Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House is calling newly released emails tying President Donald Trump to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a distraction from reopening the U.S. government. NPR's Stephen Fowler has details.
The three emails appear to show more of a connection between the president and Epstein, including a message from Epstein that said Trump, quote, "...knew about the girls," and another that said Trump spent hours at Epstein's house with a sex trafficking victim.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt sent a statement to NPR that reads in part, quote, These stories are nothing more than bad faith efforts to distract from President Trump's historic accomplishments.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments regarding President Trump's emails and Jeffrey Epstein?
This as the House is set to vote on a bill to reopen the government and will have enough members to advance a measure to release more Epstein files. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva says that one of her first actions when she's sworn in today... will be to sign a petition to force a vote on a bill requiring the release of more Epstein emails. She won an election to fill the seat held by her late father, Congressman Raul Grijalva, seven weeks ago. The U.S.
House of Representatives reconvenes this hour, and PR's Claudia Grisales is monitoring.
House lawmakers will be back in town today for the first time since House Speaker Mike Johnson let them go home in September before the shutdown even began. The House Rules Committee met for more than seven hours last night, and they moved this bill to the floor, and that sets the stage for a final vote later tonight.
And as you will recall, this deal came together after a group of Senate Democrats broke ranks to vote with Republicans to end the government shutdown. NPR's Claudia Grisales reporting.
Much-loved Italian pasta could vanish from American supermarket shelves from January if the U.S. Commerce Department goes ahead with a decision to slap heavy duties on Italian pasta brands. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports.
The Commerce Department is accusing major Italian pasta producers of anti-dumping practices. That's when a foreign company sells their goods at a cheaper rate than at home. The department threatens to impose duties which, when combined with recent new charges on European Union goods by the Trump administration, would push tariffs on Italian pasta to 107%.
Anti-dumping probes are fairly routine, but Italian pasta companies say they have never resulted in such extraordinarily high duties. Italy's influential agribusiness association, Coldiretti, warns this barrier is so high that it would, quote, practically wipe out Italy's pasta exports to the United States. Ruth Sherlock, NPR News.
The Dow is up 331 points. This is NPR News. California is two years into a mental health experiment called CareCourt, which allows judges to order people with psychotic illness into treatment. From member station KQED, April Demboski reports on new data suggesting counties are focused more on coaxing people into care and less on coercion.
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