Loading summary
Transcript11 lines
- [00:00]
NPR Sponsor/Announcer
This message comes from Capital One with the Capital One Saver card. Earn unlimited 3% cash back on dining and entertainment. Capital One what's in your wallet? Terms apply. Details@capitalone.com live from NPR News.
- [00:15]
Korva Coleman
In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. There are now as many as 3,000 federal immigration agents on the ground, or they are coming soon to Minneapolis and St. Paul. That is five times the number of Minneapolis police officers. President Trump is threatening to invoke the insurrection act against Minnesota. NPR's Meg Anderson says Minnesota residents are tracking the federal agents and they are.
- [00:38]
Meg Anderson
Protesting the observers filming and making noise. Those peaceful acts of resistance, even though they're chaotic, are protected by the Constitution. But ICE has responded to some confrontations over the last week with a lot of aggression. Over the last five days, NPR reporters, myself included, we've seen ICE officers using tear gas, flashbangs and pepper balls to disperse crowds.
- [01:01]
Korva Coleman
NPR's Meg Anderson in Minneapolis. Parents in the Twin Cities are now standing guard outside of their children's schools. Many are wearing whistles to warn when federal agents are nearby. Many people are too frightened to leave their homes. In Minnesota, a bipartisan congressional delegation is in Copenhagen. They're meeting with Denmark's prime minister and other government officials. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, their visit comes after President Trump repeated comments about wanting the US to own own Greenland.
- [01:34]
Barbara Sprunt
Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware is leading the delegation, which includes Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The group will meet with government officials and business leaders. The trip is aimed at turning down the temperature and reaffirming U.S. support for Denmark. As President Trump continues to call for a US Takeover of Greenland. Democrat has announced plans to increase the country's military presence in the North Atlantic and Arctic. The US is part of a 1951 treaty that gives rights to set up military bases on Greenland with the consent of Denmark and Greenland itself. Barbara Sprent, NPR News, Copenhagen.
- [02:10]
Korva Coleman
A federal judge has dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit against California. The Trump administration had launched an unprecedented effort to acquire the state's voter data. NPR's Miles Parks reports. Voter data is usually held by states.
- [02:26]
Miles Parks
In lawsuits targeting election data in close to two dozen states, all states. President Trump lost in 2020. The Justice Department argued it needs the data to make sure states are federal election laws, but the federal government has never had access to it before, and federal privacy laws are strict on how such data can be gathered. In dismissing the lawsuit, Judge David O. Carter wrote that the government's request is, quote, unprecedented and illegal. And in a related case this week. A judge in Oregon also indicated he was tentatively planning to dismiss a DOJ suit there. Trump and his allies say the country's voter lists need more scrutiny specifically to root out non citizen voting, which which has never actually been proven to be a widespread problem. Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.
- [03:09]
Korva Coleman
On Wall street, in pre market trading, Dow futures are higher. It's npr. Initial results are in from Uganda's presidential election. Ugandan election officials say six term incumbent President Yoweri Museveni has more than 70% of the vote. Opposition candidate Bobby Wine has less than 20%. Wine and his supporters have been consistently harassed. Ugandan officials also cut the Internet during the vote yesterday. A court in South Korea has sentenced ex President Yoon Song Yeol to five years in prison. That's for his short lived imposition of martial law in late 2024. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul. That's the first verdict in eight criminal cases filed against Yoon.
- [03:54]
Anthony Kuhn
The charges against Yoon included obstruction of justice. Yoon barricaded himself in his residence last year and deployed guards to prevent police and investigators from arresting him. He was also accused of excluding cabinet ministers from a meeting about his martial law decree and falsifying and destroying documents to cover up his actions. The judge said that although Yoon's offenses were serious, he showed no remorse. Yoon's lawyer said the verdict was politicized and Yoon will appeal it in a separate case. Yoon faces charges of insurrection. Prosecutors have called for the death penalty, although South Korea hasn't executed anyone in nearly three decades. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News.
- [04:33]
Korva Coleman
State health officials in California have issued their second warning this season about death cap mushrooms. So far this season, 35 people have gotten sick after eating them. Three people have died. Three more people needed liver transplants after eating death cap mushrooms. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.
- [04:54]
NPR Sponsor/Announcer
Listen to this podcast sponsor free on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR news now@plus.NPR.org, org that's plus NPR. Org.