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NPR News: 12-15-2025 2PM 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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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Police in Los Angeles have arrested the son of Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner for murder.

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Chapter 2: What happened in the Los Angeles murder case involving Rob Reiner's son?

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Nick Reiner is being held on $4 million bail after authorities discovered two bodies inside of the Reiner home on Sunday afternoon. Just a short time ago, police chief Jim McDonald formally identified the victims.

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December 14th, about 3.40 in the afternoon, LAPD responded to a residence, the residence of Rob and Michelle Reiner, located in West Los Angeles Division. At that location, they found two deceased adults, a male and a female. Through the night, working with the coroner's office, they were able to identify them definitively as Rob and Michelle Reiner.

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Rob Reiner's career as a director spanned decades and included a number of blockbuster hits, including the film When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, and A Few Good Men. Lawmakers in Australia are working to strengthen gun laws in response to the shooting attack yesterday on Bondi Beach in Sydney.

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At least 15 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded during an event celebrating Hanukkah. Christina Kuklia reports police shot and killed one suspect and wounded the second.

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95.459 - 116.87 Christina Kukola

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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Ukrainian negotiators say real progress was achieved in the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump's negotiating team wrapped up negotiations today in Berlin.

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The U.S. government said in a social media post via President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff's account that, quote, a lot of progress was made between Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Zelensky, and European leaders. Talks lasted more than five hours on Sunday and roughly 90 minutes on Monday at the chancellery in Berlin.

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Speaking at a business forum afterwards, Ukrainian President Zelensky said the talks were, quote, not easy, but productive, and that Russia was using its attacks on Ukraine as leverage in the talks. There is so far no indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to any terms to end the war.

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