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Up First from NPR · Memorandum Of Misunderstanding, Fatal ICE Shooting, Paramount Merger Suit · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

The ICE spokesperson says, quote, "...the vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon."

So now Maine's attorney general says his office is investigating what happened.

And Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins said in a statement that DHS's inspector general is also looking into this investigating in cooperation with the FBI.

So what are you and your colleagues hearing as you've been talking to people in Biddeford?

Yeah, so Biddeford is a small city, a little over 20,000 people, and it's got deep immigrant roots, in part because it was a mill town that drew a lot of French Canadians.

These days, it's got growing immigrant communities from all over the world, in part because we're seeing people getting priced out of Portland.

The reaction there was swift, and many residents said they were in shock that something like this would happen in what really feels like a small town.

So to give you an example, you know, the shooting took place in the morning and by noon, a couple hundred protesters were marching through downtown.

Protester Kelsey Cummings says she's tired of politicians ignoring requests to rein in ICE.

And then last night, there were vigils both in Biddeford and in Portland that each drew hundreds of people.

What does ICE enforcement look like in Maine in recent months?

That was a huge escalation from what we saw during the first months of the second Trump administration.

But even with that dramatic increase in enforcement, we hadn't seen any shootings here, fatal or otherwise, until now.

Okay, that's reporter Ari Snyder of Maine Public.

Ari, thank you very much.

Thank you.

That blockbuster merger of two Hollywood giants might not happen.

Let's now turn to NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik.

David, so how big of a company would this merger of Paramount and Warner create?

Well, Bonta said yesterday the merger would kill competition between two of the nation's five largest studios, the five largest studios of Hollywood.

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