Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm. President Trump's new national security strategy is critical of Europe in several ways, one of them being its support for Ukraine. Terry Schultz reports.
The strategy says Europe is in economic decline and faces impending civilizational erasure. It blames the European Union in part for undermining political liberty and sovereignty, including freedom of speech. It says within a few decades, certain NATO countries will become majority non-European due to excessive immigration.
The German Marshall Fund's Ian Lesser says the document is unlikely to be widely appreciated, but... The hard right and those who share that view about migration and replacement theories and things of that nature will find in this some common cause.
On X, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt notes, Europe seems to be the only part of the world where the new security strategy sees any threat to democracy, which he calls bizarre. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
Meanwhile, the war continues. Ukrainian officials say Russia launched missile and drone attacks against Ukraine overnight. The president said they were targeting mainly energy facilities. Qatar says negotiations over the war in Gaza are at a critical moment.
Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani told the annual Doha Forum that mediators were working hard to push phase two of a U.S.-backed peace plan.
What we have just done is a pause. We cannot consider it yet a ceasefire.
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Chapter 2: What are the key points of President Trump's new national security strategy?
A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, there is stability back in Gaza, people can go in and out, which is not the case. Right now, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, together with the United States, we are getting together in order to force the way forward for the next phase. And this next phase is just also temporary.
The first phase began October 10, which halted the fighting and allowed for the exchange of hostages. The Supreme Court is clearing the way for Texas to use the 2025 redistricting map for its midterm congressional elections. But it doesn't guarantee Republican control of the House next year, as President Trump sought, by pressing for Texas, to redistrict in the first place.
Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider has more on the story.
Texas moved to redistrict its congressional map mid-decade, set off a nationwide arms race to redistrict by both parties. Travis Crum is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
The signal that gets sent with this case is going to reverberate in the legal challenges to California, future legal challenges to other mid-decade redistricting maps that are being filed across the country.
In addition to California, Democrats in Virginia and Maryland are considering mid-decade redistricting to counter Texas. Republican states that have followed Texas' lead include Missouri and North Carolina. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
And you're listening to NPR News in Washington. The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider the Trump administration's executive order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship. President Trump told U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither parent is a citizen or is a legal permanent resident.
A lower court had ruled the order violates the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which has been interpreted to guarantee citizenship to those born in the U.S., The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune are suing the artificial intelligence company Perplexity for copyright infringement. NPR's Bobby Allen reports.
Lawyers for the Times say Perplexity rips off the newspaper's stories verbatim and answers it generates for users of its chatbot. The Chicago Tribune filed a separate lawsuit alleging similar behavior that the paper says represents copyright infringement.
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