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NPR News: 12-23-2025 3AM 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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18.492 - 21.697 Dan Ronan

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.

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Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in the Ghislaine Maxwell case?

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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.

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40.548 - 55.654 Dan Ronan

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.

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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.

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80.002 - 99.96 Dan Ronan

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.

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This is the largest effort to make migrants deportable despite using legal pathways. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.

108.487 - 124.43 Sergio Martinez Beltran

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.

133.242 - 147.758 Sergio Martinez Beltran

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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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.

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