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Lakshmi Singh
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The 26 year old man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week attended his extradition hearing in Pennsylvania this afternoon. According to the Associated Press, Luigi Mangione shouted and struggled with officers as he was led into the courthouse. New York authorities want Mangione extradited to face murder and other charges. Justin Fenton, an investigative reporter with the Baltimore Banner, says new details have emerged about the suspect.
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Carvana Representative
He went to a private school, perhaps the most prestigious school in Baltimore, the Gilman School, where he was not a described as a loner or an outcast or anything like that as we've come to expect it in these types of cases. He was the valedictorian of one of the best all boys schools in the city. And so friends have described him as a leader, as thoughtful, compassionate. But there's this narrative emerging that he was suffering from some sort of back pain and it was really affecting his life in a negative way. He was living in Hawaii and he kind of went off the grid in recent months.
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Lakshmi Singh
That's Justin Fenton with Baltimore Banner. The Justice Department's inspector general has released a new report on the agency's investigation of leaks during the first Trump administration. The report finds the use of subpoenas to obtain the phone records of members of Congress and congressional staff as well as reporters was broader than previously thought. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. The watchdog found no evidence that prosecutors were motivated by political considerations.
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Justin Fenton
The new report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog revolves around federal investigations into the sources of leaked classified information published in News articles in 2017. Several of the articles related to possible ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. Investigators secretly obtained the communication records of two Democratic congressmen and 43 congressional staffers, almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. They also secretly sought and obtained the phone records of journalists from the Washington Post, the New York Times and cnn. The inspector general's office did not find evidence of political or retaliatory motivation by prosecutors in seeking these records. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
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Lakshmi Singh
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirms President Biden is sending his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, to Israel tomorrow, part of a series of trips and conversations the White House is having as it seeks to do what it can to support stability in Syria after President Bashar al Assad was ousted. The White House is watching to see how multiple opposition groups operate and wants to ensure that the Syrian people get to determine their governance and future. At a last check on Wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down slightly, S and P is down four points and Nasdaq is up seven. You're listening to NPR News. Millions of Syrians have fled to Europe since the start of their country's Civil War in 2011. Now with the regime change in Syri, some of the countries that took in Syrian refugees are changing their policies. Here's NPR's Lauren Frayer.
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Lauren Frayer
The UK has granted asylum to more than 30,000 Syrians since 2011, and about 10,000 more are accused of crossing the English Channel illegally and thus mired in legal limbo awaiting asylum decisions. The British government now says it's pausing those decisions after Syrian President Bashar al Assad was overthrown. France, Germany and Sweden have done the same. Austria says it's going one step further with plans to actually start deporting Syrians. Many refugees, jubilant that Assad is gone, have already returned home, and others say they'd like to do so. But the rapid power shift could also possibly create a new wave of migration, depending on what happens in the coming days. Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.
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Lakshmi Singh
Thousands of Southern California residents have been under evacuation alerts because of a wildfire in Malibu. Local authorities say some homes have burned. Thousands more face that threat. They include more than 2,000 structures in areas where residents have been ordered to evacuate. An atomic bomb survivor is urging the world to never forget. Today in Oslo, 92 year old Terumi Tanaka accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Neon Hidankyo. That's a grassroots movement of survivors who've worked to ensure governments never repeat the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington. This is Eric Glass.
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Justin Fenton
On THIS AMERICAN life, we specialize in compelling stories from everyday life.
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Lakshmi Singh
I was like, wow, you literally just died and came back and the first thing you ask is do you need any money?
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Justin Fenton
Real life stories, really good ones in your podcast feed this American Life.