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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvick Holman. Two congressmen are convening a press conference today on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. They'll be joined by ten people who are survivors of abuse of the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, and his accomplice, Gieland Maxwell. One of the congressmen who's convening the press conference is Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey. He says the House Oversight Committee has released thousands of pages of Epstein documents, but he says it's not enough. The scope of their investigation is such that the things, they requested aren't even going to include all the things that we need. And the few documents that we have been able to view are heavily redacted to the degree that they wouldn't show us

anything new. The congressmen have filed a discharge petition in the House. It needs 218 signatures to succeed. If it does, it would bypass Republican leadership and force a vote on their bill to compel the Justice Department to publish more Epstein files. China has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with a military parade. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports some two dozen foreign leaders attended the event, but few were from Western nations. Troops marched in precise lockstep through Beijing's Tiananmen Square, drones, laser weapons, and other hardware, which China claims only it has, also rolled by. On the reviewing stand, leader Xi Jinping was flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader

Kim Jong-un. In a speech, Xi Jinping called on China's people to carry on the spirit of resistance that led them to victory in World War II. He finished by saying, The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable. Despite the striking image of Xi, Putin and Kim standing together, the three are not expected to hold a formal trilateral meeting. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul. President Trump says U.S. forces have destroyed a ship in waters off Venezuela. The move has increased tension between the two countries. As John Otis reports, Trump says the destroyed vessel was carrying drugs headed for the U.S.

Trump announced the attack by the U.S. Navy from the White House. Over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat. These came out of Venezuela. In a social media post, Trump wrote that 11, quote, terrorists were killed. He described them as members of the Tren de Ragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang. It was the first confirmed U.S. attack since Trump ordered Navy destroyers and cruisers to the Caribbean to help stop the flow of illegal drugs. Washington accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of leading a drug cartel. Maduro claims that the U.S. military buildup is meant to overthrow his government.

For NPR News, I'm John Otis. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A federal appeals court panel says President Trump cannot use a wartime power to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. Late last night, the appeals panel disagreed with Trump's arguments that the migrants are part of a, quote, invasion of the U.S., and he cannot use the Alien Enemies Act. The appellate panel says Trump can deport undocumented migrants. in other legal ways. Patients are turning to AI chatbots to get answers to their medical questions, just as they also use Internet searches.

So researchers looked at the accuracy of one chatbot answering questions about blood cancer. And Pierre Yuki Noguchi reports. AI has a lot of uses in medicine and is especially good at scouring data sets or identifying cancers in images. But in a new study, looking at how chat GPT performed in answering. questions about blood cancer, physicians just barely agreed with its responses. The chatbot received a 3.3 accuracy rating out of five, with three being neither true nor untrue. The study published in the journal Future Science says AI answers general questions

better than specific ones about newer therapies or specific treatments. Yuki NPR News. The Missouri legislature has been called into special session today. Lawmakers are expected to take up a measure to redraw the state's congressional districts. The plan by Republicans aims to change the districts in hopes of gaining another GOP seat in Congress. This is NPR.