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Hey, it's Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour. If you love NPR podcasts, you'll want the new NPR Plus podcast bundle. Enjoy an all-you-can-eat selection of NPR Plus podcasts with sponsor-free listening and bonus episodes. Plus, you'll be supporting public radio. Check it out at plus.npr.org. 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 to wind down his case. 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 granted Smith's request to pause filing deadlines in a federal case linked to allegations of a plot to overturn the 2020 election. Israel has not completed the Biden administration's requirements for improving humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where world experts warn of the risk of famine.

As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports, Tuesday is the deadline for Israel to meet those demands or risk a reduction in U.S. military aid. The State Department says Israel has made some initial improvements, expanding a displaced people's tent camp and opening more border crossings to bring in more aid. But Israel is still not meeting the U.S. demand for at least 300 truckloads of aid into Gaza a day. Israel allowed a small convoy of food and water into areas of North Gaza for the first time in over a month of intense bombardment.

The World Food Program says people in Gaza took some of the food from trucks before it could reach shelters. Early Sunday, a Gaza hospital director said an Israeli strike killed at least 17 people sheltering in a North Gaza home. The Israeli military said it was targeting militants but did not provide details. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv. In the state of Alabama, a homecoming weekend shooting at Tuskegee University, which left one person dead and others injured, is now under investigation.

Troy Public Radio's Guile Gassett reports. 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. 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. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. Paramilitary police have been deployed in central Kenya as tensions escalate between European ranchers and local herders. Emmanuel Lagunza reports the rising conflict has deep historical roots. The deployment of police to Lykepia follows weeks of tensions between local pastoralists and British ranchers who own huge tracts of land in central Kenya. The herders want to graze their animals in areas they claim to be their ancestral land, but the landowners, many who are British Kenyan, have resisted what they call invasion of their land given to them during the colonial period.

The ranches are part of wildlife conservancies which protect Kenya's endangered animals like the gravy zebra and rhinos. Authorities in Kenya have killed hundreds of people over the years as had a sick pasture and water in drought-stricken Lycebia. Local authorities have called for an emergency meeting to try and ease the tensions. For NPR News, Ami Manali Gunza in central Kenya. 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, and 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 will be up to Soccer Body FIFA and the International Olympic Committee to establish functioning lines of communication with the new administration. The AP late yesterday called a congressional race in Arizona for Republican incumbent Eli Crane. I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.