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Ryland Barton
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A preliminary government review contradicts the Trump administration's narrative of the killing of 37 year old Alex Preddy last week. Federal agents say Preddy resisted arrest before two officers shot him in Minneapolis. The assessment makes no mention of him attacking officers or threatening them with a weapon. As the administration first described the incident. It appears to more closely match bystander video and witness testimony of the incident. President Trump told Fox News he's going to de escalate the immigration crackdown in Minnesota after widespread backlash. Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Baxt has more on a meeting between Governor Tim Walz and Trump's border czar Tom Homan today.
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Brian Baxt
The two met this morning in the governor's state Capitol office. And it really was our first indication that Tom Holman had arrived in Minnesota after being dispatched to the state yesterday by President Trump. The meeting was private, so we don't know everything that was said. But Walz's office says the governor stressed his main objectives and they include a swift drawdown in the massive presence of federal agents in Minnesota for many weeks now and his request that a state unit be part of the investigation into the deadly shootings of two observers, Renee Macklin Good and and Alex Preddy.
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Ryland Barton
Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Bax reporting. The National Transportation Safety Board is blaming multiple system wide failures for the mid air collision of an Army Blackhawk helicopter with a passenger jet that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C. nearly a year ago. Investigators say the problems included the location of a helicopter route in some of the nation's most congested airspace, along with critical equipment failures. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy criticized the Federal Aviation Administration, saying it didn't act on despite collecting reports of more than 80 serious close calls in recent years. President Trump traveled to Iowa as he tries to turn the page from his immigration crackdown to his economic agenda. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports. Trump used the trip to kick off his campaigning for the midterm elections.
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Franco Ordonez
President Trump stopped at a local restaurant to meet with supporters before heading to a rally where he outlined the electoral stakes ahead.
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Brian Baxt
We got to win the midterms. I mean, I'm here because I love Iowa, but I'm here because we're starting the campaign to win the midterms. We got to win the midterms.
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Franco Ordonez
House has been promising Trump would soon pivot to the economy ahead of the campaign season, but the president has been repeatedly pulled into a number of crises abroad and in the US the outcry in Minneapolis after a second US Citizen was killed by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation has only made it harder for the president to focus on the issues that he wants to talk about. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Ryland Barton
U.S. consumer confidence has hit the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects. It's fallen below even the lowest readings during the COVID 19 pandemic. Wall street closed mixed today, but it also set new records. This is NPR News from Washington. President Trump's immigration crackdown has contributed to a year to year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025. That' according to population estimates by the U.S. census Bureau. French lawmakers have passed a social media ban for kids under the age of 15. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. France will become the second country to put in place such a law, after Australia.
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Eleanor Beardsley
The message is simple, says the bill's chief sponsor, centrist parliamentarian Laure Miler. Social media is not harmless. Milair says networks that promised to connect, inform and entertain had instead fragmented, overwhelmed and trapped their users. Last month, Australia banned under 16s from platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. President Emmanuel Macron has taken an active interest in the issue, saying France would not allow its children's brains and emotions to be, quote, manipulated by American platforms or Chinese algorithms. The law is being fast tracked so it can go into force from the start of the next school year in September. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
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Ryland Barton
Neil Young is offering free access to his entire music catalog to residents of Greenland. He says he wants to ease stress as president. Trump says he wants to take control of the Arctic island. The offer lasts a year with possible renewal and requires a Greenland based cell phone. Previously, Young removed his music from Amazon Music. Young criticized its founder, Jeff Bezos, for supporting Trump. It's NPR News.
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