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NPR News: 09-21-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

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0:00.0

The Trump administration has canceled billions in federal research funding at major universities.

0:05.1

We feel like collateral damage.

0:07.6

They've also clamped down on visas for international students.

0:10.9

Was the visa process hard?

0:12.5

No, don't ask me about it.

0:15.3

It was off.

0:17.1

Trump's war on higher ed.

0:19.2

Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR.

0:25.1

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. In Glendell, Arizona tonight,

0:31.6

thousands of people are gathered remembering slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk,

0:36.8

including President Trump, who denounced

0:38.7

the murder, saying Kirk was violently killed because he spoke for freedom and justice,

0:42.8

for God and country, for reason, and common sense.

0:45.6

He was violently killed because he spoke for freedom and justice, for God, country,

0:51.9

for reason, and for common sense.

0:55.2

Kirk's widow, Erica, fought back tears as she gave an emotional speech about her late husband who was killed 11 days ago.

1:01.5

But she says,

1:02.4

That man, that young man, I forgive him.

1:15.1

Erica Kirk is taking over Charlie's post at the organization he created, Turning Point Media.

1:21.6

Palestinian officials in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are thanking world leaders for officially recognizing the state of Palestine.

1:28.3

Today, Britain, Australia, and Canada said they would formally recognize it, ahead of a

1:32.8

UN meeting tomorrow, where France and Portugal say they will do the same. And Pierce,

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