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What updates are there on the government shutdown and President Trump's actions?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shae Stevens. The government shutdown has ended. President Trump signed a bill to reopen government last night, shortly after the House gave its final passage. Democrats held out for an extension of expiring health care tax subsidies, but won't get to debate the issue before December. The House Oversight Committee has released thousands more pages of documents on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As Stephen Fowler reports, Democrats are highlighting three emails that Epstein sent to Donald Trump.
Those three email changes that Democrats initially released, there's also another dozen or so pages they've highlighted online. They include the disgraced financier Epstein discussing Trump. In 2011, Epstein emailed Ghislaine Maxwell, his associate who has been convicted on trafficking charges. called Trump the, quote, dog that hasn't barked, and says Trump spent hours at his house with one of the alleged sex trafficking victims.
How are congressional Democrats responding to immigration data access by ICE?
There's a 2015 thread with author Michael Wolff that saw Wolff suggest Epstein could get, quote, valuable PR and political currency if Trump denied being on Epstein's plane or at his house, and a 2019 exchange that saw Epstein say that, quote, of course Trump knew about the girls as he asked Elaine to stop. That email does not elaborate further.
Stephen Fowler reporting. Congressional Democrats are warning the nation's governors that immigration officials are accessing driver's license data. More from NPR's Jude Jaffe Block.
A group of 40 Democratic senators and representatives sent a letter Wednesday to 19 governors from their party, urging them to block ICE's access to their residents' driver's license data and photos to stop the Trump administration from using them from what the lawmakers call, quote, unjustified politicized actions. States share their residents' driver's license data with each other and law enforcement across the U.S. and Canada through a nonprofit called NLETS. The lawmakers say ICE and Homeland Security investigators have made hundreds of thousands of queries through NLETS in the past year. Five states had already blocked ICE's access.
What are the implications of the U.S. Mint stopping penny production?
ICE did not return NPR's request for comment. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia has stopped making pennies. NPR's Rafael Nam has details.
The end of this tiny little coin had already been announced by President Trump back in February. Producing each penny was costing the U.S. government nearly four cents. And ending production would save the U.S. more than $50 million a year.
What is the current health status of Reverend Jesse Jackson?
But the move to face at the penny has been a big pain for many retailers and banks, which are struggling to provide exact change. After all, pennies remain legal tender, meaning that they can still be used. Chances are, though, many of them will stay where they've probably been for years, in big jars, coffee cans, or somewhere under the cushion of your couch. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR. The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago and is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy. A statement from the Rainbow Push Coalition he founded says Jackson has been managing a neurological condition for over a decade. No word on his condition. Tuberculosis cases have declined around the world for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health services. But NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports that TB is still the world's leading infectious disease killer.
How has tuberculosis affected global health post-COVID-19?
TB claimed over 1.2 million lives last year. That's an improvement. And Africa, in particular, has made progress, with deaths down 46% in the past decade. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus heads the World Health Organization. He says there's other good news, too.
For the first time in over a century, new, effective TB vaccines for adolescents and adults are within reach.
Eighteen TB vaccine candidates are in clinical development, but he warns that funding cuts to international aid threaten to reverse the hard-won gains. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
Israel's president and high-ranking military leaders there are condemning an attack by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What updates are there on the government shutdown and President Trump's actions?
0:03–0:58
2
How are congressional Democrats responding to immigration data access by ICE?
0:58–2:04
3
What are the implications of the U.S. Mint stopping penny production?
2:04–2:31
4
What is the current health status of Reverend Jesse Jackson?
2:31–3:33
5
How has tuberculosis affected global health post-COVID-19?
3:33–4:26
6
What recent developments are there regarding violence in the West Bank?
4:26–4:39