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Justice Department released 3 million pages of Epstein files. What did we learn? : The NPR Politics Podcast

The Justice Department says it has released all of the relevant documents from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We discuss what we have learned from the millions of pages of documents and whether Republicans or Democrats got what they were hoping for from the release.This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political reporter Stephen Fowler, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.This podcast was produced by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs, and edited by Rachel Baye.Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.

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Feb 4 • 4:14 PM EST • Politics • npr.org
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A Dietitian's No. 1 Plant-Based Protein for People Trying to Eat Less Meat

Add more healthy protein — and fiber — to your diet with this plant-based favorite.

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Feb 4 • 1:25 PM EST • Health • today.com
RFK Jr. says he is 'ending the war on protein.' Experts say it doesn't exist.

The new dietary guidelines prioritize protein and whole milk, but experts say the 'war on protein' RFK Jr. has talked about doesn't match reality.

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Feb 4 • 12:09 PM EST • Health • usatoday.com
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Trump criticizes CNN reporter for 'not smiling' after Epstein question

President Trump told Kaitlan Collins he's never seen her smile after the CNN anchor asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Feb 4 • 8:21 AM EST • Politics • usatoday.com
Trump calls for Americans to ‘move on’ from Epstein files

President’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and on-off ally Elon Musk have both featured in the Epstein files

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Feb 4 • 6:24 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Can Health Guru Dr. Attia ‘Outlive’ His Epstein Friendship?

The popular wellness influencer was cut from his C-suite seat at a protein-bar company and could be out at CBS News.

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Feb 4 • 5:30 AM EST • Health • nymag.com
Starmer orders release of files relating to Mandelson US ambassador decision

PM attempts to get on top of widening Epstein files scandal as Tories criticise move to hold some documents back

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Feb 4 • 4:40 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Starmer agrees to release some files on Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador in wake of Epstein scandal

Move comes in response to Tories forcing ‘humble address’ vote in Commons

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Feb 4 • 3:54 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Analysis: New files deepen a critical mystery about those who partied with Jeffrey Epstein

“The American people need to understand that it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”

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Feb 4 • 12:02 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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GOP congressman says he doesn’t see how Trump could avoid subpoena in congressional Epstein probe
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Feb 3 • 11:58 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Flirty Emails and Chummy Photos Show How Far Epstein Reached Into Business World

Los Angeles scion Casey Wasserman, celebrity doctor Peter Attia and film director Brett Ratner are facing scrutiny over new Epstein files.

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Feb 3 • 9:00 PM EST • Business • wsj.com
Brian Greene, Frontiers of Science professor, invited Jeffrey Epstein to science conferences and planned to attend dinners at Epstein’s home

Editor’s Note: This article contains mentions of sexual abuse.

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Feb 3 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • columbiaspectator.com
A hidden cellular process may drive aging and disease

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while preserving fat-related ones. This process, driven by ER-phagy, is tied to lifespan and healthy aging. Because these changes happen early, they could help trigger later disease—or offer a chance to stop it.

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Feb 3 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Longevity doctor Peter Attia faces backlash over comments in Epstein files

Attia, a well-known author and influencer in the longevity space, issued an apology Monday.

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Feb 3 • 6:48 PM EST • Health • nbcnews.com
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WisdomTree CEO says crypto is now a core business, nearing profitability

WisdomTree’s Jonathan Steinberg says the firm’s tokenization push is nearing profitability, with $750 million in digital assets and long-term plans to modernize financial infrastructure.

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Feb 3 • 6:40 PM EST • Business • coindesk.com
Clintons will appear for depositions in Epstein probe, staving off contempt vote

House Oversight Chair James Comer has agreed to the dates Bill and Hillary Clinton proposed for depositions in the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein probe, putting an end to the contempt of Congress proceedings that had been moving forward against them.

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Feb 3 • 12:50 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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UK’s Mandelson to resign from House of Lords over Epstein ties

Police are looking into allegations Peter Mandelson may have passed sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Feb 3 • 12:29 PM EST • Politics • aljazeera.com
Epstein files reveal close ties to Trump’s influential inner circle

The latest tranche of files reveal new details about the extent to which key members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle were interacting with Jeffrey Epstein for years after he was initially arrested and convicted.

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Feb 3 • 11:34 AM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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Anchovies vs. Sardines: Which Is Better for Protein, Healthy Fats, and Micronutrients?

Though anchovies boast more protein and omega-3 fatty acids, sardines are richer in many vitamins and minerals.

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Feb 3 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • health.com
Breaking down some boldface names in the Epstein files

The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled throughout the documents.

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Feb 3 • 6:43 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Minister denounces Mandelson for interview in which he claims outrage about his Epstein links ‘disproportionate’

‘It is shameful. It does shame politics,’ said health minister Karin Smyth

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Feb 3 • 4:13 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Clintons have agreed to in-person depositions for House Epstein investigation
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Feb 2 • 9:17 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Clintons try to reach agreement for Epstein testimony with contempt of Congress vote looming

Rep. James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, was advancing criminal contempt of Congress charges against both Clintons Monday evening for defying a congressional subpoena when a spokesman for the Clintons, Angel Ureña, suggested they would testify, posting on social media that the pair “will be there.”

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Feb 2 • 7:38 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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Jeffrey Epstein's ties to politicians, business titans and other figures

The U.S. Justice Department's release of millions of internal documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed the late financier and sex offender's ties to many prominent people in politics, finance, academia and business - both before and after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to prostitution charges, including soliciting an underage girl. Evidence in multiple legal and criminal cases has also shed light on these connections.

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Feb 2 • 7:12 PM EST • Business • reuters.com
Factbox-Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Politicians, Business Titans and Other Figures

Feb 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's release of millions of internal documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed the late financier and sex offender's ties ‌to many prominent people in politics, finance, academia and business - both before and after he pleaded guilty ‌in 2008 to ...

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Feb 2 • 7:11 PM EST • Business • usnews.com
A record breaking gravitational wave is helping test Einstein’s theory of general relativity

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed scientists to measure multiple “tones” from the collision, all matching Einstein’s predictions. That confirmation is exciting—but so is the possibility that future signals won’t behave so neatly. Any deviation could point to new physics beyond our current understanding of gravity.

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Feb 2 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Looking back at Catacomb 3D, the game that led to Wolfenstein 3D

Romero, Carmack, and colleagues discuss an oft-forgotten piece of PC gaming history...

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Feb 2 • 5:57 PM EST • Technology • arstechnica.com
Accel Entertainment announces management changes

Distributed-gaming operator Accel Entertainment announced Monday that founder and CEO Andy Rubenstein has been named chairman of the company’s Board of Directors, while Accel’s President of U.S. Gaming Mark Phelan has been appointed chief operating officer. Phelan will succeed Rubenstein as both

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Feb 2 • 3:13 PM EST • Entertainment • cdcgaming.com
Brandon Silverstein, CEO of Avex Music Group and S10 Entertainment, Celebrates GRAMMY Awards Wins with Writer Kamal Wilson

Avex Music Group and S10 Entertainment are celebrating GRAMMY award wins this morning alongside the company's writer Kamal Wilson.

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Feb 2 • 2:18 PM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files: Who is mentioned and what they are saying in response

Here is a look at some of the notable names in the latest release of files from the U.S. Justice Department pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein. The list includes politicians, entertainment figures, business leaders and Royal Family members, with some releasing statements this past weekend about their interactions with the late accused child sex trafficker.

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Feb 2 • 12:14 PM EST • Entertainment • cbc.ca
Can Peter Mandelson be stripped of his peerage over Epstein links?

Keir Starmer wants the Labour peer removed from the House of Lords but such a move is exceptionally complex

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Feb 2 • 10:59 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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DoJ Makes Appalling Mistakes In Release of New Epstein Files

The government included nude photos and failed to redact the names of some victims in its latest document drop.

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Feb 2 • 10:44 AM EST • Politics • nymag.com
This global health leader praises Trump's aid plan -- and gears up to beat malaria

Bill Steiger, who served in the George H.W. Bush and first Trump administrations, reflects on the past year's changes in the U.S. role — and his new job as head of Malaria No More.

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Feb 2 • 10:29 AM EST • Health • npr.org
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Mandelson, Epstein and what Labour knew when

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Peter Mandelson’s resignation from the Labour party over yet more details about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

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Feb 2 • 10:23 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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The Major Business Names in the Epstein Files

Documents referencing prominent executives like Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick and Bill Gates underscored the wide web of boldfaced names tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Feb 2 • 8:50 AM EST • Business • nytimes.com
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over Epstein joke at Grammys

President calls host a ‘pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C’ after jibe about his connections to late sex offender at ceremony

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Feb 2 • 6:48 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Mandelson quits Labour as Epstein documents reveal he promised to amend tax on bank bonuses

The peer said he resigned his membership of the party to avoid causing it ‘further embarrassment’

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Feb 2 • 4:38 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Analysis: New document dump does little to answer Epstein questions or the pain of survivors

The latest release of millions of items from the Jeffrey Epstein files sharpened a public reckoning but also deepened the recurring tragedy of his victims.

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Feb 2 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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UK’s ex-ambassador Mandelson quits Labour over Epstein links, reports say

Peter Mandelson says he is stepping down to avoid causing further embarrassment to the governing party.

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Feb 1 • 8:07 PM EST • Politics • aljazeera.com
Kamen takes leave of absence from FIRST

Dean Kamen agreed to take a leave of absence from FIRST Robotics, a nonprofit organization hosting programming for ages 5-18, while a private firm investigates his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Feb 1 • 5:45 PM EST • Business • unionleader.com
Deputy attorney general signals no new Epstein charges, defends Gabbard role in Georgia election search

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s actions on multiple fronts Sunday, signaling that no new charges will be brought in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, downplaying Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s involvement in a probe into alleged voter fraud in Georgia, and defending the decision to arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon.

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Feb 1 • 1:10 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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‘We are witnessing a full-blown cover-up’: Rep. Raskin responds to DOJ release of Epstein files
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Feb 1 • 11:23 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
This tiny pocket-friendly e-reader is packed with frustration and potential

The Xteink X4 is small enough to slip into a shirt pocket.

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Feb 1 • 11:00 AM EST • Technology • theverge.com
Photos: Krewe du Vieux parades in the cold

Krewe du Vieux paraded through the French Quarter on a freezing evening to the theme, "Save The Wet Glands.” Co-founder and CEO of Glass Half Full, Franziska Trautmann, reigned over the satirical parade with Glass Half Full co-founder Max Steitz as Royal Consort.

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Jan 31 • 9:54 PM EST • Entertainment • nola.com
Gov. shutdown, ICE warehouses and 3 millon Epstein files

Carmella gives the top headlines of the day, including a judge ordering the release of a 5-year-old detained by ICE.

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Jan 31 • 7:00 PM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
The science of why chia seeds are a superfood

Chia seeds are full of fiber and protein. Here’s how to make them easier on your digestive tract.

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Jan 31 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • nationalgeographic.com
In the latest Epstein files are famous names and new details about an earlier investigation

Newly disclosed government files on Jeffrey Epstein show authorities thought they were close to indicting the wealthy financier on sex crimes nearly two decades ago, before that investigation was suddenly scrapped.

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Jan 31 • 12:28 PM EST • Politics • ksat.com
New emails show New York Giants owner asked Epstein to connect him with women

New York Giants owner and American filmmaker Steve Tisch sought out Jeffrey Epstein’s help connecting him with women more than a decade ago, according to emails released Friday by the Justice Department.

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Jan 31 • 11:40 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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What 3 million new documents tell us about Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein

President Donald Trump is mentioned more than 1,000 times in the three million Jeffrey Epstein documents released Friday, after the president initially resisted the effort. While some of the references are benign, others include newly disclosed unverified sexual assault claims against Trump as well as fresh details about how some of Epstein’s victims described their interactions with the future president.

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Jan 31 • 10:07 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think?

A MAGA diehard on ICE in Minneapolis, the Epstein files, and what Trump must do before the midterms.

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Jan 31 • 8:00 AM EST • Politics • vox.com
Scientists finally explain statin muscle pain

Statins are a cornerstone of heart health, but muscle pain and weakness cause many patients to quit taking them. Scientists have now identified the precise molecular trigger behind these side effects. They found that statins jam open a critical muscle protein, causing a toxic calcium leak. The discovery could lead to safer statins that keep their life-saving benefits without the muscle damage.

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Jan 31 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
From a recalibration in Minnesota to an Epstein files release: Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic week

For a brief moment following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, President Donald Trump appeared to recalibrate.

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Jan 31 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Analysis: 5 early takeaways from the DOJ’s big Epstein files drop

The Justice Department on Friday announced the long-awaited release of an enormous tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files, spanning more than 3 million pages, which it said fufilled its obligations under transparency legislation passed last year.

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Jan 30 • 7:43 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Bill Gates denies allegations in Epstein email about 'trysts' and STD

A recently released email suggests that Bill Gates had asked for antibiotics to "surreptitiously" give to his now ex-wife, Melinda.

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Jan 30 • 6:06 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Trump Is All over the Epstein Files. Except, Well, the DOJ Says It’s “Fake.”

So we’re just supposed to believe that millions of newly released documents are completely false?

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Jan 30 • 6:05 PM EST • Politics • esquire.com
Epstein files release raises key question for Trump administration: From the Politics Desk

Plus, a Democratic divide in California with 2026 and 2028 campaign implications.

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Jan 30 • 5:36 PM EST • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Epstein files released, but DOJ withholds some 200,000 documents

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the DOJ will withhold or redact about 200,000 pages that it has deemed protected by "various privileges."

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Jan 30 • 2:58 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
10 Questions With... Randall Milstein, who teaches about science, astronomy and the role of science fiction in popular culture

10 Questions with… Randall Milstein, professor of teaching. He teaches astronomy and energy alternatives classes in the physics department, and also teaches in the Honors College. He represents OSU as its affiliate representative for the Oregon Space Grant Consortium. He enjoys engaging with the public on topics of science, astronomy and the role of science fiction in popular culture.

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Jan 30 • 1:05 PM EST • Science • today.oregonstate.edu
DOJ releases more Epstein files
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Jan 30 • 12:40 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Oregon politician decries doxxing after stranger shows up at her home

“I am sad and frustrated that this has to be stated,” state Rep. Dacia Grayber wrote.

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Jan 30 • 12:23 PM EST • Politics • oregonlive.com
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The Department of Justice announces release of more than 3 million pages of files related to Epstein investigation
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Jan 30 • 12:15 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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WATCH LIVE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announces release of more Epstein files
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Jan 30 • 11:06 AM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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Live updates: More Jeffrey Epstein files released by Justice Department
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Jan 30 • 11:04 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Designing the future of metabolic health through tissue-selective drug delivery

Founded by MIT alumni, the biotech firm Gensaic develops protein carriers that can deliver therapeutic molecules to specific tissues and cells.

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Jan 30 • 10:15 AM EST • Health • news.mit.edu
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Brillstein Entertainment Partners Signs Comedian, Actor & Writer Paul Chowdhry

Paul Chowdhry, the comedian, actor, and writer, has inked with Brillstein for global management in all areas, Deadline can report exclusively.

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Jan 28 • 12:30 PM EST • Entertainment • deadline.com
5 things to know for Jan. 28: Minnesota ICE crackdown, Political violence, Severe weather, Social media trial, Epstein files

CNN’s 5 Things AM brings you the news you need to know every morning.

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Jan 28 • 6:46 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Investment and Statecraft: The International Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

In 1953, Kuwait established the world’s first sovereign wealth fund to invest the country’s oil revenues and generate returns that would reduce its reliance on a single resource. Since then, over 100 separate funds have been created to preserve national wealth and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability. Today, they manage over $10 trillion in global assets. In this discussion with GJIA, political economist Kathryn Lavelle explains the increasingly novel dynamics that surround fund behavior and what the world can come to expect from their growing presence in international financial markets. GJIA: When it comes to the roles sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) play in global markets and politics, what would you say makes them unique? Kathryn Lavelle: Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) operate on behalf of governments as investors. That in itself is a strange relationship. Within them, a core contest takes place between the state’s interests (or sovereign) part of the dynamic, and the money interests (or wealth) part of it, and these two aspects are frequently in contradiction, serving fundamentally different goals. SWFs are also quite fascinating because when you talk to the people who manage these funds, they have an interest in convincing you that the decisions are made almost exclusively on a financial basis—they really will go to great lengths to differentiate their government owners and those who make the management decisions. At the same time, these people ultimately answer to someone in power. Therefore, for most SWFs, it remains deeply unclear who is actually making the investment decisions and for what purposes. Of course, it is not always clear how other vehicles, such as hedge funds and private equity make the decisions they do, but I think what a lot of people find particularly disconcerting about SWFs is that they seem to act on behalf of people who have a different identity from their own. People who could be trying to manipulate politics and markets in a way that would have a long-term effect on their own populations. Regular investors come and go at will, and they only share an interest in profit as far as most of us understand. However, SWFs have that extra “sovereign” part right behind them that obscures their true interest. GJIA: These funds can be found in countries all across the globe, in both authoritarian states and democracies. Would you say SWFs differ in their goals and structures between regime-type? KL: It is not necessarily regime type that makes the goals and structures of SWFs different. It has to do with their economies. Let’s look at a country like China. There’s going to be a debate about exactly how to characterize the regime, but it is a country with many different kinds of sovereign wealth funds, and a particularly opaque state connection to each. At one time, some of the state-owned Chinese oil companies created specialized investment vehicles listed outside Chinese markets that excluded parts of the firms that were more associated with human rights violations. At the same time, the China Investment Corporation (CIC)­—China’s largest SWF—draws a lot of concern, not necessarily because of its investment activities, but because of the dynamics of global politics. So, I wouldn’t really tie differences to regime types themselves in a wholesale way, but rather to how such funds are perceived and how they are structured. Saudi Arabia’s SWF is getting all kinds of attention for its involvement in Hollywood, and this takes me right back to when I was a student in the 1980s, when people were concerned about Japanese investment entities buying assets in Hollywood. They aren’t quite the same in financial terms, but it’s the same kind of concern about foreign investment that drives people to be suspicious, and the whole idea that “foreigners are influencing Hollywood.” This holds true across industries, and it reflects where politics are in places like the United States right now. One metric we can try to look at is transparency, where all the funds will tell you, “we are transparent.” The problem you’ll keep running into with this approach is how you value things. When trying to do comparative studies of equity markets, you’ll find that every country doesn’t use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles like we do in the United States. A fund may appear opaque politically and not want people to show what they’re invested in or what their intent with that investment is, but they could also just not be able to report it because of the way it was purchased, or the kinds of shares they purchased. There are some assets out there that really are difficult to put a monetary value on. GJIA: To what extent do domestic politics shape SWF behavior in both the investing “home” country and the recipient “host” country? KL: This depends on the type of fund present and also on the extent to which voters’ political views are able to influence the fund. For example, in a democratic home state like Norway, the SWF doesn’t invest in nuclear weapons or tobacco because of social concerns, but there is a continuing debate over whether it should invest in oil, even though that’s where most of the money comes from. The degree to which Norway will continue to make those investments, and whether they contradict the government’s overall climate goals, is an open question in Norwegian politics. Because of the way the fund’s governance is structured, it may not be easy to resolve. On the other hand, some people consider pension funds, like the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) in Ohio, to be quasi-SWF. They have a very strict separation between the people who make up the management division and the fund owners. No teacher or professor would want to invest in things that may harm the future of their students. At the same time, a fund manager might see an opportunity in a diversified multinational corporation that offers a good return, despite it deriving part of its revenue from e-cigarettes. These contests are very apparent. Domestic politics can work in host countries too. A good example is Singapore’s SWF, Temasek, investing in Thailand’s telecommunications sector. If you study political economy, you already know that countries everywhere are uncomfortable with foreign ownership of their telecom sectors because a foreign entity could monitor or manipulate our communications with each other. In the case of Temasek, there was significant pushback from Thai citizens surrounding the deal, which went on to influence national political sentiment toward Singapore as a whole, underscoring the risks some SWFs may face with their investment choices. In this case, fund behavior led to the dissolution of the entire Thai government in 2006 and a subsequent coup d’état. GJIA: To address some of this unease, the Santiago Principles were established in 2009 to ostensibly promote trust and transparency. From your perspective, have these mechanisms actually changed fund behavior? KL: In international relations theory, we always like to have a clear set of norms and best practices­—the orientation we want the proverbial ship to be going in. In that regard, the Santiago Principles at least got the discussion going about which direction SWFs should take at a time when people were very skittish about the growing size of these funds. Nobody wanted them to be out there and potentially destabilizing economies, so talks about disclosure, conditions for withdrawal, and the independence of managers were helpful when initiated. The biggest stumbling block was that there wasn’t exactly a good way to measure compliance with the Principles, let alone how to hold funds to them. If you read the Principles, they’re overall quite vague. In general, a fund doesn’t want to reveal how and why they make certain investment decisions because that information is proprietary—a fund makes money off of how and why it makes decisions—so how do you reconcile that with loosely-defined ideas of openness? Some decisions might have a political purpose. The bottom line is that trying to figure out and assign a score to compliance is not easy, and it is therefore the reason why the Santiago Principles never really got off the ground to the point where they could truly direct fund behavior. GJIA: Many emerging markets are looking to build their own SWFs from mineral and oil revenues. Historically, have funds shaped development trajectories in these countries? KL: I think the big story in international emerging markets investment is that the investment is increasingly no longer unidirectional. In the past multinational corporations of primarily Western background were the main form of foreign direct investment in a country. That has changed dramatically, to the point where you have companies from so-called “developing countries” taking over companies in the United States. Therefore, the landscape of international investment has changed, and I think SWFs are certainly a possibility to be the next step in the game. Historically, you didn’t need an entire financial vehicle to reinvest commodity revenues in your country, but as emerging markets get more financially sophisticated, their capacity to operate such funds has increased. SWFs would allow treasuries to move from relying on holding foreign exchange assets like cash or government bonds to having broader financial markets and targeted growth areas, while easing pressure on welfare expenditures. GJIA: With their increasing financial weight, do you see the presence of SWFs being a factor in the political choices leaders will have to make with regard to domestic and foreign policy? KL: It will depend on just how big the funds get. One of the reasons people are already apprehensive is because of their scale, and if certain SWFs in certain countries achieve a large-enough size, the presence will absolutely be cause for concern. The other factor political leaders will have to consider are their objectives. It’s not always clear how to define a SWF, or even where its activity is concentrated, but it is certainly a worry from the perspective of national security of opaque external investment. More than that, I think one of the most interesting questions going forward is whether the United States, the home to the world’s largest financial markets, will develop its own fund, for which the Trump administration announced a plan. There have also been several proposals in Congress. Were it to come into being, it would have tremendous weight. At the same time, one of the hallmarks of U.S. capitalism is a lack of government ownership of shares, so it would not be clear how such a fund would be received in domestic politics, or which direction it would take. Given how politically fragmented the country is, a Democratic administration would likely be concerned about different sectors of the economy, such as healthcare, and want investment there, rather than a Republican administration, which might prefer defense industries. No investment vehicle could thrive under conditions of such instability. Moreover, it remains unclear where the money to fund a theoretical U.S. SWF would come from. It would be a fundamentally different entity depending on whether it is financed with debt, economic surplus, commodities, or the sale of state companies, as in the case of Singapore. If it is debt, or government borrowing of some form, then the fund would have to outperform whatever the cost of that debt is, which is not an easy thing to do. I think our political leaders have enough on their plate. Our system has worked well keeping political and investment functions generally separate. We have seen different forms of business rise and fall, and even the perception of different countries, all of which funds are tied to. Unless a major SWF either starts—like in the case of the United States—or collapses—an issue that concerns the Saudis, I don’t see any political tsunamis on the horizon. . . . Kathryn Lavelle is the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research explores the exchange between domestic and international and political institutions with a particular emphasis on political economy and multilateralism. Dr. Lavelle’s first book, The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets, explored the political circumstances that surround large issues of stock in the developing world. After being granted tenure at Case Western, she was awarded an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship and named the William A. Steiger fellow, a designation given to the most promising political scientist in her class of fellows. While in Washington during 2006-2007, she worked on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services on issues related to domestic and international monetary policy. Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University; an M.A. in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia; and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Georgetown University. She is a permanent member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Interview conducted by Sid Mehrotra. Image Credit: Jason Leung, Unsplash Content Licenses, via Unsplash

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Rep. Massie weighs options to force compliance with Epstein files law

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House Panel Votes to Hold Clintons in Contempt in Epstein Inquiry

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New court doc asserts former Obama WH counsel advised Jeffrey Epstein during critical reputational and legal battles

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Gov. Stein, health leaders host town hall on new rural health program

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Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein's relativity

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