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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. For the first time since his show returned, Jimmy Kimmel Live was broadcast on all ABC affiliates last night.
--:-- Steve Futterman: On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Kimmel's show was broadcast on most ABC stations, but close to 70 owned by a pair of broadcast groups, Nextstar and Sinclair, refused to put the show on the air.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Yesterday, Nextstar and Sinclair announced a change of heart Kimmel would be back on.
--:-- Chris Kocches: It's about time everybody started falling in line. Just a weird, a really weird situation out here right now with the free speech and all that.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Kimmel's show has been surging in the ratings. On Tuesday, it drew more than 6 million viewers.
--:-- Steve Futterman: For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
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--:-- Matt Bloom: Hurricane Umberto has grown into a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles an hour.
--:-- Matt Bloom: Forecasters say Umberto could produce life surf and rip conditions for the Virgin Islands Puerto Rico and Bermuda this weekend before it swings to the northeast off the U.S. coast.
--:-- Matt Bloom: NPR's Matt Bloom reports that officials are also warning residents about a second disturbance.
--:-- Matt Bloom: There's an increasing threat of heavy rainfall early next week in coastal Georgia, the Carolinas, and southern mid-Atlantic states.
--:-- Matt Bloom: While the exact track of this new system remains uncertain, The National Weather Service says it's expected to be at or near hurricane intensity when it approaches the southeast U.S. coast, and officials are telling residents to plan ahead.
--:-- Matt Bloom: South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has already declared a state of emergency, and crews in Charleston getting sandbags together and making other preparations.
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--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Iran's foreign ministry says diplomacy with the U.S. is, quote, pure dead end.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: He is rejecting a by European countries to reimpose U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Russia and China have failed for a second time to prevent U.N. sanctions from snapping back.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: Iran's foreign minister, Saeed Abbasarachi, says it was the U.S. that pulled out of the nuclear deal in the first place.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: And he says the three European countries that were also part of the deal have no right to reimpose sanctions.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: Today crisis is the direct result of U withdrawal and Europe inaction.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: The U betrayed diplomacy.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: Araqshi says Iran has had in his words, a terrible experience negotiating with the U.S.
--:-- Saeed Abbasarachi: Iran was about to hold more talks when Israel and the U.S. bombed nuclear sites earlier this year.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, New York.
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--:-- Host: The Trump administration says it will revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro visa, taking issue with his remarks at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York.
--:-- Host: He urged U.S. soldiers to disobey President Trump's orders in a post on acts the State Department called his comments reckless and incendiary.
--:-- Host: This is NPR News.
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--:-- Host: Police in Austin, Texas have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls.
--:-- Host: They say DNA tests point to Robert Eugene Brashers, who killed himself in 1999 during a standoff with law enforcement.
--:-- Host: Police plan to share more details on Monday.
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--:-- Host: Federal health officials are warning of certain pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe's stores nationwide.
--:-- Host: Officials say tests show that the pasta may be contaminated by the same bacteria linked to a listeria outbreak that killed three people and sickened at least 17.
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--:-- Laura Hackett: Exactly a year after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina with lethal floods and landslides the city of Asheville is reckoning with a lot of emotion.
--:-- Laura Hackett: Blue Ridge Public Radio's Laura Hackett reports that some people are seeking healing in a unique way.
--:-- Erin Parcels: Librarian Erin Parcels is standing on a bridge with a red megaphone overlooking the same river that leveled Asheville's River Arts District a year ago.
--:-- Erin Parcels: She's there to lead a primal scream on behalf of the local library.
--:-- Francie Gens: The scream was a meaningful way to mark all that Asheville has been through, says first-time screamer Francie Gens.
--:-- Francie Gens: I think we need to get it out and we need to feel it and we need to be together and know that we're all feeling this and let it resound and be heard.
--:-- Laura Hackett: The idea came from Chicago, which has a weekly scream club.
--:-- Laura Hackett: In Asheville, where the city faces years of home, road, and water repairs, locals hope to make it a monthly occurrence.
--:-- Laura Hackett: For NPR News, I'm Laura Hackett in Asheville, North Carolina.
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