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Support for this podcast and the following message come from Autograph Collection Hotels, with over 300 independent hotels around the world, each exactly like nothing else. Autograph Collection is part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of hotel brands. Find the unforgettable at autographcollection.com. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Republican Jim Jordan is calling on special counsel Jack Smith to preserve records from his investigation into now-President-elect Donald Trump. Smith is in talks with the Justice Department about winding down his criminal prosecutions.

Chairman Jordan told CNN's State of the Union, There's facts there and we want all the information, preserve the records, let us have it. This is consistent with how Congress has always operated. Jack Smith has been taking steps since November 5th's vote. Chairman Jordan says his request is a function of congressional oversight of the Department of Justice and the Office of the Special Counsel. There's a long history in the Congress with our oversight responsibility, our constitutional duty to do oversight, of looking at the special counsel. I mean, when Chairman Nadler chaired the Judiciary

Committee, he wanted this information from Robert Mueller. He got the information. Mueller came and testified. At week's end, a judge did Grant Smith's request to pause filing deadlines in a federal case linked to allegations of a plot to overturn the 2020 election. Exit polls show that Donald Trump again received major support from white Christians this election. NPR's Jason DeRose reports the Republican candidate also made inroads with Hispanic Catholics as well as other cultural and religious groups. A little more than half of Hispanic Catholics voted for Donald Trump. That's far more than in the past. Just four years ago, only about a half of Hispanic Catholics voted for Donald Trump. That's far more than in the past. Just four years ago, only about a third of Hispanic Catholics voted for him.

The shift this year appears to have been motivated by economic reasons. A national exit poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations found Green Party candidate Jill Stein getting 53% of the Muslim vote. Trump got 21% and Kamala Harris received 20 percent. That's after an intense campaign to turn Muslims away from the Democratic ticket due to the Biden administration's handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. Other data, about 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump and about 80 percent of Jews voted for Harris. Jason DeRose, NPR News. In the state of Alabama, a shooting at

Tuskegee University, which left one person dead and others injured, is now under investigation by law enforcement. Troy Public Radio's Kyle Gassett reports the shooting broke out during homecoming festivities. Tuskegee University officials report that the Alabama Bureau of Investigations has been called in. Videos posted on social media show individuals crouched near parked cars and others running away from the scene in the dark as shots are fired. Authorities have not announced a motive or arrests in connection with the attack. The person who was killed did not attend the historically black university, which was celebrating its 100th homecoming this weekend. The school says students are among the injured. For NPR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in

Montgomery, Alabama. This is NPR News in Washington. The AP late yesterday called a congressional race in Arizona for Republican incumbent Eli Crane. He was challenged by former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez running as a Democrat. The first ever human case of the avian flu has been found in Canada. Dan Karpanchuk reports health officials in British Columbia confirmed the case through testing. Until confirmed there, BC officials are describing it as a presumptive case of bird flu.

Samples of the test case are now on their way to Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. Officials say the case is a rare event, the first H5 detected in Canada. There have been four cases in people in the US resulting in mild to moderate illness. The US Centers for Disease Control is monitoring the situation closely. Officials in B.C. say the source of the exposure is likely to be a bird or an animal and is being investigated by public health teams and the province's chief veterinarian. The infected teenager from the Fraser Health Region is being treated in hospital. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpanchuk in Toronto. LESLIE KAPLAN President-elect Trump has promised a hot focus on immigration issues when he returns to the Oval Office,

and a major related challenge for his administration will be the two biggest events in world sports. The World Cup is headed for the U.S. in 2026. The Summer Olympics are slated for Los Angeles in 2028. Questions like granting visas and providing security are bound to cross Trump's desk. It'll be up to Soccer Body FIFA and the International Olympic Committee to establish functioning lines of communication with the new Trump administration. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.