NPR News: 05-05-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's Wild Card podcast, Weird Al Yankov says there's something funny about being professionally weird. |
| 0:06.9 | I think people realize, you know, Weird Al is almost ironic because I'm like one of the more normal people in Shogu's, I think. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Rachel Martin. Weird Al is on Wild Card. The show where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:23.9 | Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Israeli military has carried out |
| 0:30.6 | multiple strikes directed at a key port in Yemen. As NPR's Greg Beir reports, the Israeli |
| 0:36.7 | attack comes a day after Yemen's Houthi |
| 0:38.6 | fighters fired a missile into central Israel. The Israeli military posted a statement saying |
| 0:43.9 | its jet fighters targeted the seaport of Hodeda on Yemen's western coast, as well as a nearby |
| 0:49.5 | concrete factory. The Israelis say both facilities are central to Houthi military operations. A day earlier, |
| 0:57.0 | a long-range missile from Yemen crashed close to Israel's main airport outside Tel Aviv, causing |
| 1:02.9 | several injuries. This marked an extremely rare instance of a Houthi missile penetrating Israeli |
| 1:08.7 | air defenses and hitting near a sensitive site. |
| 1:12.3 | The U.S., meanwhile, has been bombing Yemen almost daily for seven weeks. |
| 1:17.1 | The U.S. is demanding a halt to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. |
| 1:22.1 | Greg Myrie, NPR News. |
| 1:24.0 | The Trump administration is out with a proposal that would call for $1,000 payments to immigrants in the U.S. illegally who agreed to return voluntarily to their home countries. |
| 1:35.1 | The Department of Homeland Security saying it's already agreed to pay for a plane ticket for one migrant who returned to Honduras from Chicago. |
| 1:42.3 | Trump has made immigration enforcement a centerpiece of |
| 1:44.6 | his campaign, though it's been a costly resource intensive operation. Immigrant rights groups have warned |
| 1:50.1 | anyone to be very cautious about accepting any such offers. The 2027 NFL draft will be held on |
| 1:57.7 | the National Mall. As in Burr's Franco-O Ordonez reports, President Trump says the event would bring tourism |
| 2:03.3 | revenue to D.C. Trump spoke from the Oval Office where he was flanked by D.C. Mayor, |
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