Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Lisa Cautel. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been ordered by a federal appeals court to build more than 2,500 housing units at its location in Los Angeles. Steve Fetterman has details.
The battle has been going on for years. Veteran groups have been trying to get the VA to build homes on the land to help vets who need housing. In recent years, the land has been leased out, and some of it has been used as a sports complex for a private school.
Chapter 2: What recent legal decision affects housing for veterans in Los Angeles?
Attorney Mark Rosenbaum, who represented the veterans in their lawsuit, says this all goes back to when the land was originally donated.
In 1888, 388 acres was given to the predecessor of the VA with the specific requirement that it become a soldier's home for disabled veterans.
And Rosenbaum says this could impact other VA properties across the nation that have also been leased out. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
Tensions are growing between Congress and the Justice Department over the release of documents tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports.
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna tells NPR that lawmakers are prepared to escalate the pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi over the delayed release of the Epstein files.
We also plan to go to the Southern District of New York, asking the judge who ordered these releases to have a special master see what should be redacted or not, or to create a congressional committee, a bipartisan committee, to see what should be redacted or not.
Khanna says lawmakers are also considering a bipartisan committee to decide what should be redacted from the files. The Justice Department argues the release is taking time to avoid inadvertently identifying victims. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
This year, crime rates dropped across the country. That's what specialists found when they reviewed data for 2025. NPR criminal justice correspondent Meg Anderson says she looked at something called the Real-Time Crime Index which uses data from nearly 600 jurisdictions, and she found that crime in general is down by a lot and murders are down by 20%.
Part of the reason why murders are way down is sort of a, like, what goes up must come down situation. The huge decreases we're seeing now were preceded by huge increases. So in 2020, 2021, homicide rates surged across the country at historic rates.
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