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Here are some of today's headlines from the Los Angeles Times.

The Senate has approved President Trump's mega bill with a single tie-breaking vote cast by

Vice President J.D. Vance. Michael Wilner reports that all Democrats and three Republicans voted

against the bill, which extends tax cuts and changes Medicaid eligibility rules. It will now

head to the House of Representatives, where a second vote will decide if it goes

to the president to be signed into law.

Wilner says approval in the House isn't guaranteed because Republican lawmakers may vote

against the bill to protect Medicaid programs in their states.

The Congressional Budget Office expects the bill to add $4 trillion to the national debt

if passed in its current state.

There's still confusion weeks after Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the FBI was reviewing

tens of thousands of videos of Jeffrey Epstein with children or child porn.

Reporters Eric Tucker and Alana Durkin Richer detail how lawyers and law enforcement officials

who worked on the Epstein and Galane Maxwell cases never saw or knew about the alleged recordings.

They say if those videos existed, they could have helped support a child sex abuse material charge

against Epstein and his former girlfriend. The Justice Department didn't say

whether Bondi was talking about videos or photos flagged as possible child sex abuse material in a

23 legal filing related to Epstein's estate. Bondi's comments have added pressure to release more

details about the case, which has drawn widespread attention.

Conspiracy theorists have been especially focused on it because of Epstein's high-profile

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