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Once you've had a car for a decade, you might figure that it would no longer be part of a recall. But that's not the case for hundreds of thousands of older model cars after Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, issued a "do not drive" warning. The issue stems from the Takata airbag recall, which lots of people still haven't gotten fixed. Here's what you need to know about the Stellantis warning.

What's the Takata Airbag Issue?

Japanese parts supplier Takata began manufacturing airbags with an explosive flaw in the early 2000s. Over time, the chemical propellant inside the airbag can degrade, which can lead to the airbag rupturing when it's deployed and sending metal fragments into the car, injuring anyone inside. So far, there have been 28 deaths associated with the defective Takata airbags,according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, along with hundreds of injuries.

In total, 67 million vehicles have been recalled in the U.S. for defective Takata airbags over the last decade. It's the largest ever such recall in U.S. history, according to Reuters.

Which Vehicles Are Affected?

This week, Stellantis issued a new "do not drive" warning related to the Takata airbag recall. Though tens of millions of airbags have been replaced by various car makers, there are at least 225,000 Stellantis vehicles that have not been repaired.

"This action is intended to accelerate the repair of the remaining affected vehicles to safeguard owners, their families and the general public from the risk of serious injury or death," the car maker said in a statement.

Stellantis has performed repairs on about 95% of its recalled vehicles, which amounts to about 6.6 million cars.

These are the vehicles that are included in Stellantis' "do not drive" warning:

• 2003 to 2016 Dodge Ram and Dodge Sprinter

• 2004 to 2009 Dodge Durango

• 2005 to 2012 Dodge Dakota

• 2005 to 2008 Dodge Magnum

• 2006 to 2015 Dodge Charger

• 2008 to 2014 Dodge Challenger

• 2007 to 2009 Chrysler Aspen

• 2007 to 2008 Chrysler Crossfire

• 2005 to 2015 Chrysler 300

• 2007 to 2016 Jeep Wrangler

If you have any of these vehicles but you have not gotten its Takata airbags fixed (or if you do not know), you should stop driving the car until you do. You can take it to a Stellantis dealership where they will complete the repairs free of charge.

You can check your car's recall status by calling 833-585-0144 or by entering its VIN on theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration's recall status website.

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Nikita and his wife, Oksana, fled Russia in desperation two years ago, believing America was their only hope of giving their three children a life free of fear and oppression.

Instead, those children are growing up behind the razor-wire fences of a South Texas detention center, among hundreds of other families swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Over their four months at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center — aremote, prisonlike facilitythat has drawn mounting scrutiny over what human rights advocatesdescribe as inhumane conditions— Nikita and Oksana say their children have endured indignities they never imagined possible in the United States.

Worms in their food. Guards shouting orders and snatching toys from small hands. Restless nights under fluorescent lights that never fully go dark. Hours in line for a single pill.

"We left one tyranny and came to another kind of tyranny," Nikita said in Russian. "Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this."

NBC News spoke with the family over Zoom this week and reviewed their lawyer's request for their release, as well as dozens of pages of medical records. For an hour and a half on the video call, Nikita, an engineer, and Oksana, a nurse, described how their months at Dilley have worn down their children — physically, emotionally and academically. Their two oldest sat behind them in a drab conference room, doodling or staring blankly at the screen. The preschooler wandered the room, swinging a thin plastic rod from a set of window blinds like a toy sword.

The couple asked to be identified only by their first names because they fear retaliation if deported back to Russia, where Nikita says he spoke out against President Vladimir Putin's regime.

Their story offers a glimpse of what children are enduring in prolonged confinement as the Trump administration expands family detention.

Kirill, 13, who once taught himself to play piano and attended music school, spends most days withdrawn, waking at night with anxiety and panic attacks, his parents said.

Konstantin, 4, a sociable boy, is often frightened by loud noises and guards, his parents said. He once cried for hours after a small toy airplane was confiscated.

Kamilla, 12 — a dancer who loved to perform — now has partial hearing loss in one ear after what her parents say was a poorly treated infection. For weeks, she counted down the days until her birthday, telling NBC News she had only one wish.

"To get out of here," she said.

On Monday, the family's attorney, Elora Mukherjee, filed a request for their immediate release on medical grounds. In the letter, Mukherjee, a Columbia Law School professor and director of its Immigrants' Rights Clinic, wrote that the children had been detained for more than 120 days, more than six times the 20-day limit set in afederal court agreement governing the detention of minors. She argued that their health has deteriorated as a result.

"Kamilla should not be spending her birthday in prison," Mukherjee said. "She has done nothing wrong."

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security defended holding the family while their asylum case is pending. It said the Dilley facility "is retrofitted for families" to ensure children's well-being and accused the media of "peddling hoaxes" about poor conditions in immigrant detention centers.

"The Trump administration is not going to ignore the rule of law or release unvetted illegal aliens into the country," the statement said. "All of their claims will be heard by an immigration judge and they will receive full due process."

CoreCivic, the company that operates Dilley under a federal contract, has deferred questions about the facility to DHS and said in statements that the health and safety of detainees is its top priority.

The family's detention comes as Trump immigration officials revive and expand large-scale family confinement. Past presidents used family detention in limited circumstances, and the Biden administration largely halted the practice, releasing most asylum-seeking families while their cases moved forward. Under Trump, authorities are sending families to Dilley in significant numbers and reportedly holding them for weeks or months.

The facility drew widespread national attention last month after a photograph of5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat as he was led away by officers, spread online, renewing concerns about conditions inside Dilley. Since last spring, lawyers and advocates have complained of inadequate medical care, contaminated food and minimal schooling for children held there.

DHS has said family detention is necessary to keep families together while it works to deport them.

Nikita and Oksana's journey to Dilley began in October. After fleeing Russia in 2024 and spending more than a year in Mexico trying to determine the best path to safety in the U.S., Nikita drove his family to the Otay Mesa port of entry and requested asylum, telling an agent that his activism against the Russian government had put them at risk. An asylum officer later found the family had a credible fear of persecution, according to Mukherjee. But rather than being released into the U.S. while their case moved forward, they were taken into custody.

After five days in frigid federal holding cells — where the family says the children slept under foil blankets on thin mats — they were transferred to Dilley, expecting to wait there for a couple weeks at most.

Their plight reflects what advocates describe as an impossible choice facing many Russian asylum-seekers. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, anti-war activists, online critics and military draft resisters fled the country by the tens of thousands, fearing imprisonment or worse. With Europe largely closed to Russian nationals, many turned to the U.S. southern border as one of the few remaining paths to protection, believing America would be "a safe harbor for those who strive for freedom and democracy," said Dmitry Valuev, president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, a group that has advocated for Russians trapped in U.S. immigration centers.

Instead, Valuev said, some now find themselves detained indefinitely.

"And they don't understand what for, because they are not criminals," Valuev said. "They came to the United States to contribute to society, to their new home. They don't want to become illegal immigrants. They want to obey the law."

Inside Dilley, Nikita and Oksana said, the days blur together.

They wake at 6 a.m. for morning routines and breakfast. After that, there is little to do. Time is measured in lines — lines for food, the medical window and the library.

The children compete for markers. Each child can have only two at a time, the couple said, and parents must show their IDs to borrow them. While one child draws, others must wait. In the library, they said, there are only four children's books in Russian: "The Wizard of the Emerald City," "Alice in Wonderland," "Pushkin's Fairy Tales" and poems by Korney Chukovsky. With that limited selection and little education beyond word searches, the children have effectively stopped reading.

If adults or children manage to get computer time, it is tightly restricted. Most websites are blocked. Email is limited. News is often inaccessible. YouTube has been banned.

When someone falls ill, the daily routine can become grueling. Nikita and Oksana described standing outside for hours — sometimes in rain, wind or cold — waiting for a worker to dispense medicine. Before leaving, they said, children are required to open their mouths so staff can confirm the medication has been swallowed.

"This place is not intended for the prolonged stay of children," Oksana said.

Nikita nodded.

"Every day you think it could not be worse," he said. "And then the next day something else happens."

Food is among the biggest struggles, they said, echoing complaints registered in dozens of sworn declarations filed in federal court on behalf of detained parents and children.

Meals are greasy, spicy and repetitive, the couple said — the same limited options for adults and children alike. The couple described finding mold and worms in vegetables. After one such incident, they said, several children vomited.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla's medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being "served food that contained worms."

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

DHS didn't comment on the alleged incident but said in the statement that dieticians evaluate meals served at Dilley to ensure quality.

Sometimes workers make light of their misery, Nikita said. He recalled showing an officer a piece of moldy cabbage. The guard, he said, put it in his mouth and declared it fine — before gagging and spitting it out.

Another time, when Nikita asked why his family was being held beyond the 20-day limit, he said a guard told him the long-standing federal settlement setting minimum standards for detaining immigrant children had been overturned. Only later did he learn that wasn't true.

"In Russia, police tell us, 'We are the law, as we say goes,'" Nikita said. "We came here, and they tell us exactly the same thing."

Kamilla's earache and hearing troubles have been among their biggest concerns.

The girl had a history of right ear blockages and infections, Oksana reported, but inside Dilley, she said, it was far harder to treat. In November, she brought Kamilla to the medical room complaining of discomfort and fever. The pain worsened at night and her daughter's ear eventually began oozing pus, Oksana said. She said they returned again and again to the medical room, seeking help.

Some of those visits are documented in medical records provided to the family and reviewed by NBC News. The forms, which at times identify Kamilla as an "inmate," note redness and irritation in her right ear and prescriptions for drops and antibiotics. But Oksana said the records are incomplete and omit numerous visits as she requested specialized care but only saw nurses and nurse practitioners.

The girl's pain persisted for weeks, she said.

Her recovery was complicated by the routine obstacles that govern all aspects of life at Dilley. When Kamilla's earache flared or fever spiked, her mother said, they had to wait outside for hours in the "pill line" for her medicine.

After Oksana cut the top off an undersized beanie to fashion a headband to shield her daughter's inflamed ear from the biting wind, she said workers repeatedly removed it, calling it prohibited contraband. Each time, Kamilla cried.

During one medical visit, on Dec. 15, Oksana said she pleaded with a nurse to grant her daughter special permission to wear the modified beanie. The nurse said the makeshift headband was not permitted "for safety reasons," the records show, and instead offered to prescribe more ear drops and a steroid.

Frustrated and unwilling to continue waiting in the outdoor line for each dose of medicine, Oksana said she refused the treatment. The family eventually stopped visiting the clinic altogether, she said, instead treating Kamilla's pain with ibuprofen purchased at the commissary.

The earache has faded, Oksana said. The partial hearing loss remains.

In a statement, DHS noted the medications provided to Kamilla and her mother's refusal of additional medicines. The agency said it provides "comprehensive medical care from the moment an alien enters ICE custody."

As her parents spoke over Zoom on Wednesday, Kamilla sat behind them, quietly drawing. She was sketching herself near the lone tree that stands on the detention center's grounds, butterflies fluttering around it — one of the few places, her mother said, where children sometimes see something alive and colorful.

The next day would be her 12th birthday.

There would be no cake. No presents. No party with friends.

Instead, on their 131st day in federal custody, her parents planned to buy her a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available — and pray that their daughter's birthday wish for freedom might come true.

The automated ball/strike system is here for the first time inMajor League Baseball, and general managers, managers and coaching staffs have already begun to strategize the best way to capitalize on a new way to challenge authority.

If the pitcher, catcher or batter disagrees with a ball or strike call, they have the right to challenge the umpire, with everyone in the stands able to see who was right with a graphic on full display on the scoreboard.

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Teams get two challenges per nine innings, and as long as you're proven correct, you can challenge as many times as you wish.

If you're wrong twice, you're out of challenges unless the game goes into extra innings.

The only players permitted to challenge are the pitcher, hitter and catcher and pitcher, and it must be issued within two seconds of the pitch being thrown, signaled by tapping your helmet.

If you blow through your challenges early, you won't have the right to correct an errant call in the ninth inning. If the game goes into extra innings, each team will be provided one challenge in each extra inning.

So, the question for every manager now is who will be permitted to challenge, at what stage of the game, and under which circumstances.

"All I know is that we won't let our pitchers challenge,"Cincinnati Redsmanager Terry Francona said. "They think everything is a strike."

Francona laughed, but it's certainly a sentiment shared by several managers in interviews Thursday, with most saying they would leave that up to their catchers and hitters.

But, of course, not every hitter.

"We're going to have a lot of conversations about that,"Los Angeles Dodgersmanager Dave Roberts said. "I do think there's going to be a strategy that comes with it. What that looks like, I don't think I know right now, but we're going to encourage conversations as far as leverage, when you use it, when not to, who should, who shouldn't.''

So, who has been told they can't use it?

"I don't want to say because they've already been sensitive when I brought it up," Roberts said. "So, I'm not going to name-call right now. I'm not going to say any names but I don't think that there's a self-evaluation on who knows the strike zone, who doesn't, who gets emotional, and understanding everything.

"I'm in favor of it."

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Says Francona: "We don't have a strategy in place because we want to kind of see how it plays out. I've already talked to some of our player development people to ask them how they did it, and then we'll formulate a strategy and try to do it better than other teams like everything else.

"But I think it's going to be OK."

In research by MLB, there were four challenges per games at the Triple-A level last season with about a 50% success rate. The most challenges, 3.5%, were utilized in the ninth inning.

"You want to have one late in the game, just in case,"Arizona Diamondbacksmanager Torey Lovullo said. "The top of the first inning on a 0-0 fastball, I don't want to challenge and lose. We'll most likely rely on catchers first. Pitchers at times get a little emotional. Hitters can be that way sometimes, too. I think we're going to rely on the catchers.

"But I want to have one in pocket, when I can, when it's in a critical part of the game."

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It will be a strategy that will be implemented by teams in spring training, and tweaked throughout the year, with plans constantly being modified on when it should be best utilized.

"We're going to do some experimentation over the course of the spring," said Los Angeles GM Perry Minasian. "We've had some staff members that have been more familiar with it than others in the minor leagues, so we're just going to see how it evolves and how it goes.

"I'm sure every team has had conversations about it and undergone studies. We're going to get as many different opinions and viewpoints as we can get get. We'll go through all of the types of things through the course of spring training. I'm not one for a steadfast rule who can use it and who can't, but I think there will be a certain component of earning the right to do it, who's capable of doing it and who's not.

"And I'm sure there will be adjustments made throughout the course of the year. What we may do in April may be different in May, different in June, different in July. It's going to be one of the unique things about this season."

The ABS will add about one minute per game, according to MLB's research, with each challenge averaging 13.8 seconds. The strike zone is also expected to slightly shrink, according to Joe Martinez, MLB's vice president of on-field strategy. Each player will be measured by height this spring, with strike zones starting at 53.5% of a batter's height at the top and 27% of a batter's height for the bottom of the zone

There will be some glitches at times. There were 291 pitches that were untracked out of the 88,534 pitches last spring, according to MLB's research. And if the computer system malfunctions, the umpires will again have the ultimate authority.

There will also be times when a team asks for instant replay on the field at the same time as a challenge. In that case, the umpires will determine the instant replay result before the challenge is assessed and be given discretion on plays that on the bases that could be impacted by challenges.

The challenge system will not be in effect when a position player is pitching in a game.

MLB also announced that the base coaches must remain in their coaching boxes until a pitch is delivered, hoping to eliminate sign stealing. It also tweaked its obstruction rule so that a runner who initiates contact with a fielder trying to draw an obstruction call will now be called out.

Play ball, and keep those computers churning.

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:MLB ABS system, 'robot umpires' and new rules are a whole new ballgame