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What documents were released by the Justice Department regarding Jeffrey Epstein?
Justice Department officials have released 30,000 pages of letters, flight logs, and other documents related to the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They include a handwritten letter released and published on the DOJ website, but now that same agency is saying the letter is a fake. NPR's Gabriel Sanchez has more.
Among the trove of documents released by the Justice Department are redacted photographs, court records, and a handwritten letter. A photo of the letter shows an alleged correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and another convicted sex offender, former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University physician Larry Nassar. The letter from 2019 describes Epstein's and Nassar's love for, quote, young ladies, and later describes President Trump as sharing their same passion. Hours after the release, DOJ officials posted on X they were vetting the validity of the letter they presented online. Two hours later, a second social post described the letter as fake. It wasn't immediately clear what information the department learned in the interim.
The FBI declined comment. Gabriel Sanchez, NPR News, Washington.
The Education Department's Office of Federal Student Aid is investigating Brown University in connection with the campus shooting more than a week ago that left at least two students dead and nine injured, NPR's Caden Mills reports.
The Department of Education says it will look into allegations that the university lacked adequate surveillance in the area where the shooting occurred and that emergency alerts of an active shooter threat were delayed. It's requesting several documents from Brown, including annual security reports from 2024 and 2025, as well as current procedures related to campus safety. The department says the university may be in violation of the Clery Act, a law requiring schools accepting federal financial aid to meet specific security standards. Brown responded saying it would launch an independent investigation of the shooting and that the campus has, quote, an expansive network of security cameras. The university also says its emergency alerts went out minutes after gunshots were first reported.
Kayden Mills, NPR News.
Millions of Americans on the move this holiday season. Imperialist Joel Rose reports that more than 120 million people are expected to travel by plane, train, or automobile.
If you're heading over the river and through the woods today, you are not alone. AAA predicts more than 122 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home during the peak end-of-year travel period that started last weekend. The vast majority, more than 109 million, will drive, according to AAA. a slight increase over last year's record total. Air travel may set records as well. The TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, says it's preparing to screen more than 44 million passengers during this holiday season and could set a record for passenger volume for the year. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News.
At least for now, the U.S. Supreme Court is preventing the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago. The justices today declined an emergency request to overturn a lower court's ruling. Today's order is not a final ruling, but it could affect other lawsuits challenging National Guard deployments to other Democratic-led cities. Former Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska says he has advanced pancreatic cancer. Sasse was among the few Republican senators to openly criticize President Trump during his first term in the White House. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
Sasse says he learned the diagnosis last week and that it's terminal. Elected to the Senate as a first-time political candidate in 2014, he won a second term in 2020.
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