NPR News: 09-09-2025 1PM EDT

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The State Department is urging American citizens in Qatar to shelter in place after an Israeli strike on an office used by Hamas.

The United Nations Secretary General is expressing alarm, as NPR's Michelle Kelleman reports.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says Qatar has played a key role in diplomacy over Gaza, so he's condemning the Israeli strike on the Hamas offices in Doha.

I condemn this fragrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.

All parties must work towards achieving a permanent ceasefire, not destroying it.

President Trump has been urging Hamas to accept a 60-day ceasefire and release all hostages they've held in Gaza since the October 7th attack on Israel nearly two years ago.

Hamas representatives said they were considering it when the Israelis struck their headquarters in Doha.

Michelle Kelleman, NPR News, the State Department.

The South Korean government is preparing to send a chartered flight to Atlanta this week.

Officials will bring home Korean workers who were detained last week by U.S.

agents on charges of immigration violations.

NPR's Anthony Kyun reports they were working at a South Korean auto plant.

The Yonhop News Agency reports that the flight could leave as early as Wednesday with enough seats to bring home the more than 300 detained workers.

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun flew to the U.S.

on Monday to oversee the process.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is calling the raid on the Hyundai-LG electric vehicle and battery plant in Bryan County, Georgia, its biggest enforcement operation ever.

South Korea has pledged to invest $350 billion in the U.S., but experts argue that U.S.

visa restrictions make it difficult to bring in the skilled workers needed to build factories.

A survey by South Korean pollster's Realmeter found that 60% of respondents considered measures used in the raid excessive.

Anthony Kuhn in PR News Seoul.

House Republicans are speaking out after a Ukrainian refugee was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina last month.

Speaker Mike Johnson says 23-year-old Irina Zaruska was on her way home from her job at a pizzeria.

She fled amid the deadliest land war in Europe since World War II.

She fled to the safety, or so she thought, of the United States.

President Trump has denounced the suspect, calling him a madman and a lunatic.

The man was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

During a speech on Monday, Trump appeared to use the attack to once again stress the need for federal troops to be deployed to large U.S.

cities.

Stocks are trading higher on Wall Street at this hour, the Dow up 122 points, the Nasdaq up 29.

This is NPR News in Washington.

A Democratic member of Congress from Texas is expressing concerns following a tour of an immigration detention facility run by the Trump administration.

Priscilla Rice with member station KERA reports, Congresswoman Julie Johnson spoke with some detainees being held by ICE.

Johnson says she's disturbed by what she saw at the Blue Bonnet Detention Facility located in Anson, 200 miles west of Dallas.

Johnson sits on the House Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, which has oversight of ICE.

She visited the facility after constituents complained family members were there without resolution.

That includes Dallas activist Omar Salassar, who was detained last week and is awaiting his first hearing.

They haven't had access to lawyers.

They haven't had hearings yet on a final deportation or whether or not they should be released on bond.

ICE did not immediately respond to a comment request.

For NPR News, I'm Priscilla Rice in Dallas.

A judge in Michigan has dismissed charges against 15 people accused of posing as fake electors for Donald Trump in 2020.

The judge said prosecutors failed to prove they acted with criminal intent.

Michigan's Attorney General filed the charges more than two years ago.

The group allegedly signed false certificates after a secret meeting in a GOP basement.

The decision is a blow to efforts to hold Trump allies accountable for trying to overturn the election.

On Wall Street, the Dowab 113 points, the SP up eight.

I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News in Washington.

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