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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch says the organization paid informants to infiltrate hate and extremist groups, and that includes groups like the KKK.

Blanch said the group then used banks to hide these payments.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's interim CEO, Brian Kerr, says the group is being targeted by the Trump administration, and it plans to defend itself from the accusation.

The Justice Department says the investigation into the nonprofit is ongoing.

Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.

FBI Director Kash Patel is accusing The Atlantic of publishing false claims about him in an article published on Friday.

Patel is demanding $250 million in damages.

He claims that the Atlantic's goal was to destroy his reputation and drive him out of the FBI.

The reporter behind the story, Sarah Fitzpatrick, is also named in the lawsuit.

The Atlantic responded in a statement today saying it stands by its reporting and that it plans to, quote, vigorously defend the media company and its journalists.

NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reporting.

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In Los Angeles, the surge of immigration enforcement agents in June meant that LAPD had to spend big on overtime to respond to protests.

Around $17 million on overtime for just eight days in June.

In Portland, a federal ICE facility in the city became a big protest site.

And local police say their response times for service calls more than doubled because officers had to be at the building.

In a statement, the White House told NPR that people who are in the U.S.

illegally cost Americans more than $100 billion in 2023.

NPR could not independently verify those numbers.

Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.