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President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection act in Minnesota. That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post, I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, January 16th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Federal agents have flooded the streets of Minneapolis in recent days. They have detained people, pulled them from their vehicles, stopped US Citizens and shot two people. One of them, Renee Goode, was killed. Residents have responded with protests. But in a post on Truth Social yesterday, President Trump said that if what he called attacks on federal officers were not stopped by state authorities, he would invoke the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection act enables a president to deploy the military domestically in extraordinary circumstances. Invoking it empowers the military to make arrests and perform searches on U.S. soil. The act was last invoked in 1992 during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. It has not been used without the consent of a state's governor for 60 years. Number two is a Post exclusive. A medical examiner may classify the death of a man in ICE custody as a homicide. On January 3rd, ICE announced the death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp. In a statement, the agency said staff observed him in distress and gave no cause of death. An employee of El Paso County's Office of the Medical examiner gave more details this week in a conversation with Lunas campus daughter. She shared a recording of their conversation with the Post. In the clip, the employee said a doctor is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression. That means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said the doctor will most likely list the manner of death as homicide. An official with the Department of Homeland Security said Lunas Campos died after attempting to take his own life. Number three. President Trump accepted a Nobel Peace Prize prize medal from Venezuela's opposition leader. Maria Carina Machado won the peace Prize last year. Yesterday, at the White House, she gave her medal to Trump. The gesture came 12 days after the US president toppled Venezuela's longtime leader Nicolas Maduro. Machado's move was a bold attempt to win Trump's favor. He recently decided to preserve ties with Venezuela's existing regime instead of supporting her challenge to it. Machado explained her decision yesterday, drawing a parallel to historical revolutionary figures.
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I presented the President of the United States the medal of the priest Nobel Peace Prize, and I told him this. Listen to this. 200 years ago, General Lafayette gave Simon Bolivar a medal with George Washington face on it.
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Lafayette was a French military officer who fought alongside Washington in the Revolutionary War. Simone Bolivar won independence for parts of South America from the Spanish Empire. Machado's move sparked a sharp reaction from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which said a prize cannot be re awarded to another person. Number four A federal judge said that members of Trump's Cabinet conspired to violate the Constitution. U.S. district Judge William Young was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in September. He ruled that senior administration officials engaged in an illegal effort to arrest and deport non citizen students based on their pro Palestinian activism at a hearing in Boston yesterday. In that case, Young decried what he said were breathtaking constitutional violations by senior Trump administration officials. He said Cabinet secretaries were not honoring the First Amendment and he called Trump an authoritarian. The White House responded, accusing the judge of left wing activism. Number 5 A new poll shows who Americans Blame for political Violence the Public Religion Research Institute has a new survey about the causes of political violence in the U.S. the polling reveals deep partisan divides, but it also shows that there are some things Americans can agree on. 67% of survey respondents said political leaders who don't condemn violent language from their supporters are to blame, and 64% point to AI generated misinformation that spreads on social media. However, a majority of Democrats and Republicans blame each other, and independents are 10 percentage points more likely to say right wing groups are more responsible for political violence than left wing groups. The polling also found that most Americans across party lines and religions do not support violent or hostile acts. You can see more results from the survey in our newsletter today. Find the link to that in our show. Notes. Science shows that very different psychiatric disorders might have the same cause. That's number six. In a sweeping new study for the journal Nature, scientists analyzed the records of millions of people with and without 14 different psychiatric disorders. They found that genetic similarities among the 14 disorders suggest that they fall into five essential categories. For example, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia share about 70% of the same genetic drivers. Some scientists think the findings could lead to a revolution in the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, placing more emphasis on the biological roots of mental health problems. And they think that could streamline treatments. But others are more skeptical about an approach that could lump together different patients with very different needs. And at number seven, a surprise baby terrapin was born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in D.C. for about a decade, four painted river terrapins have lived at the National Zoo, two males and two females. But the critically endangered species of turtle hadn't ever managed to successfully breed there until recently. The newest terrapin's arrival is all the more special because zookeepers knew nothing about its conception. The animal's mother camouflaged its nest and nobody knew the baby was coming. It was found a day or two after it hatched last summer. Now about five months old, the creature is doing well. But there is still some mystery surrounding the baby terrapin. Zookeepers aren't sure which adult terrapins are its parents, and it could take several years for experts to figure out its gender. If you'd like to see pictures of the baby terrapin, head over to our newsletter. That's the show for this week. The associate producer of the Seven is Taylor White. The staff writers are Jamie Ross, Izznao and me. Special thanks to Marjan Meshkot. John Taylor is our editor. Additional editing by Christina Quinn copyediting by Melissa Ngo and Thomas Haliba. Mixing and sound design is by Jim Briggs and Justin Garish. Our theme music is by Edith Mudge. I'm Hannah Jewell. Thanks for listening and have a great weekend. We'll be off Monday for MLK Day, but we'll share a special episode and then we'll be back as usual on Tuesday.
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