Headlines for November 13, 2025 Trump Signs Stopgap Spending Bill, Ending Longest-Ever U.S. Government Shutdown, “Blatantly Corrupt Self-Dealing”: Spending Bill Rider Allows GOP Senators to Sue DOJ for Up to $1M, Speaker Johnson Swears In Arizona Congressmember Adelita Grijalva After 50 Day Delay, Trump “Knew About the Girls”: House Democrats Release New Jeffrey Epstein Emails, Israeli Warplanes Continue to Bomb Gaza Cities Despite Ceasefire Deal, Israel’s Knesset Advances Death Penalty Bill for Individuals Charged With Terrorism, United Nations Calls for Ceasefire and Humanitarian Aid Corridor in Sudan, Climate Action Tracker: World on Pace to See Global Temperature Rise of 2.6 Degrees Celsius, Climate Activists Launch People’s Summit Flotilla at COP30 U.N. Climate Talks in Brazil, Detainees at For-Profit ICE Jail Accuse Prison Guard of Sexual Assault and Harassment, Brother of Detainee Who Died in ICE Custody Sues Government http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/headlines

Trump "Knew About The Girls": Calls Grow For Full Epstein Files After Release of Emails After months of delays, House Republicans have released tens of thousands of pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, after Democrats earlier publicized emails suggesting that President Trump was aware that Epstein was abusing and trafficking young girls and women. In one of those emails, Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.” Trump’s allies say the larger set of documents released Wednesday afternoon provide evidence of Epstein’s later animosity towards Trump and support Trump’s claims that he was not previously aware of Epstein’s crimes. Still more evidence — namely, photographs and videos — may soon be publicized, as a petition for the House to vote on the full release of the “Epstein files” received its final signature from newly-sworn in Congressmember Adelita Grijalva. “There is a lot more to come,” says Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who represents several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and who has reviewed much of the still-unreleased evidence, which is currently under a court protection order. “The FBI does have more information that needs to be released.” http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/jeffrey_epstein_trump

Rep. Adelita Grijalva Speaks out on Epstein Files & More After Being Sworn in 7 Weeks Late Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into office by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, fifty days after winning her seat in Congress. Grijalva won a special election to fill the seat left vacant when her father, longtime Congressmember Raúl Grijalva, died in March. Up until yesterday, Johnson had refused to swear in Grijalva in an effort to block her from submitting the final signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on the Justice Department’s full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. We air Grijalva’s first House speech and speak to her from Capitol Hill on her first full day in office. http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/adelita_grijalva

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID “We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, the head of global health at USAID during the Biden administration, is featured in the short film *Rovina’s Choice*, filmed at a refugee camp at the border between Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year. We play an excerpt from the film and discuss the impact of USAID cuts on humanitarian crises around the world. Gawande says hundreds of thousands of deaths have already occurred as a result of the loss of aid. “We’re seeing early deaths, like the malnutrition cases, and then we’ll see the wave that’s more to come.” http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/usaid

Headlines for November 12, 2025 Israeli Forces Killed 3 Palestinians in Gaza Despite the U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, 13-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Dies a Month After Israeli Forces Attacked Him in the Occupied West Bank, France Commits to Help the Palestinian Authority to Draft a Constitution for a Future Palestinian State, UK Suspends Sharing Intelligence With the U.S. Over Pentagon Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats, Protests Continue in Puerto Rico Against Trump Admin’s Military Trainings in Arroyo, Speaker Johnson to Swear In Representative-Elect Grijalva as Gov’t Shutdown Enters 43rd Day, Jack Schlossberg, Grandson of JFK, Announces Run for Rep. Nadler’s Seat, Progressive Jewish Organizations Condemn Anti-Defamation League’s “Mamdani Monitor”, Marion County in Kansas Agrees to Pay $3 Million After Police Raided Local Paper in 2023, WaPo: Trump Admin Plans to Allow Oil and Gas Drilling Off the California Coast, “Our Land is Not for Sale”: Dozens of Indigenous Leaders Protest at COP30 in Brazil http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/headlines

“Caved Too Soon”: Ro Khanna on Senate Shutdown Deal, Why Schumer Should Step Down & Epstein Files The longest U.S. federal government shutdown in history has entered its 43rd day. The House of Representatives is returning to session today to vote on a short-term funding bill to end the shutdown. The Senate approved the measure on Monday after seven Democrats and one independent backed the Republican bill even though the bill did not include an extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which was a key demand for Democratic lawmakers. Some Democrats in the House are now calling for Senator Chuck Schumer to resign his position as minority leader — including Democratic congressmember from California, Ro Khanna. “The President was panicking,” says Khanna. “He realized that he had lost the election over this. We caved too soon.” Khanna also discusses his bill to force the public release of the Epstein files, surrounding the federal investigation into the serial sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/ro_khanna_shutdown

“Food is A Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance The government shutdown has brought attention to food i in the United States, as it disrupted the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 42 million people across the country. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program going during the shutdown, because the Trump administration initially chose not to use those funds. “42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health,” says Mariana Chilton, child hunger expert. “It’s deeply concerning.” http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/snap_hunger

Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence A new series by *Drop Site News* looks at Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and how he secretly brokered numerous deals for Israeli intelligence. *Drop Site* revealed that Epstein had played a role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia and setting up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war. Epstein had an “extensive relationship with Israeli intelligence, U.S. intelligence and the intelligence agencies of other countries as well,” says Murtaza Hussain, reporter for Drop Site News. “He was a dealmaker and a fixer at a very, very elite level.” http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/epstein_israel

“Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike *Democracy Now!* speaks with the renowned Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, the director of the new documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk.” The film is based on regular video calls Farsi made with the Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona in Gaza over the course of a year from April 2024 to April 2025. Hassona was killed with her family by an Israeli missile that targeted her apartment building in northern Gaza. The strike occurred just one day after she learned that the film centered around her life and work had been selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. “It’s something that I will never get over,” says Farsi. http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/put_your_soul_on_your_hand

Headlines for November 11, 2025 U.S. Senate Passes Bill to End Historic Government Shutdown, Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa Meets With President Trump at the White House, Reuters: European Officials Express Concern Over Next Phase of Gaza Ceasefire Deal, Pentagon Announces Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats in the Eastern Pacific, Killing 6 People, Supreme Court Declined to Hear an Appeal to Overturn its Decision on Same-Sex Marriage, Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Mississippi’s Mail-In Ballot Laws, Private Prison Company Geo Group Seeking Immunity From Lawsuit in Case Before Supreme Court, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino Reportedly Leaving Chicago, Trump Admin Attempting to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, British Journalist Sami Hamdi to be Released From ICE Custody, Trump Threatens to Sue BBC for $1 Billion Over Broadcaster’s Edit of Jan. 6 Speech, Whistleblower Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Plans to Seek Commutation From President Trump, Car Explosion in New Delhi Kills At Least 13 People, Car Explosion in Islamabad Kills At Least 12 People, Dozens of Prisoners Found Hanged in Ecuadorean Prison, Leaders and Delegates From More Than 190 Countries Gather in Brazil for the Opening of COP30 Climate Summit http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/11/headlines