New Epstein Documents, SCOTUS National Guard, GDP Growth
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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Summary
The Justice Department released about 30,000 pages of new documents related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration to block the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area. And, the U.S. economy grew faster than economists had predicted, in July through September.
(00:00) Introduction
(02:17) New Epstein Documents
(06:15) SCOTUS National Guard
(10:00) GDP Growth
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| 0:25.4 | 30,000 additional pages show evidence the U.S. gathered about Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:31.7 | The latest documents name famous people, including President Trump, who spoke again about guilt by association. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Steven Skiy with Lela Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:44.2 | The Supreme Court blocked the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area. |
| 0:49.3 | The interim ruling said the president failed to cite any law to justify its action. It's difficult to see how any lower courts would be able to uphold a deployment under this law in the future. |
| 0:58.8 | Also, how does the U.S. economy keep on growing? |
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| 1:29.8 | Join millions of customers and visit Wise.com. T's and C's apply. Days after a legal deadline, the Justice Department is still releasing files related to |
| 1:36.1 | Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, the Trump administration is responding to an act of Congress that required it |
| 1:41.7 | to make public every possible document about the sex offender who died in 2019. |
| 1:47.9 | The latest batch includes 30,000 pages, including references to famous people and also a letter that the government says is fake. |
| 1:56.0 | We're going to talk it through with NPR political correspondent, Sarah McCammon. Sarah, good morning. |
| 2:00.6 | Good morning, Steve. |
| 2:01.9 | Okay, so let's, there's some questionable documents here, but what in this batch appears to be |
| 2:06.8 | true? These documents continue to reveal just how well-connected Epstein was to people from President |
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