Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What happened to the National Guard members near the White House?
Two National Guard members from West Virginia are in critical condition this afternoon after being shot several blocks from the White House. They were part of a contingent deployed to Washington, D.C. by President Trump this summer. A suspect is in custody and was also shot. FBI Director Kash Patel.
This will be treated at the federal level as an assault on a federal law enforcement officer. The FBI will lead out on that mission with our interagency partners to include the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, ATF, DEA. And we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter.
D.C. police say they believe the shooter targeted the guard members. The White House was briefly placed in lockdown after the shooting occurred. President Trump has updated his original 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine. As NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, Trump says there are now only a few remaining points of disagreements.
President Trump says he's dispatching his special envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow to meet with President Putin, while sending Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians to work out the final details. It's just the latest iteration of yo-yoing proposal that Trump has presented as he tries to cement his peacemaking legacy. Ivo Daldr, a former U.S.
ambassador to NATO, says all Trump wants is a deal.
He doesn't care what the terms of the deal are. He just wants it to end and to be seen as the person who ended it.
But Daldr says the problem is that while the U.S. agreed to plans with both Russia and Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine have not reached an agreement on any plans with each other. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
A judge in Georgia has dismissed the state's election interference case against President Trump and several other people that move ends the last attempt to prosecute Trump over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election laws. Six Democrats in Congress say they're being investigated by the FBI after they made a video telling members of the military that they can refuse illegal orders.
President Trump called the message seditious behavior punishable by death. NPR's Sam Greenglass has more.
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Chapter 3: What updates did President Trump make to his Ukraine war plan?
Like on Earth, clouds of turbulent volcanic ash can create lightning. Now, in the journal Nature, a team says that in windy conditions, a microphone on NASA's Perseverance rover sometimes did more than just hear wind. Dozens of times, it registered a distinctive pattern of electrical interference followed by the acoustic signal of a shockwave.
They say this had to have been from electrical arcs just a few centimeters long. They want to learn more about this electrical activity to understand what risks, if any, it might pose to future human or robotic missions. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians today. The exchange came one day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage. The exchanges are part of the ceasefire that went into effect last month. The remains of two hostages held by Hamas are still to be returned. Hamas says their recovery has been slowed by the destruction to Gaza during the war with Israel.
A court in Peru has sentenced former President MartĆn Vizcarra to 14 years in prison. Vizcarra had been found guilty of corruption for accepting bribes when he was governor of a Peruvian state. He was sent to prison immediately after the sentencing. He is also barred from holding public office for nine years. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.