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NPR News: 12-13-2025 11PM EST

14 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org.

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15.978 - 30.953 Dale Willman

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. At least two people were killed and nine others injured at Brown University today in a shooting that has shocked the Rhode Island school. The shooting took place during final exams. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says the suspect remains at large.

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We have two priorities right now as a community. One, to bring the individual responsible to justice. And two, to pray for the full recovery of those affected. The Brown community's heart is breaking and Providence's heart is breaking along with it. We're a week and a half away from Christmas. and all of us are getting calls from concerned families, parents, employees.

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Police have released a video showing the suspect, who was last seen leaving the school's engineering building. A shelter-in-place order is in effect for the campus as well as people living near the school. President Trump is vowing to retaliate after an ISIS gunman killed two American service members and one U.S. civilian in central Syria today.

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As NPR's Lydia Kalitri reports, the Pentagon says the soldiers were supporting counterterrorism operations in the region.

76.002 - 82.958 Lydia Kalitri

The attack, which took place in the city of Palmyra, comes just over a year after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Chapter 2: What happened in the Brown University shooting incident?

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the gunman was killed by partner forces. Three other service members were injured in the attack.

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Before boarding Marine One, President Trump told reporters, The new president of Syria is, as they told me, and I'm not surprised, he's devastated by what happened. It was an ISIS attack on us and Syria.

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107.097 - 113.569 Lydia Kalitri

Trump says the U.S. will retaliate against ISIS. Lydia Kalitri, NPR News, Washington.

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113.903 - 127.998 Dale Willman

House Republicans are unveiling a health care policy package that they say will reduce health costs. But as NPR's Jude Jaffe-Block reports, Democrats are blasting the proposal for not extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits.

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128.298 - 146.056 Jude Jaffe-Block

The enhanced tax credits are slated to expire at the end of the year. And when they do, the out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans who buy their insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will skyrocket. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP proposal instead tackles, quote, the real drivers of health care costs.

146.416 - 162.171 Jude Jaffe-Block

It will allow small businesses to band together to buy health insurance plans. It also attempts to lower drug costs by imposing new requirements on pharmacy benefit managers. A Democratic bill to extend the tax credits for three years failed in the Senate, as did a Republican proposal.

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Members of Congress are running out of time to address health care costs before the holiday recess at the end of the week. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.

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Arctic temperatures are spreading across the northern U.S. this evening, bringing dangerous wind chills to Chicago and Minneapolis. On Saturday, Grand Forks, North Dakota felt like it was minus 36 degrees, and winter advisories are reaching as far south as Alabama and Georgia. In the Pacific Northwest, meanwhile, people are watching for possible landslides as floodwaters there begin to recede.

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This is NPR News. Israel says its military has killed a top Hamas leader during a strike on a civilian vehicle in Gaza. The strike came after an explosive device detonated in southern Gaza and wounded two Israeli soldiers. Military officials say Ra'id Saad was killed in the strike. They claim he was an architect of the October 2023 attack that led to the war with Hamas.

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