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The bill has not yet been presented to the president, and it wasn't clear when it might reach his desk.
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Congress has finally voted to compel the Justice Department to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased convicted sex offender and power broker. After a near-unanimous vote in both legislative chambers, President Trump now says he will sign the bill into law. We play statements from a press conference held by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, who are celebrating the long-awaited win for transparency and accountability.
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As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the COP30 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Kumi Naidoo, the longtime South African human rights and environmental justice activist who is president of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. He discusses U.S. absence from climate talks, Gaza, and wealthy countries refusing to take accountability for the climate crisis. "We're not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt."
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Congress approved a bill demanding the Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files. President Trump, who was once friends with Epstein, initially opposed the vote, but caved to pressure and said he would sign the bill.
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The only person in Congress to vote against the bill was a right-wing congressman from Louisiana who is an ardent supporter of President Trump and has espoused conspiracy theories.
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President Trump rejected a U.S. intelligence report finding that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the murder of a journalist.
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The U.S. president whitewashed the Saudi crown prince's poor human rights record while giving him a red-carpet welcome.
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 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee jointly raised $80.8 million in May, the Biden campaign said on Monday, the campaign's largest monthly sum of the presidential race.
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