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NPR News: 08-22-2025 5AM EDT

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. A report out today says Gaza is in famine

0:08.7

amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The finding is from a group of UN-backed experts

0:14.4

who say more than a half million people in northern Gaza are facing catastrophic food shortages.

0:20.7

President Trump says he's pleased with the

0:22.6

results thus far of his decision to place Washington, D.C. police under federal control and to deploy

0:29.0

hundreds of National Guard troops in an effort to reduce crime in the nation's capital.

0:33.2

We've had some incredible results. The results have come out, and it's like a different place. It's like a different city.

0:43.1

The president was speaking yesterday as he visited with federal agents and guard members at an operations center in Washington.

0:50.1

More than 600 people have been arrested in D.C. since the president made the move.

0:55.2

Washington's mayor, Muriel Bowser, is among those who said the action was unnecessary,

1:00.2

citing drops and crime rates there.

1:02.5

A federal judge in Miami is ordering the shutdown of an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades,

1:08.8

referred to as alligator Alcatraz by the president and state officials.

1:13.5

NPR's Greg Allen says Environmental Group sued to block the facility.

1:18.4

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit saying that the hasty construction of the detention center

1:22.7

without public input or an environmental impact statement violated federal law.

1:27.2

Florida and the Trump administration argued that because it was built by the statement violated federal law. Florida and the Trump administration

1:28.4

argued that because it was built by the state, federal law didn't apply. U.S. District Judge Kathleen

1:33.8

Williams disagreed, noting that the camp was built at the request of the administration and that

1:38.2

all immigration enforcement activities at the camp are under federal control. Quoting an earlier

1:43.0

court decision, she said,

1:44.4

if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it's a duck.

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