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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: City leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, say they're still largely in the dark about a planned Border Patrol operation that could start this weekend.
--:-- Nick De La Canal: Border patrol agents are expected in Charlotte on Saturday or early next week.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The local sheriff says he's not involved and Charlotte police say they don't take part in federal immigration enforcement.
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--:-- J.D. Masuera Arias: This is not about public safety. It is not about finding criminals. It is about fear, it is about quotas, and it's about control.
--:-- Aisha Dew: State Representative Aisha Dew also questioned why a border operation is planned for Charlotte, noting the nearest border is South Carolina.
--:-- Ryland Barton: For NPR News, I'm Nick De La Canal in Charlotte.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Trump administration is moving away from prioritizing long housing for homelessness. Instead, it's ramping up funding for transitional housing that requires work and addiction treatment.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: NPR Jennifer Ludden explains critics are warning this could push many people back on the streets.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: The Federal Housing Agency, HUD, says the idea is to promote self-sufficiency and get at root causes of homelessness, which it says are specifically addiction and mental illness, very common among those living outside.
--:-- Jennifer Ludden: Now, the changes are a rebuke to longstanding federal policy. It's called Housing First. And under that, the vast majority of this funding has long gone to permanent housing that offers people treatment, but it doesn't require it.
--:-- Ryland Barton: NPR's Jennifer Ludden reporting.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Labor Department says it will release a report on September's job gains next week.
--:-- Scott Horsley: As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, it's the first in a series of overdue economic reports that were held up by the government shutdown.
--:-- Scott Horsley: The September jobs report was almost complete and supposed to be rolled out six weeks ago when the economists who produced the report were abruptly furloughed by the government shutdown.
--:-- Scott Horsley: The Labor Department says the jobs report will come out next Thursday, showing how many jobs employers added in September as well as the unemployment rate.
--:-- Scott Horsley: The timing of other key government releases is still up in the air. During the six-week shutdown, the government was forced to postpone a slew of economic reports including news of October job growth, inflation, retail sales, and GDP.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Government number crunchers say they're still figuring out how long it will take to make up for the missing data, and they thank people for their patience.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
--:-- Ryland Barton: A longtime Georgia prosecutor will take over the state's election interference case against President Trump and others.
--:-- Ryland Barton: This follows the removal of Fulton County District Attorney Fawney Willis from the case.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Legal action against Trump is unlikely while he's president, but 14 others face charges, including Rudy Giuliani and Trump's former White House chief of staff.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Stocks closed mixed today. The S&P 500 closed down a fraction of a percent.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: Germany says it will subsidize energy prices for heavy industry over the next three years in an attempt to breathe new life into its economy.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the price supports will last through 2028 to bolster companies using a lot of electricity and facing international competition.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Germany is Europe's biggest economy but has shrunk for the past two years.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Walmart is switching up leadership at the top. It's the country's largest retailer and employer announcing that its longtime CEO Doug McMillan will retire early next year.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: NPR Alina Seljuk reports Doug McMillan is credited with turning Walmart from a stagnant giant to a growing one, setting a plan for higher hourly wages, refreshing stores, and stepping up competition against Amazon, with a more focus on online sales and fast delivery.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: McMillan is 59 years old. He's run Walmart for over 10 years and been with the company for decades.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: So his departure has been rumored for quite some time, but the news now did surprise a lot of investors and analysts.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: The new CEO will be John Furner, who's currently the head of Walmart U.S.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: Like Macmillan, he had joined Walmart as an hourly worker, and this was more than 30 years ago.
--:-- Alina Seljuk: He'll take the reins in February.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Marine scientists have rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Marine Mammal Center used a recording of the lost otter's cries to lure its mother. After two hours, a female otter followed the boat, leading to a successful reunion.
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