NPR News: 09-26-2025 3PM EDT
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What are the latest developments in the indictment of James Comey?
President Trump is applauding the indictment of one of his fiercest critics, former FBI Director James Comey. Nearly five years after appearing before a Senate committee, Comey is now charged with lying to the panel about whether he authorized a leak of confidential information to the media. Comey's also charged with obstruction of justice. He says he's done nothing wrong, and his supporters say they believe President Trump's weaponizing the Justice Department to wage a campaign of retribution against his political enemies. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports on the newly selected prosecutor who brought the indictment, Trump's former personal attorney, Lindsey Halligan.
Halligan is somebody who who's never worked as a prosecutor. She has no prosecutorial experience. Her background mainly is as an insurance attorney. She worked as a personal attorney as well for President Trump briefly in the And the case in Florida, where he was accused of mishandling classified documents, has since worked as an aide at the White House. So someone who has close ties with the president, that's who President Trump put in place. They have been rushing in the U.S. attorney's office there to get this case to a grand jury because the statute of limitations was set to expire next month. And ultimately, Halligan pushed this case through.
NPR's Ryan Lucas. An ICE officer working at a New York immigration court has been placed on administrative leave after video circulated online showed him pushing a woman against the wall into the ground. Here's NPR's Ximena Bustillo.
NPR was in the courthouse last month rolling when the same officer aggressively arrested a court observer. Why are you pushing? Why are you shoving? DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin says in a statement that the officers' latest actions caught on camera yesterday are, quote, unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE. There have been growing tensions between federal law enforcement and the public and immigration courts as agents are tasked with making more arrests. Over the last five months, ICE had a bigger footprint inside immigration courts, which are operated by the Justice Department. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the U.N. today.
Thanks to special efforts by Israeli intelligence... My words are now also being carried. They're streamed live to the cell phones of Gazans.
But NPR's Emily Feng reports few, if any, in Gaza heard Netanyahu.
The prime minister's office shared pictures of big loudspeakers mounted on trucks in Israel on the border with Gaza to blast Netanyahu's speech into the enclave. But news outlets, including NPR, contacted people across Gaza who say they didn't hear anything. NPR's producer in Gaza City, Anas Baba, also kept an ear out for Netanyahu's speech.
He said that he's going to broadcast a message to the Israeli hostages.
Who is Lindsey Halligan and why did she bring Comey’s case to a grand jury?
But in Gaza City now, the only thing that we can hear here is the Israeli airstrikes, the artilleries and the tanks firing here.
And dozens of diplomats walked out of the United Nations Assembly Hall ahead of Netanyahu's speech.
It's NPR News. Tennessee residents are learning that the plan to deploy National Guard troops to Memphis will be very different from President Trump's deployment of those service members to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles recently. Today, the state's Republican governor, Bill Lee, says the Guard members will be from Tennessee. They will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service and help fight crime. Lee says they will not be armed unless asked by local law enforcement and will not make arrests. President Trump has framed the deployments as anti-crime, but critics argue Trump is unlawfully targeting Democratic-led cities. An attack squirrel is on the loose in the Bay Area. Katie DiBenedetti with member station KQED reports at least three North Bay residents were injured.
Joan Heblak was out for her morning walk when she felt something strange grabbing on her leg last Sunday.
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