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NPR | By Sacha Pfeiffer,

Michel Martin

Published July 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM EDT

The White House is under pressure to release documents from the the Jeffrey Epstein case, Columbia agrees to pay over $200 million in federal settlement, Trump's new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies.

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