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This is Ira Glass with This American Life, each week on our show. We choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme. All right, I'm just going to stop right there. You're listening to an NPR podcast, chances are you know our show. So instead, I'm going to tell you, we've just been on a run of really good shows lately. Some big epic emotional stories, some weird funny stuff too. Download us, This American Life. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Donald Trump has announced he is again barring people from countries that the

administration deems dangerous from coming to the United States. The ban Trump is linking is to a recent terror attack in Colorado. It takes effect Monday. Speaking at the White House, Trump pointed to a recent terror attack allegedly carried out by an Egyptian national as the reason for this move. Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States. That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others. This latest ban is similar to one instituted during the first Trump term that caused confusion

at airports. After legal challenges, the order was retooled until a version was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018. President Trump says he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Wednesday. NPR's Franco Ordonius reports the two leaders discussed Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian aircraft. President Trump says on social media that the two leaders spoke for about an hour and 15 minutes about Ukrainian and Russian strikes, as well as the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. He wrote, quote, It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace.

Indeed, Trump said Putin told him, using strong language, that Russia will have to respond to the recent attacks on its airfields. Trump also says he told Putin that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Trump says he believes Putin agrees with him on that. According to Trump, Putin suggested that he could help facilitate those discussions. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, The White House. Advocates are calling the Trump administration's latest attempt to deport the family of a suspect in this weekend's Boulder, Colorado, firebombing intimidation. Colorado Public Radio's Kira Damar reports. The suspect's wife and five kids were detained by ICE on Tuesday. They were not charged with

the crime and on Wednesday a federal district judge blocked their deportation. Eric Lee is the immigration attorney representing the family, and he likened the move to a style of intimidation found in Nazi Germany called family or collective punishment. The idea that the Trump administration can impose punishment on family members for the crimes, alleged crimes that they did not commit is an assault on the most basic democratic rights of the entire American population. Lee said a line has to be drawn on who can be charged with a crime. Hearings on the family's deportation are next week. For NPR News, I'm Kiara Damari in Denver. This is NPR. A Kent, Washington man who fled to Poland and was extradited back to the US has been arrested by federal officials for allegedly providing chemicals

used in the May bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. Israel says the two projectiles were fired from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It's the first strike at Israel since the fall of the Syrian regime last year. NPR's Jane Araf has more. The Syrian government says Israel shelled the southern Syrian province of Daraa after reports of rockets from within Syria hitting the Golan Heights.

It said the Israeli attack resulted in significant casualties. Israel says two projectiles, it would not say what kind, hit the Golan Heights Tuesday. The Syrian Foreign Ministry says it could not verify the reports. A previously unknown group called the Hamad-Daif Brigades, named after a Hamas commander killed by Israel in Gaza, claimed in a post on the Telegram messaging app that it had launched an attack on the Golan. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Syria does not pose a threat to any country and that there are groups trying to destabilize it.

Jane Araf and peer news, Amman. President Trump says he's ordering an investigation into former President Joe Biden's use of an auto pen to sign pardons and other documents. Some House Republicans are requesting interviews with former White House officials alleging they participated in a cover-up concerning the former president's health and usurped presidential authority. From Washington, this is NPR News. I'm Dan Ronan.