NPR News: 09-09-2025 3AM EDT

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Speaker 2 Republicans in Missouri have taken a major step toward redrawing their congressional map to help President Trump and to retain GOP control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Speaker 2 Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum has the story.

Speaker 3 The Missouri House gave initial approval to back a new map that converts Democratic Representative Emmanuel Cleaver's Kansas City-based district into a GOP-leaning seat.

Speaker 3 It comes as Trump is asking GOP-led states like Missouri to redraw congressional lines ahead of next year's elections.

Speaker 3 Republican State Representative Justin Sparks says he's glad to help Trump keep the Democrats from retaking the House.

Speaker 4 My constituents have said it loud and clear that they fear for their children's future because of insane policies of the left, and that is the real reason we're here.

Speaker 3 Democrats say the mid-decade redistricting proposal is illegal and shows how subservient their GOP colleagues are to Trump. For NPR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum in Jefferson City.

Speaker 2 The U.S. House Oversight Committee has released documents on Jeffrey Epstein, including a copy of a 2003 book of 50th birthday tributes to the late sex offender.

Speaker 2 The book includes crude jokes and a drawing allegedly signed by Donald Trump. The president says the signature on that drawing is not his.

Speaker 2 The drawing was part of a birthday book compiled by Gillenn Maxwell, the Epstein accomplice who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.

Speaker 2 The oversight panel received the materials from attorneys for the Epstein estate.

Speaker 2 A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for the resumption of federal immigration raids in Los Angeles and the use of racial profiling to determine who gets detained.

Speaker 2 More from NPR's Adrian Flarito.

Speaker 5 The six conservative justices have done so. Their order was brief and unsigned.
Armando Udino is with the LA Worker Center Network.

Speaker 6 Immigration agents are now being given the power to profile, stop, detain, and arrest people because of the color of their skin,

Speaker 6 the language they speak, or the work that they do.

Speaker 5 The ACLU has said it'll keep pressing its lawsuit to stop the raids. Adrienne Florida, NPR News, Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to begin ICE operations in Illinois and other states.

Speaker 2 A federal appeals court has upheld the more than $83 million judgment in a defamation case against President Trump.

Speaker 2 The award was granted to writer Eugene Carroll, who sued Trump for denying her claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store during the 1990s. This is NPR.

Speaker 2 President Trump is suggesting America needs more religion. tying national strength to religious faith.

Speaker 2 Trump says there's a strong anti-Christian bias in the United United States that his administration will end.

Speaker 2 Speaking at the Bible Museum in Washington Monday, the president also said there will be new guidance on prayer in public schools.

Speaker 7 For most of our country's history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda and some are even punished for their religious beliefs.

Speaker 2 A 1962 Supreme Court ruling outlawed mandatory prayer in public schools. Videos made by artificial intelligence are being used to animate the Bible.

Speaker 2 As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, one company hopes to grab followers while

Speaker 2 theologians are concerned.

Speaker 8 It's called the AI Bible and it tells Bible stories through machine-generated videos like this one about the prophet Elijah.

Speaker 5 You'll get your showdown.

Speaker 8 Profit. The videos made by AI tools often resemble something out of a fantasy action movie.
Max Bard is with the company Pray.com, which makes the videos. He says that's kind of the point.

Speaker 3 Think of, like, if we were the Marvel universe of faith.

Speaker 8 The videos are getting millions of views online, but critics worry they're devoid of spiritual meaning. Brad East is with Christian Abilene University in Texas.

Speaker 5 It actually felt like a bad video game.

Speaker 8 East says these AI videos rob the Bible of its power. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.

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