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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The House and Senate have approved a bill to force the release of government records on Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 Republicans drew their support behind the legislation after President Trump said that he would sign it.

Speaker 2 And NPR is Claudia Krusales report that that's a far different situation than when Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey began pushing for a vote on the measure.

Speaker 3 This is something that dragged out for much of the year, but then it came together rather quickly in a matter of days. But first, a little bit of background.

Speaker 3 Massey was working alongside California Democrat Roe Conna, and they started what's known as a discharge petition four months ago. It's an arcane procedure.

Speaker 3 It skips committees' leadership to force a floral vote with signatures from a simple House majority. And they hit that mark last week.

Speaker 3 And Trump fought them all the way until this past weekend when he reversed course and he saw that this looked like it was going to pass.

Speaker 2 NPR's Claudia Grusales. The U.S.
and Saudi Arabia are working on several deals as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Washington.

Speaker 2 They include a defense agreement and large Saudi investments in the U.S., as NPR's Sage Miller reports.

Speaker 4 Earlier this year, the White House announced Saudi Arabia agreed to invest $600 billion in the U.S.

Speaker 4 But during his Oval Office meeting with President Trump, Prince Mohammed said he's upping it to $1 trillion.

Speaker 4 Salman says Saudi Arabia plans to invest that money in technology, including artificial intelligence. Trump also wants Saudi Arabia to sign on to the Abraham Accords.

Speaker 4 Those agreements dating back to Trump's first term normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states. Salman says his country is interested, but there's a big obstacle.

Speaker 2 We want also to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution.

Speaker 4 The Crown Prince is referring to Palestinian statehood. Trump says the two countries will continue to discuss the possibility.
Sage Miller, NPR News.

Speaker 2 Wall Street stocks tumbled again today. As NPR Scott Horsey reports, investors are having doubts about the AI boom.

Speaker 5 Both the Dow and the NASDAQ dropped

Speaker 5 on the strength of the job market. We'll get an update on September jobs on Thursday.
That report was delayed by the government shutdown. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
U.S.

Speaker 2 futures are virtually unchanged in after-hours trading. This is NPR.

Speaker 2 A federal judge has rejected claims that social media giant Meta has committed anti-competition violations. The ruling means that Meta will not have to spin off its Instagram and WhatsApp holdings.

Speaker 2 The Federal Trade Commission sued Meta in 2020, alleging the company had created a monopoly. But U.S.

Speaker 2 District Judge James Boseberg wrote that the FTC had not proven that claim, noting that social media is still evolving and creating new competitors.

Speaker 2 Two nonprofits are suing San Jose, California, alleging the city is surveilling its residents.

Speaker 2 The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California are challenging the city's use of license plate scanners. Details from NPR's Martin Scoste.

Speaker 6 Thousands of cities have these automatic cameras that note the time and location of passing cars.

Speaker 6 But the EFF staff attorney, Lisa Femi, says they're suing San Jose because it's gone further than most.

Speaker 7 They have nearly 500 cameras that blanket the city's streets, and they retain their data for an entire year. A lot of other jurisdictions in California only retain the data for 30 days.

Speaker 6 The lawsuit says local police should get a warrant before looking a license plate up in that large a database.

Speaker 6 It cites California's Constitution, but FEMIA says warrantless license plate searches may also violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Speaker 6 Reached for a response, the San Jose Police Department says it doesn't comment on pending litigation. Martin Costi, NPR News.

Speaker 2 On Asia-Pacific markets, shares are mostly lower at this hour. This is NPR News.

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