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Korva Coleman
Details@capitalone.com Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. An NPR investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein files finds the Justice Department has removed or withheld dozens of pages from the public database of Epstein documents. Some pages relate to accusations of sexual abuse that also contained mention of President Trump. The Justice Department prepared a slideshow last fall. It mentioned a claim that Trump sexually abused a minor around 1983. The minor was also allegedly being abused by Epstein. The allegation against Trump was sent to an FBI field office for further investigation, but NPR's Stephen Fowler reports the allegation does not show up in the new release of files.
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Stephen Fowler
It's more what other documents have shown us about these particular missing pages. There's records showing showing the FBI interviewed this accuser four times. Only one of those interviews is in the public Epstein database, and it does not mention Trump at all. And the Justice Department's own tracking indicates there's at least 50 pages that exist but were not made public.
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Korva Coleman
NPR, Stephen Fowler reporting. President Trump has consistently said he broke ties with Jeffrey Epstein years ago over his behavior. The president will address a joint session of Congress tonight. NPR's Elena Moore reports. This is his first State of the Union address since returning to the White House just over a year ago.
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Elena Moore
The State of the Union is a formality, but there are potential political stakes for Trump. His speech comes at the start of an election year where Republicans are on the defensive. They're trying to keep control of Congress, but Trump is battling low approval numbers. In the latest NPR PBS News Marist poll, a majority of Americans say Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction. Low poll numbers are often a warning sign. Since World War II, the party controlling the White House historically loses an average of 27 seats in the House and four in the Senate in midterm elections. Elena Moore, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet this week with leaders of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. There's been tension between both sides. NPR's Bobby Allen reports. The Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic loosen its AI chatbot safeguards in order to remain a government contractor.
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Bobby Allen
Anthropic's cloud is the only chatbot that can be used in classified settings, but the Pentagon is threatening to drop the service, and that's because Anthropic is drawing a red line. It says it will not allow its technology to be used for domestic surveillance and the deployment of autonomous lethal activities. That has irked Pentagon officials, who are demanding every leading AI lab allow their powerful tools for all lawful uses.
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Daniel Montano
Now.
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Bobby Allen
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be meeting this week to try to hash out their differences. Axios first reported the discussion. While EMODI has held the banner as the most safety first AI lab, Trump officials have labeled anthropic woke AI. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
On Wall street, in premarket trading, Dow futures are higher. This is npr. The Northeast continues to dig out from this week's massive blizzard. Heavy snow has fallen, especially in the Northeast. Parts of Rhode island set a record where more than a yard of snow fell. Transit from trains to cars and planes has been paralyzed. There were reports of thunder, snow and lightning in New Jersey and Massachusetts. And in Massachusetts, more than a quarter million customers are still out of power. Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and intense. Researchers say there's a link between wildfire smoke and mental health. From member station kunm, Daniel Montano reports. The smoke can drift for thousands of
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Daniel Montano
miles, the new study found. A week after exposure to wildfire smoke, participants mental health scores were at their lowest. But after three weeks, scores were close to normal. Dr. Xu Guang Leung, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico and lead author of the study, says the negative effects can occur even when the smoke is so thin it's barely visible.
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Dr. Xu Guang Leung
When you live next to the burning spot, yes, it's very smoky, suffocating, right. Most of the time it never gets to that level.
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Daniel Montano
Despite advances in fighting air pollution like the Clean Air act, which have been effective in getting particulate matter out of the air, Leung says wildfires have halted or reversed much of that progress in the past decade. For NPR News, welcome to the breakfast news. I'm Daniel Montano.
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Korva Coleman
The U.S. women's gold medal winning ice hockey team won't attend the State of the Union address tonight. The Olympians declined the president's invitation, citing scheduling conflicts. The men's gold medal winning team is also invited. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.
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