Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Another federal judge has ruled that more material from the investigations linked to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein can be released. These documents are secret grand jury transcripts from his sex trafficking case in 2019.
Chapter 2: What recent legal developments are related to Jeffrey Epstein's case?
Congress recently passed a law ordering the Justice Department to disclose its Epstein case materials. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. She's been in hiding in Venezuela, threatened with arrest. Her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, accepted the prize today in Oslo.
I am here. On behalf of my mother, Maria Corina Machado, who has united millions of Venezuelans in an extraordinary effort that you, our hosts, have honored with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel officials say Maria Corina Machado is expected to come to Oslo soon. The Trump administration has stepped up efforts to curb illegal immigration in the U.S., but extremism experts say the administration is using language that comes directly from the white nationalist movement. NPR's Odette Youssef reports.
After an Afghan national was arrested in the shooting of two National Guard members in the nation's capital, Trump called for reverse migration. The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have also used the term remigration in social media and planning documents.
Heidi Beirich of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism says European white nationalists use remigration to refer to the ethnic cleansing of non-white people.
When I think about this, I cannot believe that a federal government in the United States would use terms that come from white supremacists. there's always been some sort of barrier to that being mainstreamed.
The White House, State Department, and DHS rejected or did not acknowledge questions about the term's link to an extremist movement. Odette Youssef, NPR News.
The Environmental Protection Agency is now downplaying the role humans have in climate change. NPR's Jeff Brady reports instead. The EPA website highlights natural processes that increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and heat up the planet.
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Chapter 3: Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and why?
Until recently, an EPA website labeled causes of climate change relayed the scientific consensus that humans burning fossil fuels have made the planet hotter. Now, that same site focuses on things like volcanic activity and changes in the Earth's rotation.
EPA Press Secretary Bridget Hirsch says in a statement that the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human health and the environment, quote, unquote. Trump has called climate change a hoax. The EPA says the old web pages are still available to the public via archives. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
On Wall Street, the Dow is up more than 80 points. This is NPR. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to end its deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. President Trump sent them there last June over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom. California officials say conditions have now changed since the summer.
The judge has ordered the Trump administration to return control of the guard troops to the governor. A joint investigation by European public broadcasters has found that one of Europe's biggest sperm banks was slow to notify families about a donor with a genetic mutation for cancer. The donor fathered nearly 200 children, some of whom have now died of the disease.
NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.
For 17 years, this anonymous donor's sperm was used to conceive at least 197 children across Europe, from Iceland to Albania. In 2023, the Sperm Bank in Denmark, using more advanced genetic screening, found the man's DNA carries a mutation. He remains healthy, but some of his offspring have up to a 90% chance of developing cancer.
Yet even after that discovery, this investigation by 14 European broadcasters found that some families weren't notified for a year and a half. Those with the mutation will need annual MRIs and ultrasounds for life. The sperm bank says it sends its deepest sympathies. Lauren Frayer, NPR News, London.
The conflict between Cambodia and Thailand continues to spiral at the two countries' shared border. The renewed warfare comes after they signed a peace agreement several weeks ago. It was negotiated by President Trump and leaders in Malaysia. This is NPR.
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