NPR News: 07-19-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As AI permeates every aspect of our lives, who are the people behind this huge inflection point? |
| 0:05.8 | What keeps them up at night? |
| 0:07.3 | I fear that what it means to be human may suddenly not be our own. |
| 0:11.4 | We've got a special series from NPR's TED Radio Hour. |
| 0:14.4 | It's called The Profits of Technology. |
| 0:16.9 | What they got right, wrong, and where these pioneers think we're headed next. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen to the TED Radio Hour, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:29.0 | Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a formal request for a federal judge to release grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:40.3 | As NPR's Anastasia Siloukis reports, |
| 0:46.1 | President Trump is continuing to distance himself from the disgraced late financier. |
| 0:51.9 | President Trump and Attorney General Bondi have now both called for a federal judge to release grand jury testimony in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 0:55.2 | who was accused of sexually trafficking children. |
| 0:58.6 | The move comes after intense criticism from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers |
| 1:03.4 | and from rank-and-file MAGA supporters. |
| 1:06.8 | Trump denies he had any involvement in the allegations against Epstein, |
| 1:10.5 | who died in jail in 2019 |
| 1:12.8 | while awaiting trial. The president has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the |
| 1:19.3 | Wall Street Journal after the journal published a report saying that in 2003, Trump had written a |
| 1:25.3 | birthday card for Epstein that included sexually suggestive language and a lewd drawing. |
| 1:30.8 | Anastasia Zilkus and PR News, New York. |
| 1:34.5 | Around 100 people are still missing after catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill country two weeks ago. |
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