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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | He's been dead nearly six years. |
0:04.3 | But conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are stronger than ever. |
0:08.0 | Will those who believe them be satisfied by any release of information? |
0:11.8 | I'm Scott Simon. |
0:12.8 | And I'm Adrian Ma, and this is up first from NPR News. |
0:18.0 | That bottle of pain reliever on our editor's desk? Well, those bills were made in India. |
0:23.1 | Broadly speaking, we are very dependent on foreign suppliers. |
0:26.4 | Is that about to change? President Trump is pressuring drug manufacturers to start making meds in the U.S. or face tariffs. |
0:33.4 | And major changes to the federal student loan system. Some repayment plans are getting phased out. |
0:38.8 | There are limits for some new borrowers. We have details. So stay with us. We'll have the news you need to start your weekend. |
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1:00.8 | Listen in the time it takes you to do any of those other activities or while doing them. |
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1:17.1 | This week on Consider This, Tariffs are starting to fuel inflation. We track how higher costs are |
1:24.3 | winding their way through the supply chain and where you could see them. |
1:28.5 | And air traffic controllers say a Trump administration pushed to modernize their equipment won't fix deeper problems. |
1:35.8 | Here why. Unconsider this. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
1:42.5 | At President Donald Trump's direction, the Justice Department has asked a federal judge to |
1:46.8 | unseal more records related to Jeffrey Epstein, who died in custody while awaiting trial |
1:51.8 | on sex trafficking charges in 2019. |
1:54.4 | This follows new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that's renewed scrutiny on the |
1:58.6 | long-time friendship between Trump and Epstein. |
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