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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the White House task force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching development in a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein’s abuse for a public reckoning. Both the House and Senate passed the bill this week with overwhelming margins after Trump…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appealed a ruling that blocked the state from using a voting map designed to give Republicans an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: A federal court in Texas dealt a blow to President Trump’s effort to reshape the midterm elections in favor of Republicans. A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked the redistricting that Texas Republicans passed this summer. They were aiming to improve the GOP’s chances of winning five more seats in the U.S. House, where Republicans have just a narrow majority. We’re going to talk more about this. We’re joined by…

After cutting ties with the Heritage Foundation, an antisemitism task force formed to address what they described as left-wing antisemitism has reformed independently and broadened its focus. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Conservatives are regrouping after a task force set up to fight antisemitism announced it was cutting ties with the influential conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. The foundation’s president is facing criticism for defending Tucker Carlson after he hosted far-right influencer, white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The antisemitism task force met publicly Tuesday for the first time since the split happened about two weeks ago. NPR…

The staff of Chicago Women in Trades lead a parade of female construction workers at the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in Chicago on Sept. 20, 2025. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR CHICAGO — On a warm fall day, thousands of female construction workers joined a mile-long parade, joyously celebrating gains they’ve made in an industry still dominated by men. It was the marquee event of the annual Tradeswomen Build Nations conference. The women marched, sang and rang cowbells, proudly sporting their union t-shirts and carrying banners announcing their trades: plumbing, pipefitting, roofing, drywall finishing and many more.…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), joined by fellow House Democrats, speaks on the House steps on Nov. 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Heading into the 2026 midterm elections, there are some very big warning signs for Republicans in the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. The survey of 1,443 adults, conducted from Nov. 10-13 found: Democrats holding their largest advantage, 14 points, since 2017 on the question of who respondents would vote for if the midterm elections were held today;President Trump’s approval rating is just 39%, his lowest since right after…

Ad Policy Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during the press conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act with the Epstein abuse survivors in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2025. (Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images) After almost a year of Trump stonewalling about the Epstein files, Republicans in the House finally took a stand against him. More than a hundred Republican members were prepared to vote for releasing the files. Facing a dramatic defeat, on Sunday night Trump caved, and on Tuesday the vote in the House was nearly unanimous. John Nichols has our analysis. Also: The Americans who…

The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would compel the Department of Justice to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In a watershed moment on Capitol Hill, both the House and Senate approved a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Nearly every House member voted yes, and then hours later, the Senate set up a process to unanimously approve it. The rapid-fire progress is a far cry from when Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie began pushing for the bill months ago.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)THOMAS MASSIE: We fought the president, the…

A Texas lawmaker looks over a redistricting map during the debate in the state senate in August. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has quickly appealed to the Supreme Court a ruling that the redistricting passed by lawmakers at the urging of President Trump was based on racial gerrymandering. “Any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd and unsupported by the testimony offered during ten days of hearings,” Abbott, a Republican, said in a statement. “This ruling is clearly erroneous and undermines the authority the U.S. Constitution assigns to the Texas Legislature by…

Since late January, leaders at liberal foundations and donor networks have been preparing for a legal assault by federal agencies. That moment finally arrived in September, when, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed federal prosecutors to investigate the Open Society Foundations on a range of possible criminal charges, reportedly on orders from the White House. Two weeks earlier, Donald Trump had vowed to go after George Soros, the founder of OSF: “We’re going to look into Soros, because I think it’s a RICO case against him and other people,” Trump said on September…

Flames and smoke billow from buildings during mass Russian drones and missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital in July 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Oleksii Filippov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Oleksii Filippov/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. deported 50 people to Ukraine this week, a Ukrainian border official said on Tuesday, in what appears to be the single largest such deportation from the U.S. since the country has been at war with Russia. The flight landed near the Polish border in the early hours on Monday. Since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has…