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--:-- Dave Mattingly: President Trump is encouraging House Republicans to vote in support of the Justice Department releasing all of its case files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: A vote in the House is expected this week after a discharge petition backed by Democrats and some Republicans forced lawmakers to take action.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Writing on Truth Social yesterday, Trump called the Epstein files a Democrat hoax, adding, we have nothing to hide.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The president was asked about the release of the files by reporters last night as he was heading back to Washington, D.C. from Palm Beach, Florida.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: They're using Jeffrey Epstein as a deflection from the tremendous success that we're having as a party.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: House Speaker Mike Johnson said last week he would bring the measure to the floor.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Trump's name is mentioned in at least three Epstein emails.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The Federal Aviation Administration is lifting restrictions on flight capacity at dozens of major airports across the U.S.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: They include airports in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and New York.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The FAA says the restriction was a safety measure resulting from the government shutdown, which ended last week after 43 days.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: NPR's Marie Andrusovich has more.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Brian Bedford announced the end of the emergency order on Sunday.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: Adding that all normal operations can resume across the nation's airspace.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: Flight traffic had been reduced at 40 of the nation's busiest airports as a result of safety concerns related to staffing shortages.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: Air traffic controllers had been working without pay since October 1st.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: Absent workers started returning as a deal was reached to reopen the government.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: The emergency order was put in place on November 7th and led to thousands of flight delays and cancellations.
--:-- Marie Andrusovich: The FAA says it's reviewing reports that some carriers weren't complying with the order.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group is now in the Caribbean amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela over drug trafficking.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: NPR's Joe Hernandez reports.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: The USS Gerald R Ford was commissioned in 2017 and only left on its first combat deployment two years ago.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: It's part of a new class of advanced aircraft carriers being built for the United States military.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: The Ford has a number of technological advancements, including an electromagnetic system for launching aircraft.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: It also has a higher price tag than its predecessors, topping $13 billion, according to the Navy.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: The strike group it leads arrived in the Caribbean on Sunday as part of a growing effort to put pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
--:-- Joe Hernandez: But it's still unclear if the Trump administration is planning any military action against the country.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote today on a resolution drafted by the U.S. endorsing President Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: One of the main points is the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as Linda Fasulo explains.
--:-- Linda Fasulo: The U.S. draft resolution endorses the comprehensive plan, welcomes the creation of a Trump-headed Board of Peace as a transitional governance administration in Gaza.
--:-- Linda Fasulo: And authorizes it to set up a temporary international stabilization force in Gaza through 2027.
--:-- Linda Fasulo: The so-called ISF would use all necessary measures to secure border areas, protect civilians, and decommission weapons from Hamas.
--:-- Linda Fasulo: The plan mentions a path to a Palestinian state if certain conditions are met.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: New research shows as children get older, their brains become more attuned to the sounds of speech.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: NPR's John Hamilton reports from the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
--:-- John Hamilton: Researchers studied the brains of 51 children and young adults as they watched a movie clip that contained both music and dialogue.
--:-- John Hamilton: Liberty Hamilton of the University of California, Berkeley, says the brain response changed with age.
--:-- John Hamilton: As individuals get older, the brain is showing this emerging preference for speech over music.
--:-- John Hamilton: In young children, music and speech caused about the same level of response in the brain.
--:-- John Hamilton: But by adolescence, speech was getting much more attention.
--:-- John Hamilton: Hamilton says the research could explain why children with conditions including ADHD have more difficulty focusing on speech in a noisy environment.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News, in Washington.
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