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Back home, President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota.
He said today on social media that he'd make a move if local officials don't stop the, quote, professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking ICE.
WSJ national political reporter Ken Thomas says the Insurrection Act has rarely been used in the modern era.
Ken says it's not clear that Trump will go forward with invoking the Insurrection Act.
If he does, it could face a number of legal challenges.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, made a direct appeal to Trump on social media today, asking him to turn down the temperature.
He's urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.
And the White House today released a health care framework called the Great Health Care Plan.
It aims to codify executive actions Trump has taken on addressing health care costs, such as lowering prescription drug prices.
Passing such legislation is likely to face hurdles in Congress.
Strong earnings from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and chipmaker TSMC lifted markets today.
And BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, said its assets topped $14 trillion for the first time.
The Dow led gains today in the major indexes, closing up 0.6%.
Coming up, an Arizona mine that is a proving ground for the U.S.
copper industry lands a major new customer, basketball's expanding game-rigging scandal, and what was behind yesterday's Verizon outage.
That's after the break.
An Arizona copper mine, the first new source of U.S.
copper in more than a decade, has landed its first major customer.
It's Amazon, which needs the medal for its AI data centers.
Ryan Dezember, who covers commodities for the journal, is here to tell us more about the mine and what the Amazon deal means for the U.S.