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--:-- Dale Willman: Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
--:-- Dale Willman: President Trump now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because he says Republicans have nothing to hide. In a social media post Sunday night, he again called the issue a Democrat hoax intended to deflect from the great success of the Republican Party.
--:-- Dale Willman: As MPR's Lou Gehrig reports, the president's announcement came after lawmakers gathered enough support to take steps to move forward with the release.
--:-- Lou Gehrig: Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky helped gather the 218 signatures needed to force the vote.
--:-- Lou Gehrig: On ABC News, Massey cautions his fellow Republicans that this ballot record will live on beyond President Trump. In 2030, he's not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release these files, and the president can't protect you.
--:-- Dale Willman: Trump called Massey a loser. That's NPR's Luke Garrett.
--:-- Luke Garrett: Several Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state NPR Kat Lonsdorf reports.
--:-- Kat Lonsdorf: Speaking at a government meeting Netanyahu reiterated his stance against Palestinian independence Our opposition to a Palestinian state on any territory has not changed whatsoever he said.
--:-- Kat Lonsdorf: The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a U.S. drafted resolution for an international stabilization force in Gaza as part of President Trump's 20-point peace plan that went into effect last month.
--:-- Kat Lonsdorf: Part of that resolution includes language that leaves the door open for Palestinian statehood, something insisted on by many of the countries expected to contribute troops to the stabilization force.
--:-- Kat Lonsdorf: Netanyahu and many Israeli leaders have long opposed statehood, saying it would be a reward for Hamas.
--:-- Dale Willman: Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Dale Willman: Ukraine is working on resuming prisoner exchanges with Russia. As NPR's Polina Litvinova reports, the efforts could result in the return of 1,200 prisoners.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Rustom Umerov, announced that he has had consultations with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on the resumption of the POW's exchanges between Ukraine and Russia.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: In his post on social media, Umerov wrote, this would help to activate the agreements the two countries made during the direct talks in Istanbul.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: Ukraine hopes to return home more than 1 people before Christmas The last prisoner exchange was in October So far such swaps are the only progress Ukraine and Russia have achieved since their direct negotiations renewed in spring.
--:-- Dale Willman: Polina Litvinova, NPR News, Kyiv.
--:-- Dale Willman: The Department of State says it will designate Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization later this month. The Trump administration claims the cartel is led by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking officials.
--:-- Dale Willman: In a news release, the State Department said Maduro does not represent Venezuela's government.
--:-- Dale Willman: The designation comes as the U.S. has increased its military presence off Venezuela's coast.
--:-- Dale Willman: You're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: In Asia, the Nikkei index dropped two-tenths of a percent in trading Monday after China cautioned citizens against visiting Japan.
--:-- Dale Willman: Tourism and retail stocks were hardest hit. Two retail stocks dropped 10 percent.
--:-- Dale Willman: S&P 500 futures, meanwhile, were up by four-tenths of a percent, while Nasdaq futures rose seven-tenths.
--:-- Dale Willman: European and FTSE futures fell about one-tenth of a percent.
--:-- Dale Willman: An AI safety expert is warning that Character AI's plan to ban chatbots for kids should be rolled out more carefully He says it would protect the teens who developed relationships with the bots
--:-- April Demboski: April Demboski of member station KQED has our reports
--:-- April Demboski: Character AI says its ban on chatbots for youth under 18 will take full effect on November 25th
--:-- April Demboski: UC Berkeley bioethics professor Jody Halpern celebrated the move, but wants parents to know the weeks after separation from an AI companion could be a vulnerable time for self-harm or suicidal thinking.
--:-- April Demboski: Parents do not realize that their kids love these bots and that they might feel like their best friend just died or their boyfriend just died.
--:-- April Demboski: Character AI said the company is moving slowly and has communicated the upcoming changes widely on its app, Reddit and Discord, so kids would have time to adjust to the new paradigm.
--:-- Dale Willman: For NPR News, I'm April Domboski in San Francisco.
--:-- Dale Willman: An auction in Germany offering artifacts from the Holocaust for sale has been canceled. The auction was to include letters from concentration camp prisoners, as well as other documents.
--:-- Dale Willman: A Holocaust survivors group has called the cancellation and described the auction as cynical.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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