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Immigration raids, masked ICE agents, Operation Patriot. Our podcast here and Now Anytime is looking at Trump's agenda of mass deportation through the eyes of one state.
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I'm coming to Boston.
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I'm bringing hell with me. Listen to the podcast here and now Anytime from NPR and wbur.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. With a stroke of a pen, Texas has a new congressional map.
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Texas is now more red in the United States Congress.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott signing off on a redistricting bill today under which the GOP stands to gain five seats. Weeks ago, state Democrats temporarily left Texas to delay the measure's passage. They argue the Republican plan to change the map mid decade was an unlawful attempt at trying to prevail in the midterm elections. The Democratic parties responded with redistricting plan of its own. In California, the White House plans to unilaterally pull back nearly $5 billion in foreign aid programs Congress had already approved. It's using what's known as a pocket rescission. The White House is acting late in the fiscal year, leaving Congress little time to respond before foreign aid funding expires. The fiscal year ends September 30th. Witnesses are describing moments of terror and courage during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis this week. And NPR's Vanessa Roma spoke with one woman who was there when gunfire blasted through the church's stained glass windows.
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Mass had begun and the worshippers of Annunciation Church had just finished the psalm, you have searched me and you know me, Lord. When the first shots rang out, Kathryn Spandel, an alumni of the small Catholic school, was attending. She says she hid under the pews amid the gunfire. She reached for a familiar hand.
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As I lay there on the ground, I looked forward and the young woman two rows ahead who is our pastoral minister for the children, she was facing me and we reached, we reached towards each other and we prayed the Hail Mary together and we were both crying.
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8 year old Fletcher Merkel, who was one of two students killed in the shooting, sat just four pews ahead of Spandel. At least 18 other parishioners, a majority of them children, were injured. Vanessa Romo, NPR News.
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The Trump administration is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization meant to keep Palestinian officials away from the U.N. general assembly next month. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
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In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticizes Palestinian authorities for trying to get countries to recognize a Palestinian state. He says before the PLO and the Palestinian Authority can be considered partners for peace. They must, quote, consistently repudiate terrorism, including the October 7 Hamas led attack on Israel. He's revoking visas for Palestinian officials ahead of the General Assembly. The Palestinian mission to the UN Will receive waivers because of the U S. UN Headquarters agreement. The Palestinian ambassador to the UN Says he's studying Rubio's statement noting that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to go to the UN General Assembly. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
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The Dow has closed down 92 points. This is NPR News. It's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina wrought immeasurable pain on the U.S. gulf Coast. More than 1,400 lives were lost in the decades since. Communities have rebuilt. But New Orleans Dr. Glenn Johnson says he will never forget the patients he met at Lindy Boggs Medical Center.
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When I look back on my career, this might have been the highlight of me actually making a difference. And that's the part when I go to bed August 29th. That's the part I'm going to remember.
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A lot of focus has been on Louisiana this anniversary, but Katrina made landfall in Mississippi and decimated 70 miles of that state's coast. The Air Force will allow military funeral honors for a rioter killed inside The Capitol on January 6, 2021. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. This reverses a Biden administration decision.
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Ashley Babbitt was an Air Force veteran who was wrapped in a Trump campaign flag as she tried to climb through a broken window of the speaker's chambers inside the Capitol building. The door had been barricaded shut to protect lawmakers from violent rioters, and a Capitol police officer shot Babbitt dead. The Air Force had previously denied Babbitt military honors due to the circumstances of her death. President Trump pardoned or granted clemency to the hundreds of people criminally charged that day and has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to Babbitt's family to settle a wrongful death suit. The officer who shot her was cleared of wrongdoing by a federal court that found he acted in self defense and in defense of members of Congress. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
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