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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Steenans. The government shutdown has ended. President Trump signed a bill to reopen government last night, shortly after the House gave its final passage. Democrats held out for an extension of expiring health care tax subsidies but won't get to debate the issue before December. The House Oversight Committee has released thousands more pages of documents on late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.

Stephen Fowler reports Democrats are highlighting three emails that Epstein sent to Donald Trump. Those three email changed that Democrats initially released. There's also another dozen or so pages they've highlighted online. They include the disgrace financier Epstein discussing Trump. In 2011, Epstein emailed Galane Maxwell, his associate who has been convicted on trafficking charges, called Trump the quote, dog that hasn't barked, and says Trump spent hours at his house with one of the alleged sex trafficking victims. There's a 2015 thread with, author Michael Wolf that saw Wolf suggest Epstein could get, quote, valuable PR and political currency if Trump denied being on Epstein's plane or at his house. And a 2019 exchange that saw Epstein say

that, quote, of course Trump knew about the girls as he asked Elaine to stop. That email does not elaborate further. Stephen Fowler reporting. Congressional Democrats are warning the nation's governors that immigration officials are accessing driver's license data. More from NPR's Jude Jopfi block. A group of 40 Democratic senators and representatives sent a letter Wednesday to 19 governors from their party, urging them to block ICE's access to their residence driver's license data and photos to stop the Trump administration from using them from what the lawmakers call, quote, unjustified politicized actions. States share their residence driver's license data with each other and law enforcement across the U.S. and Canada through a nonprofit called NLETs.

The lawmakers say ICE and Homeland Security investigators have made hundreds of thousands of queer. through inlets in the past year. Five states had already blocked ICE's access. ICE did not return NPR's request for comment. Jude Jaffe Block, NPR News. The U.S. meant in Philadelphia has stopped making pennies, NPR's Raphael NOM, as details. The end of this tiny little coin had already been announced by President Trump back in February. Producing each penny was costing the U.S. government nearly four cents.

And ending production would save the U.S. more than 50. million dollars a year. But the move to face at the penny has been a big pain for many retailers and banks, which are struggling to provide exact change. After all, pennies remain legal tender, meaning that they can still be used. Chances are, though, many of them will stay where they've probably been for years, in big jars, coffee cans, or somewhere under the cushion of your couch. Rafael Nam, NPR News. You're listening to NPR. The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago and is under observation for progressive supri-nuclear palsy.

A statement from the Rainbow Push Coalition he founded says Jackson has been managing a neurological condition for over a decade. No word on his condition. Tuberculosis cases have declined around the world for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health services. But NPR's Gabriella Emmanuel reports that TB is, is still the world's leading infectious disease killer. TB claimed over 1.2 million lives last year. That's an improvement. And Africa, in particular, has made progress,

with deaths down 46% in the past decade. Tedros at Hanom Gabriasis heads the World Health Organization. He says there's other good news, too. For the first time, in over a century, new, effective TB vaccines for adolescents and adults, 18 TB vaccine candidates are in clinical development, but he warns that funding cuts to international aid threaten to reverse the hard-won gains. Gabriela Emmanuel NPR News.

Israel's president and high-ranking military leaders there are condemning an attack by Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Isaac Herzog says the attacks on Palestinians by a handful of perpetrators are shocking across a red line. Herzog holds us largely ceremonial role in the United States. in the Israeli government. His position on the West Bank violence has been largely echoed by Israel's army chief. You're listening to NPR News.