Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
Chapter 2: What happened in the incident near the White House involving the National Guard?
A member of the National Guard shot near the White House Wednesday remains in critical condition. His colleague died of her injuries Thursday. The suspect is an Afghan national who had worked for the CIA in Afghanistan. The State Department says it stopped issuing visas for anyone traveling on Afghan passports. NPR's Dia Hadid reports from Mumbai.
She's been speaking with Afghans who've been waiting for years to be allowed to come to the U.S.
These are really dark days for the some 265,000 Afghans who advocates say were in the pipeline to come to the U.S., Like Roshanga, he was in the Afghan military. He used to sign off on airstrikes targeting Taliban fighters. He's now in hiding in Afghanistan in fear of his life, which is why I won't use his full name.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Afghan national's actions in Washington D.C.?
But Roshanga told me that he was ashamed of the Afghan national behind the Wednesday attack in D.C.
NPR's Dia Hadid reporting, Hondurans will head to the polls tomorrow to elect a new president, and the U.S. president is getting involved. NPR's Eder Peralta reports.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump endorsed conservative Tito Asfura for president, and he also said he would issue a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking in a federal court in the United States, and he was also implicated in huge corruption scandals at home.
Asfura took the National Party reins from Hernández, and he lost to a leftist candidate in 2021. In his post, Trump threatened to pull USA to Honduras if Asfura doesn't win. The most recent polls show three candidates are in a dead heat for the presidency. Ed Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Trump administration yesterday to pay tens of millions to the government in order to receive hundreds of millions in federal research funding. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny reports.
Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years. In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism.
The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school. This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University, and Columbia University. Alyssa Nadwarni, NPR News.
Top officials at the Food and Drug Administration say they'll take a tougher approach to regulating vaccines. They say that new evidence shows at least 10 children have died from COVID-19 vaccines. Independent public health experts say the administration has made unsupported and misleading statements about vaccines in the past. This is NPR News in Washington.
The holiday shopping season is underway. The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales might top $1 trillion for the first time, despite consumer concerns about tariffs and inflation. Adobe Analytics, which tracks online sales, says that yesterday, Black Friday, shoppers spent more than 9% more than last year. Dorothy Vogel has died at the age of 90.
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