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NPR News: 04-25-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

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NPR News: 04-25-2025 6PM EDT

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0:00.0

At NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we sort through a lot of television, and we've found some recent

0:06.1

TV comedies we really like that you don't want to miss. And we'll tell you where to watch them

0:11.4

in one handy guide. Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.

0:18.2

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

0:22.9

The FBI has arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan.

0:26.9

They're accusing her of obstructing an immigration arrest operation.

0:30.5

More from NPR's Jasmine Garz.

0:32.1

Dugan, now in her ninth year as a Milwaukee County Circuit judge,

0:35.4

is under federal investigation for allegedly helping

0:38.5

an immigrant without legal status avoid arrest by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement

0:44.1

officials. The incident occurred on April 18th. Agents attempted to arrest a Mexican

0:49.8

citizen after a hearing in her courtroom. Dugan allegedly directed them to another judge's office

0:55.7

and allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom through a side door. The man is now in custody.

1:01.8

A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals confirmed this morning's arrest. In an now deleted post on

1:06.9

X, FBI director Cash Patel wrote, quote, the judge's obstruction created increased danger to the

1:13.7

public. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York. In a major reversal, the federal government now says it is

1:20.0

restoring the legal status of more than 1,000 international students whose visas had moved to

1:26.4

cancel in recent weeks.

1:28.1

That's according to a lawyer representing plaintiffs in one of the cases.

1:31.4

Multiple judges have already issued temporary orders directing the government to restore the

1:35.2

students' records in a federal database that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, uses

1:40.3

to monitor student visa holders while they're in the U.S.

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