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Jun 2023
31m 36s

High security ahead of Trump's court app...

Bbc World Service
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Former US President faces charges that he mishandled classified documents. Also: America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, has agreed to pay up to $290 million to victims of the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. And a woman in Ecuador wakes up inside a coffin at her own wake after being mistakenly declared dead. 
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