White House to release Epstein files
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has signed a bill that gives the US Justice Department thirty days to release its files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the documents could be withheld or heavily redacted. Also: Silicon Valley's Nvidia sees record earnings amid AI boom; Israel conducts major airstrikes in Gaza despite ceasefire; FBI intensifies search for "modern day Pablo Escobar"; Colombia pushes ahead with controversial airstrikes on rebel groups; Ukrainian suspect faces extradition in Nord Stream investigation; the philanthropists filling the gap left by USAID withdrawal; and Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer goes under the hammer.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of the 20th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.8 | I have just signed the bill to release the Epstein files, President Trump's post-marking a U-turn in the controversy that won't go away. |
| 0:25.3 | A 62% year-on-year quarterly rise in profits for the USAI chipmaker NVIDIA |
| 0:31.2 | has wowed the tech world, |
| 0:33.0 | and Colombia vows to press on with deadly airstrikes in its fight against rebel groups. |
| 0:41.4 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | There might have been $6 million sitting there. |
| 0:46.3 | Six million. |
| 0:47.7 | Six million. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.9 | And I had no idea. |
| 0:50.3 | So I said, it's now or never. |
| 0:52.6 | I might as well start spending this money, just spend it. |
| 0:55.2 | The anonymous international development donors stepping up where Washington has stepped down. |
| 1:01.1 | And the hunt for Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder now suspected of being a dangerous drug kingpin. |
| 1:13.5 | President Trump has posted on social media, in all capitals, I have just signed the bill to release |
| 1:19.5 | the Epstein files. The US Justice Department now has 30 days to release all of its documents |
| 1:26.3 | on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:28.8 | Here's our North America correspondent, David Wurice. |
| 1:31.9 | The big question now is how many of the files will be released. |
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