Chapter 1: What were the recent developments in James Comey's legal case?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal judge says the Justice Department may have engaged in profound investigative missteps in its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports the judge has ordered prosecutors to turn over all grand jury materials to Comey's lawyers.
Comey was indicted by a grand jury in September on false statements and obstruction charges tied to his congressional testimony in 2020. His attorneys have requested the grand jury materials, arguing that irregularities may have tainted the prosecution. Now Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick has granted that request.
In an opinion, Fitzpatrick says the record, quote, points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceedings. This is one of several ways Comey is challenging the
Chapter 2: How is President Trump addressing the Jeffrey Epstein case?
the Trump Justice Department's case against him. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump says he would sign a bill to force the Justice Department to release files in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the House is expected to vote on it tomorrow.
President Trump says the case has turned into a distraction from his administration's work.
Let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it.
Chapter 3: What economic reports are expected this week?
But don't talk about it too much, because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us. It's really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them. And it's a hoax.
Trump and Epstein were friends until they had a falling out several years before Epstein's first conviction. For months, Trump and his supporters fought to block the vote on releasing the Epstein materials, but it became increasingly clear that it would pass anyway. And this weekend, in a dramatic change of course, Trump called on House Republicans to support the measure.
Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
Overdue economic data are expected this week. NPR's Scott Horsley reports that includes late summer tallies of exports and imports and a snapshot of the job market in early fall.
Now that the federal shutdown is over, government statisticians will start to release those economic report cards we've been missing for the last six weeks. The Commerce Department says it will provide an update on the August trade deficit on Wednesday.
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Chapter 4: What does the recent U.N. decision mean for Gaza's future?
The Labor Department will deliver the September jobs report the following day. Both of those reports were supposed to come out in early October. No word yet on when or even if we'll see data on inflation or unemployment for last month, which could help to shape the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates in December. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
The U.N. Security Council has approved a U.S.-authored plan creating an international stabilization force for security in Gaza.
Chapter 5: What challenges is FEMA currently facing?
It also envisions a possible path to an independent Palestinian state. The vote was a crucial next step for the ceasefire and efforts to outline Gaza's future after two years of war between Israel and Hamas. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, has left his post just six months into the job.
It's the latest development in a year of departures and policy changes at the agency. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods this summer in Texas. The U.S. got a D-plus grade for maternal and infant health, according to a new report card from the March of Dimes. As NPR's Maria Godoy reports, the U.S.
has one of the highest rates of premature births among developed nations.
About 1 in 10 babies born across the U.S.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the March of Dimes report on maternal health?
last year was premature, and those rates were much higher in some U.S. states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, and for certain racial and ethnic minorities, especially Black women and infants. The March of Dimes report also found about 1 in 4 pregnant women didn't receive prenatal care in their first trimester, a decline from previous years.
Meanwhile, the prevalence of pre-existing chronic conditions like hypertension and diabetes increased. Both are known risk factors for preterm birth. The March of Dimes says the findings should be a call to improve systemic inequities and access to care across the country. Maria Godoy, NPR News.
Brazil's vice president says Brazilian goods like coffee, beef, and tropical fruits still face a 40 percent tariff in the U.S. That's despite President Trump's decision to remove some import taxes on countries and In an effort to boost the U.S. economy, Trump imposed additional tariffs on Brazil due to the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro. I'm Ryland Barton.
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