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NPR News: 12-22-2025 9PM EST

23 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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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

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Chapter 2: What new military initiatives did President Trump announce?

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President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S. The president made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

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These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most Lethal surface warfare ships.

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The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly two dozen. The president says they will be Trump-class ships.

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The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic person. alongside our partners in American industry. And we're going to have Pete Hegseth and Marco and a lot of very talented people involved.

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It's part of a strategy, the president says, to create a, quote, golden fleet. More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status since President Trump took office. This is the largest effort to make migrants deportable despite using legal pathways. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.

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Immigration rights advocates say this figure, 1.6 million people, is likely an undercount, but it includes people who came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole, temporary protected status and visas. Todd Schulte is the president of Forward.us, an immigration advocacy organization.

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These were like legal pathways. People like did the thing the government asked them to do. And this government went and is kind of preemptively trying to revoke that status.

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The Trump administration has said it has done more to limit legal and illegal immigration than any other administration. It has said it will continue its aggressive effort to crack down on immigration in 2026. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.

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The Palestinian Authority says more than 460 Palestinian structures and buildings have been demolished by Israel and the Jerusalem governorate this year. NPR's Hadil al-Shashi has details.

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