Migrants Leave Guantanamo, Israeli Hostages Update, Changes at FEMA

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2025-02-21

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Nearly all migrants held at Guantánamo Bay have been released, with over 170 Venezuelans flown to their home country. Israeli authorities say a hostage body returned by Hamas is not who the militants claimed it to be. And the impact of job cuts at FEMA. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter. Today's episode of Up First was edited by Eric Westervelt, Didi Schanche, Neela Banerjee, Reena Advani and Janaya Williams. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott and our technical director is Carleigh Strange. Our Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Who is the United States sending to Guantanamo?

  • We have some idea now that the US has sent migrants to that base and back out.

  • Our correspondent tells us what court filings reveal about some migrants removed from this country.

  • I'm Michele Martin with Steve Inskeep, and this is up first from NPR News.

  • Israeli authorities received four bodies yesterday from Hamas.

  • Israel says they do not know the identity of one of the bodies.

  • They also did not receive the body of a mother who was supposed to be delivered with her children.

  • How might Israel respond?

  • Here in the United States,

  • the Trump administration laid off some FEMA workers

  • and people involved in the Emergency Management Agency.

  • Tell NPR it's backing off work on building codes to make buildings more resilient.

  • What's changing and why?

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  • We have a clearer picture this morning of how the Trump administration is using the US Naval base