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New Epstein Documents, SCOTUS National Guard, GDP Growth

New Epstein Documents, SCOTUS National Guard, GDP Growth

Up First from NPR
Dec 24, 2025 13 min
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<p class="readrate">The Justice Department released about 30,000 pages of new documents related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump administration to block the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area. And, the U.S. economy grew faster than economists had predicted, in July through September.<p class="readrate">(00:00) Introduction<br>(02:17) New Epstein Documents<br>(06:15) SCOTUS National Guard<br>(10:00) GDP Growth<p class="readrate"><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a> to the Up First newsletter.</em><p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Anna Yukhananov, Alina Hartounian, Rafael Nam, Lisa Thomson and Arezou Rezvani. <p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. <p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">We get engineering support from David Greenburg. Our technical director is Carleigh Strange. <p class="readrate"><p class="readrate"><p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">And our Supervising Producer is Michael Lipkin.<p class="readrate"><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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