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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The House of Representatives is poised to vote today on a bill to release government records on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump says the bill should be passed and that he would sign it, but doubts that his detractors will be satisfied.
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Political Commentator/Analyst
Unfortunately, like with the Kennedy situation, with the Martin Luther King situation, not to put Jeffrey Epstein in the same category, but no matter what we give, it's never enough. You know, with Kennedy, we gave everything and it wasn't enough. With Martin Luther King, we gave everything and it's never enough. We've already given I believe the number is 50,000 pages.
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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
Meanwhile, former U.S. treasury Secretary Larry Summers says he's deeply embarrassed over his email exchanges with Epstein and that he's stepping away from his public duties. Summers served in the Clinton and Obama administrations. A federal magistrate in Washington is criticizing the Justice Department's prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey. Judge William Fitzpatrick cites what he calls fundamental misstatements of the law by the prosecutor who took the case to a grand jury. Fitzpatrick also expressed concern about unexplained irregularities in the grand jury transcripts. Comey has pleaded not guilty to obstruction and making a false statement to Congress. A new analysis finds the Trump administration's cuts in grants to the National Institutes of Health affected hundreds of clinical trials and thousands of patients. NPR's Rob Stein reports on the findings, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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NPR Correspondent Rob Stein
Since returning to office, the Trump administration has terminated hundreds of grants from the NIH for medical research. Researchers at Harvard analyzed clinical trials funded by the NIH between the end of February and the middle of August. They found 383 clinical trials involving at least 74,000 participants were affected. Studies involving infectious diseases, heart disease and respiratory diseases were hit hardest. 1 at of every 37 NIH cancer trials was affected. Rob Stein, NPR News.
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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
Overdue economic data are expected this week, as NPR Scott Horsley reports, that includes late summer tallies of exports and imports and a snapshot of the job market in early fall.
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NPR Correspondent Scott Horsley
Now that the federal shutdown is over, government statisticians will start to release those economic report cards we've been missing for the last six weeks. The Commerce Department says it will provide an update on the August trade deficit. On Wednesday, the Labor Department will deliver the September jobs report. The following day. Both of those reports were supposed to come out in early October. No word yet on when or even if we'll see data on inflation or unemployment for last month, which could help to shape the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates in December. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
U.S. futures are flat in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is npr. In New York, authorities are searching for suspect in the shooting of New York jets cornerback Chris Boyd. The special team standout remains hospitalized in critical cond following an attack Sunday in Manhattan. Boyd signed with New York as a free agent in March. He has not played this season due to a shoulder injury. The federal government has reopened, but not all government assistance programs are back up and running. As Cynthia Abrams of member station WPLN reports, without word from the Department of Health and Human Services, the state of Tennessee has not been able to re up its utility assistance program.
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NPR Correspondent Cynthia Abrams
Typically, Tennessee receives around 72 million federal dollars each to help residents pay their gas or electric bills. Like many programs, it was put on hold during the shutdown. But even though the government has now reopened, the state has not received any dollars or even any notice of how much it can expect. In the meantime, Tennessee is taking applications for assistance like from Denise Simpson, a nursing student and mother of two.
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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
What nobody says you have to be supermom with assistance. It takes a village.
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NPR Correspondent Cynthia Abrams
Most of the 12,000 households who have applied in the last two weeks, including Simpson, have yet to receive any help. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
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NPR News Anchor Shea Stevens
Gunmen have kidnapped 25 teenage girls from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria's Kebbi State. No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions, which are not uncommon in a region where security has been limited. On Asia, market shares are lower. This is NPR News.
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