has more from Ohio.

This is NPR News.

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