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Luis Schiavone
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Luis Schiavone. In a new move to increase deportations, the Trump administration is canceling a program that allowed over 500,000 people to be in the U.S. legally. NPR's Jimene Bastard Steo has more.
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Ximena Bustillo
The Department of Homeland Security said that it will revoke what was considered a parole program for half a million people who are Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. This means that people who are currently eligible to work, go to school and be in the US Are set up for a potential deportation in about a month. While President Trump campaigned on increasing deportations, particularly of those without legal status, he has also taken steps to remove authorization for those already in the U.S. the administration has also paused processing asylum and visa applications for those who entered under this program. The move to revoke parole programs has already been challenged in federal court. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
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Luis Schiavone
Lebanese officials tell NPR that seven people have been killed in a barrage of Israeli airstrikes Saturday on Lebanon. Lebanese state media say more than a dozen towns and villages were hit, including a city on the Mediterranean coast. NPR's Jawad Rizkala reports from nearby.
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Jawad Rizkala
One mayor in Lebanon south tells NPR an Israeli drone hit his village and that residents are panicking. People are evacuating other villages. Lebanon's Health Ministry says the dead include at least one child. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah after rockets were fired earlier at Israel. No one was injured there. Hezbollah denied firing those and says it's committed to a ceasefire that began in November. The Lebanese army published photos of wooden rocket launchers it says it found and dismantled. It's not the type of weapon Hezbollah is known to have used. These are the deadliest attacks since last year's ceasefire. UN peacekeepers say they've since tallied more than 680 attacks violating that truce, the vast majority of them by Israel. Jawad Rskallah, NPR News, Damascus.
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Luis Schiavone
After an extensive hospitalization, the Vatican says Pope Francis will be released tomorrow. His doctors say he will need months of additional rest to be able to recover completely. NPR's Emma Bowman has details.
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Emma Bowman
The 88 year old pontiff has spent over five weeks at Rome's Gemelli Hospital. He was admitted with a case of bronchitis that doctors said had evolved into pneumonia in both of his lungs. Sergio Alfieri, the hospital's head of surgery, told journalists on Saturday that the pope is in stable condition and that he will continue to receive medical care while at the Vatican.
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Jawad Rizkala
Today we are happy to say that.
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Ximena Bustillo
Tomorrow he will be at home.
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Emma Bowman
The Vatican says Francis will give his blessing shortly after noon on Sunday to a crowd outside the hospital, his first public appearance since being hospitalized. Emma Bowman, NPR news.
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Luis Schiavone
This is NPR. @ London's Heathrow Airport, British Airways says it was able to deliver 90% of its Saturday schedule after an electrical substation fire shut down flights for almost a full day. In general, airlines operating in the major hubs say they expect disruptions to last for days. After more than 16,000 structures were damaged or destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, one organization is taking on a less traditional form of disaster fireproofing history. Andrea Dominick of member station KCRW has the story.
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Emery D'Alessio
On a recent Sunday afternoon at the Hammer Museum in la, two dozen volunteers gathered over laptops and cups of coffee for a Wikipedia edit a thon. They're writing new entries about the landmarks and community hubs lost in the wildfires, adding citations, updating information and uploading photos.
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Luis Schiavone
We have the potential ourselves to preserve what we lost and make sure that what was destroyed in the fires isn't forgotten.
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Emery D'Alessio
That's Emery D'Alessio, a facilitator with WikiLeaks who's helping train newcomers. So far, more than 40 articles have been created or updated at edit a thons like this one, and they're already resonating. D'Alessio says those articles have racked up more than 200,000 views since their edits. For NPR News, I'm Andrea Dominik in Los Angeles.
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Luis Schiavone
President Trump is in Pennsylvania this evening, where he is attending the NCAA wrestling championships. The event at the Wells Fargo center in Philadelphia was expected to be a for Penn State's wrestling team. The president says he supports all the college wrestling teams. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.
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