Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

Congress has passed a bill to force the Justice Department to release all of its files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days.

It now heads to President Trump's desk. Here's Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley.

Let's together push the president to release these files immediately. They've had

plenty of time to redact the names. Let's see no further administrative delays or cleverness.

And let the chips fall where they may. May there be justice for the victims. May there be

accountable, accountability for the perpetrators.

The bill is a rare win for Republicans willing to defy Trump on an issue that is deeply divided

the party. He campaigned on releasing the files, then opposed it, and then finally over the weekend

urged his party to vote in favor of it. President Trump welcomed Saudi crown prince

Mohammed bin Salman to the White

House today. It's his first Washington visit since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist

Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents. U.S. intelligence determined the crown prince approved the

operation. Trump dismissed questions to bin Salman about Khashoggi's killing, saying the

journalist was, quote, controversial. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben explains.

Even before Khashoggi came up, at the start of the meeting, Trump praised the crown prince

on his human rights record. And then, when a reporter asked about Khashoggi, as you heard,

President Trump got angry and,

shockingly, didn't condemn the killing and dismemberment of a journalist from an American news outlet.

Rather, Trump called Khashoggi, who was Saudi, controversial.

Now, the crown prince did answer after that, and he said the killing was a painful incident and that his country has taken steps to make sure nothing like that will ever happen again.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben, stocks tumbled again today with the Dow falling nearly 500 points.

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