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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A federal judge in Manhattan is denying the Trump administration's request to release grand jury transcripts from the Justice Department's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That's the once powerful financier who died by suicide in 2019. The DOJ argues that the transcripts should be released because of public interest in the epstein case. Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas.
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U.S. district Judge Richard Berman says the government has failed to show any special circumstance that would justify making public grand jury transcripts that are normally secret. Berman says the grand jury Materials requested total 70 pages of summary testimony from a single FBI agent, one PowerPoint exhibit and four pages of call logs. And that, Berman notes, pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of pages of Epstein files and in the government's possession. And he says the government's files would better inform the public than the grand jury materials. Berman is the third of three federal judges to deny the administration's requests to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
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Top military officials from NATO countries met today in a previously unscheduled virtual session as discussions advance on potential security guarantees for post conflict Ukraine. Terry Schultz reports European governments are considering whether and under what circumstances they'd be willing to commit resources to such a mission should Ukraine and Russia agree to a peace deal.
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NATO's top military commander called the 32 chiefs of defense together for an update on the security situation in Ukraine and its implications for Europe. Following the session, Admiral Giuseppe Kavadragoni said unity among the allies was tangible and that their priority remains a just, credible and durable peace for Ukraine. The extraordinary session comes after President Trump said the US May be willing to provide air support to a European led coalition expected to deploy to Ukraine once there's a ceasefire to monitor, but that no U.S. troops would be sent to Ukraine. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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President Trump's calling for the resignation of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, NPR Scott Horsley reports.
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Bill Poolsey, who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has asked the Justice Department to investigate Cook over a pair of mortgages she obtained back in 2021 for Propert, Michigan and Georgia. According to Poulte, the mortgage paperwork said each property would be used as Cook's primary residence, though the Georgia unit was listed soon afterwards as a rental. Mortgage lenders often give more favorable terms for loans on a borrower's primary home. Cook has so far not responded to the allegations. Poulte has leveled similar charges against political opponents of the president, including California Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump has criticized Cook and her colleagues at the Fed for not moving more aggressively to lower interest rates. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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You're listening to NPR News. Hulu is streaming a new series, the Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. It tells the story of the American exchange student imprisoned in Italy after her British roommate was murdered in 2007. As NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports, Knox is co executive producing the project along with a another woman who has also experienced her fair share of intense media scrutiny, Monica Lewinsky.
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The eight part series dramatizes the 20 year old who was vilified in the media as Foxy Knoxy. Amanda Knox spent four years in prison in Perugia, convicted of murder twice before Italy's highest court exonerated her based on DNA. Knox says she hopes the series clears.
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Her name after having been ostracized and vilified and literally imprisoned. I wanted people to relate to my experience. I wanted them to say I, I understand.
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Knox joined forces with Monica Lewinsky. The former White House intern was at the center of a sex scandal in 1998 with then US President Bill Clinton.
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I had so much compassion for what she had gone through.
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These days, both Lewinsky and Knox are podcasters and activists and now TV producers. Mandalit Del Barco, NPR News.
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Tall ships, hundreds of them from around the world, sailed into Amsterdam today for a five day festival celebrating maritime history as heard here through the Associated Press. Big crowds jostled for the best spots to view the historic vessels during the event, Sail 2025. The festival coincides with the Dutch city's 750th birthday. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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