--:-- Lakshmi Singh: This week on Consider This, an encrypted group chat where members of the National Guard are processing President Trump's actions.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: This is just not what any of us signed up for. And I just wonder, like, who's going to stand up to this? Plus, what's next for congressional Democrats after their move this week to release more of Jeffrey Epstein's emails?
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Listen this week to Consider This on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
--:-- Alex Helmick: The election interference criminal case in Georgia against President Trump and several others will move ahead after a new prosecutor was appointed before today's deadline.
--:-- Alex Helmick: Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis originally brought the massive RICO case, but was removed by a Georgia court for her personal relationship with a special prosecutor.
--:-- Alex Helmick: The prosecuting attorney's counsel of Georgia, Executive Director Pete Skandalakis, was ordered to appoint a new prosecutor, but each one he approached respectfully declined.
--:-- Alex Helmick: Skandalakis said that dismissal at this point was not the right course of action and has named himself to lead the case and perform what he called a comprehensive review to determine how to proceed.
--:-- Steve Sadow: In a statement the president lead defense counsel Steve Sadow calls the case a politically charged prosecution and says that a review of the facts will lead to dismissal.
--:-- Alex Helmick: For NPR News I Alex Helmick in Atlanta.
--:-- Alex Helmick: Border patrol agents are being sent to the North Carolina city of Charlotte a Democratic stronghold Critics note there are no immigration-related borders in Mecklenburg County.
--:-- Alex Helmick: President Trump's defended similar deployments to other cities as anti-crime actions.
--:-- Alex Helmick: In Chicago, protests erupted outside an ICE detention facility. There an activist was arrested.
--:-- Alex Helmick: In Chicago, a federal judge has ordered hundreds of immigrants arrested by the federal government to be released.
--:-- John Seidel: Throughout the last few months, we've had multiple judges find that the Trump administration's arguments in court lack credibility.
--:-- John Seidel: And the public face of this has been this U.S. Border Patrol commander, Greg Bovino.
--:-- John Seidel: Last week I was in court when a judge specifically said that he had lied about being hit in the head with a rock before tossing tear gas.
--:-- John Seidel: So while, yes, the federal government is claiming success and that this is important work, there is also a lot of people challenging their claims.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Heavy rain swept across Gaza overnight, soaking tents and flooding the ruins of bombed out homes.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The United Nations says nearly 30,000 homes have been destroyed during the war.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: NPR Aobitrawi reports aid groups warn that only a fraction of the supplies needed for shelter are getting in even with a ceasefire in place
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The Norwegian Refugee Council which oversees tent supplies in Gaza says Israel is blocking the entry of life shelter materials for 1 million people
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: They say Israel's rejected nearly all requests from nine aid groups to bring in tents, sealing kits, bedding and blankets, adding these are urgently needed as Gaza faces its third winter since the start of the war.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: UN agencies say people are also struggling to eat enough due to obstacles and red tape.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Israel is only allowing goods to enter through two crossings, despite saying a third crossing would open, this one for northern Gaza, where famine was declared over the summer.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Israel's military says it's not limiting aid and that hundreds of trucks of goods are entering daily.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: It did not respond to further questions.
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--:-- Alison Aubrey: New research links high consumption of ultra-processed foods to early-onset colorectal cancer.
--:-- Alison Aubrey: NPR's Alison Aubrey reports the research suggests diet is one factor behind the increase in colon cancer among young adults.
--:-- Alison Aubrey: Doctors at Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute analyzed data from nearly 30,000 female nurses under the age of 50.
--:-- Alison Aubrey: They found those who ate more ultra-processed foods, including salty, high-fat snacks, such as chips and sugary drinks, had a significantly higher risk of developing precancerous polyps
--:-- Andrew Chan: Dr Andrew Chan is an author of the study If you have a family history certainly if you have a history of polyps trying to kind of adjust what you eat is one step you can take
--:-- Alison Aubrey: Not all processed foods are unhealthy, but increasingly research shows a diet high in saturated fat, sodium, and sugar, as is found in many packaged foods, increases the risk of chronic disease.
--:-- Alison Aubrey: Alison Aubrey, NPR News.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Brazil's hosting the United Nations climate conference at the gateway to the Amazon.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: This morning, about 100 members of the Munduruku indigenous tribe blocked the main entrance to the gathering in Belém, demanding nations recognize their sovereignty of lands over which they say they and many other indigenous groups worldwide argue have been stewards for generations.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The standoff ended peacefully after a long discussion with COP30 President Andre Correa Delago.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: At last check on Wall Street, the Dow is down nearly 150 points.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
