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Chapter 1: What happened in the deadly ICE shootings in Minneapolis?
This week on Consider This, the deadly ICE shootings in Minneapolis. That city's police chief told us he was already concerned with how federal agents were doing their jobs. Truly, the manner how this enforcement action is being conducted. An immigration crackdown gone wrong on Consider This. Listen every weekday afternoon on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Minnesota educators are demanding federal immigration agents stay away from their schools as tension across the state heightened in the wake of a Minneapolis woman's death at the hands of an ICE agent two days ago.
At a press conference, the president of Education Minnesota, Monica Byron, said agents have been seen circling school property waiting for families to pick up their children.
We have seen our students assaulted and our colleagues wrongfully detained. Every moment ICE remains near our schools endangers children, educators, and families.
Meanwhile, state and local officials in Minneapolis are demanding their federal counterparts work with them to investigate this week's fatal shooting. The Department of Homeland Security maintains the woman was a rioter who put an agent's life in danger. Critics dispute the DHS's account. Immigration authorities are also involved in a shooting in Portland, Oregon that wounded two people.
Five Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over its move to block funding for low-income families. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the administration has accused the states of allowing fraud.
The administration has offered no evidence of ongoing fraud in these states, but it's demanded more data going back years on people who get cash aid and other social services, says Nick Gwynn of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
They've asked for huge amounts of information, confidential information, relates to where families live. etc. That would be really difficult for states to come up with.
The states, California, Colorado, New York, Illinois, and Minnesota, say freezing this money is unlawful. Policy experts say fraud happens in every state, blue and red, and blaming only Democrats politicizes the issue. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
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Chapter 2: What are educators in Minnesota demanding from federal immigration agents?
Coast Guard forces boarded the tanker Olena in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. She said the vessel was on the U.S. list of sanctioned oil tankers that often try to conceal their role in transporting oil from countries that include Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. Noem wrote, quote, the ghost fleets will not outrun justice. They will not hide under false claims of nationality. U.S.
forces began taking control of sanctioned oil tankers a month ago to put pressure on Venezuela's government. And the practice has continued following the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro last Saturday. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 275 points, roughly half a percent, at 49,541. It's NPR News. The U.S. is coming off its weakest year of job growth since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. It ended 2025 with fewer hirings, 50,000, instead of the projected 70,000 in the month of December. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4%.
For all of 2025, employers added 584,000 jobs, compared with 2 million new jobs in 2024. The administration is slated to provide $45 million in aid to the U.S. trade partners Thailand and Cambodia as it attempts to keep a U.S. brokerage ceasefire between the Southeast Asian neighbors from collapsing. U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State Michael DeSant made the announcement in an online media briefing in Bangkok. Pope Leo has called for the world to step back from what he called diplomacy based on force in an unusually sharp and urgent speech to foreign diplomats. Here's NPR's Ruth Sherlock.
Pope Leo, the first American pope, used a speech to foreign ambassadors to the Vatican to warn against the weakening of international organizations, including the United Nations. set up to maintain peace after the Second World War. A diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force, Leo told the room of 184 ambassadors.
War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. He spoke out against the United States' sudden ouster of Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and called for the will of Venezuelans to be respected and for the safeguarding of their civil and human rights, Ruth Sherlock, NPR News. It's NPR.
This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, barely more than a week into the new year, there's plenty to break down and try to understand. In Venezuela and beyond, questions about the changing role of America on the world stage. And in Minnesota, a deadly ice shooting. Follow us each day for facts, perspective and analysis on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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Chapter 3: How is the Department of Homeland Security responding to the Minneapolis shooting?
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