Deepa Shivaram
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NPR News: 01-07-2025 8PM EST
Los Angeles County is facing extremely dangerous winds and a fire that broke out in the Hollywood Hills area. The conditions led the White House to cancel President Biden's trip to the eastern Coachella Valley, where he was going to mark the creation of the Chukwala and Satitla Highlands National Monuments. The two monuments will protect more than 800,000 acres of land.
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NPR News: 01-07-2025 8PM EST
The event is being rescheduled to next week and will instead take place at the White House during President Biden's last week in office. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Los Angeles.
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NPR News: 03-25-2025 6PM EDT
The National Security Council is investigating how Jeffrey Goldberg got looped in. President Trump is defending Waltz and says he does not need to apologize. The president also says, as far as he understands, there was no classified information shared in the encrypted messaging app Signal.
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NPR News: 03-25-2025 6PM EDT
The president did not specify if he would ban the use of Signal for his administration officials. Catherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, also chairs the board of the Signal Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the messaging app. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
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NPR News: 03-25-2025 4PM EDT
The White House says it's agreed to help restore Russian access to agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime security costs and open up access to ports and payment systems for those transactions.
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NPR News: 03-25-2025 4PM EDT
The White House also says it's secured an agreement with both Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes. The U.S. has agreed to help Ukraine with the return of children, civilians and prisoners of war. and says there will be continued negotiations to bring an end to the conflict.
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NPR News: 02-12-2025 8PM EST
Trump's remarks come after the president spoke over the phone with Putin in a lengthy call. after he spoke with Zelensky. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-12-2025 8PM EST
Trump didn't provide a date for when he'll first meet with Putin. He also did not commit to traveling to Ukraine, though he said he would think about it.
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NPR News: 02-12-2025 8PM EST
Trump didn't go into detail on what he thinks a peace agreement will look like, but he said he doesn't think it's practical for Ukraine to join NATO, something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing for for years and Putin is opposed to.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 6PM EDT
This is a program that's been around since the 1930s that supports millions of retired people, disabled people, and making any changes to it is politically risky. Democrats have been responding to the comments from Secretary Lutnick.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 6PM EDT
They've also been quick to center any comments on Social Security from Elon Musk, for example, who has made comments inflating how much fraud takes place with Social Security benefits and who recently called the benefit a Ponzi scheme.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 4PM EDT
This is a program that's been around since the 1930s that supports millions of retired people, disabled people, and making any changes to it is politically risky. Democrats have been responding to the comments from Secretary Lutnick.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 4PM EDT
They've also been quick to center any comments on Social Security from Elon Musk, for example, who has made comments inflating how much fraud takes place with Social Security benefits and who recently called the benefit a Ponzi scheme.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
Thousands of government employees, including probationary workers or recent hires, are getting laid off as billionaire Elon Musk tries to cut government spending with his unit, the Department of Government Efficiency. Speaking alongside Musk, President Trump says Doge has found billions of dollars in waste and fraud, but didn't provide evidence for where those numbers are coming from.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
The website for Doge says receipts for, quote, savings are coming over the weekend, but haven't been posted. 14 states sued Trump and Musk for Musk's, quote, unchecked power over the government and its workforce. The White House, for its part, says that Musk is complying with federal laws. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 8PM EST
Karen Friedman-Egnifilo will represent Luigi Mangione in defending against murder charges related to the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month. Friedman-Egnifilo was a prosecutor for much of her career.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 8PM EST
She was second-in-command at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where she prosecuted violent crimes, including those that had a mental health component, according to her law firm's bio. She currently works in private practice, and it happens to be the same law firm representing Sean Diddy Combs against criminal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 8PM EST
Mangione is currently held in Pennsylvania without bail. He's scheduled to appear in a preliminary hearing in Pennsylvania on December 23rd.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 8PM EST
Officials from the FBI, Homeland Security, and the FAA said Saturday that they share public concern about the drones. but also think there has been some overreaction from the public. Officials said they're working with New Jersey State Police and other entities like the Coast Guard as they investigate.
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NPR News: 12-14-2024 8PM EST
They also established a tip line that resulted in 5,000 tips, but less than 100 that they say was worth looking into. Officials could not say how long they expect the investigation to last. President-elect Donald Trump suggested on Friday in a post on Truth Social that the drones could be shot down, but officials did not speak to that possibility. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-17-2025 4PM EDT
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said of those who were deported, 137 were deported under the Alien Enemies Act, 101 were Venezuelan people deported under regular Title VIII proceedings, and 23 were members of the MS-13 gang. She calls the deportations a, quote, counterterrorism operation against Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang,
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NPR News: 03-17-2025 4PM EDT
which President Trump designated as a foreign terrorist group last month. In response to concerns about lack of due process, Levitt said that DHS officials are, quote, sure about the identities of the individuals on the plane. The U.S. paid El Salvador $6 million to detain the people who were deported. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
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NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
The Bitcoin reserve has 200,000 Bitcoin, which amounts to about $17 billion, according to White House crypto czar David Sachs. The crypto comes from seized assets from criminal and civil court proceedings. and Sachs says the government has been losing money by selling it. With the reserve, it'll stay put. President Trump is expected to talk more about the reserve at the crypto summit today.
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NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
His administration has been far more friendly toward the digital asset than the prior administration, though Trump himself has personal investments in cryptocurrency, which has drawn criticism of conflicts of interest. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
What is she doing? Right. So spouses of presidents and vice presidents have typically played a role in facilitating some kind of, you know, soft diplomacy. According to the White House, this is a cultural excursion. Vance will visit historical sites, learn about Greenland's heritage and attend Greenland's national dog sled race, which involves more than 400 dogs, I learned.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
But given how fraught things are between the U.S. and Greenland, it's an unusual visit for Vance to make. This early in the administration, it's not clear what Vance's portfolio of issues is and what she'll focus on. But I did talk to a couple people who have studied First and Second Ladies, and they were surprised at the announcement of this trip because of how contentious the politics are.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
Here's Elizabeth Natale. She's a professor at UNC Greensboro and helped found the First Ladies Association of Research and Education.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
Now, Natalia says it's possible that Vance can carve out a space on this trip to convey a positive image of herself and the U.S. She is bringing one of her young sons with her, but combined with the rhetoric from the White House, it might be a steeper climb for the second lady.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
So at this point, there's two parts of this. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is also making a trip to a U.S. military base in Greenland this week. That's separate. And so Vance is traveling with her son and a U.S. delegation, and they'll be there for about three days. And what's the reaction been in Greenland? It's been negative.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
In an interview with a Greenlandic newspaper over the weekend, the prime minister of Greenland said that the visit from members of the Trump administration was very aggressive, Leila. He said that Greenland has to face the seriousness of the situation of the U.S. wanting to annex them. Now, Trump, for his part, says this isn't a provocation.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
He says it's a purely friendly visit and claimed that the U.S. was invited to visit Greenland, though NPR is not able to confirm if there was an invite. He also mentioned that countries like Russia and China are trying to assert more control in the Arctic region. And he teased that Secretary of State Marco Rubio may also visit the territory.
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War Plans Group Chat, Alien Enemies Act, U.S. Greenland Visit
And I will just point out that in January, before inauguration, Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., made a trip to Greenland as well. That's NPR's Deepa Shivaram. Thank you, Deepa. Thank you.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
Yeah, well, we're waiting to hear more information. This is the first week of the new Trump administration, so they're still working out some of the details of these kinds of presidential movements. What we do know is actually from the president himself. He said he's going to Asheville, North Carolina, and that city was absolutely devastated by Hurricane Helene in September.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
There was massive amounts of flooding. And this was all in the middle of the presidential campaign. And the disaster became political when Trump started posting online that the Biden administration wanted Okay, so then after Asheville, North Carolina, then he comes to Los Angeles. Correct. So he's headed there after weeks of wildfires in LA.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
It's set to be one of the most expensive natural disasters in the US in a long time. And FEMA has enough money right now, but there is going to be a lot more federal aid needed as the city works to recover. But Trump sees it as an opportunity for political leverage. He's trying to build support
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
in Congress for some of his legislative priorities like tax cuts and government spending measures and having support from some Democrats who want the wildfire aid passed might make that easier. Here's Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
California is led by a Democrat and Governor Gavin Newsom and Trump often spar. Newsom has invited Trump to come out to L.A., but it's not known if Trump will meet with him. And I'll say North Carolina's current and previous governors are both also Democrats.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
Yeah, Trump is really leaning into leveraging the California aid and any other element of it is that he's asking for the state to change their water policies in order for them to get any money. It's not clear how far Trump intends to go with that request, but he's been talking about it for days. I spoke with Henry Brady. He's a professor of politics at Berkeley in California.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
And he said doing this also kind of sets up a slippery slope for both parties.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
And in Congress, you know, some Republicans agree with Trump on this. But I will say there are some California Republicans who are pushing back, saying that there should be no conditions on this aid.
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Trump Visits Disaster Zones, DEI and the Military, London Hacking Hearing
Thank you.