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NPR News: 12-19-2025 2PM EST

19 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Support for NPR and the following message come from the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose bequest serves as an enduring investment in the future of public radio and seeks to help NPR produce programming that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression.

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18.442 - 21.73 Janine Hurst

Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst.

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Chapter 2: What updates are there on the Jeffrey Epstein case?

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The deputy attorney general says they will release hundreds of thousands of files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Todd Blanch tells Fox News not all of them as mandated by law by President Trump, which he signed last month. Blanche says they need time to redact information that could identify victims.

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40.191 - 49.608 Janine Hurst

The deadline to release the files on Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell from Trump's law is by the end of the day, but there are no apparent penalties for not releasing them.

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Chapter 3: What details emerged about the Brown University shooting?

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Federal authorities say the person responsible for the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island last weekend was found dead last night in New Hampshire. They say he died by suicide. Two people were killed, nine others wounded in that attack. And prosecutors have also linked the shooter to the Boston area killing last Monday of a professor at MIT.

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69.343 - 72.208 Janine Hurst

From Ocean State Media in Providence, Ben Burke has more.

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72.428 - 80.983 Ben Burke

Investigators say they found Claudio Neves Valente's body in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, after a Reddit post led to a breakthrough in the case.

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Chapter 4: What is Vladimir Putin's stance on peace in Ukraine?

80.963 - 98.551 Ben Burke

A witness described seeing the suspect near a rental car in the neighborhood next to Brown, which helped authorities identify Valente and track his movements. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Leah Foley, says Valente is also responsible for the murder of an MIT professor two days later in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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There is a video footage of him entering an apartment building in the location of the professor's apartment.

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Chapter 5: What trends are affecting the housing market in November?

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Officials say they believe Valente acted alone. For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Providence.

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112.054 - 125.473 Janine Hurst

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he wants peace in Ukraine, but only once Russia meets its political and military objectives there. This as the White House continues to pursue a peace deal to end the war that Russia started nearly four years ago.

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Chapter 6: What recent developments occurred in the Milwaukee judge's case?

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NPR's Charles Maines has more.

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127.538 - 144.636 Charles Mainz

Putin's remarks came during an annual press conference during which he fielded questions from both reporters and the Russian public for several hours. The Kremlin leader boasted of recent battlefield gains and said peace would come once Ukraine had accepted Russian demands that include ceding territory and a formal ban on joining NATO.

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144.616 - 163.789 Charles Mainz

Putin also thanked President Trump for his efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict and said he'd received certain signals that Kyiv was ready to engage in some kind of dialogue. The Kremlin has said it's still waiting to hear details on the Trump administration's latest peace proposals following talks with Ukrainian and European officials this week. Charles Mainz, NPR News.

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164.815 - 177.727 Janine Hurst

Existing home sales rose slightly last month as fewer homes hit the market. The National Association of Realtors says home sales rose a half percent in November from the month before for a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.13 million homes.

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178.228 - 205.305 Janine Hurst

Housing inventory, which had been rising for most of the year, dropped 5.9 percent in November from October, and the median price of a home was higher at $409,200. That's a hike of 1.2 percent year over year. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A jury in Wisconsin has found Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing immigration agents.

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They were attempting to arrest an undocumented defendant outside her courtroom last April. From Member Station WUWM, Mayan Silver has more.

215.12 - 234.903 Ayaan Silver

Prosecutors argued it was a, quote, roundup when Dugan sent five federal agents to talk to her chief judge after they had staked out a hallway to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz. Flores Ruiz was appearing in her courtroom on misdemeanor battery charges, and agents had an administrative warrant to arrest him for being in the country unlawfully.

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Prosecutors then said Dugan created a, quote, escape route when she sent Flores Ruiz out a private jury door in her courtroom into a restricted hallway. Dugan's attorneys argued she was trying to follow unsettled courthouse policy on ICE arrests, and that she never actually concealed Flores Ruiz.

254.091 - 264.229 Ayaan Silver

The case reflects tension over President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts spilling over into courthouses. For NPR News, I'm Ayaan Silver in Milwaukee.

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