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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. House Speaker Mike Johnson has cut short his chamber's business. He's released House lawmakers early to start their six week summer recess. His move also pauses an effort to vote on a bill demanding the release of more documents in the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Speaker Johnson says there's no reason to try to force the Trump administration to do something, it's already started.
As I've said many times, there's no daylight between the White House and the House. You have to allow the legislation to ripen, and you also have to allow the administration the space to do what it is doing.
Last week, Speaker Johnson told a conservative podcast that it was time to release the Epstein records, but this week Johnson apparently lost control of a key house committee that sends bills to the House floor. Democrats on that committee kept introducing measures aimed at releasing Epstein files. Republicans halted committee work rather than take more votes on the matter. The Epstein issue continues to deeply divide Republicans. Weather forecasters have issued heat cautions from Michigan to the Louisiana Gulf Coast today. NPR's Lawrence Summer reports more than eighty eight million people are under some kind of heat alert today.
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 O's that heat waves are getting more intense as the climate gets hotter. Lauren Summer, NPR News.
Columbia University has announced new punishments for students who took over part of a campus library last spring. They were part of a pro Palestinian protest. More than seventy students have been placed on probation, suspended, or expelled. Remember station W NYC Jessica Gould report.
The protest took place during the study period for finals and lasted several hours until it was broken up by police. It was one of the largest protests on campus since the weeks-long encampment a year before. Colombia officials say they're working to restore a billion dollars in funding that the Trump administration withheld last winter, and the university's tightening protest rules and discipline as part of that. President Trump says Colombia has failed to address. anti-Semitism on campus, though many Columbia students and faculty call that a pretext for controlling higher education. The university argues it's trying to maintain a campus that respects all students. For NPR News, I'm Jessica Gould in New York City.
President Trump is poised to release his AI action plan today. He's scheduled to sign executive actions this afternoon. This is NPR. President Trump's special Mideast envoy is scheduled to travel to Europe. A State Department spokeswoman says envoy Steve Whitkopf, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio hope that quote we will come forward with another ceasefire. That would be between Israel and Hamas. Observers in Israel consider Whitkop's upcoming travel a sign of progress toward a peace deal. Big tech company Microsoft has been working to release emergency patches. It's for a previously unknown security vulnerability that's in one of its software products. NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports hackers from around the globe are taking advantage of the problem.
Cybersecurity experts are scrambling to deal with the fallout of the discovery of a serious security flaw in Microsoft's locally hosted software platform called SharePoint. Hackers are targeting governments, companies, and more around the world that are using the vulnerable technology. According to Google's Mandi, one of the earliest hacking groups responsible for exploiting the vulnerability is linked to China.
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