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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The government is being reopened after President Trump signed a newly passed bill to end the shutdown. The Democratic sale made over extending health insurance subsidies will soon expire, ended when seven Democrats and one independent sided with Senate Republicans. Trump calls the shutdown attempted extortion by Democrats. So I just want to tell the American people you should not have. forget this. When we come up to midterms and other things, don't forget what they've done to our country. You also want to call for a termination to the filibuster so that this can never

happen again. Trump also says he's calling for direct payments to replace subsidies for people getting health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, which is also called Obamacare. Arizona Democrat Adelaideh Grijalva has been sworn in as the newest member of Congress. Griehalva won a special election in September to succeed her late. father in the U.S. House, but was not seated until now. As NPR Sam Gringlass reports, she now has provided the last signature needed to force a House vote on releasing the so-called Epstein files. House Speaker Mike Johnson administered the oath after weeks of declining to seat Rahalva while the House was not in session. Fifty days that over 800,000 Arizona's

have been left without access to the basic services that every constituent deserves. And for weeks, special petition had been one vote short. That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files. The files have come back to the forefront after House Democrats released emails suggesting President Trump knew about the sexual abuse Epstein was committing. The White House says the emails proved Trump did nothing wrong. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington. European nations are expressing concerns over the Pentagon's military buildup in the Caribbean. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that no one mentioned it to him during the G7 meeting in Canada. More from NPR's Michelle Kellerman.

Wrapping up his two-day visit to Canada, Secretary Rubio brushed off reports that the U.K. is withholding certain intelligence from the U.S. because of concerns about deadly strikes on alleged drugboats from Venezuela. We have very strong partnerships with the U.K. and other countries. Again, nothing has changed or happened that is impeded in any way our ability to do what we're doing. nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing in any realm, and that includes military. Rubio says the U.S. has plenty of military assets in the region that can collect intelligence for what he calls a counter-narcotics campaign, and he says this issue never came up during his meetings with other G7 foreign ministers. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

Wall Street stocks close mixed Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrials gaining 326 points to close at a new record high of 48,000, 254. This is NPR. The head of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta says he's retiring when his term ends in February. Raphael Bostick's departure opens up a seat on the Fed's interest rate setting committee as President Trump pressures the central bank to lower interest rates. President Trump is calling for a pardon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a letter to Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, Trump calls the corruption case against Netanyahu unjustified prosecution. Last month, Netanyahu appeared in court as part of his trial on Israeli charges of fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. The International Criminal Court

is accusing him of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza. Netanyahu has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. The International Energy Agency has released its closely watched World Energy Outlook, a data-driven look at the planet's future energy use. In it, NPR's Camilla Donomenoski reports that the agency lays out sharply divergent views. The World Energy Outlook is not a forecast. It lays out several scenarios. But Director Fatibiril says one thing is clear. We can comfortably say that the age of electricity has arrived. Electricity demand booms in all scenarios, thanks to electric vehicles, AI, and air conditioning.

Natural gas grows while oil either grows or levels off. based mostly on how quickly electric vehicles take off. The varying scenarios see different degrees of global warming, but in all of them, the world exceeds the globally agreed target of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Camille and Almanoski, this is in. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate

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