--:-- Amy Held: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
--:-- Amy Held: A split is growing between President Trump and what had been one of his staunchest advocates in Congress. And as NPR's Luke Garrett reports the intra-party rift represents a broader fight over the Make America Great Again movement.
--:-- Luke Garrett: Trump called Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor on Saturday after reneging his endorsement for the Georgia lawmaker.
--:-- Amy Held: Greene tells CNN she now fears for her safety. Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.
--:-- Luke Garrett: Greene says Trump is attacking her because she supports releasing the Epstein files. She also criticized Trump's foreign policy agenda, saying he should focus more on domestic issues.
--:-- Amy Held: I would love to see Air Force One be parked and stay home.
--:-- Luke Garrett: Last week, Trump said he knows the MAGA movement best and that Green is lashing out because he didn't support her statewide political ambitions, which Green denies.
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--:-- Amy Held: A judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot find the University of California or withhold federal funding based on its discrimination allegations From member station KQED in San Francisco, Juan Carlos Lara reports.
--:-- Juan Carlos Lara: The ruling is a victory for faculty, staff, and student groups who sued after the administration demanded that UCLA pay over $1 billion and change campus policies, like a ban on gender affirming care for minors to reinstate frozen federal funding.
--:-- Amy Held: Connie Chan is counsel for some of those groups. The ruling is really significant. It requires the government to refrain from using its pressure tactics to try to coerce the University of California into adopting the administration's preferred ideological views.
--:-- Juan Carlos Lara: The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.
--:-- Amy Held: For NPR News, I'm Juan Carlos Lara in San Francisco.
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--:-- Amy Held: In Southern California, the rain is easing for now, but the risk from an atmospheric river remains. Forecasters say the rain could be heavy again tomorrow, leading to more flash flood warnings and rock slide risk.
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--:-- Tim Maurice: The water just started coming up really fast and it up past the sidewalk now and almost put some sandbags around the house, almost in the house. It's a little scary.
--:-- Amy Held: In parts of town, kayakers were paddling down the streets.
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--:-- Amy Held: Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro says U.S. military exercises in maritime neighbor Trinidad and Tobago are irresponsible, and he is accusing the U.S. of pursuing a criminal war.
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--:-- Amy Held: The USS Gerald Ford arrives in the Northern Caribbean today, the world's biggest aircraft carrier joining thousands of service members already there.
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--:-- Amy Held: In Chile, a new president and parliament are on the ballot today. Presidential candidates vary sharply.
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--:-- Amy Held: The focus has been on public fears over organized crime and immigration.
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--:-- Amy Held: Ukraine is working on resuming prisoner exchanges with Russia. NPR's Polina Litvinova reports from Kyiv the effort could potentially bring home 1 Ukrainians from captivity.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: Ukraine Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov announced that he has had consultations with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on the resumption of the POW exchanges between Ukraine and Russia.
--:-- Amy Held: In his post on social media, Umerov wrote, this would help to activate the agreements the two countries made during the direct talks in Istanbul.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: Ukraine hopes to return home more than 1,000 people before Christmas. The last prisoner exchange was in October.
--:-- Amy Held: So far, such swaps are the only progress Ukraine and Russia have achieved since their direct negotiations renewed in spring.
--:-- Polina Litvinova: For NPR News, I'm Polina Litvinova, Kyiv.
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--:-- Amy Held: In Manila, hundreds of thousands of protesters came out to demand accountability in a flood control corruption scandal.
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--:-- Amy Held: They're outraged over substandard or non-existent flood defense projects in the typhoon-prone Philippines.
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--:-- Amy Held: Government officials have testified about kickbacks involving Congress and public works officials.
--:-- Amy Held: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has promised swift action.
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