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This is Eric Glass. On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens. If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me? Like this car dealership trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well. I just don't want one balloon to a car. Balloon the whole freaking place so it looks like I'm circus. Real life stories every week. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Hurst. House Democrats met tonight with Capitol police officers over President Trump's pardon of some 1,500 people involved in the deadly January

6th attack on the Capitol. Harry Dunn, a former Capitol police officer, says the pardons are an insult to law enforcement. Many of the officers that were brutally assaulted that day are the same officers who protected Donald Trump on Monday. Officer Dan Hodges was one of the officers protecting President Trump Monday. People who attacked us on January 6th are free now. They can try it again. And they'll know if they try it again in the next four years, they know they'll get pardoned again. But that doesn't matter. Myself, I'll be there if I'm needed.

I'll do it all again. Members of the Capitol Police, MPD, will be there. Police organizations have also condemned the pardons. Meanwhile, one of the people Trump pardoned, Oath Keepers founder Stuart Rhodes, returned to Capitol Hill today to advocate for the release of another defendant. In California, a new fire broke out north of Castaic in Los Angeles County, the Hughes Fire, with mandatory evacuations.

The fire has grown to more than 9,000 acres and is threatening homes and buildings. Part of I-5 is closed in the area. Steve Futterman has more. At this location where we are right now near this hotspot, the closest homes are maybe a quarter mile away. Now, obviously when you have embers flying in the air with these wind gusts that we're having right now, you might be able to hear the wind gusts.

These homes could be in danger very, very quickly. But right now, at this moment, they appear to be safe. But there are many, many homes near this fire which are potentially in big danger. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Castaic, California. Israel launched a new operation in the occupied West Bank with arrests and deaths reported California. Danielle Pletka, Reporting, Newspaper, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, New York Times,

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war and sustained Israeli airstrikes. Palestinians are able to see now what's left of their homes in areas Israeli forces have withdrawn from, but there's little reprieve here. Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, turning cities into gray mounds of rubble as far as the eye can see. Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 47,000 people were killed by Israeli fire in the war. Local health officials say they've recovered around 150 bodies from the rubble and decay of different parts of Gaza since the ceasefire began Sunday, and they estimate more than 10,000 bodies remain missing under the rubble.

Eyal Batraoui, NPR News. This is NPR News. Parts of the southeast are still at a standstill after a rare winter storm dumped record amounts of snow on the Gulf Coast and the Carolinas. Now roads, bridges, and sidewalks are covered in ice. Several deaths in Texas, Alabama, and Georgia are blamed on the storm. Many schools, businesses, and airports will stay closed through tomorrow, and tens of thousands are without power. And the Milwaukee Bucks versus the New Orleans Pelicans NBA game for tonight was postponed because of the weather. The National Weather Service says colder than normal temperatures are expected through Saturday.

Prince Harry and a senior British lawmaker have settled a years-long litigation with Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. In Piers David Foggenflick reports, Murdoch's company offered a sizable payment and a full apology for invasions of privacy stretching back decades. Peter Bauder With the settlement, Murdoch avoids a public trial at which Prince Harry and former member of parliament Tom Watson's lawyers would have laid out evidence of copious lawbreaking by the tabloids and by the executives that oversaw them. The apology was the first time the Murdoch Company had acknowledged wrongdoing at the

Daily Sun tabloid. The papers also apologized for putting Watson under surveillance while he was investigating the Murdoch-owned tabloids in Parliament. Outside the courthouse, Watson called for Scotland Yard to review the evidence that senior Murdoch executives covered up criminal acts by the tabloids, among them the company's British CEO, as well as the current publisher of the Washington Post, William Lewis. David Folkenflick, NPR News. U.S. futures contracts are trading lower at this hour.

Dow futures down a fraction. NASDAQ futures down about two-tenths of a percent. I'm Janene Herbst, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from WISE, the app for doing things in other currencies, sending Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.