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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. A federal judge is giving the Trump administration one week to figure out how more than a hundred migrants who were sent to El

Salvador in a prison there can challenge their deportations. As NPR's Tovia Smith reports, the judge says the migrants should have had that chance before they were removed from the US under an 18th century law. US District Court Judge James Boesberg wrote there's significant evidence that many of the migrants are not members of a Venezuela gang as alleged and quote, thus languish in a foreign prison on flimsy, even frivolous accusations. The US Supreme Court has affirmed migrants' rights to challenge their removal, and Boasberg says it's now up to the government to figure out how to quote, make good the wrong done, and grant the migrants due process even as the government

says they're officially in the custody of El Salvador. The Trump administration had no immediate comment, but has previously called Boasberg's rulings an egregious abuse of the bench. Tovia Smith, NPR News. President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone on Wednesday. The White House said Putin and Russia had very strongly, that Putin said Russia will very strongly respond to Ukraine's weekend drone attack on Russian airfields that reportedly destroyed or damaged much of Russia's long-range airborne nuclear fleet. Trump described the call as a good conversation, but not one he said that will lead to a peace

treaty. In a video call with the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group, Ukraine's President Zelensky said his country needs to push for more air defenses and weaponry to push Moscow towards real peace talks. We have no doubt that we can push Russia toward peace. But for that, we must continue to pressure Moscow with all available tools and step-by-step make its aggression meaningless.

Ukraine said the daring attack delivered a heavy blow to Russia's air force and military prestige. In an editorial in a French newspaper, the former Israeli prime minister says Israel is committing war crimes. NPR's Eleanor Birdsley. Writing in French newspaper Le Monde, Olmert called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war a criminal personal war that has provoked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Olmert said Netanyahu's government is the real enemy from within.

He also accused Netanyahu of playing the victim when he accuses European nations that criticize his government of anti-Semitism. I know French President Emmanuel Macron and he is no anti-Semite, wrote Olmert. The EU is threatening to revise an association deal with Israel. Olmert warned there will be many disastrous economic and diplomatic consequences for Israel if it does not end the war and rejoin the family of nations. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. In Washington, stocks were mixed and this is NPR News.

A nationwide surveillance program is testing wastewater for evidence of measles in 40 U.S. states. NPR's Maria Godoy reports scientists hope the testing will boost public health officials in the ability to spot measles cases before an outbreak occurs. The testing is being conducted by Wastewater Scan, a program that provides a real-time look at circulating pathogens based on testing wastewater samples from around the United States. The program already tracks viruses including COVID, flu, and RSV.

Program co-director Marlene Wolf of Emory University says, with the U.S. seeing a sharp increase in measles cases this year, it makes sense to add the virus to its monitoring program. We detect it with an increasing frequency, so more and more of the samples in a row are positive. That would be something that we would look at as a potential sign of an outbreak. Wastewater scans, measles data is publicly available as of this week. Maria Godoy, NPR News. President Trump's big push for a bill is likely to unleash trillions in dollars in tax cuts and slash spending, but it could spike the deficit by $2.4 billion and leave 10.9 million Americans without health care, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The U.S. Coast Guard and other emergency response teams are cleaning up a fuel spill in Baltimore in the Inner Harbor area that took place on Wednesday. Now Johns Hopkins University says diesel fuel used for generators accidentally spilled by a vendor during a routine delivery and the fuel got into the nearby water. It was about a hundred gallons of water. The water was red because of the dye from the fuel. This is NPR News. Support for NPR.