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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Chapter 2: What tragic event involving a West Virginia National Guard member is reported?
President Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Backstrom is dead.
She's no longer with us. She's looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her. It's just happened. She was savagely attacked. She's dead.
Trump made the announcement during his Thanksgiving call to U.S. troops. Beckstrom was 20 years old. She was one of the two West Virginia Guard members who were shot in Washington, D.C. Wednesday in what officials call a targeted attack. The suspect is in custody and has been identified as an Afghan national who came to the U.S.
during the Biden administration and was granted asylum earlier this year. Late Thursday, President Trump posted a long message on social media saying he will permanently pause migration from what he said are third world countries. For many Americans, it's an unspoken rule to avoid political discussions at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
And as NPR's Elena Moore reports, the latest NPR-PBS News-Marist poll may help explain why it finds that both Democrats and Republicans are skeptical of people who are in the other party.
Vast majorities of both Democrats and Republicans say that folks who support the other party are, quote, mostly close-minded. Plus, 72 percent of Republicans and 65 percent of Democrats believe those on the other side of the aisle are, quote, mostly dishonest. For some, like Democratic voter Teresa Tucker in Michigan, engaging in political discussions has become difficult.
I think it's definitely gotten worse.
I think, unfortunately, this administration has pitted people against each other and You know, if we would have more conversations, I think we would find we have a lot more in common than we don't.
She says this holiday season, the focus at her dinner won't be on politics. It'll be on family and festivities. Elena Moore, NPR News.
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