Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. House Republicans have given final approval to rescind $9 billion of previously allocated funding, including $1.1 billion intended for NPR and PBS. NPR Scott Newman has more.

The vote was 216 to 213, with all but two Republicans voting to cut funding for the corporation

for public broadcasting, which acts as a conduit for federal money directed to public radio

and TV. The funds were already allocated for 2006 and 2007. The rescission package also includes $7.9 billion in foreign aid. In a statement, NPR CEO

Catherine Marr said the cuts were, quote, an irreversible loss to the public radio system. NPR receives

only a few percent of its funding directly from the federal government, but its approximately

1,000 member stations

receive more and use some of it in turn to pay the network to air its programs.

Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.

Facing an uproar among some Republicans over the Jeffrey Epstein files, after the Department

of Justice said there is no client list, President Trump told Attorney

General Pam Bondi to produce some grand jury testimony. Such a request would require the

approval of a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, where Epstein was charged before

dying by suicide in 2019. House Speaker Mike Johnson is among those calling for the information to be made public.

I think he's been very consistent. He wants to release all credible information and evidence,

and that's in furtherance of his goal and what he stated. Meanwhile, the House last night laid

the groundwork for a possible vote, calling on the Justice Department to release material

on its investigation into Epstein, but the measure is non-binding and it hasn't been scheduled

for a vote. Trump has shifted from his previous statement of calling the files a hoax,

calling on Republicans who questioned his administration's handling of it, stupid and foolish.

Moraine is expected to drench parts of the southern U.S. into the weekend.

And here's Matt Bloom reports the remnants of a slow-moving tropical system have moved inland.

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