Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: 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.
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