WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 12-31-25 (2/3)

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. Immigration officials will follow a judge's order and not detain Kilmar Abrago-Garcia as he awaits a trial. That's according to papers filed in court Tuesday. Abrago-Garcia is the illegal immigrant from El Salvador mistakenly deported from the U.S. to his home country earlier this year, then charged with human smuggling in Tennessee after he was returned. A newly unsealed document reveals the Justice Department pushed for his indictment only after the mistaken deportation. Abrago Garcia wants the charges dismissed, claiming his prosecution is vindictive. Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen agrees.

The Justice Department decided to bring these charges against him because he asserted his due process rights when they illegally shipped him off to Seacot in El Salvador. Seacot is an acronym for a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Across the country, local, state, and federal police are preparing to keep the nation safe for tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch says everything's looking good for the ball drop in the Big Apple. There are no known specific credible threats to the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. As always, the men and women at the NYPD will be out there. Keeping everyone safe. Tish says the NYPD will be conducting secondary screenings on anyone considered suspicious.

Brown University is announcing big changes after a mass shooting there earlier this month. World's Travis Kircher has more. Brown University's interim vice president for public safety announced a series of security upgrades at the school. That announcement came in a letter to students on Tuesday. Among those upgrades was a planned increase in the number of safety. and security officers on campus. Additional security cameras, panic buttons, and emergency phone boxes will also be installed. The announcement comes just over two weeks after a gunman opened fire inside the school's

engineering and physics building, killing two people and wounding nine others. For World, I'm Travis Kircher. In upstate New York, people are buried under a foot of snow and it's not letting up. The combination of snow and winds exceeding 50 miles per hour in some areas is, making travel treacherous. James Robinson drives a plow truck in Syracuse and feels like he's getting nowhere fast. It's hectic. I tell you that sometimes as soon as you shovel one part, it just snows right over it all again. By the time the winter blast ends Friday, another foot of lake effect snow could be on the ground. For World Radio, I'm Mark Mellinger. For more sound

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