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What is President Trump saying about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is telling off members of his own base who are still demanding the Justice Department publicize what it's got on the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
I'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy, the best we've ever had, and all of the things we've done, including the Middle East. I mean you see it. Instead they want to talk about the uh Epstein hoax. And the sad part is it's people that are Really doing the Democrats' work. They're stupid people.
How are the recent Russian attacks affecting Ukraine’s cities and civilians?
Many conspiracy theorists and conservative influencers are angry that Attorney General Pambondi says Epstein did not maintain a client list after she and other top Trump allies had suggested otherwise. Trump made the comments during a photo op with the Crown Prince of Bahrain. Now amid market volatility and conflict over the direction of interest rates. President Trump now says he is not planning to do anything about Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Trump has been a vocal critic of Powell over the central bank's decision not to lower interest rates now. and has that Powell, whom Trump selected in his first term, should be fired. Руша злонч а масси атак о Україні ситись. НБІРСПОЛІНІНАЛЕТВІНОВА РЕПОРЦМ КИВАЛІС ⁇ ФІФТЬНЬ ПІЛИДИН ОВЕВЕРНАЙТСА КРОСТИ КАНТРІ.
Why is the Trump administration holding back $140 million for fentanyl‑overdose programs?
України мілітари сез Росія атак ситиз акрос України, інклюдин президент Володимир Зеленський з хомтаун Кривий Ріг і центральний України види баллистик мізил і фото дрон. The explosions caused massive power outages in Krivi Rieg. Military officials also say industrial and civilian facilities were damaged in the central city of Вінica and in the northeastern Hharkiv. Russia's barrage comes after President Trump announced Monday the US would sell weapons to Ukraine and gave the Kremlin fifty days to make peace or face sanctions. Polina Latvinova, NPR News, Kyiv.
The Trump administration is holding back about a hundred forty million dollars allocated by Congress to help communities fight fentanyl and other drug overdoses. Sources inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell NPR key life saving programs are being disrupted. Here's NPR's Brian Mann.
What legislation is Congress debating that could cut billions from international aid and public broadcasting?
President Trump has made fighting fentanyl deaths a key part of his second term as he did in his first term. But four CDC staff members speaking on condition of anonymity because they fear retribution told NPR roughly $140 million for the overdose dated action program have been held back by the Doge cost-cutting team and the Office of Management and Budget. All four said they fear delays will lead to the funding being cut or canceled altogether. Lives at stake, said one CDC staffer. Trump administration officials haven't responded to NPR's request for comment.
That's NPR's Brian Mann reporting. From Washington, this is NPR News. Congressional lawmakers are debating legislation that would take back nine point four billion dollars in funding for international aid and for the corporation for public broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS.
How is global health funding changing and what could the impact be?
Last night it cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate with Vice President J D Vance's tiebreaking vote.
On this vote, the yeas are fifty and the nays are fifty. The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the motion is agreed to.
Vance was called to the floor after Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins joined all Democrats in voting no on two procedural votes to begin debate. The amount of investment into global health Is dropping significantly. A new study published in the Lancet shows funding for twenty twenty six is expected to go down to half of levels in twenty twenty one.
Which new donors might fill the gap as traditional aid declines?
N PR's Gabriel Emmanuel has more.
Global health funding reached a historic peak in twenty twenty one during the COVID pandemic, with some eighty billion committed to international health.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump saying about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation?
0:01–0:36
2
How are the recent Russian attacks affecting Ukraine’s cities and civilians?
0:36–1:24
3
Why is the Trump administration holding back $140 million for fentanyl‑overdose programs?
1:24–2:20
4
What legislation is Congress debating that could cut billions from international aid and public broadcasting?
2:20–3:13
5
How is global health funding changing and what could the impact be?
3:13–3:49
6
Which new donors might fill the gap as traditional aid declines?
3:49–4:39