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Ryland Barton
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. It's the third day of the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats try to negotiate changes to immigration enforcement with the White House. As NPR's Sam Greengl are on a break for the next week, the White.
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NPR Reporter
House and Democrats have been trading offers. But Democrats have described Republican proposals so far as insufficient. And Republicans are calling Democrats demands unreasonable, like requiring judicial warrants for some enforcement operations. And judging by how fast lawmakers left D.C. last Thursday, the two sides are still very far apart.
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Ryland Barton
NPR's Sam Greenglass reporting. President Trump is lashing out at Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore over what he says is a lagging response to a pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac river northwest of Washington, D.C. the federal government and D.C. water utility have jurisdiction over the busted pipe. A spokesperson for More says the Trump administration has been shirking its responsibility on the repair and cleanup. A team has begun recovering bodies trapped under the rubble from one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war. An NPR investigation found 132 Palestinians from the same extended family were killed in that strike more than a year ago. NPR's Anas Baba reports from the scene of the recovery missions supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Anas Baba
For the second day in a row, civil defense crews here in Gaza are digging through the rubbles of what was once the Abu Nasser family home. Behind me, concrete slabs are stacked over each other. Twisted steel hangs in the air, and there is a heavy sour smell. It's the odor of bodies decomposing between the debris. Rescuers say that they are lacking for the heavy Machinery. So far, 20 bodies have been recovered. And across Gaza, thousands more are still believed to lie under destroyed buildings as families for a year and a half now continue searching and waiting to bury their dead for a closure after the Israeli strikes.
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Ryland Barton
NPR's Anas Baba reporting. The U.S. women's hockey team will play for an Olympic gold medal. The team dominated Sweden 50 in a semifinal tonight in Milan. NPR's Becky Sullivan was there.
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Becky Sullivan
It was a close game at first, but toward the end of the second period, the Americans blew it wide open with three goals in the span of four minutes. The Swedes tried swapping goaltenders but nothing worked. Afterward, the Swedish coach said they would have needed plexiglass in front of their net to win the game. It was the sixth win in a row for the Americans, who have outscored their opponents 311 in the Olympics so far. That run has included a 50 win over Canada, who they'll face again in Thursday's gold medal match. Forward Taylor Hisy says the Americans won't take a win for granted.
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Taylor Hisy
Nothing matters. It's the gold medal game. Everyone's going to show up, and if they don't, they're not meant to be there.
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Becky Sullivan
A gold medal would be the third for the U.S. in Olympic women's ice hockey. Canada has won five. Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Milan.
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Ryland Barton
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Drivers in Cuba could have to wait several months to refuel their cars as fuel shortages caused by a US Oil siege intensify. To avoid chaos outside gas stations, Cuba's government last week made it obligatory for drivers to use an app to get fueling appointments. But the app is only granting appointments several weeks or months from now. American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has died. He was 96. As a documentarian, he was a master of unscripted, unstaged storytelling that nonetheless embodied a point of view. NPR's Chloe Veltman has this appreciation.
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Chloe Veltman
Frederick Wiseman was extremely prolific. He made roughly 50 documentaries. Many of them chronicled the inner workings of his institutions, like the Idaho state Legislature, the New York Public Library and a high school in Philadelphia. But Oscar winning filmmaker Errol Morris says Wiseman has more in common with the theater of the absurd than documentary filmmaking.
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Errol Morris
He has a way of finding in reality some of the most surreal, absurd moments that I've ever seen anywhere.
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Chloe Veltman
Wiseman's first and most notorious work, titic at Follies, captures the mistreatment of inmates at a Massachusetts prison facility criminally insane. The 1967 film was so shocking the state of Massachusetts managed to get it banned for more than two decades. Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
An injured seabird sought help by pecking on a German hospital's emergency room door. The black cormorant had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak. Medical staff removed the hook and treated the wound. They then released the bird into the hospital park. This is NPR News.
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