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| 0:00.0 | These days, there is a lot of news. It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider this from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider |
| 0:21.9 | this podcast from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. A federal judge in |
| 0:30.1 | Washington has found the Trump administration disobeyed his order to turn back two planes, carrying |
| 0:36.2 | migrants. It was deporting to a prison in El Salvador last month. |
| 0:40.2 | It bears Adrian Fleurter reports, Judge James Bosberg ruled there was probable cause to find the government in criminal contempt of court. |
| 0:47.0 | On March 15th, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, so the government could quickly deport without due process people it said were members |
| 0:55.6 | of a Venezuelan gang. It loaded two planes and they took off for El Salvador. The ACLU sued and Judge |
| 1:02.2 | Bozberg ordered the government to turn the planes around. It didn't. Bozberg has been trying to |
| 1:07.0 | determine whether the government purposely ignored his order. He's now ruled that it did. |
| 1:11.9 | The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders, he wrote. He's given the |
| 1:17.3 | government until April 23rd to rectify the contempt or to identify the specific people who |
| 1:22.4 | defied his order. Adrian F. Laredito, NPR News. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today declared that autism is an |
| 1:30.5 | epidemic in the U.S. and he vowed to quickly identify the cause. Here's NPR's Rob Stein. |
| 1:36.0 | Kennedy is citing new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as evidence |
| 1:41.2 | that autism is epidemic in the U.S. |
| 1:44.6 | The number of children diagnosed with autism increased from one out of 36 to one out of 31 kids |
| 1:51.3 | between 2020 and 2022, according to the new CDC report. |
| 1:56.9 | Kennedy says he's launching a new research project to identify an environmental toxin that he thinks is to blame. |
| 2:05.9 | Independent experts say the autism numbers are up because of better diagnoses, |
| 2:10.6 | and the cause is likely a complex combination of factors, including genetic predisposition. |
| 2:18.3 | Rob Stein and PR News. |
| 2:20.5 | Hamas is rejecting new Israeli ceasefire in Gaza. |
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