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Chapter 1: What stories are highlighted in this episode?
This is Ira Glass of This American Life. Each week on our show, we choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme. All right, I'm just going to stop right there. You're listening to an NPR podcast. Chances are you know our show. So instead, I'm going to tell you we've just been on a run of really good shows lately. Some big epic emotional stories, some weird funny stuff too.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Kelmar Abrego-Garcia is back on U.S. soil. For months, the Trump administration has said it could not bring him back from El Salvador after he was swept up in an immigration raid and sent there by mistake. He's now in Nashville, Tennessee, where he faces federal criminal charges. NPR's Jimena Bastillo has more.
Chapter 2: What are the details of the immigration case involving Kelmar Abrego-Garcia?
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a press conference yesterday that a grand jury in Tennessee had charged Abrego Garcia of federal crimes. The indictment has one count of alien smuggling and one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling. She said that the grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring.
The indictment alleges that he made over 100 trips transporting people without legal status between Texas and Maryland and other states. NPR has not independently confirmed the smuggling accusations.
Chapter 3: What recent Supreme Court decisions affect the Trump administration?
NPR's Ximena Bastia. The Supreme Court has again handed the Trump administration a temporary victory. By a 6-3 vote, the court overturned two lower court orders, allowing Doge, at least for now, to have unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
Chapter 4: What was the Supreme Court's ruling regarding access to private information?
The court, in an unsigned order, temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited Doge's access to sensitive private information, including Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court records.
The court's conservative supermajority sent the case back to the Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond for a ruling on the merits of the case, which likely will take months, while Doge digs into the records. Justice Kagan noted her dissent while the court's other two liberals accused the majority of having, quote, truly lost its moorings. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Russia struck Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, in what the city's mayor says was the largest attack since the full-scale Russian invasion began. At least three people were killed.
NPR's Joanna Kokysis reports from Kyiv. The attack on Kharkiv comes a night after Russia launched a wide-ranging aerial assault targeting nearly all of Ukraine. Kharkiv is in northeastern Ukraine, about 20 miles from the Russian border. Overnight on Saturday, the city was rocked by at least 40 explosions, said Mayor Ihor Tedahov, writing on Telegram.
Chapter 5: What recent developments have occurred in Ukraine?
He called it the most powerful attack since the full-scale invasion and said Russia used missiles, drones, and guided aerial bombs. Ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine have made little progress. Russia has increased attacks on Ukrainian cities, often hitting civilians, while Ukraine has destroyed bomber planes and military infrastructure targeting Russia's war machine.
Joanna Kekisis, NPR News, Kyiv.
This is NPR News in Washington. Israel said today it has retrieved the body of a Thai citizen kidnapped during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The man had come to Israel to work in agriculture. The Israeli military says he was taken to Gaza where he was killed by his captors. His body was recovered in the area of Rafah in southern Gaza.
Starting this week, and for the first time ever, Russians are able to watch the corruption investigation videos of banned, now deceased, Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny on TV. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.
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Thank you so much for coming. Yulia Navalny, the widow of Alexei Navalny, helped launch the new channel called Russia's Future, which will be beamed in by French satellite UTELSAT. Project director Jim Filipov says Navalny used YouTube because television was always controlled by the Kremlin.
For more than 20 years, the Russian public has been bombarded with anti-Western, anti-Ukrainian, anti-democratic, pro-authoritarian propaganda.
Now, he says, the Navalny team will reach a bigger audience on TV, and unlike with YouTube, the Kremlin will not be able to block the satellite. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
French President Emmanuel Macron is to visit Greenland next weekend to meet with the prime minister of the Danish territory and the Danish prime minister. The three leaders are expected to discuss security concerns as well as economic development and climate change. The meeting is also designed as an expression of solidarity. in light of President Trump's interest in taking over Greenland.
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