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NPR News: 12-23-2025 6PM EST

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

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0:00.0

There's something wrong with the plumbing in Cincinnati.

0:02.8

Billions of gallons of raw sewage ends up in waterways every year.

0:06.2

And for some, that raw sewage is a lot closer to home.

0:09.7

When it's coming out of the drain down there, it's sewage.

0:12.3

The stench was terrible.

0:14.7

Listen to the Backed Up podcast from the NPR Network and Cincinnati Public Radio.

0:21.0

Live from NPR News, I'm Gail Snyder.

0:24.4

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Chicago.

0:30.7

Today's ruling is the latest legal setback to the administration's use of troops on domestic soil.

0:36.3

And it's the first time the High Court has weighed in on

0:39.3

the deployments, as NPR's Kat-Lonsdorf reports. President Trump had argued the need to federalize the National Guard

0:45.0

against Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's wishes in order to stop what the administration said was

0:49.9

unremitting violence against federal immigration agents in the city. But two lower courts ruled against

0:55.4

such claims, and the administration issued an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court back in October.

1:00.9

In an unsigned opinion, the High Court ruled six to three against Trump, saying that, quote,

1:05.9

the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws of

1:11.3

Illinois. The decision, which does not set president, is one of only a handful of times the

1:16.8

conservative court has ruled against the president in the emergency docket in this term.

1:21.5

Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington.

1:23.3

The Justice Department has released additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. This new batch includes dozens of video clips and around 30,000 pages, many with redactions. However, an email from an unidentified prosecutor says Donald Trump flew on Epstein's private jet eight times in the 1990s. Trump has previously said he never flew on Epstein's plane.

1:46.0

There is no allegation that now President Trump committed any crime.

1:50.0

The Education Department preparing to resume wage garnishment for some student loan

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