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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to hold a vote next week on a measure requiring the Justice Department to release all files related to the late-convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee has already released tens of thousands of Epstein documents. They've propelled Democratic allegations that President Trump knew more about Epstein sex crimes than he's led on, a claim that President Trump has strongly denied. And Pierre spoke with Democratic California Congressman Roe Kana about the upcoming vote. First of all, we may get a veto-proof vote in the House.

You could get that in the Senate, and it will put such incredible pressure for the MAGA base to be voting against the president. That has never happened in his first term or second term. Ebson died in jail in 2019, authorities, say, by suicide after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, charge him with sex trafficking minors. He was accused of crimes in New York and Florida involving dozens of victims. His accomplice and former girlfriend, Gulen Maxwell, is in prison for sex trafficking. Federal aviation officials say temporary flight reductions will remain at 6% because more air traffic controllers are coming to work. And P.R. Joel Rose reports it may take several days before commercial aviation returns to normal following the government shutdown.

The reductions in air traffic at dozens of major airports, had been slated to rise to 10% by Friday. Instead, the Department of Transportation says they will stay at 6% because more air traffic controllers are showing up for work. The Federal Aviation Administration has said the cuts were necessary to keep the airspace safe as the agency grappled with a staffing shortage of air traffic controllers during the federal government shutdown. Some air traffic controllers took on second jobs and many called in sick. With the shutdown now over, airlines are preparing to ramp back up to full schedules. Aviation regulators say that will happen when safety data improves, but they have not given any timetable. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

Google says it's suing an organization that he claims enables fishing and tech scammers. More from NPR's John Rewich. Google is targeting an enterprise it calls Lighthouse. In a court filing, it describes it as a well-organized criminal group that creates and distributed software and support for would-be cybercriminals. Basically, it helps them make phony fishing websites and hook victims with texts. Lighthouse is based in China, and Google says it does not actually know the names of the people involved. Instead, the company is seeking a court injunction to help it dismantle the Lighthouse enterprise from the outside in, targeting other companies or entities that might be facilitating Lighthouse. Google says its logo is on many websites and website templates created by Lighthouse, and that undermines user trust in Google. Google

is among NPR's financial supporters. John Rewich, NPR News. Major market indices are down 1% to more than 2%. The Dowell falling nearly 500 points from Washington. It's NPR News. People across Bangladesh have been bracing for protests today in support of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Her now banned party called for a lockdown to protest Hassanah's pending trial on charges linked to a crackdown on a student-led uprising last year, which resulted in hundreds of deaths. Security was heightened nationwide in the event of more political violence over. Hasina who is exiled in India, Bangladesh's interim leaders Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. The Plei-Star cluster turns out to be part of a larger complex of stars. It

stretches across the night sky. NPR's NL Greenfield-Boyce reports astronomers say these stars were all born in the same cloud of dust and gas about 100 million years ago. The Pleiades is also known as the seven sisters. But even if you look with just binoculars, this cluster clearly contains a lot more than seven stars. Luke Bauma is with Carnegie Science in Pasadena, California. When you look at the core of the plies, it's sort of like looking at the tip of an iceberg, right? You only see the top of something that's much more massive and in this case distributed over the night sky. He and some colleagues use data from three different observatories to trace the motion and chemical compositions of stars, letting them find more than 3,000 related stars that have

similar ages and makeups and that used to be closer together. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.