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NPR News: 12-15-2025 4AM EST

15 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What recent news about Rob Reiner has been reported?

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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.

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11.733 - 34.206 Dale Willman

On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Director and actor Rob Reiner has died. Police say the bodies of Reiner and his wife were found in the Los Angeles home on Sunday. They're investigating the deaths as an apparent homicide. Reiner was known for such movies as When Harry Met Sally. He was 78 years old.

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Police in Providence, Rhode Island have released a man detained in connection with the shooting at Brown University on Saturday.

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40.702 - 62.573 Peter Nerona

Certainly there was some degree of evidence that pointed to this individual, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed. And over the last 24 hours, leading into just very, very recently, that evidence now points in a different direction. So what that means is that this person of interest needs to be and should be released.

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That's Attorney General Peter Nerona. Two students were killed in the shooting, which took place while exams were underway, and nine other students were injured. A man is being called a hero after disarming one of the gunmen at Sunday's deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach. NPR's Shondalise Duster has more on our story.

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Video shared on social media shows an unarmed man walking up behind one of the suspected gunmen and grabbing him around the neck. The civilian wrestles and disarms the gunman, who falls to the ground before walking away. New South Wales Premier Chris Menz praised the man's actions.

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A man walking up to a gunman who had fired on the community and single-handedly disarming him, putting his own life at risk to save the lives of countless other people, that man is a genuine hero.

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NPR has not independently verified the man's identity, but several reports say that the man is 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed, a fruit shop owner. Shondelise Duster, NPR News.

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At least 15 people were killed in that shooting, and at least 42 other people were injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Sunday signaled that Kyiv is willing to give up ambitions to join NATO. His comments came ahead of talks with U.S. envoys and European leaders in Berlin, but as Esme Nicholson reports, Zelensky is still refusing to cede eastern Ukraine to Moscow.

Chapter 2: What updates are there on the Brown University shooting investigation?

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Shares in South Korea finished down 1.8 percent, while shares in Taiwan were down 1.2 percent. President Trump condemned CNN last week, arguing its reporters are biased, its leaders corrupt, and that the network should be sold. Trump's remarks take on new urgency as his allies seek to buy CNN and its parent company, and the president says he may well play a role in what happens next.

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NPR's David Folkenflik has more.

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Netflix struck a deal to buy most of Warner Brothers' Discovery, the movie studios and HBO, but not its cable channels, not CNN. Now Paramount is making a hostile takeover bid for the whole company. I should note, Paramount, Warner and CNN are financial supporters of NPR. It's not clear how much Trump cares about what happens, except to CNN.

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This is what Trump said at the White House when asked what changes he'd want at CNN.

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252.576 - 265.957 Donald Trump

I don't think the people that are running that company right now And running CNN, which is a very dishonest group of people, I don't think that should be allowed to continue. I think CNN should be sold along with everything else.

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Trump then accused a CNN reporter of working for the Democrats. CNN declined comment. David Folkenflik, NPR News.

273.17 - 294.503 Dale Willman

The New York metro area was hit with several inches of snow overnight Saturday, and into Sunday it caused major problems for some travelers. More than 1,000 flights were delayed at area airports, while more than 100 other flights were canceled. The snow also made area roadways slick, causing accidents and traffic jams. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

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