2025-07-24
14 分钟Good morning. It's Thursday, July 24th.
I'm Shemita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, how a Texas special session could shape next year's midterms.
Transgender kids and their families find medical care dwindling, even in blue states.
And the UN's top court says big polluters may need to pay reparations to countries feeling the brunt of climate change.
But first,
there have been a few developments in the Jeffrey Epstein story on different fronts worth catching up on.
Let's start with the Wall Street Journal's reporting that President Trump was among hundreds of people named,
including many high profile figures,
in documents from the federal government's investigation into Epstein.
Senior officials in the administration told the Journal that Attorney General Pam Bondi notified the president back in May during a briefing.
Now, it's important to note being named in the files does not mean Trump was involved in wrongdoing,
but this is another detail that potentially sheds light on his actions around the Epstein case in recent weeks and why he might be trying to diminish its significance.
And this reporting is particularly noteworthy because Trump, just last week,
told a reporter that he had confirmation from Bondi that he was not named in the files.
According to the Journal, during that briefing,
Trump was told the files contained unverified hearsay about famous people, including himself,
and that they had no plans to release more documents
because some contained child sexual abuse material and personal information about victims.