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Why is President Trump demanding the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Sangh. President Trump is calling out members of his own base who are demanding the administration release documents about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a social media post today, Trump accuses his supporters of buying into a hoax about Epstein. The Justice Department and the FBI say the wealthy financier found dead in a federal jail cell in twenty nineteen. Did not maintain a client list, contrary to what conspiracy theorists and conservative influencers say Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously suggested. Members of Congress are debating legislation that would rescind nine point four billion dollars. The majority of it was slated for international aid.
One point one billion was for the corporation for public broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR. NPR CEO Catherine Mars says local stations across the US stand to be especially affected.
Seventy percent of all funding goes directly to local stations.
How will the proposed $9.4 billion funding cut affect NPR and local stations?
NPR receives one to two percent of national funding on an annual basis. We're talking three million dollars, five million dollars. It's not much. I think unfortunately this is cutting off their constituents' noses despite NPR's face. It doesn't help anyone to take this funding away.
The US government says a deportation flight carrying five migrants has Has landed in the small southern African nation of Eswatini. Mike Kalochi has details.
The Department of Homeland Security, in a post on X, says the five men are from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen. It indicates the men have criminal convictions ranging from child rape to murder.
What are the details behind the U.S. deportation flight that landed in Eswatini?
A ruling by the US Supreme Court last month granted the Trump administration's request to lift a judicial order, requiring that those deported to countries where they are not from and have no connections get a quote meaningful opportunity to. to show they could face harm. Soon after, eight migrants who had been held in US custody in Djibouti were deported to South Sudan. Some rights groups have challenged the Trump administration's deportations, arguing migrants are not given a chance to plead their cases. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
An Israeli backed American Aid Foundation in Gaza says there was a deadly crowd search today at its food distribution site. More from MBR's Greg Dixon.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, confirmed in a statement that at least twenty people were killed on Wednesday when a crowd at one of its food sites in Gaza surged. They say most of those deaths were the result of people being trampled. The health ministry in Gaza said tear gas was fired on people seeking food, resulting in the stampede.
How did a crowd surge at a Gaza food distribution site lead to multiple deaths?
Since Israel replaced the UN system providing food aid with GHF in May, Gaza health officials say more than five hundred people have been killed by Israeli military fire outside the food sites.
That's NPR's Greg Dixon reporting. US Docs remixed this hour. You're listening to NPR News. Russian president Vladimir Путін з дефyга President Trump's appeal to halt its attacks on Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia unleashed four hundred drones and a ballistic missile on several cities overnight. Injuring at least fifteen people. Russia launched its full scale invasion on Ukraine three years ago. With no end in sight to the war, Washington's preparing to send Kyiv more weapons via NATO allies and threatening new sanctions against Moscow. An Ohio meteorologist who was fired by the Trump administration had
What recent Russian attacks have Ukraine faced and how is the U.S. responding?
Is worried public safety is in jeopardy as other forecasters lose their jobs nationwide. Mike Frazier of Member Station WYSO has more.
Meteorologist Amanda Wagner worked at the Ohio River Forecast Center in Wilmington, Ohio. She says that eliminating staff at weather service offices nationwide could affect urgent weather forecasts and warnings.
In times of active weather, we need even more staff to make sure that the warnings going out are accurate and timely, to make sure we're communicating with the community and emergency management.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why is President Trump demanding the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents?
0:01–1:01
2
How will the proposed $9.4 billion funding cut affect NPR and local stations?
1:01–1:42
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What are the details behind the U.S. deportation flight that landed in Eswatini?
1:42–2:39
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How did a crowd surge at a Gaza food distribution site lead to multiple deaths?
2:39–3:37
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What recent Russian attacks have Ukraine faced and how is the U.S. responding?
3:37–4:39