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Gaza health authorities say at least eight people, including children, have died from malnutrition since yesterday, a day after international experts declared a famine in North Gaza.

M. Here's Jane R.F. has more.

The IPC said food shortages, malnutrition and starvation levels in Gaza city and surrounding areas

have now reached famine levels after months of warnings. It blamed it partly on Israel blocking aid

shipments to Gaza earlier this year and a U.S. and Israeli-backed distribution system, the Gaza

Humanitarian Foundation, that it said did not qualify as

humanitarian aid. It found that aid at GHF sites was accessible for an average of only 23 minutes a day.

Israel has barred the UN's biggest provider of aid, replacing it with food delivered at limited

locations under armed guards.

Gaza Health authorities say more than 2,000 people, many of them children, have been killed around

AIDS sites. Jane Arraf, NPR News, Amman.

The Justice Department released hours of audio and a transcript of its interview with

Gieland Maxwell, the longtime associate of

convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And peers Ryan Lucas reports it's part of the Trump

administration's efforts to contain the fallout from its handling of the Epstein vials.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is President Trump's former personal attorney,

interviewed Maxwell last month in Florida.

In the transcript from that interview, Maxwell discusses many of the famous people who knew Epstein

over the years, including President Trump.

Maxwell told Blanche she never saw Trump do anything improper.

The president was never inappropriate with anybody.

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