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Dana Farber
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Jack Spear
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Donald Trump is talking more about deporting U.S. citizens to El Salvador. He floated the idea to El Salvador's Nayib Bukhali, the president who visited the White House today and who's already accepted more than 200 non citizen deportees. Here's NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
TRUMP has for months suggested deporting what he calls homegrown criminals in the Oval Office. He promoted the idea to Bukele in a video posted to Bukele's social media.
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Donald Trump
Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns, you got to build about five more places. Yeah, that's Bay right here.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
Trump suggested Bukele build five more places, seeming to mean five more prisons to house U.S. deportees. Trump later said he and his team were, quote, studying the laws about this possibility. He said he wants to deport violent people, but many legal scholars say it would be blatantly unconstitutional to deport American citizens, violent or not. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
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Jack Spear
A man who authorities say scaled an iron fence and set the Pennsylvania governor's mansion on fire was arraigned today and denied bail. Authorities say the Suspect, identified as 38 year old Cody Balmer, did not enter a plea. Balmer, who police say turned himself in, said he was also prepared to attack Governor Josh Shapiro with a hammer had he encountered him. Shapiro and his family were at home at the time of the attack, but were unharmed. The fire caused extensive damage to the governor's mansion. In North Carolina, a group of voters is asking a federal court to block state election officials from throwing out thousands of ballots cast last year by US Citizens living abroad, including including US Military members. Sen. Pierre's Hansi Luang explains its latest twist in a long running legal fight over an election for a seat on North Carolina State supreme court more than.
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Hansi Luang
Five months after election day 2024. Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin is continuing to push to get courts to toss thousands of ballots cast in this race. Democratic incumbent Alison Riggs is currently leading by 734 votes after two recounts. That could change after last week's ruling by the Republican majority of North Carolina's state Supreme Court. It focused in part on roughly 5,5000 overseas voters who under state election rules were not required to provide copies of their photo ID with their ballots. But the state court has now ordered a 30 day period for those voters to provide a copy of their ID if they want their ballots to count. League of Women Voters in North Carolina and other groups are challenging that ruling in federal court. They argue the ruling violates the Constitution by disenfranchising voters through changing voting requirements after an election. Hansi Loong, NPR News.
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Jack Spear
Chipmaker Nvidia says it will build new AI computer chip factories in the US over the next four years. Companies the company says it's already begun work at a facility in Arizona and will also build supercomputer manufacturing facilities in Texas. Within the four year timeframe, Nvidia says it will invest upwards of $500,000 in AI infrastructure in the U.S. stocks gained ground on Wall street today. The dow is up 312 points. This is NPR kicking off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam. Chinese leader Xi Jinping made the point that no one wins in a trade war. Xi China comments As the world's two largest economies, the US And China, continue their tit for tat tariff battle, while the Trump administration has paused some tariffs, it's kept in place a 145% duty on goods imported to the US from China. China retaliated with a 125% tariff of its own. The Army's civilian leadership has ordered army libraries, including West Point, to remove all books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as gender and critical race theory. The according to a memo sent last week by a top army official. More from NPR's Tom Bowman.
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Tom Bowman
The memo, obtained by NPR and written by acting Secretary of the Army Derek Anderson, says books promoting diversity, gender and race quote, subverts meritocracy and unity. It says a list of books should be provided to the Army's Chief Librarian by April 16th. Besides West Point, the memo was also sent to the Army War College. The move comes after the U.S. naval Academy removed nearly 400 books from Nimitz Library that had similar topics. Those books included Maya Angelou's I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. Tom Bowman, NPR News.
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Jack Spear
A blue origin rocket with an all female crew that included the fiance of company founder Jeff Bezos blasted into space for a brief mission today along with Lauren Sanchez, a helicopter pilot. Singer Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were on board, fully automated. Mission only lasted about 11 minutes before the six person crew returned to Earth. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News, in Washington.
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Dana Farber
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