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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown?
It's the third day of the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats try to negotiate changes to immigration enforcement with the White House. As NPR's Sam Greenglass explains, lawmakers are on a break for the next week.
The White House and Democrats have been trading offers, but Democrats have described Republican proposals so far as insufficient, and Republicans are calling Democrats' demands unreasonable, like requiring judicial warrants for some enforcement operations. And judging by how fast lawmakers left D.C.
Chapter 3: How is President Trump responding to the sewage crisis in Maryland?
last Thursday, the two sides are still very far apart.
NPR's Sam Greenglass reporting. President Trump is lashing out at Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore over what he says is a lagging response to a pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C. The federal government and D.C. water utility have jurisdiction over the busted pipe.
Chapter 4: What recent developments have occurred in the Gaza recovery efforts?
A spokesperson for Moore says the Trump administration has been shirking its responsibility on the repair and cleanup. A team has begun recovering bodies trapped under the rubble from one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war. An NPR investigation found 132 Palestinians from the same extended family were killed in that strike more than a year ago.
NPR's Anas Baba reports from the scene of the recovery mission supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
For the second day in a row, civil defense crews here in Gaza are digging through the rubble of what was once the Abu Nasser family home. Behind me, concrete slabs are stacked over each other, twisted steel hangs in the air, and there is a heavy sour smell. It's the odor of bodies decomposing between the debris. Rescuers say that they are lacking for the heavy machinery.
So far, 20 bodies have been recovered, and across Gaza, thousands more are still believed to lie under destroyed buildings. As families, for a year and a half now,
Chapter 5: What are the highlights of the U.S. women's hockey team's Olympic performance?
continue searching and waiting to bury their dead for a closure after the Israel strikes.
NPR's Anas Baba reporting. The U.S. women's hockey team will play for an Olympic gold medal. The team dominated Sweden 5-0 in a semifinal tonight in Milan. NPR's Becky Sullivan was there.
It was a close game at first, but toward the end of the second period, the Americans blew it wide open with three goals in the span of four minutes. The Swedes tried swapping goaltenders, but nothing worked. Afterward, the Swedish coach said they would have needed plexiglass in front of their net to win the game.
It was the sixth win in a row for the Americans, who have outscored their opponents 31-1 in the Olympics so far.
Chapter 6: How is Cuba managing its fuel shortages amid U.S. sanctions?
That run has included a 5-0 win over Canada, who they'll face again in Thursday's gold medal match. Forward Taylor Heise says the Americans won't take a win for granted.
Nothing matters. It's the gold medal game. Everyone's going to show up. And if they don't, they're not meant to be there.
A gold medal would be the third for the U.S. in Olympic women's ice hockey. Canada has won five. Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Milan.
Chapter 7: What is the legacy of filmmaker Frederick Wiseman?
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Drivers in Cuba could have to wait several months to refuel their cars as fuel shortages caused by a US oil siege intensify. To avoid chaos outside gas stations, Cuba's government last week made it obligatory for drivers to use an app to get fueling appointments, but the app is only granting appointments several weeks or months from now.
American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has died. He was 96. As a documentarian, he was a master of unscripted, unstaged storytelling that nonetheless embodied a point of view. NPR's Chloe Veltman has this appreciation.
Frederick Wiseman was extremely prolific. He made roughly 50 documentaries. Many of them chronicled the inner workings of institutions like the Idaho State Legislature, the New York Public Library and a high school in Philadelphia. But Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris says Wiseman has more in common with the theatre of the absurd than documentary filmmaking.
He has a way of finding in moments that I've ever seen anywhere.
Wiseman's first and most notorious work, Titic at Follies, captures the mistreatment of inmates at a Massachusetts prison facility for the criminally insane. The 1967 film was so shocking, the state of Massachusetts managed to get it banned for more than two decades. Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
An injured seabird sought help by pecking on a German hospital's emergency room door. The black cormorant had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak. Medical staff removed the hook and treated the wound. They then released the bird into the hospital park. This is NPR News.
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