NPR News: 11-27-2025 7AM EST

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Two National Guard members who were shot blocks from the White House yesterday remain in critical condition.

Speaker 2 President Trump calls it an act of terror. The Department of Homeland Homeland Security says the suspect is a 29-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan who came to the U.S.

Speaker 2 when Kabul fell to the Taliban. Officials say he was wounded and is in custody.
There's no word on a motive.

Speaker 2 The presence of the National Guard in cities around the country has drawn criticism, and Pierce Kat Lonsdorf has more.

Speaker 3 There have been more than 2,000 National Guard troops in D.C. from several states since August when Trump ordered the department over concerns about the city's crime rate.

Speaker 3 This has been part of a pattern pattern of Trump deploying the National Guard to Democratic-led cities around the country, often against the wishes of local governors and authorities.

Speaker 3 And, you know, D.C. is unique.
Unlike in the 50 states, the president has the authority to deploy the National Guard in D.C.

Speaker 2 NPR's Kat Lonsdorf. Trump says he's ordering an additional 500 troops to the nation's capital.

Speaker 2 The Georgia criminal case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election result is officially over.

Speaker 2 NPR Sam Greenglass reports a state judge dismissed the case in its entirety yesterday after a special prosecutor moved to drop all charges.

Speaker 4 The prosecution was the last outstanding criminal case against the president after a pair of federal prosecutions were dropped earlier this year.

Speaker 4 In 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County charged Trump and 18 others in a sweeping racketeering case, spurred in part by Trump's call to Georgia's Secretary of State asking him to find votes.

Speaker 4 Pete Scandilakis, director of the state prosecuting attorney's counsel, took over the case after a court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fonnie Willis over an alleged conflict of interest stemming from an improper relationship with a special prosecutor.

Speaker 4 Skandalakis found that the alleged criminal conduct was conceived in Washington, D.C., writing, the federal government is the appropriate venue for this prosecution. Sam Gringlass, NPR News.

Speaker 2 Millions are traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday, and Pierre's Joel Rose reports it's a big test for the U.S. aviation system.

Speaker 5 At Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport, many travelers said they were pleasantly surprised to find manageable lines and few delays. Patrice and David Lombardo flew in from Savannah, Georgia.

Speaker 2 I am so surprised how well it's going. Amazing.

Speaker 5 We're not prepared to be unhappy, and we're not. There were a few signs of the staffing shortages of air traffic controllers that caused disruptions during the government shutdown.

Speaker 5 But there were some weather-related problems as a major storm caused delays at airports in the Twin Cities and Chicago.

Speaker 5 Airlines for America, an industry trade group, says airlines will carry more than 31 million passengers during the Thanksgiving travel season. Joel Rose, NPR News, Arlington, Virginia.

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Speaker 2 Well, it is Thanksgiving, and for millions of Americans, that means buying, cooking, and eating a lot of food. And Pierce Jacqueline Diaz reports it also means tons of food waste.

Speaker 6 Thanksgiving is the biggest day for food waste in the U.S. That's according to the Natural Resources Defense Fund, an environmental advocacy group.

Speaker 6 Roughly 200 million pounds of turkey meat are thrown out every year. But food waste is a year-round problem.
Ted Janeke is a professor at Penn State who studies this problem.

Speaker 7 If food waste were its own country, then it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.

Speaker 6 Those emission figures are from all stages of the food system, from farm to landfill. Food tossed into landfills piles up, breaks down, and produces methane, a greenhouse gas.

Speaker 6 But there are things we can do, including composting food and freezing leftovers. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.

Speaker 2 A U.S.-Russia crew is on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Russian space facility in Kazakhstan this morning.

Speaker 2 The Soyuz rocket is carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams, along with two Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikayev and Sergei Kudzverchkov.

Speaker 2 They're expected to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost, where they will join seven others who are already there conducting scientific research and exploration.

Speaker 2 NASA says it's the first space flight for Williams and also for Mikhaev.

Speaker 2 I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

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