NPR News: 11-28-2025 10PM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Trump administration has been lashing out against immigrants in the U.S. following the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. by a suspected gunman from Afghanistan. NPR's Vanessa Romo reports the man moved to the U.S.
What recent actions has the Trump administration taken regarding immigration?
in 2021 and was granted asylum earlier this year.
In a post on X Friday, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joseph Edlow says the agency has halted all asylum decisions. President Trump vented his anger over the shooting on Truth Social late Thursday night. In a post, the president said his administration would, quote, end all federal benefits and subsidies to non-citizens and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States. He also falsely alleged that refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America. He went on to blame immigrants for crime and using federal benefits, and he called out legal green card holders for getting government support. Trump promised to permanently pause migration from what he called third world countries.
Vanessa Romo, NPR News.
A top aide of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky resigned in a corruption probe. The resignation of Andrei Yermak came after authorities raided his residence and office today. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.
He's a former film producer. He goes way back with Zelensky, a business partner in Zelensky's TV days before being elected president of Ukraine in 2019. And he's really been Zelensky's right-hand man in office. And the two are close personal friends. They've basically lived in close quarters in the presidential compound behind the sandbags. They're said to even work out together, watch movies together to lower their stress. But over time, Yermak has amassed a lot of power. He basically ran the executive office. Everything went through him. and a majority of Ukrainians are happy about his resignation.
That's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting. Airbus is ordering an immediate software fix for thousands of its A320 series jets. NPR's Sarah Ventry reports the company has released a statement saying strong solar radiation can corrupt data used by flight control systems.
On October 30th, a JetBlue flight abruptly lost altitude while flying from Cancun, Mexico to Newark, New Jersey. Several passengers were injured. Airbus now says that this was likely the result of intense solar radiation corrupting data critical to the functioning of flight controls. Now, those systems will need to be updated in order to fly safely, which could cause major delays and cancellations during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. The Airbus A320 family of airplanes is now the most used aircraft in the world. According to aviation analytics company Sirium, more than 9,000 of those planes are in use. Sarah Ventry, NPR News. This is NPR.
Officials in Hong Kong say the death toll from a massive high-rise fire has climbed to at least 128, with dozens more still missing. The fire ripped through seven buildings in a residential complex, many of them housing older adults. Investigators say scaffolding and highly flammable facade panels helped fuel the spread. Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with renovation work at the site, including contractors and project managers. Firefighters prioritized apartments where residents had called for help, but crews say the flames moved too fast for many to escape. NASA's twin escapade spacecraft have begun their journey to Mars, but as Joe Palco reports, they'll be staying near Earth for nearly a year.
Every two years, the orbits of Earth and Mars line up in such a way that it's possible to send a spacecraft from here to there. The next time that happens is in the fall of 2026. So until then, the escapade probes will wait in a kidney-shaped orbit near Earth. They'll then use Earth's gravity as a kind of slingshot to actually begin the 10-month cruise to Mars. They'll arrive in 2027. Once there, the two probes are designed to provide a unique picture of how charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, interact with the thin Martian atmosphere.
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