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News Wrap: Summers leaves Harvard job over Epstein ties

Season 2026 Episode 44 | 4m 57s

In our news wrap Wednesday, Larry Summers is leaving his teaching post at Harvard after his name appeared hundreds of times in the recent batch Epstein files, rescue teams in Brazil are searching for dozens of people after intense rains and floods and Cuba's Interior Ministry says soldiers killed four people aboard a speedboat registered in Florida that they say had opened fire in Cuban waters.

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