NPR News: 09-25-2025 9PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted former FBI Director James Comey. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports Comey faces charges of obstructing justice and making false statements. The charges against Jim Comey come after days of pressure from President Trump, who urged the Justice Department to hurry up and build a criminal case against him.
What charges has former FBI Director James Comey been indicted on?
The statute of limitations had been set to expire next week. The charges stem from Senate testimony Comey gave in September 2020 about the FBI investigation into Russian election interference and a leak to the news media. The White House recently forced down a longtime prosecutor after he cast doubt on the strength of any case against Comey. This week, Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor, but who had earlier ties to Trump, became U.S. attorney in Virginia. The president posted, quote, justice in America after the indictment became public. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington. President Trump has given his blessing to a deal for a group of mostly U.S. investors to take over the short video app TikTok.
Trump signed an executive order saying the proposed deal meets congressional requirements and will protect national security. NPR's John Ruich has more. The executive order paves the way for a framework agreement on the sale of TikTok to be finalized. It would see TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance divest to less than 20 percent ownership while U.S. investors step in and take control. A law passed last year requires ByteDance to divest or see the app go dark in the United States. The law arose out of the fear that under Chinese ownership, TikTok could be used by the Chinese government to collect data on Americans or manipulate U.S. users with propaganda or disinformation. After Trump signed the executive order, Vice President J.D.
Vance said the deal values TikTok at around $14 billion. He said the deal safeguards U.S. users' data and ensures that Americans are in control of TikTok's prized content recommendation algorithm. John Rewich, NPR News. Today, dozens of migrants showed up to the Dallas ICE facility where three detainees were shot yesterday. They all had mandatory check-ins with ICE that, if missed, could lead to detention and deportation. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports. 53-year-old Nicaraguan migrant Benjamín Bellorín drove more than two hours to get to his appointment with ICE in Dallas. But he found police officers outside telling him that the facility was closed. No appointments today. Bellorín expressed he was worried, saying...
I just wanted them to see that I showed up, he says. He does not want to get in trouble. Bellerín did not know the appointments have been postponed. Authorities say the gunman who opened fire this week was targeting ICE agents, but the people he shot were all detainees. ICE has said this week's check-ins have been moved to next week. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Dallas. This is NPR. A brazen heist at a San Francisco Bay Area jewelry store led to some two dozen people wearing masks, smashing glass cases with pickaxes and making off with bags full of a million dollars worth of jewelry. Police say the robbers fled in cars waiting in a nearby lot. Officers tracked the vehicles from the air and were able to arrest several suspects.
A violent squirrel is on the loose in the Bay Area. Katie DiBenedetti with member station KQED reports that at least three North Bay residents have gone to the emergency room with injuries from the rodent. Joan Heblak was out for her morning walk when she felt something strange grabbing on her leg last Sunday. It was very heavy and I looked down and it was a squirrel. Neighbors say five people have reported attacks around the same street in San Rafael this month that go a bit like this. It wouldn't get off. It just clung more, and I was swinging my leg around and screaming. Luckily, the odds of getting rabies from a squirrel are extremely low, and Heblak was back out on her usual walk that same afternoon.
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