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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Wondery. Kiki Palmer is that girl, and she's diving into the brains of |
| 0:06.0 | entertainment's best and brightest to have real conversations on her podcast. Baby, this is Kiki |
| 0:12.2 | Palmer. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Trump administration officials say the |
| 0:20.6 | Rhode Island doctor turned away at Boston's Logan Airport and sent back to her native Lebanon. |
| 0:25.9 | It was found with what they described as extremist materials linked to a U.S. designated terror group. |
| 0:31.7 | More from NPR's Toby Smith. Officials say Rasha Allaway, a kidney transplant doctor affiliated with Brown University, went to Lebanon for the funeral of Hassan Nasralop, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, a U.S. designated terrorist group, and that she expressed support for him. |
| 0:48.0 | Court documents reportedly describe photos of him on her phone. Her lawyer, Stephanie Marzouk, declined to comment on those allegations, |
| 0:56.1 | but says Alloway shouldn't have been denied due process. We're not going to stop fighting to get her |
| 1:01.1 | back in the U.S. to see her patients where she should be, and we're going to try to make sure the |
| 1:04.8 | government follows the rule of law. Marzuk says they tried to stop Alloie's plane from leaving, |
| 1:09.6 | citing a court order, but officials would not listen. |
| 1:13.0 | Tovia Smith and P.R. News, Boston. |
| 1:14.8 | Federal judges ordering the Justice Department to provide a sworn declaration by noon tomorrow, |
| 1:20.5 | with details on alleged Venezuelan gang members and others deported under a 200-year-old law, |
| 1:25.8 | despite his order to turn the planes around. |
| 1:28.5 | Hearing today, Senator on whether the government complied with the judge's temporary restraining |
| 1:32.2 | order with a debate about what exactly the order was issued, where U.S. custody over deportees |
| 1:37.1 | ends, and whether an oral order carries the same way as a written one. |
| 1:41.0 | Senior Justice Department officials have argued the order came too late to stop the deportations |
| 1:45.0 | as planes were already outside U.S. territory. Pentagon officials say Houthi military targets were |
| 1:51.2 | hitting Yemen over the weekend by U.S. aircraft and ships. The strikes in retaliation for Houthi rebels |
| 1:56.2 | attacking U.S. warships and commercial vessels. Here's NPR's Tom Bowman. The targets included radar sites, training camps, drone storage, and manufacturing locations, |
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