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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because he says Republicans have nothing to hide. Until now, Trump has been fighting the release, criticizing Republicans who said they would vote for the Justice Department to make public those documents. That vote is coming up this week in the House, as NPR's Mara Lyson tells us.
What recent developments have occurred regarding the Epstein files?
House Speaker Mike Johnson tried for months to avoid this vote. but he failed when four Republicans joined Democrats to sign a discharge petition. That's a tool that allows rank-and-file House members to circumvent leadership and bring bills to the floor. Last week, the House Oversight Committee released documents that show President Trump may have known more about Epstein than he has said he did. Trump has lashed out at Republicans who've demanded the documents be released, and he's ordered his attorney general to investigate Epstein's ties to Democrats— including former President Bill Clinton. Mara Liason, NPR News, Washington.
The FAA says the country's airlines will be back to business Monday morning. Thousands of flights were canceled during the federal government shutdown. Now all restrictions on flights will be gone. Some airports still had problems on Sunday, but Carl Verne of Montreal says his visit to the states went quite well.
It was actually fine. I mean, there was like some other flights who got delayed, of course, but ours was fine.
French President Emmanuel Macron will host Volodymyr Zelensky Monday in what will be the Ukrainian president's ninth trip to France since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country began three and a half years ago. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that Zelensky predicted historic agreements would be signed with France.
In a video message posted on social media, Zelensky said there would be a historic announcement that will, quote, significantly reinforce our combat aviation and air defenses. Zelensky has made no secret of the fact that he wants French Rafale jets. McCall and Zelensky will also sit down with the generals leading the so-called Coalition of the Willing, the 35 nations who have pledged to help keep peace in Ukraine once a ceasefire is in place. Zelensky comes to Paris from Athens, where he inked a deal with Greece for gas supplies. His meetings come amidst relentless Russian attacks, and as the EU weighs whether to use $200 million in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to to help Ukraine purchase weapons.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
President Trump indicated he plans to meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mandani, speaking with reporters as he returned to Washington from Florida. He said the two would work something out. Trump has attacked Mandani for months, falsely labeling him a communist, and he said that New York would be ruined if Mandani were elected. He also threatened to pull federal money from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state. He made the comment Sunday, a day before the U.N. Security Council plans to vote on a U.S.-based plan. This is NPR News. In Germany, an auction house planning to sell off items belonging to former concentration camp prisoners has cancelled that sale after it received widespread criticism.
As Esme Nicholson reports from Berlin, Holocaust survivor groups are calling the auction organizers shameless.
Among the items up for auction was a yellow star of David Patch from Buchenwald concentration camp. its condition described as having signs of wear. Letters belonging to the murdered camp prisoners and Gestapo documents were also among the collection due to go up for auction this week in the city of Neuss near Düsseldorf. Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul expressed his regret and outrage to his Polish counterpart, adding that any attempt to profit from the crimes of the Shoah is abhorrent. The International Auschwitz Committee says the artefacts belong to the victims' families or to museums and should not be degraded to mere commodities.
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