Brown University Suspect Found Dead, Epstein Files Deadline, Kennedy Center Renamed
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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The suspected gunman behind the shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor has been found dead. The Justice Department faces a deadline to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And the board of the Kennedy Center has voted to change the name of the cultural hub to the Trump Kennedy Center.
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| 0:00.0 | The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead. |
| 0:06.1 | This was always going to be an investigation where something was going to break it open. |
| 0:10.9 | How an anonymous Reddit post led to a storage locker in New Hampshire. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Leila Faudill. That's Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.7 | The DOJ faces a deadline today to release its files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 0:27.7 | what will and won't be released. |
| 0:30.1 | And President Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board has voted to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center. |
| 0:35.4 | One Democratic representative says her dissent was silenced, |
| 0:38.7 | literally. |
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