NPR News: 04-17-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Subaru. As part of their Subaru Loves the Earth initiative, they have partnered |
| 0:05.3 | with the Arbor Day Foundation and will distribute over 100,000 trees this year, growing greener, |
| 0:11.8 | healthier communities for generations to come. Subaru, more than a car company. |
| 0:17.7 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. |
| 0:22.5 | Authorities in Florida now say a suspect is in custody following a shooting at Florida State University |
| 0:28.8 | that has left at least two people dead. |
| 0:31.4 | They were apparently not students. |
| 0:33.4 | At least five others were injured or wounded. |
| 0:35.4 | The alleged shooter is also hospitalized, described as a 20-year-old FSU student, |
| 0:39.9 | who officials say is the son of a deputy sheriff and had access to a weapon. |
| 0:43.5 | Jason Trumbauer is the chief of police at Florida State University. |
| 0:46.3 | At approximately 1150 a.m., Thursday, April 17th, a gunman opened fire on the main campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, shooting multiple |
| 0:55.9 | individuals in the vicinity of the Student Union Building. FSU police responded immediately, |
| 1:03.0 | engaged, neutralized, and apprehended the shooter. Students described a chaotic scene with one saying |
| 1:09.3 | he and around 30 others hidden a bowling alley inside |
| 1:12.7 | the student union. Classes at the university are canceled through tomorrow. President Trump |
| 1:17.7 | says his team is exploring a plan to deport U.S. citizens and lock them up in prisons overseas. |
| 1:23.8 | Legal scholars say the idea is unconstitutional, but they fear Trump may move ahead, even if |
| 1:29.0 | courts and judges object. Here's NPR's Brian Mann. Trump has repeatedly raised the idea of |
| 1:33.7 | deporting Americans involved in criminal activity and jailing them outside the U.S. This week, he |
| 1:38.9 | urged El Salvador's president to build more prisons to house U.S. citizens. Constitutional experts, including David |
| 1:45.3 | Beer at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, told NPR that would be unconstitutional, |
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