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Lyndsay Keith talks with investigative reporter Mike Magnoli about a man who climbed a razor-wire fence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, walked up a portable staircase onto a JetBlue plane, and fell asleep in the bathroom. Airline employees found him the next morning. Cameras had recorded him along the fence line, but no one was watching in real time. The airport has played down the breach because it happened far from the terminal, and JetBlue has offered little explanation. Magnoli also describes earlier incidents in South Florida and explains why his records requests to TSA and Homeland Security have gone unanswered.

Then, aviation security expert Sheldon Jacobson, who helped develop the risk-based thinking behind TSA PreCheck, explains who is responsible for airport perimeters and why breaches happen two to three times a month nationwide, including one at Denver International that left a man dead. He describes the layers that protect airfields, why airports spend less on perimeters than on checkpoints, and why the biggest danger comes from threats no one has imagined yet.

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Lyndsay Keith talks with reporter Ben Krumholz about Green Bay, Wisconsin, where middle and high school students have carried clear backpacks for a year. The district made the switch two days after a 16-year-old brought a loaded gun to Preble High School, which Krumholz graduated from 21 years ago. No weapons have turned up in backpacks since, though Preble had also gone 70 years without an incident before the policy. The district promised more security measures to follow, and none have arrived. Krumholz explains why a weapons detection system, estimated at about $840,000 a year for the district's 40 schools, never moved forward, and what students say about life with see-through bags, from stolen AirPods to privacy worries.

Then, Mo Canady of the National Association of School Resource Officers explains why clear backpacks can create a false sense of security. A weapon can still be hidden under gym clothes or between books, and screening every bag in a school of 1,200 students is close to impossible. Canady makes the case for a layered approach that includes secured doors, trained staff, and school resource officers who build relationships with students, which he says have helped stop attacks before they happen. He also pushes back on funding as an excuse, points to grants that can help schools hire officers, and lays out the questions parents should be asking their schools.

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Lyndsay Keith talks with Andrew Dominianni of News Channel 3 in Kalamazoo about Michigan's decision to reopen murder sentences for people who were young when they committed their crimes. After the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama, Michigan has repeatedly widened protections for young offenders, now reaching people 20 and under. Prosecutors are pulling case files out of storage, some dating back to the 1960s and 70s, and trying to track down witnesses and surviving family members. Dominion walks through cases at both ends of the spectrum, from a 16-year-old babysitter convicted in a 1995 infant death to a 1992 gang shooting in Detroit, and explains why even Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley's life sentence must now be reconsidered. He also shares what victims' families are going through as cases they believed were closed come back to court. The court's reasoning rests on brain development research, while one local prosecutor argues that anyone old enough for kindergarten knows killing is wrong. Lyndsay then looks at how states from Massachusetts to Hawaii are drawing their own lines, and at the larger question underneath it all: when does a kid stop being a kid?

Then, Capitol Hill reporter Ahtra breaks down Washington's debate over regulating artificial intelligence. She explains why lawmakers who want enforceable safety rules have little use for the voluntary pledge tech leaders signed at the White House, how data centers have become a midterm issue in places like Texas, and why Republicans such as Sen. Josh Hawley are teaming up with Democrats on AI liability legislation. She also looks at Congress's track record on social media, the tech industry's lobbying power, and the administration's argument that the U.S. must beat China, a goal she says no one has clearly defined.

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Just across the Rio Grande from SpaceX's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, conservationists releasing endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles into the Gulf say they keep finding something else on the beach: debris they link to SpaceX launches and testing.

Lyndsay Keith talks with Yami Virgin, investigative reporter for Fox San Antonio, who has covered the Texas-Mexico border for decades. The nonprofit Conibio Global says it has documented plastic, foam, aluminum, wiring, tanks, and other material along nearly 25 miles of Mexican coastline near Playa Bagdad, including pieces large enough to require a truck to haul away. Local fishermen say red snapper and other species have become harder to find, and the group's own testing has raised concerns about chromium, copper, and aluminum. Virgin is careful to separate what can be seen from what has been proven. No study has established that SpaceX operations have harmed fish, turtles, or other marine life, and SpaceX has said material tested after Starship incidents poses no chemical or biological risk. Virgin explains why she is seeking records from the EPA and Mexican regulators before drawing any conclusions.

Then, former NASA astronaut Daniel Tani, who spent 120 days aboard the International Space Station and completed six spacewalks, puts the larger debris problem in perspective. He describes the metal shavings he encountered during a 2007 spacewalk, explains how launch-site debris differs from the defunct satellites and rocket fragments circling Earth, and makes the case for setting end-of-life standards for spacecraft now, while orbital congestion is still manageable. As commercial spaceflight accelerates, the question of who monitors and cleans up what gets left behind is only getting bigger.

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Baltimore City Public Schools runs on a nearly $2 billion budget, one of the highest per-pupil spending levels of any large U.S. district. So why has the graduation rate barely moved since 2017?

Lyndsay Keith talks with Chris Papst, lead investigative reporter for FOX45's Project Baltimore, who has spent nearly a decade covering public education in Maryland. Since Project Baltimore launched, the district's funding has climbed while enrollment has fallen, yet the graduation rate has gone from 71% to just 72%. Attendance is down, chronic absenteeism is up, and average SAT scores have slipped. Papst explains where the money actually goes, why non-instructional staff have grown faster than teaching positions, and how a funding formula built around enrollment means schools get paid whether or not students learn.

Papst also breaks down Baltimore's "50 percent rule," which guarantees students half credit for a marking period even if they never show up or turn in an assignment, and why some students have learned to game it. He contrasts that with a high-poverty Maryland elementary school where teachers visit students' homes before the first day of class, a school that continues to beat state averages. The district says its new budget invests heavily in literacy, math, tutoring, and special education. Papst argues the system underneath has barely changed in decades.

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Every weekday morning, The National Press breaks down the stories shaping America. Lyndsay Keith talks to the local reporters who chased those stories down—bringing you the firsthand reporting, context, and perspective national headlines often miss.

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