NPR News: 11-24-2025 1PM EST

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Speaker 2 The indictments against two of President Trump's most prominent critics, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, are being dismissed.

Speaker 2 Today, a federal judge found that Lindsey Halligan, the acting U.S. attorney who secured indictments against them, was unlawfully appointed.

Speaker 2 The cases were dismissed without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department may be able to bring those cases again. President Trump selected his former personal lawyer to serve as acting U.S.

Speaker 2 attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after he pushed out the previous top prosecutor, who had expressed doubts about bringing charges against both Comey and James.

Speaker 2 The Pentagon says it is investigating Senator Mark Kelly for possible military law violations.

Speaker 2 The former astronaut had recently joined a group of congressional Democrats who also had military or intelligence backgrounds to tell U.S. service members they do not have to follow illegal orders.

Speaker 2 But President Trump viewed their message as a call to defy him as commander-in-chief and call them traitors.

Speaker 2 The president touted big progress on peace talks to end the war on Ukraine ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline, but NPR's Frank Ordonius reports Trump is also cautioning his supporters to not believe it until you see it.

Speaker 3 President Trump said, quote, something good just may be happening. In a social media post this morning, after receiving a report on the weekend talks in Geneva, a joint statement between the U.S.

Speaker 3 and Ukraine was released stating that their original 28-point plan had been updated and refined.

Speaker 3 Both the United States and Ukraine say more work is needed and express cautious optimism about the direction.

Speaker 3 The early version included several measures that that Ukraine has repeatedly rejected, including giving up territory it controls, shrinking its military, and ruling out NATO membership.

Speaker 3 Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, The White House.

Speaker 2 Former NBA players Chauncey Billings and Damon Jones were scheduled to be arraigned today on gambling charges that prosecutors say involved the mafia.

Speaker 2 NPR's Quill Lawrence has the latest from New York.

Speaker 4 Federal investigators claim it's one of the most brazen corruption schemes since online betting became widely legal in the United States.

Speaker 4 Among the dozens indicted last month are Portland Trailblazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billips, the Miami Heats Terry Rozier, and former Cleveland Cavalier player and assistant coach Damon Jones.

Speaker 4 The FBI alleges they took part in sports betting and rigging high-stakes poker games with help from the Cosa Nostra crime families.

Speaker 4 Some of the alleged fraud involved confidential information about players' injury status and bets on small details like when a player would leave a game, which allowed gamblers in the know to make millions.

Speaker 4 All three men have denied any wrongdoing. Quill Lawrence NPR News, New York.

Speaker 2 U.S. stocks are trading higher this hour.
The Dow is up nearly 300 points. This is NPR News.

Speaker 2 The rapper Childish Gambino revealed over the weekend that he had a stroke last year, which caused him to postpone and ultimately cancel his world tour.

Speaker 2 NPR's Andrew Limbaugh has details.

Speaker 5 Childish Gambino, real name Donald Glover, performed at the Camp Flognauff Festival in Los Angeles this weekend. And during his set, he caught the crowd up on what he'd been up to.

Speaker 5 During the New Orleans date of his 2024 world tour, he had a bad pain in his head and he couldn't see well.

Speaker 5 He went to a doctor who told him he had a stroke, and he says further tests revealed he had a hole in his heart, which required surgery.

Speaker 5 Glover's been releasing music under the Childish Gambino moniker since 2011.

Speaker 5 Before the release of his last album, 2024's Bando Stone and the New World, Glover told the New York Times that it'd be his last under the name Andrew Limbong and Per News.

Speaker 2 As Thanksgiving approaches, Americans are facing one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.

Speaker 2 The Federal Aviation Administration projects it could be the busiest Thanksgiving holiday travel period in 15 years.

Speaker 2 More than 360,000 flights are scheduled. The TSA predicts nearly 18 million people will pass through its airport checkpoints across the country.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, the auto club, AAA, projects at least 82 million people will be on the roads for Thanksgiving. That's over a million more than last year.
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Speaker 2 stocks are trading higher with the Dow up 300 points or roughly half a percent. The SP is up more than 1.5%.

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