NPR News: 11-20-2025 7AM EST

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, President Trump announced last night that he has signed a bill compelling the Justice Department to release its case files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 NPR Stephen Fowler reports on what comes next.

Speaker 3 Within 30 days, the Attorney General is supposed to make documents available that relate to Epstein as well as his accomplice, Ghillene Maxwell.

Speaker 3 That includes travel records, individuals named or referenced in connection with Epstein's criminal activities, information about plea deals and decisions not to charge Epstein and his death by suicide.

Speaker 3 But some things won't be made public, like pictures and videos of Epstein's victims, and anything that's determined to jeopardize a federal investigation could be redacted too, which is relevant since Trump has called for investigating Democrats that have been mentioned in files related to Epstein.

Speaker 3 Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

Speaker 2 A federal judge has resumed his probe. He wants to know who in the Trump administration ignored his order last spring to turn back planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to Central America.

Speaker 2 And Piers Adrian Florido reports Judge James Boesberg's contempt inquiry could lead to criminal prosecution.

Speaker 4 Boesberg of the Federal District Court for D.C. had put his criminal contempt inquiry on hold while the Trump administration filed appeals.

Speaker 4 After an appeals court gave him the green light, he says he could start calling government officials to testify as soon as December 1st.

Speaker 4 Earlier this year, Bozberg ruled that the Trump administration had purposely defied an order he issued during an emergency hearing in March that it turn back planes carrying Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.

Speaker 4 He said he would find out who had ignored that order and hold them accountable. He has said he could go as far as appointing a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges.
Adrian Flarido, NPR News.

Speaker 2 A wave of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last night killed more than 30 people, most of them women and children. That's according to Gaza's health ministry.
Around 80 other people were wounded.

Speaker 2 NPR's Aya Batraoui reports this marks one of the deadliest nights in Gaza since the start of the Sheikhi ceasefire last month.

Speaker 5 Israel's military says gunmen opened fire at its forces in an area of southern Gaza still occupied by soldiers.

Speaker 5 Although the military says no soldiers were wounded, it launched deadly airstrikes targeting homes and shelters in north and south Gaza.

Speaker 5 Hamas says it rejects Israel's claims that its forces were fired upon, calling it a, quote, flimsy and transparent attempt at justifying its bombardment.

Speaker 5 Gaza civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal says a family of five was killed in one attack.

Speaker 5 In a video from last night, he's seen carrying the lifeless body of a young girl with pigtails, covered in debris, from that family.

Speaker 5 When will these scenes in Gaza end? When will the killing of our children stop? He says. Ayya Batrawi NPR News, Dubai.

Speaker 2 The White House says President Trump will meet with former Israeli hostages and their families today. The meeting will be held at the White House this afternoon.

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Speaker 2 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says new cases of botulism have been found in babies. 31 babies have been sickened and all were hospitalized.
No deaths are reported.

Speaker 2 The illnesses have been associated with a baby formula produced by the company Buy Heart. Officials at Buy Heart have recalled all their products.
In pre-market trading, Dow futures are booming.

Speaker 2 This comes after chip maker NVIDIA reported strong sales and earnings numbers. NPR's Maria Aspen reports, NVIDIA says it made another $32 billion in profit in the latest quarter.

Speaker 6 NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world. It sells the semiconductors that are powering the AI boom, and it's making gobs of money.

Speaker 6 But for all the billions of dollars that tech companies are investing in AI, they're not seeing a lot of payoff yet. Now more top investors and CEOs are warning that the AI bubble is due to burst.

Speaker 6 That's a problem for the stock market, which has been hitting record highs thanks to tech stocks, despite lots of other economic uncertainty.

Speaker 6 Tariffs are cutting into company profits, consumer prices are rising, and the jobs market is weakening.

Speaker 6 Investors will get a delayed government update on employment, but in the meantime, they celebrated NVIDIA's blockbuster report card. Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York.

Speaker 2 One of Indonesia's volcanoes is erupting. Hundreds of people have been evacuated away from Mount Simaru on the island of Java.
Indonesian authorities had to rescue more than 170 mountain climbers.

Speaker 2 They were stranded by the eruption. This is NPR.

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