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🗓️ 5 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Click Here. Erased is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence. |
| 0:08.0 | Erased uncovers an authoritarian regime's campaign to delete a culture. Listen to Click Here wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:16.4 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump today signed an executive order rebranding |
| 0:23.8 | the Department of Defense, the Department of War. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump both |
| 0:29.1 | say this reflects a new tone for the country and the military. |
| 0:33.7 | We won the First World War. We won the Second World War, we won everything before that and in between, |
| 0:40.0 | and then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense. So we're going Department of War. |
| 0:46.0 | But while Congress created the Department of War in 1789, President Truman signed the law creating the Department of Defense from what remained of the War Department in 1949 after World War II. |
| 0:59.3 | The new name will actually be the department's secondary title. |
| 1:03.3 | Trump suggested the administration would ask Congress to codify the change into law, but also said, quote, I'm not sure they have to. |
| 1:12.8 | Police arrested two teens in connection with a high-profile shooting death of a congressional intern in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:18.6 | As Alex Coma of member station, WAMU, reports they're being charged with first-degree murder. |
| 1:25.0 | The killing of 21-year-old Eric Tarpinium Jackam is one of several prominent crimes |
| 1:29.0 | that have become a rally and cry for President Trump as he sought to control D.C.'s affairs. |
| 1:33.6 | Prosecutors believe two 17-year-olds were targeting another man in a drive-by shooting when they |
| 1:37.9 | inadvertently killed the intern instead. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Janine Piro is charging both teens as adults |
| 1:43.5 | as part of her broader |
| 1:44.7 | attacks on the city's juvenile justice system. |
| 1:46.9 | This killing underscores why we need the authority to prosecute these younger kids because |
| 1:53.4 | they're not kids. They're criminals. They're violent criminals. |
| 1:57.2 | Investigators are still searching for a third suspect. For NPR News, I'm Alex Koma in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:03.6 | Hiring in the United States slowed significantly in August. The Labor Department says employers added 22,000 jobs during the month. That's far fewer than were expected. |
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