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--:-- Louise Schiavone: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. There's been a significant falling out between two high-profile Republicans in Washington, President Trump and MAGA Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.
--:-- Ron Elving: Greene suspects it's because she wants the full release of FBI files related to convicted sex offender the late Jeffrey Epstein.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: NPR's Ron Elving has more.
--:-- Ron Elving: Marjorie Taylor Greene, the familiar firebrand from Georgia. She is a Republican representative in Congress and a fierce defender of the president. In multiple interviews, she has called Trump misguided in fighting the release of the Epstein files. And that, of course, has drawn Trump's ire.
--:-- Ron Elving: In a long post on True Social last night, the president called Marjorie Taylor Greene, quote, wacky, unquote, and said he was withdrawing his support of her.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: NPR Ron Elving in Washington
--:-- Giles Snyder: The House of Representatives plans to vote Tuesday on the Epstein Files question.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: President Trump continues to tinker with his tariffs policies saying Friday that his administration had done a little bit of a rollback on some foods like coffee.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Giles Snyder tells us the president is saying don't expect much more.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he was on his way to spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump seemed to downplay his executive order exempting tariffs on items such as coffee, bananas, and beef, saying he does not anticipate future rollbacks.
--:-- Giles Snyder: I don't think it'll be necessary. We just did a little bit of a rollback on some foods, like coffee, as an example, where the prices of coffee were a little bit high. Now they'll be on the low side in a very short period of time.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The exemptions, however, represent a reversal by the Trump administration after voters in this month's off-year election cited economic concerns as their top issue.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Democrats scored big wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and in other key races around the country.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The Trump administration did not send a delegation to this year's United Nations Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump has called climate change a hoax, but delegates from the state of California and other states are at COP30 anyway
--:-- Laura Clivens: Laura Clivens of member station KQED reports California Governor Gavin Newsom says there a need for state leaders to be in Brazil
--:-- Laura Clivens: I'm here because I don't want the United States of America to be a footnote at this conference.
--:-- Laura Clivens: Newsom has been signing PACs with countries and states and cities abroad on issues ranging from biodiversity to battery storage.
--:-- Laura Clivens: In a statement, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers wrote the president won't jeopardize economic and national security to, quote, pursue vague climate goals.
--:-- Laura Clivens: Governors from New Mexico and Wisconsin have also been at the events in Brazil. One of their goals is to show U.S. progress on climate despite the federal headwinds.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: For NPR News, I'm Laura Clivens.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Disability rights activist Alice Wong has died.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: The MacArthur Genius Grant winner died yesterday of an infection in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow activist Sandy Hook.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Wong was 51 years old, and PR's Chloe Veltman has this remembrance.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Alice Wong was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project. The group highlighted disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Wong also received acclaim for her 2022 memoir Year of the Tiger An Activist Life edited several works on disability and wrote a column for Teen Vogue
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Disability justice organiser Yomi Sachiko spoke about Wong in an interview earlier this year with NPR member station KQED.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Alice is my comrade in political struggle. She is my friend. She's a foodie. She's an artist. She's a bit bougie, which I love.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: Alice Wong was born in Indiana in 1974 to immigrant parents from Hong Kong.
--:-- Chloe Veltman: She was diagnosed at birth with muscular dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular disease.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Senator John Fetterman is home from the hospital two days after a fall related to a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: He'd been on an early morning walk, felt lightheaded and fell and was hospitalized in Pittsburgh.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Today in a social media post, the Pennsylvania Democrat thanked well-wishers.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: He posted a smiling photo of himself with an iced coffee saying, After 20 stitches, he had fully recovered and is home with his family.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.
