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Windsor Johnston
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Tensions are mounting in Chicago as President Trump ramps up his threats to send the National Guard and immigration officials into The City. City NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports. State and local lawmakers are strongly pushing back amid widespread protests across the city this weekend.
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Kat Lonsdorf
Trump says the National Guard will be deployed to fight crime in the city, which he has called a hellhole, even though police data shows violent crime is down in recent years. Protesters filled the streets of downtown Saturday evening, marching by Trump Tower, carrying signs and banners against troops coming in. Both Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker are strongly against the plan, too. In a post on social media, Pritzker wrote, quote, the president of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Johnson posted that Trump wants to, quote, occupy our city and break our constitution and urge Chicago residents to protect each other. Kat Lansdorf, NPR News, Chicago.
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Windsor Johnston
President Trump was questioned by members of the press today about whether he was threatening war with Chicago. He told reporters that his administration is not going to war. He says the goal is to clean up the nation's cities, adding, quote, that's not war, but common sense. The prime minister of Japan says he's planning to resign from office. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that he wants to avoid division with the ruling ldp, the Liberal Democratic Party.
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Anthony Kuhn
Prime Minister Ichiba had been under mounting pressure to resign to take responsibility for his party's defeat in parliamentary elections this year. Japanese voters, fed up with inflation and LDP corruption, led to the party losing its majority in both houses of Parliament for the first time since the party was established in 1955. Voters dissatisfaction with the political establishment is also evident in the rise of Sanseto, an opposition party espousing nationalist, anti immigrant views. Ishiba is one of eight of the past 10 Japanese prime ministers who have only served for about a year, and his resignation may spur anxiety about political instability. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
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Windsor Johnston
A Russian missile strike has damaged the main government building in the Ukrainian capital for the first time since the war broke out more than two years ago. The Ukrainian air force says Russia launched more than 800 missiles and drones. At least 11 people were killed and dozens of others were injured. The BBC Sarah Rainsford reports.
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Sarah Rainsford
The fact that a government building was hit, you know, we don't believe there are any casualties, at least not so far as we know yet. But it is symbolic. You know, an attack, a strike strike right on the heart of government in Kyiv does matter because it shows that Russia can get through, it can make it through the air defenses.
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Windsor Johnston
The BBC Sarah Rainsford reporting. This is NPR News. In Washington. The office of former President Joe Biden has announced that his presidential library will be built in his home state of Delaware. The library is expected to highlight Biden's decades of public service and civic leadership. He served in the U.S. senate for more than 30 years. The discovery of a 400-year-old miniature may have solved a mystery about some of William Shakespeare's best known poetry. Vicki Barker reports from London.
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Vicki Barker
The miniature shows an androgynous young man, glorious copper colored ringlets cascading over his shoulder. It turned up in the collection of a family linked to the gorgeous Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's friend and patron, and it's long been speculated, possibly the fair youth of Shakespeare's sonnets. What's got scholars excited is the reverse of the portrait where a red heart was stricken out by a black spear shaped figure. Shakespeare famously incorporated a spear into his family crest, a visual pun on his name. The theory Southampton may have gifted the miniature to Shakespeare, who later returned it when the romance turned. Source for NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
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Windsor Johnston
Police in London say they arrested nearly 900 protesters outside Parliament on Saturday. The demonstrators defied a ban on the group Palestine Action, which the government has labeled a terrorist organization. Authorities say they made arrest within minutes as bystanders chanted and held signs in support. 9 Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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