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NPR News: 12-16-2025 4PM EST

16 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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15.488 - 38.847 Windsor Johnston

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Detectives are turning over the double homicide case against Nick Reiner to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office at this hour. He's accused of killing his parents, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. Steve Futterman reports the 32-year-old remains in jail after his arrest on Sunday.

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38.827 - 54.666 Steve Futterman

The Los Angeles County District Attorney is expected to get the case today. It's possible Rob Reiner's 32-year-old son Nick may be formally charged with murder today. Yesterday, L.A. Police Chief Jim McDonald announced the arrest by robbery and homicide officers.

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They worked on this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner. He was subsequently booked for murder.

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62.8 - 74.993 Steve Futterman

Right now, he is being held without bail. In the past, Nick Reiner has acknowledged struggles with numerous mental health challenges and substance abuse. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.

75.04 - 97.875 Windsor Johnston

The manhunt continues for the suspect who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, killing two students and injuring nine others. Zoe Weissman is a pre-med student at Brown. In 2018, she attended a middle school next to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a former student shot and killed 17 people.

97.855 - 103.324 Zoe Weissman

I was honestly, I think that my reaction could have gone either of two ways because I've already been through this before.

Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Nick Reiner homicide case?

103.364 - 117.306 Zoe Weissman

I think I could have either reacted significantly worse than everyone else or reacted better. And I thankfully was the latter. I was surprised at the fact that my brain kind of knew what to do already. And I think that's because this is a situation that kind of plays in my head every single day.

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117.507 - 138.263 Windsor Johnston

Authorities in Rhode Island have released three new videos of a man they believe is responsible for the deadly shooting. Hiring slowed last month as U.S. employers added just 64,000 jobs. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in four years.

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139.085 - 156.488 Scott Horsley

Healthcare and construction were some of the only industries to add jobs in November. Factories cut jobs and so did delivery services. The pace of hiring has slowed sharply since the beginning of the year. Concern over a weakening job market led the Federal Reserve to lower its benchmark interest rate last week for the third time since September.

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157.209 - 177.372 Scott Horsley

The Labor Department's ability to monitor the job market was hampered this fall by the six-week government shutdown. Both the October and November jobs numbers were delayed, and the survey used to track unemployment was not conducted in October. The unemployment rate for November was 4.6 percent. That's up from 4.4 percent in September and the highest jobless rate since the fall of 2021.

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Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

180.316 - 205.776 Windsor Johnston

At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 302 points. The Nasdaq Composite trading higher, up 54. The S&P 500 down 16 points. This is NPR. President Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion, accusing the network of defamation over its editing of his speech on January 6, 2021.

205.836 - 232.15 Windsor Johnston

The lawsuit claims the BBC misrepresented Trump's remarks by combining separate portions of the speech, calling the broadcast false and misleading. Teachers across the country are turning to detection software to figure out whether students have done their own schoolwork or used artificial intelligence to do it for them. Reporter Lee Gaines explains there's just one problem.

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The software doesn't always work.

235.014 - 254.98 Leigh Gaines

Numerous studies show several of the most popular AI detectors flagged some things as AI-generated that weren't, and vice versa. Nonetheless, NPR found that some school districts from Utah to Florida to Ohio are spending thousands of dollars on these tools. John Grady teaches English at Shaker Heights High School outside Cleveland.

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