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🗓️ 11 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | On NPR's Wildcard podcast, Jamie Lee Curtis talks about Hollywood's pressure to cover up aging. |
| 0:05.5 | You can't hide the truth. We are who we are. And if that's ultimately what I get to represent in this lifetime, then I will feel it was a life well-lived. |
| 0:18.3 | Watch or listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app or on YouTube at |
| 0:22.6 | NPR Wildcard. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Attorney General Pam Bondi says |
| 0:30.0 | the FBI and the Coast Guard seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. NPR's Quill Lawrence |
| 0:36.1 | reports the U.S. has sanctioned Venezuela's oil |
| 0:38.5 | industry. Bondi posted a video on social media showing U.S. forces boarding the vast oil tanker |
| 0:44.1 | by helicopter. She said U.S. agents executed a seizure warrant on board and that the tanker has |
| 0:49.4 | been sanctioned for years and is known to smuggle crude oil from Venezuela and also Iran. |
| 0:55.0 | President Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom he |
| 0:59.5 | accuses of narco-trafficking. The U.S. has assembled the largest naval fleet in decades off |
| 1:04.7 | the Venezuelan coast and offered $50 million for Maduro's arrest. This news came as pro-democracy activist Maria |
| 1:12.1 | Corina Machado snuck out of hiding in Venezuela and route to Norway to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:18.8 | Quill Lawrence NPR News. A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration |
| 1:23.2 | must stop its deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state. |
| 1:29.4 | It's the latest in a series of legal rulings against President Trump's deployments, as NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports. |
| 1:35.4 | Trump seized control of California's Guard back in June, against Governor Gavin Newsom's wishes, |
| 1:40.7 | and deployed more than 4,000 troops to the streets of Los Angeles to protect federal |
| 1:45.2 | immigration facilities and officers. That number has dropped to around 100 still in the city, |
| 1:50.3 | but the administration has extended that federalization several times, most recently until February, |
| 1:56.2 | saying it's still necessary. The administration also attempted to send California troops into Portland, |
| 2:01.7 | Oregon. In his ruling to end the federalization, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said that the |
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