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NPR News: 12-14-2025 2PM 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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15.539 - 35.281 Windsor Johnston

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is offering his condolences to the families of the victims who were killed in a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Two people died and nine others were injured. The president spoke from the White House just a short time ago.

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35.341 - 57.358 Donald Trump

Brown University, great school, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world. Things can happen. So to the nine injured, get well fast. And to the families of those two that are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and respects from the United States of America.

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57.457 - 76.741 Windsor Johnston

Authorities have taken a person of interest into custody. The investigation into a motive is ongoing. The university has canceled all remaining classes and exams for the semester. The head of the United Nations is condemning a mass shooting that left at least 12 people dead at Bondi Beach in Sydney today.

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76.781 - 84.19 Windsor Johnston

Adam Hancock reports the gunmen targeted members of the Jewish community during an event marking Hanukkah.

84.355 - 104.237 Adam Hancock

UN chief Antonio Guterres has called Sunday's shooting a heinous deadly attack on Jewish families. The gunmen shot at crowds on the beach during a mass celebration. Police say more than 1,000 people were in attendance. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the shooting was an act of terrorism that has struck at the heart of the nation.

Chapter 2: What details are known about the mass shooting at Brown University?

104.777 - 120.437 Adam Hancock

He described the attack as, quote, evil anti-Semitism. 29 people have been taken to hospitals following the shooting, including a child. One gunman was killed at the scene and a second suspect is in a critical condition. For NPR News, I'm Adam Hancock.

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121.43 - 131.153 Windsor Johnston

Washington state is beginning to assess damage from historic flooding. Scott Greenstone with member station KUOW has been following local leaders.

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131.2 - 146.917 Scott Greenstone

After days of rain and clouds, mists burned off to blue skies this weekend in Monroe, north of Seattle, allowing responders to take helicopters up and begin to see how far the waters reached. Democratic Congresswoman Kim Schrier represents part of the flooded area.

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147.237 - 157.748 Kim Schrier

It was practically unfathomable to think near where we were standing, there was water that would have been five feet over my head.

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157.93 - 174.184 Scott Greenstone

She took a bus tour with other officials through soggy dairy farmland. While damage is widespread, so far the only fatality was outside the flood zone. A kayaker swept over a dam in Seattle by swollen currents. For NPR News, I'm Scott Greenstone in Monroe.

175.042 - 203.531 Windsor Johnston

An Arctic blast is sweeping south from Canada into the northern U.S. Cities across the Midwest, including Chicago and Minneapolis, saw dangerous wind chills. Temperatures in parts of North Dakota feel like minus 36 degrees. This is NPR News in Washington. The Palestinian militant group Hamas has confirmed the death of one of its senior leaders in an Israeli airstrike.

204.072 - 217.992 Windsor Johnston

Some Palestinians say the attack, which also killed five other Hamas fighters, was a violation of the ceasefire. NPR's Anas Baba reports hundreds of people attended their funeral today.

218.917 - 243.128 Anas Baba

The funeral of five Hamas fighters and senior commander Raed Saad was held in a makeshift prayer space beside a rubble of one of Gaza's many destroyed mosques. Israel's Sayyid Sa'ad was the deputy commander of Hamas's military wing. Crowds shouted resistant chants as the bodies wrapped in green flags were carried through the narrow alleys of a Shatik camp area of Gaza.

243.148 - 262.727 Anas Baba

Sa'ad's killing marks the highest-level assassination since a ceasefire deal was struck in October. In that period, Israeli forces have killed over 380 Palestinians. Hamas condemned the target attack as a violation of a truce and demanded the mediators, including the United States, should prevent further violations. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City.

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