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Dale Willman
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Protests are taking place around the country after an ICE agent shot and killed 37 year old Renee Good in Minneapolis this week. Thompson. Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis Saturday. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran says they're there to send a message to the Trump administration that Minnesotans don't want ICE agents in their city.
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Sergio Martinez Beltran
Residents here told me that they're sad, angry and hurt. And there's this feeling that this shooting could have the same effect and inflict as much trauma as the killing of George Floyd, which sparked some of the largest racial justice protests since the civil rights movement.
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Dale Willman
About 1,000 people held a mostly peaceful protest last night. 29 people were arrested, though, for breaking windows. The U.S. central Command says U.S. forces have hit ISIS targets in Syria. As NPR's Quill Lawrence reports, it's in response to the ambush last month in Syria that killed two American soldiers and one U.S. civilian.
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Quill Lawrence
A statement from U.S. central Command said that large scale strikes on multiple ISIS targets in Syria were conducted with partner forces. In the past. Kurdish fighters were the main US Ally in Syria, but the government in Damascus has now formally joined the fight against ISIS militants. Syrian officials say their security forces have arrested the military leader of ISIS operations in the Levant. The CENTCOM statement said the strikes are a continuation of the US Response to an attack last month in the Syrian city of Palmyra, which killed Iowa National Guardsmen Sergeant Edgar Bryan Torres Tovar and Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, along with their American civilian interpreter, Ayad Mansoor Saqat Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
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Dale Willman
President Trump says he wants to ban institutional investors from buying single family homes as a way to reduce housing prices. But as NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports, it's not clear how he'd do that or if it actually would lower prices.
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Jennifer Ludden
Trump announced the plan in a truth social post, saying inflation has put the American dream of homeownership out of reach for many. He said he'd ask Congress to codify a ban, though such proposals in the past have failed to gain steam in recent years. There's been a surge of corporate landlords buying homes to rent out, and it sparked tension in a lot of cities. Officials say corporate owners are more likely to hike rents, evict tenants and let houses fall into disrepair. They also outbid potential buyers with all cash offers. Overall, though, housing experts say large investors own only a sliver of the market. And the bigger problem driving up home prices is a lack of supply. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
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Dale Willman
A drone strike by Ukraine started a fire at an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd region this weekend. Ukraine officials say the depot supplies supplies fuel to Russian forces. There have been no reports of injuries in the attack. The strike came one day after a major Russian strike on Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv. That attack killed at least four people and disrupted the city's power supply. You're listening to NPR News. A 67 year old Palestinian man was hospitalized this weekend after he was attacked in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Video footage shows masked men using sticks beating the man at a plant nursery. He was hospitalized with broken bones. The nursery has been attacked three times in the past year. Israel's military says three suspects have been detained. Texas is seeing rapid growth in artificial intelligence data centers, but questions are rising about whether the state can regulate them. Emmanuel Rivas of member station Kera Hazar reports.
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Emmanuel Rivas
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality oversees permits for air emissions, water use and hazardous materials tied to data centers. But advocates say the agency is already stretched thin as more than 400 data centers operate across the state. Former TCEQ employee Catherine Guerra says without more funding and stronger policy enforcement could lag, leaving communities vulnerable to pollution and water shortages.
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Catherine Guerra
The TCEQ doesn't have near the resources it needs to enforce the permits that it's issuing, and that should be really concerning for policymakers and for communities.
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Emmanuel Rivas
The legislator did grant the agency the additional funds it requested, but not the full amount. For NPR News, I'm Emanuel Rivas in Dallas.
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Dale Willman
Bob Weir's magical tour has finally ended. Weir was one of the founding members of the legendary band the Grateful Dead. He played rhythm guitar and was the lead vocalist on many songs, including Sugar Magnolia, which he co wrote. A message on his social media platform says Weir died from underlining lung issues. He was 78 years old. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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