NPR News: 03-15-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot of news happening. |
| 0:02.3 | You want to understand it better, but let's be honest, you don't want it to be your entire life either. |
| 0:06.9 | Well, that's sort of like our show, here and now anytime. |
| 0:09.8 | Every weekday on our podcast, we talk to people all over the country about everything from political analysis to climate resilience, video games. |
| 0:17.2 | We even talk about dumpster diving on this show. |
| 0:19.7 | Check out Here and now anytime, a daily |
| 0:21.6 | podcast from NPR and WBUR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump has |
| 0:30.0 | invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, targeting the Venezuelan prison gang Train Day Aragua. |
| 0:37.5 | He signed an executive order in January, designating the group as a terrorist organization, paving the way for today's presidential declaration. |
| 0:45.4 | There are already legal challenges in the works, just hours before Trump's action. |
| 0:50.2 | A federal judge issued a preemptive temporary stay, blocking the deportation of the five men from Venezuela in anticipation of the move, |
| 0:58.7 | saying the men are connected to the terrorist group and that they are in danger of being deported without a court hearing. |
| 1:03.6 | The stay allows the men to stay in the U.S. for 14 days, an emergency hearing on the matter takes place tonight. |
| 1:10.5 | President Trump called for the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services |
| 1:15.5 | as part of a sweeping executive order issued yesterday targeting seven federal agencies. |
| 1:21.3 | And Pierce-Cloy-Veltman reports the IMLS supports museums, libraries, and archives. |
| 1:26.9 | The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal funding for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. |
| 1:36.3 | Its grants support programs like a children's art exhibition at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum |
| 1:42.1 | and Indigenous Language workshops in Hawaiian libraries. |
| 1:46.1 | A fact sheet issued by the White House states that cutting this and six other governmental entities, |
| 1:51.1 | including the United States Agency for Global Media and the United States Interagency Council on |
| 1:56.7 | homelessness, will save taxpayer dollars, reduce unnecessary government spending and streamline government |
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