NPR News: 11-20-2025 12AM EST

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Speaker 2 President Trump has signed the bill to release government files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is now up to the Justice Department to share share the information with the public.
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Speaker 2 Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Speaker 3 We have released 33,000, over 33,000 Epstein documents to the Hill and will continue to follow the law and to have maximum transparency. Also, we will always encourage all victims to come forward.

Speaker 2 Some of Epstein's victims recounted their trauma ahead of Tuesday's House and Senate votes to release the files.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the Board of Open AI and taken a leave from Harvard pending a probe into his ties with Epstein.

Speaker 2 Senate Democrats boycotted Wednesday's Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on violence against immigration enforcement. NPRS Martin Costi has more.

Speaker 4 Republican Chairman John Cornyn opened the hearing by condemning what he sees as interference with ICE in cities such as Chicago.

Speaker 4 We've seen everything from straight-up thugs committing physical violence to activists dressed as dinosaurs.

Speaker 4 The ranking Democrat Alex Padilla, says he opposes any violence against law enforcement, but before walking out, he told Republicans they should have called witnesses from the Department of Homeland Security.

Speaker 4 If today's hearing was indeed a serious effort to protect our law enforcement, we would have government witnesses fielding our questions as a committee.

Speaker 4 DHS has said that death threats against ICE have increased 8,000%,

Speaker 4 but Padilla says it won't respond to his requests for the data behind that and other claims. Martin Costi, NPR News.

Speaker 2 Chip maker NVIDIA says it raked in a record $57 billion in sales in the last quarter. As NPR's John Rewich reports, the world's biggest company by market cap does not think there is an AI bubble.

Speaker 6 NVIDIA is the leader in chips used for artificial intelligence, and CEO Jensen Huang says we're now in a virtuous cycle as AI expands into more and more aspects of life.

Speaker 6 That eye popping sales figure was up 62% from the same quarter last year. The company's profits leapt 65% to nearly $32 billion.

Speaker 6 Markets have retreated in recent weeks over concerns that AI investment is overdone and there's a bubble. But Huang said NVIDIA sees something different.

Speaker 6 The way people use computers is changing, and AI is transformational. NVIDIA's strong quarter comes with the world's second-biggest economy, still essentially off-limits.
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Speaker 6 government has blocked chip makers from selling high-end chips to China amid festering trade tensions. John Rewich, NPR News.

Speaker 2 The Labor Department says its report on hiring in September will be available on Thursday.

Speaker 2 The department says a partial report on October hiring will be released along with the full November jobs report

Speaker 2 in mid-December.

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Speaker 2 A federal judge is raising more questions about how the Justice Department brought its case against former FBI Director James Comey. The full grand jury did not review a copy of the final indictment.

Speaker 2 Comey is asking the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds that the prosecutor is inexperienced and that his indictment is vindictive.

Speaker 2 Comey pleaded not guilty to obstruction and lying to Congress during a probe of his investigation into potential ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

Speaker 2 According to a spokeswoman, former President Joe Biden will attend Thursday's memorial for former Vice President Dick Cheney. It's unclear whether President Trump will attend the ceremony.

Speaker 2 Cheney died on November 3rd following complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. He was 84.

Speaker 2 The movie Wicked for Good about the Wicked Witch of the West is expected to be one of the year's biggest blockbusters when it opens this weekend.

Speaker 2 NPR's Netta Ulibi reports that some fans of the film are self-identified witches.

Speaker 7 In the wicked movies, The Witch is the good guy. I'm off to see the wizard.
The first Wicked movie was the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2024, and advanced sales are brisk for the second one.

Speaker 7 Wicked super fans include two self-identified witches at a recent witch-themed street festival in Wayne, Michigan. It's just a beautiful film, and I'm very excited to see the second one.

Speaker 4 We're gonna have to go together.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we should go together. Tiffany Walker and her friend, who calls herself Mama Rainbow, say Wicked is a film that finally gives witches a fair shake.

Speaker 2 Netta Ulabi reporting. This is NPR.

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