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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Supreme Court is allowing federal agents to resume broad immigration stops in Los Angeles. Steve Futterman reports city officials say the legal battle. isn't over. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass attacked the ruling. This is simply un-American. The city of Los Angeles was a party to the lawsuit. Bass pointed out this is not a fool ruling based on the merits of the case, and the battle goes on. We will bring justice to this issue, to our community. Immigration advocates who filed the lawsuit admit the Supreme Court ruling

is a major setback. Rebecca Brown is an attorney with public counsel. Essentially, the Supreme Court gave a green light to continue the raids across Southern California that are based on racial profiling. And she advises people to document any actions that they believe are a violation of their rights. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. The Republican House Oversight Committee has received another batch of Jeffrey Epstein files. NPR's Claudia Grisallis reports the records include the late sex offenders 50th birthday book. An aid for the Republican-led House Oversight Committee says the panel plans to share the new records in the near future. The Justice Department sent the first set of documents from Epstein's estate in response to a subpoena issued by Chairman

James Comer. The records include a book compiled by Gieland Maxwell for Epstein's 50th birthday. Maxwell's now in prison for sex trafficking. However, Committee Democrats jumped ahead to share a note from the book with President Trump's name. It shows the outline. of a woman's body in a typewritten dialogue between Trump and Epstein. However, Trump has denied he wrote the note. The records turned over also include Epstein's last will in testament and a 2007 court non-pr prosecution agreement. Clare Risales, NPR News, the Capitol. Several major exporters are planning to increase their production, a decision that was announced over the weekend. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky explains the

potential impact for prices. OPEC and its allies benefit when oil prices are high, which is a case for cutting production, less supply, higher prices. But the group's members also want to sell a lot of oil. Right now, it seems like the desire for market share is winning. That's not a surprise. OPEC has been sending signals. Some analysts see a potential oil glut in the near future, which would save money for consumers and be a blow for U.S. oil producers. Camila Dominovinsky, NPR News. Stocks traded higher today on Wall Street. The Dow was up 114 points at the close.

The NASDA composite up 98. This is NPR News in Washington. Rick Davies, singer and founder of the British rock band Super Tramp, has died after battling cancer. He was 81 years old. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has this appreciation. In 1969, working-class pianist Rick Davis took out an ad in a magazine, looking for bandmates. He heard back from a posh teenager named Roger Hodgson. Together, they formed Super Tramp, which carved its own middle ground between progressive rock and pop.

In 1979, the band struck gold with the album Breakfast in America. It landed three singles in Billboard's Top 100, including Goodbye Stranger. And I really have enjoyed my stay, but I must be moving on. It brilliantly contrasted Davis' jaded baritone against Hodgson's vibrant falsetto. Though the two co-founders parted ways in the 1980s, Rick Davis continued playing with iterations of Super Tramp on and off for decades to come. Isabella Gomez-Armiento and PR News. The FDA is giving the green light to Mass General, Brigham in Boston,

and Cambridge-based egenesis for nationwide clinical trials to test the use of pig kidneys and human transplants. Surgeons at Mass General Hospital first successfully transplanted the genetically engineered pig organ into a human patient more than a year ago. The new approval will allow them to expand the procedure for trial at transplant centers around the country. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe.

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