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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump has fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the first major cabinet shakeup of his second term. NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports the president has selected Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullins to fill the position.
He's going to have a lot to juggle. Trump says that he could take over by the end of March, though, of course, he will have to get confirmed by the Senate. And it is unclear whether the agency will be funded by Congress by then. There is bipartisan consensus that there's a lack of trust in federal immigration enforcement officers.
And internally, there have also been fractures. That's NPR's Jimena Bustillo reporting. Secretary Noem is expected to move into a newly created administration role focused on a security initiative called Shield of the Americas. The House has blocked a measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran a day after a similar measure failed in the Senate.
NPR's Claudia Grisales reports the vote put lawmakers on record six days into the war.
War powers debates are nothing new. Since the Cold War, presidents of both parties have asserted the right to order limited strikes without congressional sign-off. House Speaker Mike Johnson said blocking further operations in Iran now would have been a, quote, dangerous gambit.
It would have been a very serious misstep by Congress, and I'm grateful that that resolution failed.
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Chapter 2: What major cabinet changes did President Trump announce?
Both GOP-led chambers blocked the bill largely along party lines. In the House, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey and California Democrat Ro Khanna teamed up again to force the vote. Only one other Republican, Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson, joined Massey to advance the resolution. Democrats saw four defections, including Maine's Jared Golden and Henry Cuellar of Texas, who sided with the GOP.
Claudia DeSales, NPR News, the Capitol.
A man who received a presidential pardon for storming the U.S. Capitol and assaulting police on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison on new criminal charges. NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports the defendant was convicted of child sexual abuse.
Andrew Paul Johnson repeatedly abused two children when they were 11 and 12 years old. And some of that abuse occurred after President Trump pardoned Johnson for his January 6th case and released him from prison. Trump argued the Capitol riot defendants were treated unfairly. Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said Trump bears some responsibility for Johnson's crimes.
It was only because Donald Trump let him out of prison that he was able to continue his his sickening pattern of child sexual abuse.
Now he's going back to prison, this time for life. The White House did not respond to NPR's request for comment on Johnson. Tom Dreisbach, NPR News.
This is NPR. The Department of Health and Human Services says 53 medical schools across the country have agreed to require students to complete 40 hours of nutrition education. The initiative is aimed at fighting chronic disease, which affects roughly 60 percent of people in the United States.
Currently, the National Academy of Sciences recommends medical schools provide at least 25 hours of nutrition training. The government in the Democratic Republic of Congo says at least 200 people have been killed in a landslide at a mine. The mine produces about 15 percent of the world's coltan used for smartphones and other technology. NPR's Emmanuel Akinwatu reports.
Dozens of children were among the dead, killed by a landslide at the Rubaiya mine after heavy rains. Fatal incidents are common in the DRC, one of the most mineral-rich countries in the world, where international corporations have major investments, but where child labour, exploitative and unsafe conditions are systemic.
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