Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says that one of the National Guard members shot yesterday in Washington, D.C., has died. The other remains in critical condition.
Chapter 2: What happened in Washington D.C. involving the National Guard?
The Afghan national accused of the shooting is in custody and was also injured. Now, as NPR's Dia Hadid reports, the Trump administration says all immigration requests from Afghan nationals are being halted indefinitely.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services made the announcement on X, formerly known as Twitter. It came as the Department of Homeland Security identified the shooter as an Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal. He entered the U.S. under a program that helped resettle Afghan refugees after the Taliban overran Kabul and triggered the chaotic exit of U.S. forces from the country.
Advocates for Afghans say the decision to suspend immigration requests is likely to impact the claims of some 35,000 Afghan nationals and their families who are in the asylum pipeline. That's through a program for those who served alongside Western forces during America's two decades of involvement in Afghanistan. Dia Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai.
President Trump is defending his chief negotiator after a leaked recording appeared to show him coaching a Russian official on how to get a better deal with Trump.
Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration handling Afghan immigration requests?
Trump says it's standard practice to do so. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
The controversy has shined a new spotlight on his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and drawn criticism to the administration's ad hoc approach to securing peace deals. But Aaron David Miller, who served as a negotiator for Republican and Democratic administrations, says even a negotiating giant like Secretary of State Henry Kissinger would have a tough time with Russia.
My experience in negotiations, they work. That is to say, deals are cut when there is urgency. And urgency is a function of two things. How much pain the parties are under and what are the prospects for gain.
The problem is that Miller just doesn't see the urgency in Moscow. And Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't seem ready to make the kinds of concessions required to make a deal. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News.
Congress has very little time left to decide whether to continue subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act. Republicans say they're too costly, but President Trump, who has been opposed to the subsidies, has now said they may be necessary. Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond says that in the end, both sides will likely have to come to some sort of agreements.
This probably does need to be something bipartisan ultimately because many Republicans are going to bulk on any extension to these ACA subsidies. President Trump has said he doesn't want to extend the subsidies, but he's open to the idea. And we are probably headed to a world where there will be some form of compromise if Republicans don't want to suffer next year.
More than 20 million Americans, meanwhile, have just three weeks to sign up for 2026 plans. You're listening to NPR News. Many families in Texas are facing their first Thanksgiving without loved ones after flooding on the 4th of July left at least 138 people dead. At Houston Public Media's Dominic, Anthony Walsh reports the community is still working to rebuild some four months later.
18-year-old Chloe Childress was one of two counselors, along with 25 young girls, swept away from Camp Mystic, the century-old Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River. Her father, Matthew Childress, says the family is creating new holiday traditions this year, leaving town instead of staying in with family.
But there's always this sort of dark cloud sort of waiting for you, that reminder that, oh yes, this happened, and this is something that we're stuck with, that we can't escape.
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