NPR News: 09-09-2025 6AM EDT

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Supreme Court is allowing federal immigration agents to continue making random stops of people in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 Opponents say this is blatant racial profiling.

Speaker 2 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the opinion, saying no one should be stopped because they look Latino, speak Spanish, and work a low-wage job.

Speaker 2 The Department of Homeland Security is launching a federal immigration operation in Illinois.

Speaker 2 And Pierre's Kat Lonsdorf reports President Trump has repeatedly threatened to send National Guard troops as well as immigration and customs enforcement officers into Chicago.

Speaker 3 DHS is calling it Operation Midway Blitz, saying it's in honor of a woman killed by a drunk driver who was an unauthorized immigrant in Illinois.

Speaker 3 NPR confirmed that crash took place this year in Urbana. The driver was a Guatemalan national and is facing charges, including DUI and reckless homicide.

Speaker 3 DHS says the operation will target, quote, criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois, saying that they went there because they knew Illinois Democratic Governor J.B.

Speaker 3 Pritzker's sanctuary policies will protect them. The announcement comes as the U.S.

Speaker 3 Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles after a lower court judge had blocked them. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Chicago.

Speaker 2 The House Oversight Committee has released some documents from the estate of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 Among them is a sexually oriented letter that features a drawing of a naked woman purportedly drawn by President Trump. NPR Stephen Fowler says the White House says Trump never signed this.

Speaker 4 This is a limited set of documents handed over by the Epstein estate.

Speaker 4 They were answering a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee investigating how the government handled the prosecution of the convicted sex offender, who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody.

Speaker 4 There is the copy of a typed letter set inside the drawing of a nude female body that appears to be signed by Trump, which includes the line, A PAL is a wonderful thing.

Speaker 4 Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.

Speaker 2 NPR Stephen Fowler reporting. The government of France has collapsed again.
French Prime Minister François Bayreux lost a vote of confidence taken by French lawmakers yesterday.

Speaker 2 It's over his plans to cut France's huge budget deficit. And Pierre's Eleanor Beersley reports he'll likely resign in coming hours.

Speaker 6 The Speaker of the French National Assembly read out the vote on Prime Minister François Bayreux's deficit cutting plans. 194 for, 364 against.

Speaker 6 Bayroux said he called the risky vote of confidence because he wanted the parliament behind him and he wanted to alert the French to the gravity of the deficit.

Speaker 6 Bayroux was President Emmanuel Macron's fourth prime minister in less than two years. None has been able to enact his centrist agenda.

Speaker 6 The far left and far right, who have the biggest blocks in parliament, are now demanding that a new prime minister come from their camps. Eleanor Beardsley, in Pierre News, Paris.

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Speaker 2 Several news outlets say the Prime Minister of Nepal has resigned. This follows intense protests yesterday.
Young protesters are furious. The Nepalese government temporarily banned social media.

Speaker 2 That ban has been lifted, but clashes have left at least 19 people dead. The family of billionaire Rupert Murdoch has settled the future of his media empire.

Speaker 2 Murdoch's son, Lachlan, will remain in charge of the family business. That includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, among others.

Speaker 2 Rupert and his son will buy out the company's shares of three other Murdoch children. Preparations are underway for a triple mission to space, taken on a single rocket.

Speaker 2 Scientists want to focus on space weather, solar winds, and their effects on Earth. NPR's Amy Held reports the mission could launch as soon as two weeks from today.

Speaker 5 On board a NOAA satellite for forecasting space weather a million miles away. Even space gets storms.
The sun spews gas and particles creating solar wind.

Speaker 5 That can affect the technology we rely on at home. Nikki Fox with NASA's Science Mission Directorate says the space weather applications are exciting.

Speaker 6 But the actual discovery science that we will get from IMAP is going to literally rewrite textbooks, and that's why we're so excited about it.

Speaker 5 IMAP, Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, will study the edge of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system, and how it interacts with the galactic neighborhood.

Speaker 5 Then there's NASA's first mission dedicated to the exosphere, the last layer of Earth's atmosphere extending maybe beyond the moon. Amy Held, NPR News.

Speaker 2 And I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News from Washington.

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