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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The government is being reopened after President Trump signed a newly passed bill to end the shutdown. The Democratic stalemate over extending health insurance subsidies will soon expire, ended when seven Democrats and one independent sided with Senate Republicans.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Trump calls the shutdown attempted extortion by Democrats. So I just want to tell the American people you should not forget this. When we come up to midterms and other things, don't forget what they've done to our country.
--:-- Shea Stevens: I also want to call for a termination to the filibuster so that this can never happen again.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Trump also says he's calling for direct payments to replace subsidies for people getting health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, which is also called Obamacare.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva has been sworn in as the newest member of Congress. Grijalva won a special election in September to succeed her late father in the U House but was not seated until now.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: As NPR Sam Greenglass reports she now has provided the last signature needed to force a House vote on releasing the so-called Epstein files.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: House Speaker Mike Johnson administered the oath after weeks of declining to seat Grijalva while the House was not in session. 50 days that over 800,000 Arizonans have been left without access to the basic services that every constituent deserves.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: And for weeks, a special petition had been one vote short. That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: The files have come back to the forefront after House Democrats released emails suggesting President Trump knew about the sexual abuse Epstein was committing.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: The White House says the emails prove Trump did nothing wrong.
--:-- Sam Greenglass: Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: European nations are expressing concerns over the Pentagon's military buildup in the Caribbean. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that no one mentioned it to him during the G7 meeting in Canada.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: More from NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Wrapping up his two-day visit to Canada, Secretary Rubio brushed off reports that the U.K. is withholding certain intelligence from the U.S. because of concerns about deadly strikes on alleged drug boats from Venezuela.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: We have very strong partnerships with the U and other countries. Again, nothing has changed or happened that has impeded in any way our ability to do what we're doing nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing in any realm, and that includes military.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Rubio says the U.S. has plenty of military assets in the region that can collect intelligence for what he calls a counter-narcotics campaign, and he says this issue never came up during his meetings with other G7 foreign ministers.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: Wall Street stocks closed mixed Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrials gaining 326 points to close at a new record high of 48,254.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: The head of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta says he's retiring when his term ends in February.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Rafael Bostic's departure opens up a seat on the Fed's Interest Rate Setting Committee as President Trump pressures the central bank to lower interest rates.
--:-- Shea Stevens: President Trump is calling for pardon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
--:-- Shea Stevens: In a letter to Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Trump calls the corruption case against Netanyahu unjustified prosecution.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Last month Netanyahu appeared in court as part of his trial on Israeli charges of fraud, bribery, and breach of trust.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The International Criminal Court is accusing him of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Netanyahu has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: The International Energy Agency has released its closely watched World Energy Outlook, a data-driven look at the planet's future energy use.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: In it, NPR's Camilla Domenoski reports that the agency lays out sharply divergent views.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: The World Energy Outlook is not a forecast. It lays out several scenarios, but Director Fatih Birol says one thing is clear.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: We can comfortably say that the age of electricity has arrived.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: Electricity demand booms in all scenarios, thanks to electric vehicles, AI, and air conditioning.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: Natural gas grows while oil either grows or levels off, based mostly on how quickly electric vehicles take off.
--:-- Camilla Domenoski: The varying scenarios see different degrees of global warming, but in all of them, the world exceeds the globally agreed target of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
