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WSJ What’s News

U.S. Government Reopens, But Slowly

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Nov. 13. The U.S. government is back in business, but as WSJ’s Ken Thomas explains, don’t expect things to run at full tilt just yet. Plus, Democrats release a tranche of new emails from Jeffrey Epstein, in which the late financier discussed Donald Trump. And, WSJ’s Stu Woo details how a Chinese AI company worked around U.S. rules to access Nvidia’s highly coveted chips. Caitlin McCabe hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

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0:18.0

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0:23.6

HelloVet.

0:29.5

The US government is back in business, but don't expect things to run at full tilt just yet.

0:36.7

Plus, Democrats release new emails from Jeffrey Epstein in which the late financier discussed

0:42.5

Donald Trump.

0:44.3

And we explore how a Chinese AI company worked around U.S. rules to access NVIDIA's top

0:50.3

chips.

0:51.3

Directly sending those chips to China, not allowed.

0:54.3

But there is this gray area.

0:56.1

What if they're sent to a third country, like Indonesia, can a Chinese company access those

1:01.2

chips there?

1:02.2

And it turns out that in many cases, yes, they can do that totally legally.

1:06.6

It's Thursday, November 13th.

1:08.1

I'm Caitlin McCabe for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition

1:11.3

of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:21.9

The U.S. government is officially reopened after being closed for a record long 43 days. The Republican-led House

1:29.8

passed a spending package late yesterday that extends funding for the federal government through

1:34.2

January, after which President Trump signed it into law. The bill package passed yesterday

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