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NPR News: 07-29-2025 4PM EDT

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's Ian from How to Do Everything. On our show, we attempt to answer your how to questions. We don't know how to do anything. So we call experts. Last season, both Tom Hanks and Martha Stewart stopped by to help. Our next season is launching in just a few months. So get us your questions now by emailing how to at npr.org or calling 1-800-424-2935.

0:25.3

Live from NPR news, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

0:28.8

President Trump's on his way home from Scotland.

0:31.2

On Air Force One, he fielded questions about his falling out with Jeffrey Epstein, the

0:36.0

disgrace financier who was charged with sex trafficking,

0:39.5

young women, and teens. Epstein died by suicide while in federal custody ahead of trial

0:44.1

and has been the focus of conspiracy theories ever since. Here's NPR's Tamara Keith.

0:49.0

Trump had been friends with Epstein before the sex trafficking allegations came to light.

0:53.9

He says the friendship soured over

0:55.7

Epstein poaching staff from his Mar-a-Lago resort. On Air Force One, reporters pressed for more details,

1:03.1

asking if those employees had been young women. The answer is yes, they were. Yes, they were young women.

1:09.2

What did they do? In the spot. People that work in the spa. I have a great spa. One of the best

1:14.5

spas in the world at Marilago. And people were taken out of the spa hired by him. In other words, gone.

1:22.2

Trump said he told Epstein to stop taking his employees. And when he did it again, quote,

1:53.6

I said, out of here. Tamara Keith, NPR News. Many customers may be girding themselves for the blanket tariffs on many imports set to take effect Friday. That is going to mean higher prices for consumers. NPR's got hoarsely. And we're starting to see that. It didn't, it didn't show up immediately in the consumer price index, but index, but we're starting to see it in things like toys and appliances and furniture that we import a lot of, and we'll likely see more of those cost increases in the months to come.

2:01.4

NPR Scott Horsley reporting, fewer than one third of people in the U.S. approve of Israel's military action in Gaza, according to a new poll from Gallup. That's a new low since the war began in 2023. Here's NPR's Catlon Store.

2:06.4

The findings are from polling done earlier this month, as reports and images of Palestinians in Gaza

2:11.3

starving after months of an Israeli blockade on aid into the enclave, flooded American media.

2:16.9

Gallup found about half of Americans

2:18.5

initially supported Israel's military action in Gaza in the weeks after the October 2023 Hamaslet

2:24.2

attack on southern Israel. But disapproval has outpaced approval in every survey since, now at 60

2:30.5

percent in all-time high. Approval is sharply felt along party lines.

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