Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: Who is the suspect in the Brown University shooting?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Police in Providence, Rhode Island say the man suspected of killing two and wounding nine others during a shooting at Brown University is is 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a former Brown student and a native of Portugal. He's been found dead from suicide in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. In Boston, meanwhile, U.S.
Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley says Valente is also believed to be the killer of MIT professor Nuno Lauriero in Massachusetts.
Between December 13th and December 14th, Neves Valente returned to Massachusetts.
Chapter 3: What were the details surrounding the Milwaukee judge's obstruction case?
On December 15th, he murdered MIT professor Nuno Luriero at Luriero's home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Foley says police connected the two crimes through a rental vehicle that Valenti was seen in in both places. A jury has found Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented defendant outside her courtroom last April. Mayan Silver from member station WUWM reports.
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.
Chapter 4: How could proposed regulations impact gender-affirming care for youth?
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. 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. 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.
A series of actions announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Chapter 5: What recent weather events affected eastern Colorado?
could essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth all over the country. As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, proposed new regulations threaten to withhold federal funding from hospitals. that provide gender-affirming care to minors.
The most significant actions are two proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, led by Dr. Mehmet Oz. One rule says doctors and hospitals cannot get reimbursed by Medicaid for gender-affirming care for youth. The other is more sweeping. It says hospitals that provide the care would be cut off from all Medicare or Medicaid funding for everything.
Because federal funding represents so much of hospital budgets, that rule could shut down gender-affirming care for youth at hospitals if finalized.
Chapter 6: What are the highlights of the upcoming college football playoff?
The rules don't take effect right away. There's a 60-day comment period, and health officials acknowledged they would face legal challenges. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
This is NPR. In eastern Colorado yesterday, hurricane-force winds took down power lines and intensified wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains. Facing gusts of up to 100 miles an hour, Xcel Energy cut off power in the area to avert a downed line sparking additional blazes. More than half of the power has been restored.
The first round of the college football playoff kicks off tonight when two of the sport's most storied programs will face off in Norman, Oklahoma. Three more games take place tomorrow, and PR's Becky Sullivan has details.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are the only team in the playoff with three losses already this season. One came last month when the Oklahoma Sooners upset Alabama in a close game. Now the Sooners will hope to do it again this time in the playoff. The winner will go on to face the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers. On Saturday, Texas A&M will host Miami. That could be another close matchup.
And then for the first time, the playoff includes two teams from outside the sport's biggest conferences. Tulane will take on Ole Miss, and James Madison will face Oregon. Both of them are big underdogs. Indiana is the top overall seed in the playoff, but the favorite to win the championship game in January is actually No.
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Chapter 7: What tragic event involved retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle?
2 Ohio State. It would be the second title in a row for the Buckeyes. Becky Sullivan, NPR News.
Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle has died in a small plane crash at a regional airport in Statesville, North Carolina. Also dead in the crash, Biffle's wife and two children and crew members on the plane. The cause of Thursday's crash under investigation. He won more than 50 NASCAR races across three circuits. I'm Louise Schiavone and PR News.