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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. A number of elected officials in Minnesota are asking the Justice Department to include state police in the probe of a Minneapolis woman's fatal confrontation with an immigration agent this week. Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio has the latest.
Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar say in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that it's wrong to exclude state authorities from the investigation into the killing of Renee Good.
What recent incident in Minneapolis is prompting a federal investigation?
The Democrats note that bystander video contradicts claims from Trump administration officials. Vice President J.D. Vance says, quote, a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis should have no part in the investigation.
A Minnesota prosecutor is calling on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal incident. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security is continuing its immigration enforcement activity in the Twin Cities. In Minneapolis, as in other locations across the nation, people are slated to rally in response to goods death and against ICE operations. An attorney for one of the people shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Portland, Oregon, is pushing back against law enforcement's assertions that the shooting victims are connected to a Venezuelan gang. As Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports, little information has been released about the circumstances that preceded Thursday's shooting.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the two people shot in Portland were suspected Tren de Agua gang associates who were stopped by federal immigration officers. A day after the shooting, Portland's police chief added the pair have a, quote, nexus with the gang. Oregon's federal public defender, Fidel Casino de Clu, says those claims are without evidence.
The shooting by federal officers and the subsequent accusations leveled against the victims of that shooting follow a well-worn playbook that the government has developed to justify the dangerous and unprofessional conduct of its agents.
The two people Border Patrol shot are in stable condition and in federal custody. The FBI is leading the investigation into the shooting. For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.
President Trump met with more than a dozen oil executives at the White House yesterday to talk about the future of oil production in Venezuela. He says if the companies strike a deal, they would be in Venezuela for a long time. And PR's Camilla Dominovsky has more. President Trump made it clear what he wanted.
Our giant oil companies will be spending at least $100 billion of their money, not the government's money. They don't need government money. but they need government protection. And if any companies didn't want to invest, he said other companies would be willing to take their place. Darren Woods, the CEO of ExxonMobil, said that after having had assets seized twice in Venezuela, it would take some significant changes before they went back in. As it is today, he called Venezuela uninvestable. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. President Trump's latest declaration that the U.S. should acquire Greenland in, quote, the hard way or the easy way has Greenland party leaders pushing back. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, and officials from all three met this week to discuss the issue. Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen warned that an American takeover could end NATO. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas may have committed plagiarism as a schoolboy, according to a scholar who's been delving into Thomas's early works. NPR's Lauren Frayer has more.
While editing a new collection of Dylan Thomas' poetry, the scholar Alessandro Galenzi says he and his editors found at least a dozen examples of Thomas copying other poets' work and publishing it as his own. In the literary magazine of a school he started attending at age 11.
It's true that he was a child, but he continued to do this until he was at least 17.
Galenzi told the BBC he still believes Thomas remains one of the greatest 20th century poets.
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