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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiavone. |
| 0:04.6 | A federal judge has issued a ruling ordering that a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father being held in a detention center be released. |
| 0:13.5 | Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more. |
| 0:16.0 | The ruling by U.S. District Judge Fred Beery was a harsh rebuke of the Trump administration and ordered the |
| 0:22.1 | release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Alexander Conejo Arias. The two were |
| 0:28.4 | detained in Minnesota by immigration officials. Local school officials and the young boy's mother |
| 0:32.9 | say he was used as bait to get her to open the door of their home. They were taken to a detention center |
| 0:38.5 | about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio. Last Wednesday, protests erupted outside the facility, |
| 0:44.9 | and two protesters were arrested. Judge Beery accused the Trump administration of ignoring |
| 0:49.6 | the Declaration of Independence and, quote, traumatizing children. The order requires the pair's |
| 0:55.2 | release to a public place no later than Tuesday. I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio. |
| 1:00.8 | The latest batch of Epstein files includes new details about powerful people that were in the |
| 1:06.8 | Epstein orbit. And PR Stephen Fowler explains. Stron among the new files are conversations |
| 1:12.3 | with high-profile figures that are deeper and in some cases more recent than we knew before. |
| 1:17.8 | People like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, even President Trump's new Federal Reserve chair pick |
| 1:22.5 | Kevin Warsh shows up on an invite list to a Christmas gathering in 2010. Being mentioned in the vials are not indications of wrongdoing or association with Epstein's crimes, |
| 1:32.5 | but victims of Epstein's abuse have expressed frustration that those who are involved remain hidden, |
| 1:38.1 | while some of their information is exposed in these files. |
| 1:41.4 | With 3 million new pages released, much remains to explore from Epstein's |
| 1:45.5 | private emails, financial documents, and other communications that widened the web of Epstein's |
| 1:50.3 | associates. Stephen Fowler, NPR News. Israel carried out a new wave of strikes on Gaza today, |
| 1:57.3 | killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, the attacks come |
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