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NPR News: 12-17-2025 2AM EST

17 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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16.825 - 34.307 Shea Stephens

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. Residents around Brown University are being asked to check their home security systems for images of a possible mass shooter. Police are still trying to find a suspect in the attack that killed two Brown University students and injured nine others last weekend.

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Meanwhile, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez says the FBI has released a clearer surveillance video of a person of interest in the case.

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Chapter 2: What recent events are impacting Brown University and its community?

42.884 - 63.754 Rob Bonta

There are enhanced photos. There's enhanced video footage. And so we're asking the public to ensure that they can see here that you want to focus on the body movements, the way the person moved their arms, the way they carry their weight. I think those are important movement patterns that may help you identify this individual, which is extremely important.

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63.734 - 78.487 Shea Stephens

The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to a suspect. Nick Reiner has been charged with murder and the killings of his parents, director Rob Reiner and producer Michelle Reiner. Steve Futterman has the latest from Los Angeles.

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78.788 - 90.498 Steve Futterman

The first degree murder charges include a special circumstance enhancement because more than one person was killed. L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hockman says that impacts possible penalties.

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These charges carry a maximum sentence. of life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

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98.986 - 119.226 Steve Futterman

Hockman said no decision has yet been made on whether to seek the death penalty. Nick Reiner remains in a downtown L.A. jail. At the moment, this is a no-bail case. He could make his first court appearance as early as Wednesday. The district attorney said he is aware of Reiner's history of struggles with addiction and mental health. He said that will come out in court.

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For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.

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More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration for freezing money for electric vehicle chargers. As NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports, the plaintiffs allege that the move violates the separation of powers.

135.527 - 145.26 Camila Dominovsky

Billions of dollars for EV chargers have been stuck in limbo, unspent, which these mostly Democratic-led states say is unconstitutional. Here's California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

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These programs were created by statute. Federal agencies have a duty to faithfully execute those statutes. That means spending the money.

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