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You have your job, but you also have a life. And you're not just one thing. Neither is the Here and Now Anytime podcast. Every weekday, we break down the biggest story of the day and something else, like a new trend everyone's talking about. It's Here and Now Anytime, a daily podcast from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shae Stevens. U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen says he's met with Kilmar Obrego-Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported last month.

Van Hollen has posted a photo of the meeting on X, a day after he was denied access to the El Salvadoran prison where Abrego Garcia is being held. President Trump says he still supports negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program while warning of consequences if no deal is reached. NPR's Greg Meyry has the story. President Trump was asked about a New York Times report that he waved off an Israeli plan to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.

I wouldn't say waved off an Israeli plan to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. I wouldn't say waved off. I'm not in a rush to do it because I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly raised the plan when he visited the White House last week. The Israelis would take the lead in the attack, but the U.S. would also be deeply involved according to the report. Meanwhile the U.S. and Iran held a first round of talks on a possible nuclear deal last Saturday. Another round is set for this Saturday in Rome. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington. A suspect is being

questioned in connection with a mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. As NPR's Greg Allen reports, the suspect is the son of a sheriff's deputy. Police identified 20-year-old Phoenix Eichner as the person responsible for the shootings, which left two dead and six people injured, one critically. Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil said Eichner is an FSU student and the son of a longtime sheriff's deputy. Unfortunately her son had access to one of her weapons and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene. Police recovered at the scene that handgun and a shotgun that they don't believe was used in the shooting. Eichner didn't surrender when he was confronted by police and was shot and

wounded. FSU's president said the community is heartbroken at the violence, but would support each other and get through it together. Greg Allen, NPR News. A federal judge says Google holds an illegal monopoly over online advertising. The ruling came in a case brought by the Justice Department in 17 states. KQED's Rachel Miro has more. A federal judge largely agreed with the government's claim that Google's monopoly in ad tech allowed it to charge higher prices and take a bigger cut of each sale. Now the ad giant could be forced to sell off some of its ad

businesses at a time when other antitrust cases might force the same for other parts of the company. Allison Rice is with the nonprofit accountable tech. We're just really glad to see that this ruling came down and want to see solutions that permanently end Google's monopoly on the exploitation of consumer data. Google lawyers are spinning the ruling as a partial win. We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half, a VP wrote on X. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro. This is NPR.

This is NPR. The man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been indicted on new charges in New York. Twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione was already facing state and federal murder charges plus other counts. A federal grand jury in Manhattan has added four new charges, including stalking and murder through use of a firearm, which carries the death penalty if convicted. A recent archaeological dig has unearthed the capital of the ancient kingdom of Cabo in West Africa. Ari Daniel has that report.

When Cabo fell in the 19th century, it was the last of the African kingdoms before European colonialism. The stories of its reign have been passed down for generations by a group of oral historians known as the griots. Nino Galisa is one. He says to him, Kabu was a fiction, a story. Then in 2024, a team of Spanish and Senegalese archaeologists began to exhume Kansala, the capital, in modern-day Guinea-Bissau. They found physical evidence of the people and places that had been mentioned in the

songs of the griots. The researchers asked Elisa if he'd transformed their findings into music. He sings about what touched him so, that what the griots have described for generations is real. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. US futures are mostly higher in after-hours trading on Wall Street. Asia-Pacific markets are mostly higher, but down a fraction in Shanghai. This is NPR News.

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