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NPR News: 04-18-2023 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

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NPR News: 04-18-2023 6PM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The 84-year-old man who shot Black teenager

0:08.2

Ralph Jarl in Kansas City, Missouri, surrendered to law enforcement this afternoon, is now

0:13.0

free on bond. Madeline Fox, remember station KCUR is more.

0:17.3

Prosecutors filed charges and issued a warrant for Andrew Lester's arrest on Monday evening.

0:22.4

Four days after he shot 16-year-old Ralph Jarl twice after Jarl mistakenly ringed his

0:27.3

doorbell. Lester is charged with two felony counts, assault in the first degree and arm

0:32.6

criminal action. He's facing up to a life sentence. Kansas City's police chief is facing

0:38.2

calls to resign because her office released Lester after initially bringing him in right

0:42.8

after the shooting, and because she said the 84-year-old was not a flight risk.

0:47.8

For NPR News, I'm Madeline Fox in Kansas City.

0:50.9

Dominion voting systems and Fox news have reached a settlement averting a trial. Dominion

0:55.8

sued Fox and its parent company over baseless claims the network aired following the 2020

1:01.1

presidential election. Dominion argued the falsehoods, including a claim the company's

1:05.0

voting machine switched votes from the president Donald Trump to Joe Biden damaged its business

1:10.0

and credibility. Fox has agreed to pay $787.5 million.

1:16.0

World Public and Let House oversight panels ramping up its look into a federal program

1:19.6

after widespread reports of migrant child labor.

1:22.8

NPR's quality of Salis says a hearing is raised pressure on the health and human services

1:26.6

department. The House oversight sub panel grilled the head of the office of refugee resettlement

1:32.0

over reports migrant children were forced to work. Sub panel chairman Glenn Groffman

1:37.9

pushed the program's director Robin Dunn Marcos to explain a New York Times report that

1:43.0

the program lost track of 85,000 migrant children.

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