Leila Fadil

An NPR survey out this week finds that 60% of those responding, 6 out of 10,

say the country is worse off than a year ago.

For the president, it's a chance to say why.

But there are big questions about what El Mencho's death means for Mexico's fight against organized crime.

An NPR investigation finds the government removed or withheld dozens of pages from the public database of Epstein documents.

Those pages relate to accusations of sexual abuse that also contain mention of President Trump.

It is the latest example of ways the Trump administration has not been transparent in its handling of the release of the Epstein files.

And I'm Leila Fadil.

Today's episode of Up First was edited by Rebecca Metzler, Rebecca Rosman, Megan Pratz, Mohamed El-Bardisi, and Alice Wolfley.

It was produced by Ziad Butch and Nia Dumas.

Our director is Christopher Thomas.

We get engineering support from Nisha Hynes.

And our technical director is Carly Strange.

Our supervising senior producer is Vince Pearson.

Join us again tomorrow.