Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing
Podcast Image

NPR News Now

NPR News: 12-11-2025 11AM EST

11 Dec 2025

Transcription

Chapter 1: What recent legal ruling affects immigrant deportation cases?

0.858 - 14.094 Janine Hurst

Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. A federal judge in Maryland is ordering that Kilmar Abrego-Garcia be immediately released, saying the government couldn't keep the 30-year-old immigrant indefinitely. U.S.

0

14.134 - 30.855 Janine Hurst

District Judge Paula Zinnis says she ordered him released to ensure he had a fair immigration process after the Trump administration said they would deport him to the African nation of Liberia, to which he has no connection. Abrego-Garcia is fighting his deportation. President Trump says the U.S.

0

30.875 - 51.107 Janine Hurst

seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, an escalation of his push against President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. sanctioned Venezuela's oil shipments. Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Marina Corina Matado, a supporter of Trump's actions, wants to bring democracy and end Maduro's government.

0

Chapter 2: How is the U.S. escalating tensions with Venezuela?

51.307 - 66.796 Unknown

We ask the international community to cut those sources. because the other regimes that support Maduro and the criminal structure are very active and have turned Venezuela into the safe haven for their operations.

0

67.517 - 84.313 Janine Hurst

Speaking there in Oslo after around a year in hiding. The Department of Agriculture is giving farmers a $12 billion bailout after many suffered big losses this year. Frank Morris from member station KCUR reports some economists worry much of the relief money will go to farmers who least need it.

0

84.473 - 101.048 Frank Morris

The bailout will go mostly to row crop farmers, people growing primarily corn, wheat, cotton and soybeans. They'll get $11 billion. Well, specialty crops, nuts, fruits and vegetables will fight over the remaining $1 billion. Farms with gross revenue of $900,000 a year are supposed to be ineligible.

0

101.028 - 105.734 Frank Morris

But Anne Schackinger with the Environmental Working Group says farmers know how to skirt that threshold.

0

106.034 - 116.387 Unknown

The income limits usually apply to just one person. So then if you are married, usually it doubles up. So that alone is an easy way to get around that cap.

116.587 - 125.618 Frank Morris

Schackinger says past bailouts have gone overwhelmingly to the largest farms, which are also the ones growing the most food. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.

125.885 - 131.216 Janine Hurst

More than 380 people have been killed in Gaza in the past two months of the ceasefire. NPR's Aya Batrawi has more.

132.719 - 153.695 Unknown

Zakira Al-Anqa holds his 10-year-old granddaughter, Bayan, in his arms as blood oozes from her skull in an ambulance in Gaza City. NPR's Anas Baba records the girl's final moments alive in her grandfather's arms. Bayan. Alonka tells NPR the girl was shot Wednesday by an automatic rifle hoisted atop an Israeli military crane in northern Gaza.

154.115 - 170.775 Unknown

She was in an area for displaced families about half a mile from the so-called yellow line. This mostly unmarked line on the ground divides Palestinians from Israeli forces inside Gaza. But such shootings are reported almost daily on the Palestinian side of the line. Israel's military told NPR it was not aware of the young girl's shooting.

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.