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NPR News: 10-21-2025 5AM EDT

21 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.993 - 4.44 Janine Herbst

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

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Chapter 2: What recent legal ruling did the Ninth Circuit Court make regarding the National Guard in Portland?

5.002 - 16.065 Janine Herbst

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump administration's efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson has more.

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16.248 - 36.973 Conrad Wilson

The decision overturns one of two temporary restraining orders issued by a lower court judge blocking the federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Oregon. Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, says the majority of the appeals court found the president's authority shouldn't be questioned over concerns such as an inability to carry out federal law.

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36.953 - 40.858 Jessica Levinson

Judges owe the president great deference in that area.

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Chapter 3: What concerns are being raised about vaccine requirements in Florida schools?

41.378 - 52.252 Jessica Levinson

And what a majority of the panel concluded is that the district court judge had essentially substituted her judgment for the president's judgment in an inappropriate way.

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52.932 - 65.728 Conrad Wilson

In a dissenting opinion, an appeals court judge warned the majority was eroding constitutional protections, such as the right to protest the government and state sovereignty. For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.

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66.417 - 75.482 Janine Herbst

Florida is making some vaccines optional for children and some teachers have concerns. For Member Station WUSF, Keri Sheridan has more.

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75.749 - 82.261 Keri Sheridan

Mary Holmes is a public school teacher in Sarasota County, where vaccination rates for kids are below 80 percent.

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Chapter 4: How did the Amazon Web Services outage impact internet users?

82.661 - 100.373 Keri Sheridan

Her students have disabilities. Many have weakened immune systems, and it's not just them. We have a lot of teachers and staff members with cancer that people have no idea about. She says parents should be able to choose whether to vaccinate their kids, but not if they send them to public school, where they put others at risk.

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100.471 - 107.228 Keri Sheridan

If a parent feels that strongly, I think they should go with their gut and then homeschool them. I don't think you can have both.

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Chapter 5: What construction changes are happening at the White House under the Trump administration?

107.248 - 117.855 Keri Sheridan

By December, Florida will no longer require shots against four diseases, including hepatitis B and chickenpox. For NPR News, I'm Keri Sheridan in Sarasota.

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119.287 - 130.132 Janine Herbst

The massive outage at Amazon's Web Services division that disrupted websites and apps across the Internet yesterday is raising concerns about just how vulnerable our systems are.

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Chapter 6: How did the Toronto Blue Jays secure their spot in the World Series?

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NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more.

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133.175 - 149.851 Betsy Cooper

Users of apps and sites as diverse as Venmo, Reddit, and Duolingo reported problems. They were traced back to a failure in Amazon's cloud computing service that arose in the early hours of Monday morning. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among the biggest cloud computing providers.

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150.412 - 158.98 Betsy Cooper

And while there are some benefits for companies that rely on these huge providers, cybersecurity expert Betsy Cooper says this incident highlights vulnerabilities.

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159.145 - 163.894 Keri Sheridan

Something goes wrong, and then you really see just how dependent you are on a handful of those companies.

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164.314 - 172.85 Betsy Cooper

And we should note, Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR, and it pays to distribute some of NPR's content. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.

Chapter 7: What is the current status of global financial markets as reported in this episode?

174.012 - 193.535 Janine Herbst

U.S. futures contracts are trading lower at last check. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Trump administration has started tearing down part of the East Wing of the White House, the traditional base of operations for the First Lady, to build President Trump's new $250 million ballroom.

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193.976 - 209.233 Janine Herbst

This despite not getting approval for the construction from the federal agency that oversees these kinds of projects. The East Wing was built in 1902. Trump now says the ballroom will hold 999 people. That's an increase from the 650 originally announced.

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209.213 - 223.474 Janine Herbst

The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the World Series after winning Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners, four runs to three. There, they will take on the defending champs, the Los Angeles Dodgers. And Pierce, Becky Sullivan has more.

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224.255 - 239.828 Becky Sullivan

The Mariners took the Blue Jays to the brink in the ALCS. Seattle first took a two-game lead. Then, after Toronto battled back to force Game 7, Seattle jumped out to a two-run lead. But the Blue Jays took the lead on a three-run home run from George Springer in the seventh inning.

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240.309 - 256.439 Becky Sullivan

Now Toronto is headed back to the World Series for the first time since they won back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993. This time, they'll try to keep the Dodgers from going back-to-back. The star-studded Los Angeles lineup swept the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS. Their pitchers combined to give up only one run per game.

256.86 - 267.857 Becky Sullivan

Shohei Otani hit three home runs and pitched six in a third shutout innings in the victory that clinched the series. Game 1 of the World Series will take place Friday in Los Angeles. Becky Sullivan, NPR News.

268.478 - 279.197 Janine Herbst

World financial markets, Asian markets higher by the close. The Nikkei in Japan up two-tenths of a percent. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong up six-tenths. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.

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