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NPR News: 03-07-2025 5AM EST

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingley. A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to make payments to foreign aid groups within the next few days in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here's NPR's Fatmatanis.

0:18.0

Judge Amar Ali with the D.C. District Court said the government had until Monday to make

0:22.3

some of the payments it owes to global health groups for work they did before the administration's

0:28.0

foreign aid freeze. This is the second deadline ordered by the judge. Last week, the government

0:33.4

blew through the first one imposed by the court and appealed to the Supreme Court to block the

0:38.4

deadline. The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the government's request and said it had to abide

0:43.9

by the lower court's ruling. The government owes some $2 billion in back pay, and Judge Ali said

0:50.0

he would issue a more detailed order on when the government must pay all that it owes,

0:55.2

including to groups not involved in the lawsuit.

0:58.5

Vatmatanis, NPR News.

1:00.5

The House has voted to censure Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas.

1:05.5

Green was escorted from the House chamber on Tuesday night after disrupting President

1:10.1

Trump's speech to a joint

1:11.7

session of Congress. Ten Democratic lawmakers joined Republicans in that censure vote. President

1:18.0

Trump's special envoy to Ukraine in Russia says Kiev was given fair warning by the White

1:23.5

House before Trump ordered a pause of U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

1:28.2

Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg was speaking yesterday to the Council on Foreign

1:32.7

Relations in Washington. In Syria, the government is imposing curfews in response to clashes

1:39.3

between security forces and fighters linked to the former regime. Human rights monitors say more than a

1:45.8

dozen police officers were killed in ambushes in a southern coastal city, as NPR's Janeiraaf

1:52.0

reports from Damascus. The Syrian government has imposed a curfew on the port cities of Latakia

1:57.9

and Tartouse, warning people to stay home, according to the Syrian State

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