NPR News: 05-21-2025 5PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie everyone's been talking about, or catch the show that the internet can't get over. |
| 0:08.1 | At the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we chase that feeling four times a week. |
| 0:12.2 | We'll serve you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, and more. |
| 0:18.1 | From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between. |
| 0:21.9 | Catch the Pop Culture Happy hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Justice Department is |
| 0:31.3 | backing away from civil rights cases against police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, |
| 0:36.7 | Kentucky. The decision comes |
| 0:38.5 | just days ahead of the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis. And yours |
| 0:43.0 | Ryan Lucas reports. The head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, |
| 0:46.3 | Harmeet Dillon, announced the moves and said the timing has nothing to do with the anniversary |
| 0:50.5 | of Floyd's death, but rather with looming court deadlines. |
| 0:58.8 | The department is moving to dismiss lawsuits against Louisville and Minneapolis that accuse them of unconstitutional police practices and would impose consent decrees to help ensure accountability. |
| 1:04.6 | Dylan says such consent decrees are too expensive, last too long, and have been badly used. |
| 1:09.5 | The department is also closing investigations into police departments in six other jurisdictions, |
| 1:15.0 | including Phoenix, Arizona, Trenton, New Jersey, Memphis, Tennessee, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 1:21.0 | Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:22.8 | President Donald Trump's self-declared big, beautiful package of tax and spending cuts remains imperiled, |
| 1:29.2 | despite another late-night session by lawmakers. House Speaker Mike Johnson and some Republican holdouts |
| 1:34.5 | traveling to the White House today holding last-ditch talks aimed at salvaging the 1,000-plus-page bill. |
| 1:41.3 | Democrats let the votes to scuttle the measure. Some GOP conservatives, meanwhile, |
| 1:45.7 | believe the package doesn't cut enough, adding upwards of $3.8 trillion to the federal deficit. |
| 1:51.4 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Israeli military will not leave Ghazim |
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