--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to hold a vote next week on a measure requiring the Justice Department to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The House Oversight Committee has already released tens of thousands of Epstein documents. They've propelled Democratic allegations that President Trump knew more about Epstein's sex crimes than he's let on, a claim that President Trump has strongly denied.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: And Pierre spoke with Democratic California Congressman Ro Khanna about the upcoming vote.
--:-- Pierre: First of all, we may get a veto-proof vote in the House. You could get that in the Senate, and it will put such incredible pressure for the MAGA base to be voting against the president. That has never happened in his first term or second term.
--:-- Pierre: Epstein died in jail in 2019, authorities say, by suicide after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged him with sex trafficking minors. He was accused of crimes in New York and Florida involving dozens of victims.
--:-- Pierre: His accomplice and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for sex trafficking.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Federal aviation officials say temporary flight reductions will remain at 6 percent because more air traffic controllers are coming to work.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: NPR's Joel Rose reports it may take several days before commercial aviation returns to normal following the government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: The reductions in air traffic at dozens of major airports had been slated to rise to 10 percent by Friday. Instead, the Department of Transportation says they will stay at 6 percent because more air traffic controllers are showing up for work.
--:-- Joel Rose: The Federal Aviation Administration has said the cuts were necessary to keep the airspace safe, as the agency grappled with a staffing shortage of air traffic controllers during the federal government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: Some air traffic controllers took on second jobs and many called in sick.
--:-- Joel Rose: With the shutdown now over, airlines are preparing to ramp back up to full schedules.
--:-- Joel Rose: Aviation regulators say that will happen when safety data improves, but they have not given any timetable.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Google says it's suing an organization that it claims enables phishing and text scammers.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: More from NPR's John Riewicz.
--:-- John Riewicz: Google is targeting an enterprise it calls Lighthouse. In a court filing it describes it as a well criminal group that creates and distributes software and support for would cyber criminals.
--:-- John Riewicz: Basically it helps them make phony phishing websites and hook victims with texts Lighthouse is based in China and Google says it does not actually know the names of the people involved.
--:-- John Riewicz: Instead, the company is seeking a court injunction to help it dismantle the Lighthouse enterprise from the outside in, targeting other companies or entities that might be facilitating Lighthouse.
--:-- John Riewicz: Google says its logo is on many websites and website templates created by Lighthouse, and that undermines user trust in Google.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Major market indices are down 1 percent to more than 2 percent, the Dow falling nearly 500 points.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: From Washington, it's NPR News.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: People across Bangladesh have been bracing for protests today in support of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Her now-banned party called for a lockdown to protest Hasina's pending trial on charges linked to a crackdown on a student-led uprising last year, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Security was heightened nationwide in the event of more political violence over Hasina who is exiled in India Bangladesh interim leader is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The Pleiades star cluster turns out to be part of a larger complex of stars that stretches across the night sky.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports astronomers say these stars were all born in the same cloud of dust and gas about 100 million years ago.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: The Pleiades is also known as the Seven sisters. But even if you look with just binoculars, this cluster clearly contains a lot more than seven stars.
--:-- Nell Greenfield-Boyce: Luke Bauma is with Carnegie Science in Pasadena, California.
--:-- Luke Bauma: When you look at the core of the plies, it's sort of like looking at the tip of an iceberg, right? You only see the top of something that's much more massive and in this case distributed over the night sky.
--:-- Luke Bauma: He and some colleagues use data from three different observatories to trace the motion and chemical compositions of stars, letting them find more than 3,000 related stars that have similar ages and makeups and that used to be closer together.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.
