--:-- Shea Steenens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Steenens.
--:-- Shea Steenens: The government shutdown has ended. President Trump signed a bill to reopen government last night, shortly after the House gave its final passage. Democrats held out for an extension of expiring health care tax subsidies, but won't get to debate the issue before December.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: As Stephen Fowler reports, Democrats are highlighting three emails that Epstein sent to Donald Trump.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Those three email changes that Democrats initially released, There's also another dozen or so pages they've highlighted online. They include the disgraced financier Epstein discussing Trump. In 2011, Epstein emailed Ghislaine Maxwell, his associate who has been convicted on trafficking charges, called Trump the, quote, dog that hasn't barked, and says Trump spent hours at his house with one of the alleged sex trafficking victims
--:-- Stephen Fowler: There a 2015 thread with author Michael Wolff that saw Wolff suggest Epstein could get quote valuable PR and political currency if Trump denied being on Epstein's plane or at his house, and a 2019 exchange that saw Epstein say that, quote, of course Trump knew about the girls as he asked Elaine to stop. That email does not elaborate further.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Reporting.
--:-- Shea Steenens: Congressional Democrats are warning the nation's governors that immigration officials are accessing driver's license data.
--:-- Jude Jaffe Block: More from NPR's Jude Jaffe Block. A group of 40 Democratic senators and representatives sent a letter Wednesday to 19 governors from their party urging them to block ICE's access to their residents' driver's license data and photos to stop the Trump administration from using them from what the lawmakers call, quote, unjustified politicized actions.
--:-- Jude Jaffe Block: States share their residents' driver's license data with each other and law enforcement across the U.S. and Canada through a non-profit called Endlets. The lawmakers say ICE and Homeland Security investigators have made hundreds of thousands of queries through Endlets in the past year.
--:-- Jude Jaffe Block: Five states had already blocked ICE's access. ICE did not return NPR's request for comment.
--:-- Shea Steenens: The U Mint in Philadelphia stopped making pennies
--:-- Rafael Nam: NPR Rafael Nam has details The end of this tiny little coin had already been announced by President Trump back in February Producing each penny was costing the U government nearly four cents and ending production would save the U.S. more than 50 million dollars a year.
--:-- Rafael Nam: But the move to face at the penny has been a big pain for many retailers and banks, which are struggling to provide exact After all, pennies remain legal tender, meaning that they can still be used.
--:-- Rafael Nam: Chances are, though, many of them will stay where they've probably been for years, in big jars, coffee cans, or somewhere under the cushion of your couch.
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--:-- Shea Steenens: The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago and is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy.
--:-- [Statement from the Rainbow Push Coalition]
--:-- Shea Steenens: A statement from the Rainbow Push Coalition he founded says Jackson has been managing a neurological condition for over a decade.
--:-- Shea Steenens: No word on his condition.
--:-- Shea Steenens: Tuberculosis cases have declined around the world for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health services.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: But NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports that TB is still the world's leading infectious disease killer.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: TB claimed over 1 million lives last year That an improvement And Africa in particular has made progress with deaths down 46 percent in the past decade
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: Tedros Adhanom Gabrielses heads the World Health Organization. He says there's other good news, too. For the first time in over a century, new effective TB vaccines for adolescents and adults are within reach.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: 18 TB vaccine candidates are in clinical development, but he warns that funding cuts to international aid threaten to reverse the hard-won gains.
--:-- Shea Steenens: Israel's president and high-ranking military leaders there are condemning an attack by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
--:-- Shea Steenens: Isaac Herzog says the attacks on Palestinians by a handful of perpetrators are shocking and cross a red line.
--:-- Shea Steenens: Herzog holds this largely ceremonial role in the Israeli government. His position on the West Bank violence has been largely echoed by Israel's army chief.
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