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Why is the Trump administration pushing to make all Jeffrey Epstein grand‑jury files public?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The Trump administration says all grand jury files on Jeffrey Epstein should be made public. The White House is coming under fire since the Justice Department's partial release of redacted files on the late sex offender. Press Secretary Caroline Levitz says it's not President Trump's fault that the information is being withheld.
The President has said if the Department of Justice and the FBI want to move forward with releasing any further credible evidence, they should do so. As to why they have or have not or will, you should ask the FBI about that. It's up to the Attorney General.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not hold a vote on a resolution to release the Epstein files until after the August recess. Harvard's attorneys appeared in federal court Monday to challenge the Trump administration's effort to cut more than two billion dollars in research funding to the university.
How is Harvard challenging the federal government’s $2 billion research‑funding cut?
НПРЗ Альса Надберни was outside of the Boston Courthouse where alumni, students, and faculty had gathered.
Inside lawyers from the university and the Trump administration were arguing over two billion dollars in cancelled federal funds. The Trump administration argued that this is really a contracts issue, and as a federal government, they have the right to cancel or freeze or renegotiate contracts. Harvard is arguing that the government's actions violate their First Amendment rights and their academic freedom and that the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedure Act. So even if the government has rights to cancel money, Harvard argues that they didn't follow the proper procedure in doing so.
NPR's Elyssa Nadrone. Reporting. The UN's World Food Program says the hunger crisis in Gaza has reached quote New and astonishing levels of desperation. As NPR's Michelle Kellyman reports, the Secretary General is urging Israel to allow aid in at the scale that's needed.
A top official with the World Food Program says he needs at least a hundred trucks a day to meet basic needs in Gaza. But Ross Smith says less than ten percent of what's needed has made it in since the middle of May.
What is the UN World Food Programme saying about the hunger crisis in Gaza?
A third of the population are not eating for multiple days in a row. This includes women and children. And as I think is through our assessments that have been released publicly, a quarter of the population are facing famine like conditions.
He spoke via video to reporters at the United Nations. The Secretary General Antonio Guterres also issued a statement saying he's appalled by what he calls the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza. Michelle Kellaman, NPR News, the State Department.
Millions of above ground swimming pools are being recalled in the U.S. following reports of nine child deaths. The pools made by Bestway, Intex, and Polygroup of 48 inches or taller, with construction compression straps on the outside and over the support legs. The concern is that the straps may allow small children to get inside of the pool. This is NPR. Martin Luther King Jr.'s two surviving children are lamenting the Trump administration's release of FBI records on the slain civil rights leader. In a statement, Bernice King and Martin Luther King the Third say their family has endured the loss of their father for over fifty-seven years. The siblings expressed hope that the files will be viewed within their full historical context.
including the government's efforts to discredit King. They also repeated the family's contention that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King, was not the shooter. A beloved star of the Crosby show has died at the age of fifty four. Malcolm Jamal Warner accidentally drowned on Sunday in Costa Rica after getting caught in a current while swimming.
Why are millions of above‑ground swimming pools being recalled in the U.S.?
Сті Ферман лукс батюшка.
Малькн Джамал Варна розтай планиол. Із сені т.
I want you both to know that if anything should happen, you can count on me to step in and give the family the emotional support it needs.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why is the Trump administration pushing to make all Jeffrey Epstein grand‑jury files public?
0:01–0:54
2
How is Harvard challenging the federal government’s $2 billion research‑funding cut?
0:54–2:09
3
What is the UN World Food Programme saying about the hunger crisis in Gaza?
2:09–3:45
4
Why are millions of above‑ground swimming pools being recalled in the U.S.?
3:45–4:18
5
What do Martin Luther King Jr.’s surviving children want from the released FBI records?
4:18–4:39