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Coming up, the Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health.

But climate change is documented as already killing more than 600 people just in the Northwest during our 2021 heat wave. This is the week the Trump administration

rewrote how the U.S. attacks climate change. Our environment reporter explains what's going on

in a bit. But first, here are today's top stories. It's Thursday, February 12th. U.S. Congresswoman

Pramilla Jaya Paul says U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is turning the Department of Justice into a revenge unit.

The Washington State Democrat grilled A.G. Bondi in yesterday's congressional hearing. Representative

Jayapal told NPR's morning edition that the attorney general broke the law known as the Epsteinstein Files Transparency Act when the Justice Department chose to redact certain information from the files.

So I wanted to get her answer about why she was violating, allowing the violation of the law in both these instances, the non-redaction of that personal information of survivors

and then the redaction of powerful people that she seemed to be protecting.

She didn't want to answer that question.

Bondi responded to the questioning by accusing Jayapal of engaging in, quote, gutter politics.

But Jayapal says the Attorney General's

acting as the president's personal attorney, and she believes there's a cover-up happening

around the Epstein files. An immigration update, federal immigration enforcement agents will

no longer be permitted on King County properties that are not typically open to the public,

including parking lots, buildings, and garages. That from an executive order issued by King

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