Bill Chappell

Last summer, President Trump's spending and policy package, what he dubbed his Big Beautiful Bill, gave ICE an extra $75 billion.

That's Lauren Brooke Eisen, the senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center.

She says billions of dollars are going to detaining people, but far less goes to ensure oversight and due process.

After an ICE officer killed Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Democrats are calling for changes to how ICE operates, as Congress looks at new immigration-related spending for 2026.

Bill Chappell, NPR News.

For state-licensed marijuana retailers like Sam Brill, moving pot from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 could let them claim basic business tax deductions.

Brill, the CEO of Ascend Wellness, says the change would free up millions of dollars for his company.

The Trump administration says rescheduling will also boost research.

But Jillian Schauer of the Cannabis Regulators Association says some key details are in limbo.

For example, she says, scientists need more sources for acquiring marijuana they can research.

Bill Chappell, NPR News.

Aviation regulators say there's been a rapid decline in staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities over the past week.

That's given the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration the confidence that more air traffic controllers are coming to work.

Regulators lowered air traffic reductions at dozens of major airports from 6% of flights to 3% through the weekend, but they did not lift them entirely.

The FAA said the restrictions were necessary to keep the airspace safe as the agency grappled with widespread staffing shortages of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown.

But with the government reopened, air traffic controllers have finally received some of the back pay they earned,

and most are now back on the job.

Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

The year Natalie Grabeau turned 60, she started learning to swim.

But that was 20 years ago.