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| 0:00.0 | What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025? We don't know, but we're making some fun, bold predictions for the new year. Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. |
| 0:14.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Hamas has named four female Israeli soldiers it plans to release |
| 0:23.6 | tomorrow in the latest round of exchanges that are part of a Gaza ceasefire deal. Israel's expected |
| 0:29.2 | release close to 200 Palestinians, including some convicted of killings and serving life sentences. |
| 0:35.3 | More from MPR's Greg Mari. H Hamas released a statement with the names of the |
| 0:38.6 | four soldiers, all women, aged 19 or 20. Hamas seized them in the October 2023 attack on |
| 0:45.5 | southern Israel that ignited the war. The Israeli media reported the government was expecting a |
| 0:51.0 | civilian woman to be on the list. But according to those reports, Israel agreed to |
| 0:56.0 | accept the four soldiers rather than risk delaying the exchange. Hamas still has more than 90 Israeli |
| 1:02.5 | hostages, and Israel is holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The first exchange was |
| 1:09.6 | last Sunday. Several more are planned in the coming weeks. |
| 1:13.5 | Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Speaking in an area of North Carolina ravaged by flooding, |
| 1:19.9 | President Donald Trump today said he is considering doing away with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
| 1:26.2 | Trump maintaining states could do a better job of responding to disasters. |
| 1:30.4 | Trump made his comments in Asheville, North Carolina, which was hard hit by remnants of Hurricane Aline last year. |
| 1:35.5 | Trump is currently in California, where he's visiting areas ravaged by devastating wildfires. |
| 1:41.9 | A federal judge is barring the founder of the far-right |
| 1:44.4 | Oathkeeper's extremist group from entering Washington, D.C. Stuart Rhodes is also prohibited |
| 1:49.9 | from entering the U.S. Capitol without the court's approval. Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas. |
| 1:54.1 | Oathkeeper's founder and leader Stuart Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury of |
| 1:57.6 | seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of Trump supporters. |
| 2:04.9 | U.S. District Judge Amit Meta sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison and called him an ongoing threat to the country. |
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