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The Home Oversight Committee yesterday launched over 20,000 paperwork turned over to Congress from Jeffrey Epstein’s property. Among the many paperwork had been new emails from the convicted intercourse offender that point out President Trump, typically expressing displeasure with him and his presidency. Democrats and Republicans have differing views on what the paperwork say about Epstein.
A protester holds an indication associated to the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein case recordsdata outdoors the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2025. Democrats launched emails Wednesday by which Jeffrey Epstein instructed Donald Trump was conscious of the disgraced financier’s sexual abuse and had “spent hours” with one in every of his victims at his home.
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- 🎧 The vast majority of the emails had been obsessively monitoring Trump’s ascent to the presidency from 2015 to 2018. Epstein mocked Trump and even wrote a be aware saying there is not one first rate cell in Trump’s physique to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, NPR’s Stephen Fowler tells Up First. White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned the discharge of the emails proves nothing. Home Speaker Mike Johnson has been against the trouble from some Republicans and Democrats to launch all unclassified recordsdata held by the Justice Division across the life and demise of Epstein, who died by suicide whereas awaiting trial in 2019. Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress yesterday, that means the bipartisan push now has sufficient assist to drive a Home flooring vote on the Epstein recordsdata invoice.
The longest authorities shutdown in U.S. historical past is now over after Trump signed a invoice to fund it final evening. The invoice consists of measures that reverse the layoffs imposed by the Trump administration in the course of the shutdown, present again pay for federal workers, and fund some businesses via the top of subsequent September. The invoice doesn’t prolong enhanced Inexpensive Care Act subsidies, which expire on the finish of the yr.
- 🎧 NPR’s Barbara Sprunt says she is watching how Democrats will craft a invoice that might attraction to Republicans, addressing the expiring subsidies in the course of the promised December vote within the Senate on the problem. If they’re profitable, Democrats will be capable of start the brand new yr with a coverage victory. If Republicans oppose the invoice, Democrats may have what they see as a profitable challenge to marketing campaign on: the excessive price of well being care.
- 🎧 There are alerts {that a} one-year extension of the federal subsidies may very well be potential, however there isn’t any concrete deal at this level, says NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin. Republicans say that the subsidies do not handle the rising well being prices and that they had been imagined to be a brief pandemic coverage. In the meantime, Democrats wish to preserve the beneficiant subsidies which have saved the month-to-month premium prices down.
Israel deported 154 Palestinian prisoners final month as a part of the alternate for Hamas releasing its remaining group of Israeli hostages. The prisoners had been despatched into exile in Cairo, by no means to return to their properties within the Palestinian territories. Israeli safety specialists say the deportation coverage goals to stop launched prisoners from re-engaging in militant actions, however previous incidents point out that this observe can have unintended long-term penalties for Israeli safety.
Dwelling higher
Specialists advocate beginning hormone remedy earlier than the age of 60 or inside ten years of the beginning of menopause.
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Dwelling Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
The FDA plans to take away warning labels from estrogen-based hormone remedy used to deal with menopause signs. These warnings originated from the early 2000s when a Ladies’s Well being Initiative research discovered one of these remedy elevated the chance of coronary heart assaults, strokes, blood clots and breast most cancers. Nevertheless, specialists now imagine that extra is understood about protected and efficient combos of remedy when it’s began sooner than the age of the ladies within the research, which was 63. Listed below are some issues to contemplate when speaking to your healthcare supplier in regards to the remedy:
- 👩⚕️ Specialists advocate beginning the remedy earlier than the age of 60 or throughout the first 10 years of menopause onset.
- 👩⚕️ Have a dialogue about how lengthy you have to be on the remedy. Basically, girls keep on it for 3 to 5 years, however that is not a tough rule.
- 👩⚕️ For many who favor to not endure hormone remedy, there are alternate options obtainable. The FDA has permitted two non-hormonal drugs for treating extreme sizzling flashes throughout menopause.
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The Aurora Borealis lights up the evening sky over Monroe, Wisconsin on Tuesday evening.
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Colourful northern lights painted the skies with vibrant hues of inexperienced and pink on Tuesday evening because of sturdy geomagnetic storms. The aurora borealis was noticed in a big swath of states, together with Tennessee, New York, New Mexico and Idaho. The northern lights may very well be seen as far south as elements of Florida and Alabama, a comparatively uncommon prevalence highlighting the severity of this week’s storms. Auroras have gotten extra frequent within the U.S. because the solar approaches the height of its 11-year photo voltaic cycle. This pattern is anticipated to proceed for a number of months. See images of this week’s pure gentle show and skim easy methods to {photograph} them.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
In a ceremonial occasion in Philadelphia Wednesday, the U.S. Mint produced its final penny. The one-cent coin, launched 232 years in the past, is being phased out as a result of each price almost 4 cents to supply.
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- In a penny-pinching transfer by the federal authorities, the ultimate one-cent coin was minted in Philadelphia yesterday.
- NPR’s Phrase of the Week is “nostalgia,” which originated as a medical analysis, however has advanced into a fancy emotion that will also be a money-maker.
- When Stacia was 21, she was fighting extreme despair. After leaving a hospital the place she was underneath shut supervision, Stacia walked to a close-by street and caught her thumb out for a journey. A girl, her unsung hero, stopped for her, asking a easy query that helped Stacia form her life.
This text was edited by Obed Manuel.
