2025-11-17
13 分钟President Trump reverses course and backs a House vote to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Plus, an immigration crackdown in North Carolina intensifies over the weekend.
And France is scrambling to protect its valuables after thieves make off with more than its crown jewels.
Museums by their very nature advertise what sorts of valuables they have on hand.
And so this makes for very easy, soft targets for organized criminals.
It's Monday, November 17th.
I'm Caitlin McCabe for The Wall Street Journal, and here's the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
We begin today in Washington where President Trump has thrown in the towel on trying to dissuade House Republicans from backing the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On social media late yesterday, Trump said Republicans should vote for the measure because, quote,
we have nothing to hide and it's time to move on from this Democratic hoax.
His message was a sharp departure from previous efforts to deter his party from supporting the vote,
with Trump saying on Air Force One as recently as Friday that Democrats want to waste people's time and quote,
some of the dumber Republicans like that.
But officials told us that his push to dissuade the GOP wasn't getting results and risked calling even more attention to the matter.
In an appearance on ABC's This Week, House Republican Thomas Massey of Kentucky,
who has been seeking a vote on the files,
speculated that there could be a hundred or more Republicans who support the measure.
He said he's hoping for a supermajority of two-thirds of the House that could override a Trump veto
if needed.