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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The shooting at the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office that killed at least one detainee and injured two others has community activists concerned that fear will escalate in the migrant community from Member Station KERA, Priscilla Rice, reports. Immigration advocate Susanna Garcia says she was having her coffee when she began receiving texts about the deadly shooting.

Garcia works with migrants in the northwest Dallas community of Bachman Lake and recently received legal status herself. She says ice sightings and deportation threats have already taken an emotional toll. She and others now fear Latinos will be even further targeted. We are going to be more afraid about everything that's to come against us because of what just happened. Federal authorities are investigating the shooting as a targeted attack. For NPR news, I'm Priscilla Rice in Dallas. The Justice Department is calling for the Supreme Court to end protections against racial discrimination in the redrawing of election maps.

NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports the court could soon determine the future of the landmark voting rights act. In a friend of the court free for a lawsuit over Louisiana's map of congressional districts, The Justice Department argues the Voting Rights Act's longstanding legal protections against racial discrimination and redistricting are no longer constitutional. The DOJ's filing comes months after it started stepping away from multiple voting rights lawsuits that were first brought during former President Joe Biden's administration. A series of rulings by the Supreme Court's conservative majority have already weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now many of the laws advocates fear that the rare second round of oral arguments the court has ordered for this Louisiana

case on October 15th could be setting up a decision that ends key, remaining protections for minority voters. Anzila Wong, NPR News. Three men implicated in the September 11th, 2001 attacks have asked a federal court to reinstate plea deals that were first reached with them last year and later canceled, as NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer reports. Wednesday was the deadline for three of the 9-11 defendants to appeal the rejection of their plea deals, and all three of them did appeal, including the alleged ringleader, Khalid Sheikh

Muhammad. They want the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear their case. If it takes the case but doesn't rule in their favor, they can still appeal to the Supreme Court. The plea deals, if allowed, would let them plead guilty and spend life in prison rather than face the death penalty. Prosecutors have said plea deals would be the best resolution since the case has still not gone to trial nearly a quarter century after the attacks. Sasha Fiver, NPR News. ABC says 6.3 million people tuned in to watch Jimmy Kimmel's return to broadcast last night. His late night show typically gets about 1.8 million viewers each night on TV. Kimmel was suspended after comments he made that angered supporters of slain activist Charlie Kirk.

Stationed owned by Nextstar and Sinclair still kept him off the air. More than 26 million watched him on social media. This is NPR News in Washington. Sexually transmitted disease rates fell for adults in the U.S. last year. year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new government data. In 2012, there were about 300 cases of congenital syphilis, where moms passed the disease onto babies. Last year, there were nearly 4,000 cases. NPR's student podcast challenge brings in thousands of student voices each year from grade

four through college. This year, the high school winner comes to us from Houston, Texas, by way of southern India. NPR's Sequoia Corrilla reports. Avani Yalta grew up in Houston. Her mom grew up in Houston. Her mom grew up in San Antonio. But her grandma grew up in Kerala, a state along the southern tip of India. She was fascinated by her grandma's stories of mango trees and running barefoot around her village with friends. It ate away at her that no matter how hard she tried, she could never experience it. Because all that's left of her grandma's village are abandoned houses, and all that's left of the mango tree is a gray stump. In her winning podcast, The Things We Buried, she narrates a journey

to a place that no longer exists, weaving together family stories of the village and sounds of birds and children who have long left the area. The listener is transported to the carola of the past. Sequoicorillo and P.R. News. The Oxford English Dictionary has 12 new words commonly used in the Caribbean. The list includes carry go, bring, come, dating from 1825. It means gossip or a person who spreads it. Cry long water, which means either to cry a lot or insincerely, and bus up shut, an unleavened flaky bread popular in Trinidad and Tobago. This is NPR News from Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe.

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