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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted former FBI Director James Comey. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: Comey faces charges of obstructing justice and making false statements.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The charges against Jim Comey come after days of pressure from President Trump, who urged the Justice Department to hurry up and build a criminal case against him.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The statute of limitations had been set to expire next week.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The charges stem from Senate testimony Comey gave in September 2020 about the FBI investigation into Russian election interference and a leak to the news media.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The White House recently forced down a longtime prosecutor after he cast doubt on the strength of any case against Comey.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: This week, Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor, but who had earlier ties to Trump, became U.S. attorney in Virginia.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The president posted "justice in America" after the indictment became public.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: President Trump has given his blessing to a deal for a group of mostly U.S. investors to take over the short video app TikTok.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: Trump signed an executive order saying the proposed deal meets congressional requirements and will protect national security.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: NPR's John Ruich has more.
--:-- John Ruich: The executive order paves the way for a framework agreement on the sale of TikTok to be finalized.
--:-- John Ruich: It would see TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divest to less than 20% ownership while U.S. investors step in and take control.
--:-- John Ruich: A law passed last year requires ByteDance to divest or see the app go dark in the United States.
--:-- John Ruich: The law arose out of the fear that, under Chinese ownership, TikTok could be used by the Chinese government to collect data on Americans or manipulate U.S. users with propaganda or disinformation.
--:-- John Ruich: After Trump signed the executive order, Vice President J.D. Vance said the deal values TikTok at around $14 billion.
--:-- John Ruich: He said the deal safeguards U.S. users' data and ensures that Americans are in control of TikTok's prized content recommendation algorithm.
--:-- John Ruich: Today, dozens of migrants showed up to the Dallas ICE facility where three detainees were shot yesterday.
--:-- John Ruich: They all had mandatory check-ins with ICE that, if missed, could lead to detention and deportation.
--:-- John Ruich: NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: 53 Nicaraguan migrant Benjam Bellor drove more than two hours to get to his appointment with ICE in Dallas but he found police officers outside telling him that the facility was closed.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: No appointments today.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Bellorin expressed he was worried, saying, "I just wanted them to see that I showed up."
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: He does not want to get in trouble.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Bellorin did not know the appointments have been postponed.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Authorities say the gunman who opened fired this week was targeting ICE agents, but the people he shot were all detainees.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: ICE has said this week's check-ins have been moved to next week.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: A brazen heist at a San Francisco Bay Area jewelry store led to some two dozen people wearing masks, smashing glass cases with pickaxes, and making off with bags full of a million dollars worth of jewelry.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Police say the robbers fled in cars waiting in a nearby lot.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Officers tracked the vehicles from the air and were able to arrest several suspects.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: A violent squirrel is on the loose in the Bay Area.
--:-- Sergio Martinez Beltran: Katie D. Benedetti with member station KQED reports that at least three North Bay residents have gone to the emergency room with injuries from the rodent.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: Joan Heblock was out for her morning walk when she felt something strange grabbing on her leg last Sunday.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: It was very heavy and I looked down and it was a squirrel.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: Neighbors say five people have reported attacks around the same street in San Rafael this month that go a bit like this.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: It wouldn't get off. It just clung more and I was swinging my leg around and screaming.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: Luckily, the odds of getting rabies from a squirrel are extremely low.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: And Heblach was back out on her usual walk that same afternoon.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: But disquieting posters warning people of, quote, a very mean squirrel are still up in the neighborhood.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: For NPR News, I'm Katie DiBenedetti in San Francisco.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: Crabs, worms, and fish are thriving on discarded World War II explosives in the Baltic Sea, thought to be toxic to marine life.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: At a former weapons dump site off the coast of Germany, scientists found more creatures living on top of warheads than in the surrounding seabed.
--:-- Katie D. Benedetti: Researchers filmed networks of anemones, starfish, and other underwater life.
--:-- Ryland Barton: From Washington, this is NPR News.
