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Jael Snyder
Live from NPR News, I'm Jael Snyder. Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has for the first time appeared behind closed doors before the House oversight committee. But NPR's Claudia Gorsalis reports that Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to self incriminate.
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Claudia Gorsalis
Ghislaine Maxwell appeared before the congressional committee via video link from her prison facility and followed her attorney's directive to decline to answer lawmakers questions. In a statement following that appearance, her lawyer said she would be willing to answer questions in exchange for clemency from President Trump. The lawyer went on to say that Maxwell would be able to share details about the Clintons and their ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after she already shared that they are not guilty of any wrongdoing. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Maxwell decision not to answer questions was a disappointment. However, Comer maintained that the committee's investigation into Epstein continues. Claudia de Sales, NPR News.
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Jael Snyder
To California, where a federal district court has blocked a new state law aimed at forcing ICE agents to take off their masks, NPR's Martin Costi reports. So a state mask ban may still be possible.
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Martin Costi
California passed the no Secret Police act last fall, and it applied to all police with the exception of certain state agencies such as highway patrol. That was the law's fatal flaw. The administration sued, saying it discriminated between state and federal officers, and the court agreed. The law's sponsor, state Senator Scott Weiner, says he's already introduced a bill to fix it by adding the state police back in. And he draws hope from another part of the ruling.
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Federal Judge
Here we have a federal judge ruling that face masks are not part of law enforcement. Face masks have never been part of law enforcement.
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Martin Costi
The judge also let stand state law that requires federal officers to identify themselves clearly. Martin Costi, NPR News.
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Jael Snyder
That ruling blocking California's ban on masks came as congressional Democrats seek new restrictions on President Trump's immigration crackdown. With Homeland Security funding set to expire on Friday, American skier Lindsey Vonn says she suffered a complex tibia fracture in Sunday's Olympic downhill race. Von crash just 13 seconds into the race. Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan.
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Becky Sullivan
Vaughn says the injury will require multiple surgeries to fix properly. She was competing in Sunday's race despite having torn her ACL late last month, an unfortunate injury that came as she was mounting a remarkable career comeback out of retirement. Vaughn says in a post on social media that the ACL tear and other past injuries had, quote, nothing to do with her crash. Her determination to compete made Sunday's race one of the most anticipated events of the Olympics. But just 13 seconds into the race, she hooked her right shoulder around a gate and crashed hard onto the slope. It wasn't the ending she dreamed of, she wrote. Still, she says she has no regrets about competing. Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Cortina d', Ampezzo, Italy.
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Jael Snyder
This is NPR News. TODAY show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings are asking for help from the public and locating their 84 year old mother presumed kidnapped more than a week ago from her home in Arizona. In the video posted to social media, Savannah Guthrie says her reached an hour of desperation. The Pima County Sheriff's Department said Monday that investigators still have not identified any suspects or persons of interest. Elon Musk says SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a city on the moon and piers. Nell Greenfield Boyce reports.
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Nell Greenfield Boyce
When SpaceX was founded over two decades ago, Elon Musk said its goal was to make humanity a multi planetary species by bringing down the cost of space launches so that people could realistically get to mar. Since then, Musk has constantly talked about the red planet. The company even sells T shirts that say Occupy Mars. But now on his social media company X, Musk has posted a message saying that the focus of SpaceX is a self growing city on the moon, that this could be accomplished much faster than a city on Mars. The move comes as SpaceX is competing with Jeff Bezos company Blue Origin to build the lunar lander that NASA needs to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
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Jael Snyder
Japan's benchmark Nikkei share average hit a record high in early Tuesday trading. The Nikkei jumped two and a half percent and the broader market also hit a record intraday high following the prime minister's election victory on Sunday. This is NPR News.
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