NPR News: 11-14-2025 1PM EST
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The election interference criminal case in Georgia against President Trump and several others will move forward after a new prosecutor was appointed before today's deadline. From member station WABE in Atlanta, Alex Helmick reports.
The Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia Executive Director Pete Skandalakis said that dismissal at this point was not the right course of action and has named himself to lead the case and perform what he called a comprehensive review to determine how to proceed. In a statement, the president's lead defense counsel, Steve Sadow, calls the case a politically charged prosecution and says that a review of the facts will lead to dismissal.
What recent developments are there in the Georgia election interference case?
Alex Helmick reporting, Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis originally brought the massive racketeering case but was removed by Georgia court for her personal relationship with a special prosecutor. The 43-day government shutdown, which is now over. delayed funding for a program that helps millions of Americans to pay their heating bills to buy fuel and to repair broken equipment. Sophia Schmidt with member station WHYY says it is still unclear when people will receive that assistance.
Several states have delayed their low-income home energy assistance programs, or LIHEAP, while they wait for federal funding. Mark Wolf heads a group that represents the state agencies involved. He says it usually takes the federal government about a month to release LIHEAP money after Congress passes a funding bill. But that was before the Trump administration fired the staff that administer the program this spring.
And for families that use delivered fuels, heating oil and propane, that could put them in a precarious situation because they have to pay the vendor to get fuel delivered.
The Department of Health and Human Services says it will work swiftly to administer the funds. For NPR News, I'm Sophia Schmidt in Philadelphia.
Ukrainian forces say they are holding on to a key city in eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces say they're closing in. nearly two years after they first launched their fight to occupy it. NPR's Joannika Kicis reports that both Ukraine and Russia also see the battle as key to shaping narratives about who is winning the war.
NPR spoke to four Ukrainian brigades whose soldiers are defending the eastern city of Pokrovsk. a city which Russian attacks have largely destroyed. Small groups of Russian troops have infiltrated the city, leading to intense street battles. Volodymyr Polovyi is with Ukraine's 7th Rapid Response Corps.
The brigades are really exhausted. The enemy has changed its tactic. We have the infiltration of infantry groups, and they are covered by the swarms of drones.
Russia is also using an elite drone unit called Rubicon, which hunts down Ukrainian drone operators. Joanna Kekises, NPR News, Kiev. It's NPR.
Three Chinese astronauts are back on Earth after being stuck in space for more than a week. Their return vessel had been struck by space debris, damaging it. NPR's Emily Fang with the latest.
After six months on a tiny space station, the three astronauts of China's Tiangong space station were supposed to land back in Inner Mongolia at the start of this month. Instead, space debris cracked the window of their return vessel, the Shenzhou 20. Debris can travel at thousands of miles an hour in the vacuum of space, and even tiny particles can cause big damage to instruments and spacecraft. Adding to their troubles, a new rotation of three astronauts had already come up to relieve the initial crew. So China's space agency said the stuck astronauts landed safely back on Earth using the new rotation spacecraft, the Shenzhou 21. The three astronauts that just landed back on Earth spent a total of 204 days in space, China's record since they started their space program in 2003.
Emily Fang, NPR News.
The Oakland, California, police department says a suspect has been arrested in the shooting of college football coach John Beam, who remains in critical condition.
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