NPR News: 09-20-2025 9AM EDT
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What headlines are covered in today’s NPR News briefing?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is lashing out at major news networks, claiming that overwhelmingly negative coverage of him amounts to a violation of free speech.
When somebody is given ninety seven percent of the stories a bad about a person, that's no longer. Free speech that's no longer any that's just cheating. And they cheat. And they become really members of the Democrat National Committee. That's what they are, the networks, in my opinion.
Free speech advocates warn if the government begins punishing news outlets for negative coverage, it sets a dangerous precedent, one that threatens viewpoint discrimination and undermines the press's role in checking power. A judge in Florida has thrown out a $15 billion lawsuit filed by President Trump against the New York Times and four of its journalists.
Why did a Florida judge dismiss President Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times?
The judge said the complaint was too long. and violated a federal civil procedure rule by omitting a short and plain statement of why the court should rule in the president's favor. The court has given Trump twenty eight days to file a shorter revised complaint. A federal court says the White House can't start withholding billions of dollars from a group of states that refuse to turn over the personal data of food assistance recipients. NPR's
How is the USDA’s request for SNAP recipient data impacting states and federal funding?
Joffey Block reports.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is requiring states turn over sensitive information about people who've received federal food assistance over the last five years from the program known as SNAP. At least 23 states complied, turning over the names, social security numbers, addresses, and other data about SNAP recipients. But other states in the District of Columbia refused, many of which joined together to sue the USDA, alleging the data demand is unlawful. USDA then threatened to take away significant funds from states that didn't comply. But a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled the federal agency cannot withhold funding from states that sued as the case proceeds. Coffee block and PR News.
What is the legal fight over gender markers on U.S. passports and the Trump administration’s proposal?
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate its policy of requiring people to list their gender on their passports as their biological sex at birth. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports transgender and non-binary individuals have been allowed for years to self-identify their gender on their passports.
Beginning in the early 1990s, the government allowed trans individuals to list their new gender on their passports. And in 2022, the Biden administration broadened the policy to allow people to list their gender as male, female, or ex. The Trump executive order would allow only two designations on passports male and female. The administration asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court order that until now has prevented the Trump policy from going into effect. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. This
is NPR. President Trump has signed a proclamation that requires a new one hundred thousand dollar annual fee for H one B visa applicants. The visas help bring highly skilled foreigners for jobs that tech companies struggle to fill with US citizens. It's no illusion, an American duo has finally been admitted into Magic's most hallowed body.
Who were finally inducted into the Magic Circle and why is it significant?
Vicky Barker has more on the exclusive London based society for magicians.
For fifty years Penn and Teller had been barred from the magic circle for breaking this cardinal rule, as they freely admitted in this appearance on British television.
You never tell an audience how a trick is being done. Swinner tell you exactly how the trick is being done.
But on Friday, seventy-year-old Pen Gillette and seventy-seven year old Raymond Teller were finally inducted into the hundred and twenty-year-old body, whose members include avid amateur King Charles. The Magic Circle's president noted that the real magic lay in the pairs seeming to reveal their tricks while demonstrating different tricks, leaving audiences amazed. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What headlines are covered in today’s NPR News briefing?
0:00–0:55
2
Why did a Florida judge dismiss President Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times?
0:55–1:23
3
How is the USDA’s request for SNAP recipient data impacting states and federal funding?
1:23–2:04
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What is the legal fight over gender markers on U.S. passports and the Trump administration’s proposal?
2:04–3:23
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Who were finally inducted into the Magic Circle and why is it significant?
3:23–4:38