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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is responding to the blow-up with President Trump, telling CNN today that he could be putting her life in danger.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor. And that is so extremely wrong. And those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Green has recently been critical of President Trump's focus on foreign affairs, and she's taken on GOP leadership over the government shutdown.
--:-- Giles Snyder: But she says it's the Epstein files that prompted Trump to begin attacking her on social media.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Green is one of four House Republicans who joined Democrats in signing a petition that forces a House vote on the Epstein files release.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Trump officially rescinded his support in a post on Friday
--:-- Giles Snyder: North Carolina's largest city now the latest to be targeted by a surge in federal immigration agents
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Homeland Security Department confirmed the surge in Charlotte last night prompting several hundred protesters to gather in a city park to denounce the surge
--:-- Giles Snyder: Charlotte Democratic mayor says the agents are causing unnecessary fear.
--:-- Giles Snyder: U.S. aviation system is gradually returning to normal following the government shutdown, but some effects will remain through the weekend.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Here's NPR's Joel Rose reporting.
--:-- Joel Rose: Aviation regulators say there's been a rapid decline in staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities over the past week.
--:-- Joel Rose: That's given the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration the confidence that more air traffic controllers are coming to work.
--:-- Joel Rose: Regulators lowered air traffic reductions at dozens of major airports from 6% of flights to 3% through the weekend, but they did not lift them entirely.
--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA said the restrictions were necessary to keep the airspace safe as the agency grappled with widespread staffing shortages of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: But with the government reopened, air traffic controllers have finally received some of the back pay they earned, and most are now back on the job.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Mortgage experts are skeptical about the Trump administration's plan to offer homebuyers a 50 mortgage
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR Bill Chappell reports
--:-- Bill Chappell: Backers of the 50 mortgage say it would help buyers get into a home they might not otherwise afford
--:-- Bill Chappell: But Bruce Marks the CEO of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America says the longer loan would take decades to build equity
--:-- Bill Chappell: The 30-year term has always been the sweet spot in this country.
--:-- Bill Chappell: But the affordability crisis is real, Marks says.
--:-- Bill Chappell: And in Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Hendricks of NBKC Bank agrees.
--:-- Bill Chappell: What else is staggering is the median age for that first-time homebuyer is 40 years old right now.
--:-- Bill Chappell: Hendricks says he wants the government to find ways to boost housing supply and help first-time homebuyers.
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--:-- Giles Snyder: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the rebel groups in the country, the M23, have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Michael Koloki has more.
--:-- Michael Koloki: Fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese forces has been going on for decades now.
--:-- Michael Koloki: Under a mediation effort hosted by the Qatari government and backed by the United States, both sides yesterday signed the framework agreement for a peace deal in the Qatari capital, Doha.
--:-- Michael Koloki: According to Masad Boulos, President Trump's senior advisor for Africa, the deal covers eight protocols which include the exchange of prisoners and the monitoring of a ceasefire
--:-- Michael Koloki: Boulos added that more still needs to be done to reach an agreement on how a number of the protocols will be implemented
--:-- Michael Koloki: According to the United Nations since the start of this year thousands have been killed in the conflict in eastern Congo.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
--:-- Giles Snyder: President Trump has signed two pardons linked to the investigation into the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol.
--:-- Giles Snyder: One is for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Trump issued the second pardon for a January 6th defendant who had remained behind bars despite the president's clemency grant issued when he regained the White House.
--:-- Giles Snyder: He had been convicted on separate charges.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Southern California has been getting us soaking this weekend, and the National Weather Service as even more rain is on the way.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The forecast is calling for additional heavy rain for tomorrow, prompting concerns for additional flash flooding and rock slides.
--:-- Giles Snyder: I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.
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