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Why are protesters gathering outside the Brooklyn detention center for Nicolás Maduro?
Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. Nicholas Maduro is expected in federal court in New York tomorrow to be arraigned on a four count indictment, charging him with drug trafficking. He's being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. That's where dozens of Venezuelans celebrated when he arrived last night, but today it was the site of a protest. Steve Kastenbaum has more.
Protesters chanted anti-war slogans as they paraded outside the facility. Some, including Carla Reyes, called for the immediate release of Maduro.
We're standing here for the self-determination and the sovereignty of all people all over Latin America. And today it's Venezuela.
Nearby, a few Venezuelans expressed hope for the future of their homeland.
How is President Trump’s stance on Venezuela affecting the MAGA movement and U.S. foreign policy?
I am feeling very good.
As for those protesting Maduro's capture,
this is ridiculous because these people you'll see their face is not a Venezuelan people.
Protest organizers said they'll keep up their actions as long as the intervention in Venezuela continues. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in Brooklyn.
President Trump's actions are a big departure from his promise not to get the US involved in foreign conflicts. And Piers Mar Eliason reports it's not clear yet how his supporters will react.
The big political question that Venezuela may answer is whether the MAGA movement stands for anything Donald Trump decides to do or for principles such as non interventionism that transcend Trump. Most Republicans in Congress have been supportive so far, but a few, like Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, who's leaving Congress this week after a falling out with Trump. says the president has broken his America first promise with his plan to quote run Venezuela. She says the president should be focused on domestic problems like the price of food and health care.
What is the United Nations’ response to the U.S. strike on Caracas and the emergency Security Council meeting?
And it's not clear what Trump means by quote running Venezuela, whether it's a full fledged occupation like Iraq or something different. Mara Lyason, NPR News.
President Trump is apparently threatening more countries, including Colombia and its president, telling reporters on Air Force One that Gustavo Petro likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, adding he's not going to be doing it for very long. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council plans to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow. And Pierre's Robbie Griffiths has more.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply alarmed by the strike on Caracas by the United States, which he called part of a recent escalation in the region. In a statement, Guterres said he was deeply concerned that the rules of international law have not been respected. The UN Security Council is set to meet at the request of Colombia, with backing from Russia and China. Leaders of several other countries, including Britain and Germany, have emphasized their belief in the importance of international law and their responses to the strikes.
How are journalists using artificial intelligence to sift through the massive Jeffrey Epstein document dump?
Robbie Griffiths, NPR News, London.
US futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. As the government releases troves of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, journalists, including those here at NPR, are racing to understand their contents. Given the huge volume, reporters are getting tech help, which now includes artificial intelligence. And Pierre's Ho Jingnan has more.
One way to receive a document dump is to divvy it up for a team of reporters and editors to read. Another way is to use the software to extract all the text and then reporters can look up keywords of interest to focus on. Both are still happening today, but AI adds the ability to go beyond keywords. Didon Friedman is the AI projects editor at the New York Times.
Which movies dominated the weekend box office and what are their total worldwide earnings?
He gave the example of finding emails.
Or sometimes it might say from, sometimes it might say sender. And so AI is really good at kind of understanding that fuzzy context.
Regardless of what technologies do, Friedman says, people, journalists, are making sense of the story. What's in on NPR News?
At the weekend box office Disney's Avatar, Fire and Ash, the third chapter in James Cameron's Epic, took the top spot with an estimated forty million dollars in ticket sales.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why are protesters gathering outside the Brooklyn detention center for Nicolás Maduro?
0:00–0:49
2
How is President Trump’s stance on Venezuela affecting the MAGA movement and U.S. foreign policy?
0:49–1:51
3
What is the United Nations’ response to the U.S. strike on Caracas and the emergency Security Council meeting?
1:51–2:50
4
How are journalists using artificial intelligence to sift through the massive Jeffrey Epstein document dump?
2:50–3:43
5
Which movies dominated the weekend box office and what are their total worldwide earnings?
3:43–4:38