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Nora Ramm
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ramm. A member of the National Guard shot near the White House Wednesday remains in critical condition. His colleague died of her injuries Thursday. The suspect is an Afghan national who had worked for the CIA in Afghanistan. The State Department says it stopped issuing visas for anyone traveling on afghan passports. NPR's Diya Hadid reports from Mumbai. She's been speaking with Afghans who've been waiting for years to be allowed to come to the US these are really.
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Diya Hadid
Dark days for the sub 265,000 Afghans who advocates say were in the pipeline to come to the US Like Roshangar, he was in the Afghan military. He used to sign off on airstrikes targeting Taliban fighters. He's now in hiding in Afghanistan in fear of his life, which is why I won't use his full name. But Roshangar told me that he was ashamed of the Afghan national behind the.
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Nora Ramm
Wednesday attack in D.C. nPR's Diya Hadid reporting. Hondurans will head to the polls tomorrow to elect a new president, and the U.S. president is getting involved. N NPR's Eder Peralta reports.
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Eder Peralta
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump endorsed conservative Titoas Fuda for president, and he also said he would issue a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Hernandez was convicted of drug trafficking in a federal court in the United States, and he was also implicated in huge corruption scandals at home. Azfura took the National Party reins from Hernandez, and he lost to a leftist candidate in 2021. In his post, Trump threatened to pull USAID to Honduras if Asfura doesn't win. The most recent polls show candidates are in a dead heat for the presidency. Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
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Nora Ramm
Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Trump administration yesterday to pay tens of millions to the government in order to receive hundreds of millions in Federal research funding. NPR's Alyssa Nadwarney reports.
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Alyssa Nadworny
Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years. In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discrimination and anti Semitism. The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school. This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University and Columbia University. Alyssa Nadworny and NPR News.
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Nora Ramm
Top officials at the Food and Drug Administration say they'll take a tougher approach to regulating vaccines. They say that new evidence shows at least 10 children have died from COVID 19 vaccines. Independent Public health experts say the administration has made unsupported and misleading statements about vaccines in the past. This is NPR News. In Washington, the holiday shopping season is underway. The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales might top $1 trillion for the first time, despite consumer concerns about tariffs and inflation. Adobe analytics, which tracks online sales, says that yesterday Black Friday shoppers spent more than 9% more than last year. Dorothy Vogel has died at the age of 90. She, with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art on civil servants salaries. NPR's Bob Mondello offers an appreciation.
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Bob Mondello
She was a librarian. He was a postal clerk. And in 1960s art studios, they spent pennies for works by such not yet famous artists as Jeff Koon, Sol Lewitt and Christo. As Dorothy told a documentarian in 2008.
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Dorothy Vogel
In those days, if you wanted to collect art, pop art was already too expensive and so was abstract expressionists. So if you want to buy art, the only thing that we could afford would be the minimal.
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Bob Mondello
They endeared themselves by coming cash in hand and only taking what they could carry in a taxi, filling their tiny rent controlled apartment with one of the world's most important collections of conceptual art. The Vogels donated it all to DC's National Gallery of Art and a 50 Works for 50 States project that shared it with museums around the country. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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Nora Ramm
British playwright Tom Stoppard has died. His agent said today he died peacefully at his home in Southern England. No cause was given. He won an Academy award for the 1998 screenplay for Shakespeare in Love. Dob Stoppard was 88. I'm Nora Ramm, NPR News in Washington.
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