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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Panel as part of an investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Committee Chairman James Comer says lawmakers will question the former president at length when he appears today. NPR's Sage Miller reports his testimony follows a closed-door deposition by Hillary Clinton on Thursday.
Hillary Clinton said her husband will likely talk about how his relationship with Epstein ended several years before Epstein's criminal history came to light. And Comer said the committee has a lot of questions for Bill Clinton, and he's sure today's deposition will last even longer than Hillary's.
That's NPR's Sage Miller reporting. Today's deposition marks the first time a former U.S. president has been compelled to testify in this type of congressional investigation. Clinton has not been charged with any crime and has repeatedly denied knowledge of Epstein's criminal activity. After a long bidding war, new Paramount CEO David Ellison is set to take over Warner Bros. Discovery. He outbid Netflix, which already had a deal in place with Warner's board to buy much of its assets. NPR's David Fulkenflik reports Netflix had four business days to do Ellison one better, but decided to walk away.
The Paramount deal would create a Hollywood behemoth to take on streaming giants, very much including Netflix. It would put CBS, CNN, streamers HBO Max and Paramount+. and Warner Brothers and Paramount Studios under the same roof. Ellison is backed by the immense wealth of his father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The deal's not a sure thing. Antitrust regulators have to scrutinize it in Washington and Europe, and the state attorney general of California has already promised to give it a tough review. But Paramount told Warner shareholders it will sail through such concerns. The Ellisons have built warm ties with President Trump, who has taken a keen interest in who owns CNN. and has proven willing to interfere.
David Folkenflik, NPR News.
The Justice Department is suing another five states to obtain sensitive voter data nationwide. NPR's Ashley Lopez reports states have largely refused to turn over the information.
With these latest lawsuits, the Justice Department is now suing a total of 29 states and the District of Columbia over voter data. federal officials are asking these states which now include utah oklahoma kentucky west virginia and new jersey to turn over complete and unredacted voter files these files include information such as driver's license numbers as well as partial social security numbers state officials have said that federal privacy laws prohibit them from giving that information over to federal officials until now the trump administration had only sued states that he lost during the 2020 election but this latest group of lawsuits include some states that did go his way that year This is NPR.
FedEx says it will return any tariff refunds it receives to customers who originally paid them. The shipping giant is suing the Trump administration, arguing it should be reimbursed for tariffs collected during last year's trade dispute. A NASA review panel blames flawed software and inadequate oversight for the failure of a $72 million lunar trailblazer mission. Joe Palka reports the probe was supposed to measure the extent and nature of water on the moon.
Lunar Trailblazer launched successfully on February 26th last year. But shortly after launch, it was clear something was wrong with the power system. The NASA review found a glaring error. Software that was supposed to point the spacecraft's solar panels towards the sun instead pointed them 180 degrees away from the sun. The panel said other software flaws made it impossible to recover from the pointing error. The review cited management deficiencies at both Lockheed Martin, the company that built the spacecraft, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for failing to catch the problems before launch.
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