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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

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The Department of Justice is releasing a final massive tranche of materials, including videos and images related to the criminal investigation and death by suicide of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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In compliance with a law Congress passed.

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Last November, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the DOJ has redacted the images.

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Of females with the exception of imprisoned Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Blanche pushed back at accusations that the.

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DOJ's shielding President Trump.

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We did not protect President Trump. We didn't protect or not protect anybody. I mean, I think that we there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.

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Trump has said he severed ties with Epstein after the financier poached female Mar A Lago Resort employees. He denies any knowledge of Epstein's sexual abuse crimes or alleged trafficking of women and minors.

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In the weeks since Border Patrol officers killed Alex Pretty, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, vigils across the country have celebrated Preddy's work and and denounce ice tactics.

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NPR's Quill Lawrence has more.

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Renee Good.

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Renee Good, Thousands gathered outside the Manhattan VA hospital, filling the sidewalk between massive snowbanks.

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Say good names. Say good names. Say good names.

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Hundreds of Preddy's colleagues at the Minneapolis VA held a memorial earlier this week, despite an email from that VA's director saying she had been told to postpone it. At the New York City vigil, a VA nurses union official asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.

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He wasn't even trying to fight, and the way they brutally murdered him is just it makes me so angry and upset. And that's what brought me out here today, because it could have been any of us.

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The Trump administration has blamed Preddy's death on Minnesota officials for failing to cooperate with ice. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

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Russia confirms it has agreed to President.

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Trump's calls for a pause on attacks against major Ukrainian cities amid a severe cold snap. Yet there seems to be a discrepancy over the length of the truce. Here's NPR's Charles Baines.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Trump made a personal appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt attacks in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations. But Peskov seemed to contradict Trump's claims he secured a week long pause in Russia's bombing campaign, saying Moscow would hold its fire only until February 1st. This Sunday, that stoppage appeared timed to another round of US Sponsored peace talks between Ukraine and Russia scheduled in the Middle east this weekend. Those negotiations are expected to center on a White House peace plan that would see Ukraine cede territory to Russia, including areas not currently controlled by Moscow, in exchange for U S Backed security guarantees. Charles Mainnes, NPR News.

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U.S. stocks are trading lower this hour. The Dow is now down 458 points. You're listening to NPR News.

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The U.S. supreme Court will hear a case April 1st challenging President Trump's executive order denying automatic citizenship to the children.

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Of parents who entered the US Illegally or on a temporary visa.

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At issue is whether Trump's order violates.

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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution or the Nationality Act.

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The 14th Amendment, enacted after the Civil War, was aimed at reversing the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision, a ruling that declared black people enslaved or free.

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Could not be citizens of the United States.

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Venezuela is making major changes to its oil industry.

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The country's Congress approved a bill last.

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Night that will enable foreign companies to.

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Operate the nation's oil wells. Manuel Rueda has details.

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After the US Raid that led to Nicolas Maduro's removal, the socialist government's control of Venezuela's vast oil reserves is changing. The bill, approved on Thursday night, will allow foreign companies to run oil wells in Venezuela and sell the nation's oil, provided they pay taxes. Disputes with the government can now be settled by international arbitration. Previously, the Venezuelan government had to be the main stakeholder in oil projects, and the national oil company was the only entity allowed to sell the nation's crude. Now the US treasury has eased sanctions on Venezuela, and American companies will be able to purchase and resell Venezuelan oil. For NPR News, I'm Manuel Rueda in Caracas.

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