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Dwalisa Kowtow
York City, I'm Dwalisa Kowtow. It remains unclear if the suspect who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will waive extradition to New York City. But a court proceeding on this matter isn't possible until Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where 26 year old Luigi Mangione is being held. This is according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
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We're going to continue to press forward on parallel paths and we'll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he's going to contest extradition.
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Dwalisa Kowtow
Meanwhile, CNN reports that Mangione has retained a prominent New York attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifalo. She's Manhattan prosecutor with decades of experience in the city's criminal justice system. This as the parent company of United Healthcare says Magioni and his mother were never insured. Members of the private health care corporation Texas is suing a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas Fort Worth area. The physician targeted by the suit, Dr. Margaret Carpenter, is a co founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, which aims to bring abortion care to all 50 states. Sarah Bowden reports.
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Sarah Bowden
Texas has a near total ban on abortion, but Carpenter practices in New York, where abortion is not only legal, but also that state has what's called a shield law. After the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, a number of progressive states passed shield laws in order to protect clinicians like Carpenter from prosecution from other states. That contributed to the expansion of abortion access via telehealth. And this Texas lawsuit may be the first to the strength of shield laws to the test. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Bowden.
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Dwalisa Kowtow
A missing American man who was found alive in Syria is a step closer to Coming Home. NPR's Bill Chapel reports.
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Bill Chappell
Travis Timmerman is now under the protection of US forces. Months after the 29 year old went missing, he was handed over near a remote base in southeastern Syria, a process witnessed by NPR's Jane Araf. His mother, Stacy Collins Gardner, says she's excited for her son to come back to their home in Urbana, Missouri.
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Stacy Collins Gardner
Tell him I love him very, very much and I've been crying for him every day.
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Bill Chappell
Timmerman's immediate future is unclear he was put in a Syrian jail, but not mistreated, he says, after entering the country illegally on a religious pilgrimage. He was freed after the authoritarian government of Bashar al Assad was overthrown. Bill Chappell, NPR News.
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Dwalisa Kowtow
Tropical Cyclone Chito is making its way toward Mozambique from Madagascar and could make landfall this weekend, bringing winds of more than 130 miles hour, very heavy rains that could result in dangerous flooding and mudslides for 1.7 million people. This is NPR. The U.S. olympic and Paralympic Committee has suspended one of its coaches following reports of sexual abuse accusations. Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce reports.
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Dan Boyce
The Colorado Springs Base Committee is conducting an internal investigation into the abuse allegations from several biathletes. One young woman says the sexual abuse caused her enough to stress to attempt suicide. The committee is not naming the employee put on leave, but Associated Press reporting on the subject names coach Gary Coliander, associate director of high performance for US Paralympics. Nordic Skiing. Alleged victims have described a culture of abuse in Olympic biathlon dating back to the 1990s, and those who spoke up say they faced retaliation forcing them to end their athletic careers. For NPR News, I'm Dan Boyce in Colorado Springs.
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Dwalisa Kowtow
In Southeast Minnesota, a 150-year-old Catholic Church is set to be demolished due to years of declining attendance. The Star Tribune reports the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, which has long been considered a local landmark in the Wilson Winona area bordering Wisconsin, sits in a farming community with just over 1,000 people. But because families have had fewer kids and parishioners are aging, resulting in less people at mass that can, Catholic Church decided to consolidate area churches. Some worshippers are still raising, hoping to stop the raising of their church. But if that's not successful, the building will be demolished and a nearby cemetery expanded. I'm Dwali Sai Kao Tao, NPR News.
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