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podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Department of Justice has

asked a federal court to unseal the grand jury transcripts in the case of Jeffrey Epstein.

The convicted sex offender returned to the spotlight in recent weeks, six years after he died by suicide in jail.

NPR's Ryan Lucas reports there had been growing calls to make the documents public.

To a certain extent, it's because Trump and some of his top lieutenants now, including FBI

Director Cash Patel, have themselves over the years push some of the conspiracy theories

that we've heard around Epstein. So they set certain expectations about the Epstein files. And by that,

I mean expectations of what's in the files as well as expectations for transparency.

That's NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting.

The House voted on Thursday to take back billions of dollars in funding from public

broadcasting and foreign aid programs.

It was money that was already allocated by Congress.

NPR's Frank Langford reports, dozens of rural

community radio stations are now facing major holes in their budgets.

Allegheny Mountain Radio provides everything from local government news to information about

lost pets in an area where phone and internet is sometimes non-existent. It also gets up to 65% of its

budget from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Scott Smith is Allegheny Mountains general

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