NPR News: 11-27-2025 12AM EST

Speaker 1 Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is calling the shooting of two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C., a monsters ambush-style attack.

Speaker 1 And in a social media video, he said he will add 500 more National Guard troops to the nation's capital, NPR's deepest shivron reports.

Speaker 2 Trump said the shooter came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in September 2021 in the aftermath of the U.S.
pullout from Kabul during the Biden administration. He said now the U.S.

Speaker 2 needs to re-examine the refugees who came from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. There are roughly 200,000 of them in the U.S.

Speaker 3 We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.

Speaker 2 Trump did not provide details on how that re-examination would take place or what the timeline would be. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.

Speaker 1 The guard troops who were shot are in a Washington, D.C. hospital tonight.
Officials say they are in critical condition. D.C.'s mayor says the shooting was a targeted attack.

Speaker 1 The suspect was also shot and is in custody. Those two guard members were among those deployed to Washington after President Trump declared a crime emergency.

Speaker 1 A panel of three federal judges allowing North Carolina to use a newly drawn congressional map in the 2026 elections, Adam Wagner, of member station WUNC, has more.

Speaker 4 Republican legislators in North Carolina drew the new map to give their party a clear advantage in 11 of the state's 14 congressional races.

Speaker 4 The North Carolina NAACP and voting rights group Common Cause are among those challenging the new map.

Speaker 4 They asked the court to prevent it from being used next year because they say it dilutes the power of black voters in the region.

Speaker 4 Legislators have said repeatedly their focus was gaining the maximum possible advantage for Republicans amid a national race to secure safe seats.

Speaker 4 In Wednesday's ruling, the three-judge panel said plaintiffs failed to prove that the maps intentionally discriminate against black voters by diluting their power. Candidate filing starts Monday.

Speaker 4 For NPR News, I'm Adam Wagner in Raleigh.

Speaker 1 Now to Thanksgiving travel as Americans make their way to holiday destinations to be with friends and family. It was a busy day on the roads and at airports.

Speaker 1 Jason Pantages is the Transportation Security Administration Security Director at Los Angeles International Airport.

Speaker 5 Security is really the number one reason why we're here, but we want them to get through

Speaker 5 in a timely manner, but most importantly, that we want to make sure that they're safe and on their aircraft and they get to their destination.

Speaker 1 LA projecting that nearly 82 million people will travel at least 50 miles from their homes. This is NPR.

Speaker 1 Murder charges have been filed against three men accused of fatally shooting a rising Latino music artist in Los Angeles. Two men have been arrested, and police are still looking for a third.

Speaker 1 Prosecutors say the suspects fired multiple rounds into a parked car that De La Rosa and two others were in after demanding money.

Speaker 1 The fifth and final season of Stranger Things premieres tonight on Netflix.

Speaker 1 NPR's Chloe Feltman reports on that wildly popular sci-fi horror series that has helped to shape the entertainment industry in the age of streaming.

Speaker 6 Viewership of the previous seasons of Stranger Things has mushroomed in recent weeks. Entertainment analysts say the show could top viewership charts in the coming days.

Speaker 6 Joe Adallion is the West Coast editor of Vulture. He says Stranger Things wasn't Netflix's first big hit.

Speaker 6 House of Cards and Orange is the New Black came first, but it was Netflix's first true international blockbuster.

Speaker 7 Almost instantaneously, it became something of a global phenomenon. It was everywhere all at once.

Speaker 6 And a dallion says it expanded the medium's creative potential.

Speaker 7 It sort of blurred the lines between feature films and television.

Speaker 6 Netflix plans to release the final episodes of Stranger Things Season 5 on New Year's Eve. Chloe Veltman, NPR News.

Speaker 1 New York City, crews getting those giant balloons into shape for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Crews started inflating them Wednesday.
Officials are watching the weather.

Speaker 1 The forecast calling for a somewhat gusty day. Under New York City law, the balloons are grounded if sustained winds exceed 23 miles per hour, 35 miles per hour for gusts.
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