Laila Fadl

In the military, trans service members are being forced out unless they stay hidden.

The Trump administration's latest transgender ban requires active duty trans service members to go before separation boards.

This weekend on The Sunday Story, the Pentagon's push to remove trans troops and how it may affect mission readiness.

Listen to The Sunday Story right here on NPR's Up First podcast.

The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead.

How an anonymous Reddit post led to a storage locker in New Hampshire.

I'm Laila Fadil, that's Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News.

The DOJ faces a deadline today to release its files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, what will and won't be released.

was found dead last night.

Yeah, the same man is also believed to have fatally shot an MIT physics professor at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday.

And the big break in the case appears to have come via the social media site Reddit.

President Trump signed a law last month that orders the attorney general to share records about the convicted sex offender and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

But there are questions about what exactly will be made public and if the deadline will be met.

The Kennedy Center seems to be getting a new addition to its name.

Yeah, the board of the famed Washington, D.C., cultural institution voted Thursday to change its name to the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

The president's press secretary announced the news on social media, stating that it was a unanimous decision.

And while the change has already taken effect on the center's website, critics, critics including members of the Kennedy family, say this move requires congressional approval.

And that's up first for Friday, December 19th.

I'm Michelle Martin.

And I'm Leila Faldin.