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Chapter 1: What are the details surrounding the recent ICE shooting incident?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Minnesota state and local authorities say they are launching their own efforts to collect evidence in the case of a lethal encounter between an immigration and customs enforcement agent and a 37-year-old woman the officer fatally shot on Wednesday.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, a Democrat, raised concerns a federal investigation into the confrontation is already compromised.
This is not a time to hide from the facts. This is a time to embrace them, making sure that we're pushing for transparency every step of the way. The fact that Pam Bondi's Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning.
Trump administration officials came to the agent's defense, saying the woman, Renee Good, hit the officer with her car as she tried to drive away.
Chapter 2: What did the Supreme Court decide regarding Trump's tariffs and prisoners' rights?
But there are conflicting accounts about what led to the shooting, raising questions about excessive use of force by ICE agents. The Supreme Court dashed expectations of a major ruling on tariffs or voting rights today. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration addressing public benefits fraud?
When the high court announced earlier this week that it would hand down opinions today, word spread like wildfire that the court would announce a decision on the legality of Trump's tariffs, and newsrooms went on red alert. But when Justice Sonia Sotomayor leaned forward to read her opinion today...
She looked over at the slew of Trump administration lawyers in the courtroom and observed, seeing who's here today, it's not the case you thought. So true. The opinion was about prisoners' rights. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
The Trump administration is more closely examining public benefits fraud and creating a new position in the Department of Justice. Critics say there's no evidence for many of the DOJ's allegations, but NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports experts do see risk in the U.S.
Chapter 4: What is the current situation in Syria regarding Kurdish forces and government troops?
safety net system.
Many benefits are administered by states with federal money. Matt Weidenger with the American Enterprise Institute thinks that undermines the incentive to be super vigilant. This is the same reason why you don't wash rental cars, right? It really belongs to somebody else.
A lot of benefits also flow through private contractors, says Don Moynihan, a political scientist at the University of Michigan. Once you make that choice, then that also invites more opportunities for bad apples. Moynihan says the administration's drumbeat of unfounded allegations is politicizing the issue, but tackling real fraud is key to public trust in a system millions rely on.
Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 255 points. You're listening to NPR News. Syrian government forces have been battling Syrian Kurdish fighters near the city of Aleppo this week, and more fighting is expected. Dozens of people have been reported killed on both sides, including civilians, and more than 140,000 individuals displaced, according to government and Kurdish authorities.
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Chapter 5: What recent employment trends were reported by the Labor Department?
Jaina Raff has details.
The two sides are observing a ceasefire Friday to allow civilians trapped in the city's largely Kurdish neighborhoods to evacuate, according to the Syrian government. After that, the provincial government says it will resume fighting Syrian Kurdish forces still in the area. Kurdish-led Syrian forces broke away from Syrian rule in 2012 to form an autonomous state in the country's northeast.
The U.S., which fought ISIS alongside those forces, has been pressing them to integrate and join the Syrian army. Those talks have stalled, with Kurdish leaders saying they're threatened by Turkish-backed militias, which are now part of Syria's official defense forces. For NPR News, I'm Jaina Raff in Amman.
U.S. employers added 50,000 jobs last month, according to a report today from the Labor Department. That's below expectations of around 70,000. At the same time, the number of jobs added in the previous two months were revised down by 76,000 jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now up 247 points, roughly half a percent at 49,514. The S&P has gained 54 points. NASDAQ is up 225 points.
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