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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. A split is growing between President Trump and what had been one of his staunchest advocates in Congress. And as NPR's Luke Garrett reports, the intra-party rift represents a broader fight over the Make America Great Again movement.
Trump called Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor on Saturday after reneging his endorsement for the Georgia lawmaker. Greene tells CNN she now fears for her safety.
Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.
Greene says Trump is attacking her because she supports releasing the Epstein files. She also criticized Trump's foreign policy agenda, saying he should focus more on domestic issues.
I would love to see Air Force One be parked and stay home.
Last week, Trump said he knows the MAGA movement best and that Greene is lashing out because he didn't support her statewide political ambitions, which Greene denies. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
A judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or withhold federal funding based on its discrimination allegations. From Member Station, KQED in San Francisco, Juan Carlos Lara reports.
The ruling is a victory for faculty, staff, and student groups who sued after the administration demanded that UCLA pay over $1 billion and change campus policies, like a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, to reinstate frozen federal funding. Connie Chan is counsel for some of those groups.
The ruling is really significant. It requires...
What is the current conflict between President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
the government to refrain from using its pressure tactics to try to coerce the University of California into adopting the administration's preferred ideological views.
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment. For NPR News, I'm Juan Carlos Lara in San Francisco.
In Southern California, the rain is easing for now, but the risk from an atmospheric river remains. Forecasters say the rain could be heavy again tomorrow, leading to more flash flood warnings and rock slide risk. The region is still recovering from January firestorms, now susceptible to debris flow. After the storm dumped more than a month's worth of rain in parts up to six inches, flooding got uncomfortably close for Long Beach resident Tim Maurice.
The water just started coming up really fast and up past the sidewalk now and almost put some sandbags around the house, almost in the house. It's a little scary.
In parts of town, kayakers were paddling down the streets. Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro says U.S. military exercises in maritime neighbor Trinidad and Tobago are irresponsible, and he is accusing the U.S. of pursuing a criminal war. The USS Gerald Ford arrives in the northern Caribbean today, the world's biggest aircraft carrier joining thousands of service members already there. This is NPR News. In Chile, a new president and parliament are on the ballot today. Presidential candidates vary sharply. Jeanette Jara is a communist and former labor minister, and José Antonio Kast, an ultra-conservative lawyer. The focus has been on public fears over organized crime and immigration. Ukraine is working on resuming prisoner exchanges with Russia.
NPR's Polina Litvinova reports from Kyiv the effort could potentially bring home 1,200 Ukrainians from captivity.
Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustam Umerov announced that he has had consultations with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on the resumption of the POW's exchanges between Ukraine and Russia. In his post on social media, Umerov wrote, this would help to activate the agreements the two countries made during the direct talks in Istanbul. Ukraine hopes to return home more than 1,000 people before Christmas. The last prisoner exchange was in October.
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