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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. A federal judge says he wants to quickly resolve the government's request to release grand jury documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case. But the judge says he first needs more information from the Justice Department. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
The Justice Department filed papers on Friday asking U.S. District Judge Richard Berman. To unceal the grand jury transcripts from the investigation into the disgraced financier and sex offender. Grand jury proceedings are generally secret, but the department says an exception should be made here because of the level of public interest in the Epstein case. Now Judge Berman says in an order that he wants to resolve the request quote expeditiously, but that the government has failed to adequately address key factors when seeking to unseal grand jury materials. He has given the Justice Department a week to address those factors. The judge has also set a two week deadline to hear from an Epstein representative
and from his victims on making the grand jury transcripts public. Ryan Lucas and Pierre News, Washington.
The Justice Department says it plans to interview Epstein's former girlfriend, Gylen Maxwell, in the coming days. She's in prison for her role in a scheme of sexual exploitation and abuse. Rock legend Ozzie Osbourne has died at the age of seventy six. He'd been battling a condition with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, Steve Futterman reports.
Ozzie Osborne first leaped to fame in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, one of Heavy Metal's pioneering groups. Its songs like Paranoid often focused on dark topics. And Osborne became known as the Prince of Darkness. After Black Sabbath came a solo career and perhaps his most iconic song, Crazy Train. Osborne's colorful life included tattoos and repeated abuse of drugs and alcohol. It helped lead him to become a reality star in 2002 with the debut of the Osborne's on MTV. For MPR News, I'm Steve Federman in Los Angeles.
Extreme heat is expected to intensify this week across parts of the US. More than eighty million people are under heat warnings, as NPR's Lauren Summer reports.
The National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings for parts of the Midwest and Southeast. Because of high humidity, temperatures there feel worse than they are, well above 100 degrees. The more humid it is, the harder it is for your body to cool itself by sweating. The heat wave is expected to expand this week because of a heat dome. That's an area of high pressure that traps hot air near the ground and parks it there. Research shows shows that heat waves are getting more intense as the climate gets hotter. Lauren Summer, NPR News. This is
NPR News. Members of Congress questioned organizations responsible for procuring organs for transplantation today about reports that some potential organ donors have been abused, and Pierre's Rob Stein has more.
The hearing focused on a federal report that found that a Kentucky man who woke up just as surgeons were about to remove his organs was not an isolated event. The Health Resources and Services Administration subsequently identified one hundred three similar cases, including twenty eight that involved patients who may not have been dead when the organ retrieval process was initiated. Representative Neil Dunn, a Republican from Florida, was among members upset by the report.
This is a story that seems to be more fitting for a horror movie than a congressional hearing.
Representatives from the transplant organizations pledged to better protect potential organ donors. Rob Stein and PR News.
President Trump met with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House today. Afterward, Trump announced on social media that imports from the Philippines will face a nineteen percent tariff and that U.S. exports to the country will not be taxed. Marcos is on a three day visit to the US. The President says Indonesia has also agreed to a nineteen percent tariff. On products coming into the US.
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