Lawmakers Call For Epstein Files, Trump's Crypto Token, China's Military Parade
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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Members of Congress are trying to force a vote to make the Trump administration release more of the Epstein files. The cryptocurrency World Liberty Financial co-founded by the President and his sons started trading publicly this week. And, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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| 0:00.0 | Women who say they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein want the government to release more information about the convicted sex offender. |
| 0:08.8 | It's a human rights issue, you know, to get justice. |
| 0:12.8 | What do they hope to learn? |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Michelle Martin. That's Steven Ski, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.7 | The Trump family's cryptocurrency is now publicly traded. |
| 0:24.4 | The launch added $5 billion to the Trump family wealth. |
| 0:28.0 | Why would people invest so much? |
| 0:29.9 | Is this the kind of money that somebody wanting to influence the president would want to invest in? |
| 0:36.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:37.2 | Also, China held a military parade to mark the 80th |
| 0:40.4 | anniversary of the end of World War II, and that allowed China rather than America to pose as a |
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