NPR News: 05-13-2026 3AM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
What allegations did FBI Director Kash Patel face during the Senate hearing?
FBI Director Kash Patel was on Capitol Hill Tuesday ostensibly for a budget hearing before a Senate committee, but he clashed with Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen over reporting by The Atlantic Magazine about excessive drinking on the job allegations.
Director Patel, come on. These are serious allegations that were made against you.
The allegations are false. You drinking margaritas with a gangbanger is true and on video. You running a $7,000 bar tab at the lobby bar has been filed by your own office to drink during the day. That's you. This is the ultimate example of hypocrisy. I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations and fraudulent statements from the media.
Who is David Venturella and what changes is he expected to bring to ICE?
The fact that you mention that indicates you don't know what you are talking about.
Patel has filed a $250 million lawsuit over the Atlantic story. The Atlantic says it stands by it. David Venturella is expected to be the next acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. And Piercio Menobastio reports he takes on the agency as the Trump administration is looking to walk back large-scale surges of immigration enforcement while increasing detentions and deportations.
Ventrella most recently worked for the department overseeing contracts between ICE and various detention facilities. He previously worked for ICE during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. He left the agency to work for GeoGroup, a private prison company that contracts with the federal government for immigration detention. The selection comes as leadership at DHS led by new secretary Mark Wayne Mullen are looking to shift away from controversial surges of enforcement and build up detention and deportation capacity. Ventrella will inherit a much larger workforce.
What is the booming clipping economy and how does it work?
About 12,000 new employees were added in the last year. And a bigger budget. Congressional Republicans gave ICE $75 billion last summer, about half to spend on the tension space. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
The so-called clipping economy is booming. NPR's Bobby Allen reports on the thousands of freelance video editors who turn long content into short videos to make money from clip-for-cash campaigns.
Behind the flurry of short video clips flooding Instagram, TikTok, and X are people who edit down hundreds of videos a day into viral snippets in response to bounties put up by companies and influencers typically paying around 50 cents per thousand views. Several clippers told NPR they quit their day jobs to clip full-time. An agency founder said clipping is the new TV commercial or billboard in the age of scrolling. Ad executive Lou Pascalis says this shadow economy is a race to the bottom.
The movie trailer gets a lot more views than the movie. So it's not a new phenomenon, but I think the reality is that in the attention deficit economy, that we now live in, if you can't say it's shorter, people aren't going to see it.
A leading clipping agency executive said most clippers are between the ages of 16 and 24.
This is NPR. President Trump is on his way to China.
What are the implications of President Trump's visit to China?
He is to arrive in Beijing Wednesday evening for a state visit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump told reporters that trade will be the main focus, but Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz will also be on the agenda. King Charles III is to lay out the British government's agenda Wednesday at the ceremonial state opening of Parliament. His speech comes as Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure after his Labour Party suffered big losses in local and regional elections last week on Tuesday. Starmer pledged to press ahead and again warned of chaos if he were to be ousted. The Eurovision Song Contest launched Tuesday in Vienna, Austria. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports on the geopolitical rifts that are casting a shadow
How is the Eurovision Song Contest impacted by geopolitical tensions?
over the annual extravaganza, which is now in its 70th year.
The 2026 Eurovision entry from Israel, performed by Noam Betan, is sung in three languages, English, Hebrew and French, to both reflect the artist's multilingual background and potentially increase the song's international appeal.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What allegations did FBI Director Kash Patel face during the Senate hearing?
0:04–0:46
3
Who is David Venturella and what changes is he expected to bring to ICE?
0:46–1:46
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What is the booming clipping economy and how does it work?
1:46–3:03
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What are the implications of President Trump's visit to China?
3:03–3:50
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How is the Eurovision Song Contest impacted by geopolitical tensions?
3:50–4:52
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What summer movies and TV shows should you watch according to NPR?
4:52–4:58