NPR News: 12-23-2025 3AM EST
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What recent developments occurred in the Ghislaine Maxwell case?
A federal judge in New York is criticizing convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein's longtime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. This after Maxwell's recent court filing contained confidential names as she seeks to set aside her 2021 conviction and possibly be released. She filed the paperwork on her own without a lawyer, and the document is being kept under seal out of the public's view until the judge reviews it and redacts the name of victims. In Florida, President Trump was asked about the release of the latest files and photos.
But no, I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think Bill Clinton's a big boy. He can handle it. But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago. And they're, you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others.
Meanwhile, the Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, is urging his colleagues to take action against the Justice Department over the law enforcement agency's heavily redacted incremental release of the files on both Epstein and Maxwell. More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status since Donald Trump took office. This is the largest effort to make migrants deportable despite using legal pathways. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
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.
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.
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.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed a new ambassador to the U.S. As Dan Karpenchuk reports, Mark Wiseman takes over his duties in mid-February.
The 55-year-old Weissman will also lead Ottawa's negotiations with the U.S. on the review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as USMCA. Weissman is a global investment banker and a pension fund manager and a longtime friend of Carney's. He's a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-U.S. Relations, which was formed to review the current trade agreement. He was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, holds a joint Master of Business Administration and Law degree from the University of Toronto, and has worked on mergers and acquisitions in New York City and Paris. Weissman replaces Kirsten Hillman, who announced earlier this month that she would end her Washington posting. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpinchuck in Toronto.
It's NPR. The storms hitting the San Francisco Bay Area have already brought some brief flooding and some rescues, but as member station KQED reporter Samantha Kennedy tells us, it's only the beginning.
Meteorologists expect there to be winds of up to 80 miles per hour and widespread power outages across the Bay Area this week. The North Bay is expected to get some of the worst of it. Jeff Duvall of Sonoma County's Emergency Management Department isn't aware of any damages to the North Bay County so far, but...
We did have a couple vehicles get stuck in those flooded waters overnight to where Sonoma County's public safety had to come out and do two different water rescues.
Jan Knoll, a consulting meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services, says winds will pick up, which could topple trees and power lines.
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