NPR News: 11-22-2025 3AM EST

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress in January.
Greene was once one of President Trump's most loyal supporters.

Speaker 2 For member station, WABE in Atlanta, Alex Helmick has our report.

Speaker 3 The Republican Congresswoman has recently become a critic of the president on a number of issues, from his initial stance on the release of the Epstein files to foreign affairs.

Speaker 3 That led Trump to call her a traitor, saying he would support a primary challenger against her in her conservative Northwest Georgia district.

Speaker 3 Here's Green in a more than 10-minute video posted online.

Speaker 4 And I do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.

Speaker 3 Georgia's Governor Brian Kemp will have to set a special election date within 10 days of Green's resignation to replace her. For NPR News, I'm Alex Homick in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 President Trump met with New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani on Friday. Trump once called Mamdani a 100% communist lunatic.
But after the meeting, they both were pleased with the discussion.

Speaker 2 Mamdani was clear on the results.

Speaker 5 I think both President Trump and I, we are very clear about our positions and our views.

Speaker 5 And what I really appreciate about the president is that the meeting that we had focused not on places of disagreement, which there are, many, and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers.

Speaker 2 Afterward, Trump said the White House meeting was great, and he said Mamdani would surprise many conservatives. Senate Democrats are investigating leadership at the John F.

Speaker 2 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what it calls cronyism and corruption. The center's president, Ambassador Richard Grinnell, has refuted the claims.
MPR's Elizabeth Blair has more.

Speaker 6 Senator Sheldon White House claims that current Kennedy Center leadership is responsible for, quote, millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies.

Speaker 6 Documents posted on a Senate committee website appear to support those claims, including letting the soccer organization FIFA take over the center for three weeks rent-free.

Speaker 6 In a letter, White House asked Kennedy Center President Richard Grinnell to turn over documents related to the center's financial management, expenditures, donors, and contracts by December 4th.

Speaker 6 Grinnell wrote back to White House saying his letter is filled with partisan attacks and false accusations. The letter is posted to the Kennedy Center's social media.

Speaker 6 Elizabeth Blair, NPR News, Washington.

Speaker 2 Major storms were hitting Southern California again this weekend. The third storm in just over a week caused some localized flooding on Friday before heading east and south.

Speaker 2 Residents were warned once again of flash flooding and possible mudslides in several parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Stocks finished up on Wall Street Friday.
The Dow finished up 493 points.

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Speaker 2 Gunmen attacked a Catholic boarding school in western Nigeria on Friday. It was the second such attack this week.
More than 200 students and 12 teachers were abducted.

Speaker 2 Security forces have been sent to the area.

Speaker 2 No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but such kidnappings are common in the country and are often carried out by gangs who are looking for ransom.

Speaker 2 The commercial company SpaceX has experienced another failure of its massive new rocket. As NPR's Jeff Brumfield tells us, this time it happened before it even got off the ground.

Speaker 7 SpaceX was conducting pre-launch testing of the latest version of a super-heavy booster rocket when something went terribly wrong.

Speaker 7 The booster is designed to lift the company's Starship spacecraft into orbit, but in this test on the ground, it ruptured, causing a huge explosion.

Speaker 7 In a statement, SpaceX said the booster failed during structural testing and that no one was injured. The Starship program has had a mix of successful and failed launches this year.

Speaker 7 SpaceX founder Elon Musk hopes it will one day carry people to Mars.

Speaker 2 Jeff Brumfield, NPR News. The NCAA is now reversing a rule change that would have allowed allowed athletes and athletic staff to bet on professional sports.

Speaker 2 The new rule was to have taken effect on November 1st, but the organization's membership voted Friday to rescind the rule.

Speaker 2 The vote came after a number of high-profile gambling cases in college sports.

Speaker 2 In one case, the NCAA announced two weeks ago it was revoking the eligibility of six men's basketball players over allegations of sports betting. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

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