NPR News: 10-18-2025 1PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Demonstrators are taking to the streets in cities across the nation today to protest against the Trump administration. NPR's Joel Rose reports the No Kings protests are planned at more than 2,000 locations, including the nation's capital.
The organizers of the No Kings protests say they're expecting millions of people to demonstrate against what they call the Trump administration's authoritarian agenda. Leah Greenberg is with the nonprofit group Indivisible, one of the organizers of the events.
What protests are happening against the Trump administration?
There is nothing more American than saying that we don't have kings and exercising our right to peaceful protest.
Republicans, meanwhile, are trying to portray the protesters as radical and violent. House Speaker Mike Johnson has described the event as a hate America rally. while other GOP leaders suggested the events are likely to turn violent. The organizers reject those claims as an attempt to smear the protesters and emphasize that the events are intended to be peaceful. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
The Trump administration has fired the entire team that supports sexual and reproductive clinics. The program is called Title X. NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports the clinics that rely on it are reeling.
Title X is a long-standing program. It was signed into law by President Nixon. It helps pay for birth control, cancer screenings, and testing for sexually transmitted infections, and nearly 4,000 clinics all over the country. Jessie Hitchens runs a clinic in Nebraska that receives Title X funds. She's really concerned by the fact that the whole Title X federal staff was just fired. Not knowing where we stand right now is really hard to plan for the future. She says Title X has gotten results, like bringing down high rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in Nebraska. If the whole Title X program goes away, she says, we are likely to see those diseases spike in our rural communities.
Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News. The Hostage Family Forum in Israel says the body returned by Hamas overnight has been identified as an Israeli citizen. 75-year-old Eliyahu Margalit was murdered when Hamas attacked the near Kibbutz on October 7. The BBC's Hugo Bechega reports from Jerusalem.
Hamas has now transferred 10 of the 28 bodies of deceased hostages that were being held in Gaza. Israel has accused the group of violating the ceasefire deal by deliberately delaying the process. Hamas says it needs heavy equipment to remove some bodies from under the rubble of destroyed buildings. The dispute has cast a shadow on the truce that was brokered with the help of President Donald Trump.
That's the BBC's Hugo Bechega reporting. This is NPR News in Washington. More than 2,000 people remained displaced after a powerful typhoon flooded coastal villages in Alaska last weekend. The storm brought record water levels to low-lying communities and washed away homes, some with people inside. Christy Brewer is with the Alaska Air National Guard. She says rescue teams have been working around the clock.
We've been also transporting maintenance. Some of these communities have less than 72 hours worth of food and one to two days worth of fuel to power the generators.
At least one person was killed and two remain missing. The governor is asking the White House to declare a major disaster. It was a historic night for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are heading to the World Series. But their win comes as Major League Baseball braces for a potential labor showdown. The current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2026 World Series, and the league is pushing for a salary cap, something players strongly oppose. Sports writer Howard Bryant says the next few seasons could be shaped by the battle off the field.
This is baseball's way of doing what they've been doing since 1975. For the last 50 years, they have been fighting themselves. They don't share their own revenue, yet they blame the players, and they want a salary cap for their own purposes. It's a golden age of baseball with the Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge and Kyle Raleigh in a post-steroid era time, and they want to fight over money.
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