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NPR News: 12-15-2025 11AM EST

15 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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15.083 - 18.03 Corva Coleman

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.

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Chapter 2: What recent events led to the investigation of Rob Reiner's family?

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Information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Nick Reiner, the son of Director Rob Reiner, has been arrested. Los Angeles authorities are investigating after two bodies were found in Rob Reiner's home yesterday. News reports cite a Reiner family statement. It says that Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle are dead.

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Australian leaders have agreed to tighten gun laws in response to the shooting attack yesterday on a Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach. At least 15 people there were killed and dozens of others wounded. Australian police shot and killed one suspect and wounded the second. Christina Kukulia reports.

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57.035 - 78.483 Christina Kukula

It's been described as the biggest overhaul of Australian gun laws since reforms that followed a mass shooting in Tasmania in the 1990s. At a meeting led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese one day after the Bondi Beach attack, state and territory leaders agreed to take immediate action. Limiting the number of firearms a person can own is among the options being considered.

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Another is to make Australian citizenship a condition for holding a gun licence. The national government says it will prioritize potential customs restrictions on firearms and other weapons-type imports. For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled his plan to replace subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. The subsidies run out at the end of this year, and Congress has not rather passed a new plan. California Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley says he would support the Speaker's plan, but expects that it will fail. Instead, he wants to extend the current ACA subsidies.

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Kiley says leaders of both parties knew this deadline was coming.

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The reality of the situation is, and you can have critiques about where we are when it comes to health care policy, and I have my own about the spiraling costs that continue to grow and grow and grow, but 22 million people shouldn't be forced to pay the price for that, shouldn't be forced to pay the price for congressional inaction.

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We're talking about small business owners and their employees, independent contractors, gig workers, early retirees who will be forced to pay a price that many simply can't afford.

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He spoke to NPR's Morning Edition. It's been raining almost nonstop for the past five days in Washington state, triggering heavy flooding. Some parts of the state will see more rain all this coming week. From member station KUOW, Scott Greenstone reports the ground is saturated.

Chapter 3: How are Australian leaders responding to the Bondi Beach shooting?

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have been arrested in connection with the plot. Patel says a fifth person has been detained in New Orleans. Voters in Chile yesterday elected an ultra-conservative for president. They rejected the current far-left government's candidate. Chilean president-elect JosƩ Antonio Kast is promising a hard line against rising crime and illegal immigration.

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227.297 - 246.381 Piers Carey-Kahn

And Piers Carey-Kahn has more. 59-year-old JosƩ Antonio Kast's ultra-conservative stances, especially on women's issues and his support of the Pinochet dictatorship, were too hardline in his two previous presidential bids. This time, he focused more on concerns over crime and rising migration, especially from Venezuela.

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246.882 - 261.765 Piers Carey-Kahn

In a meandering hour-long acceptance speech, he told a huge crowd in Santiago that change was coming, but said it would take time. Like other recently elected conservatives in Latin America, Cass pledged a crackdown on crime with more police and prisons.

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He says the more than 300,000 migrants estimated to live in Chile without legal status have until his inauguration in March to self-deport, or he'll send police to find them. Carrie Khan, NPR News.

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Workers at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris have voted to strike. The museum is closed due to today's walkout. The workers are pointing to working conditions and are demanding renovations. The strike vote comes after thieves stole priceless gems in a daylight robbery. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.

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