NPR News: 01-08-2026 9PM EST
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On NPR's Wildcard podcast, heavyweight host Jonathan Goldstein talks about his early years as a writer.
I was writing and no one was buying what I was selling. I just couldn't get anywhere. And I just kept doing it because I felt compelled to do it like a spider spinning a web.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Two people were shot and wounded by an immigration agent in Portland, Oregon today. They've been transported to local hospitals. A Homeland Security spokesperson says the shooting took place while agents were conducting a vehicle stop on alleged Venezuelan migrant gang members. The spokesperson says the driver attempted to run over the agents, one of whom fired a defensive shot. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called it a deeply troubling incident. The FBI says it's leading an investigation. Protests continue across the country after the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an immigration officer yesterday. Demonstrators in the Twin Cities say they won't rest until the officers held accountable.
NPR's Juliana Kim reports. isn't surprised how quickly protests began after the death of Renee Nicole Good. He noted that Good, a 37-year-old white mother of three, was shot less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
So we have definitely feel like we're ground zero for the fight for police accountability and social justice.
Cruz says protesters want to see accountability for the use of force, which the Trump administration defended as an act of self-defense. Similar protests took place in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon, with many more planned nationwide this weekend. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis isn't the first time over the last year immigration agents have killed someone. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran explains.
We've seen shootings by ICE agents.
What incidents sparked protests in Portland and across the country?
In fact, The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on gun violence, has identified at least 14 shootings in ICE raids since January of last year. NPR hasn't independently confirmed all of these shootings, but we've reported on some of them. Chicago has seen some of the most high-profile shootings. Last year, a Mexican immigrant was killed after attempting to drive away from immigration agents. Also last year in Chicago, agents fired at a woman while she was still in her car, injuring her.
NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reporting, a crew of four is making an early return from the International Space Station due to an astronaut's serious medical issue. Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne reports.
The medical concern forced the cancellation of a planned spacewalk, and now it's prompting what NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is calling a medical evacuation.
After discussions with Chief Health and Medical Officer Dr. J.D. Polk and leadership across the agency, I've come to the decision that it's in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew 11 ahead of their planned departure.
He says the crew will depart the station in the next few days. They were planning to stay until a replacement crew arrived next month. It's the first time a NASA mission has been cut short for medical reasons. A NASA medical official says the ailment was not caused by preparations for the spacewalk or an injury sustained working at the station. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
Wall Street closed mixed today. The S&P 500 barely budged. This is NPR News. Angry farmers are demonstrating in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with South American nations. Farmers drove about 100 tractors into Paris and gathered in front of the lower house of parliament. In Greece, a main highway was shut down at several points. European farmers argue the deal would hurt farmers' livelihoods. Mexico's president says daily homicide rates in her country are at their lowest since 2016.
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