Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Protests are taking place in Minnesota and across the country following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran has more. Thousands of people in Minneapolis have taken on the streets for the fourth consecutive day to protest President Trump's immigration crackdown in the city and in the state of Minnesota.
And they say they want to honor the life of Renee Goode, the woman killed by an ICE officer earlier this week, and to send the Trump administration a message that ICE agents are not welcome in their state. However, the Trump administration has said it will continue its immigration crackdown in the city.
Already 2,000 federal immigration agents are in the state of Minnesota and more are expected to come in the next few days. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Minneapolis. In Iran, the internet remains largely inaccessible. after the regime imposed a blackout as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the country's streets again last night over economic issues.
NPR's Jackie Northam reports the protests that have been going on for two weeks are large and they're growing fast. This one started at the end of December when shopkeepers turned out in large numbers to protest against the economy. Inflation is red hot, close to 50%, and the local currency, the rial, has lost half its value since September.
But, you know, the economy is often the trigger for protests in Iran, but this one quickly spread. NPR's Jackie Northam reporting. Human rights groups say that Iranian security forces have killed civilians and detained hundreds of people.
A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd region today, a day after Russia launched a hypersonic missile and other weapons that disrupted Kyiv's power supplies.
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Chapter 2: What protests are occurring in Minnesota and why?
There were no immediate reports of casualty. Ukraine says the depot supplies fuel to Russian forces. These kinds of attacks aim to deprive Moscow of oil revenue for its invasion. President Trump says he wants to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes to reduce housing prices. And Pierce Jennifer Ludden reports it's not clear how he would do that or if it would lower prices.
Trump announced the plan in a Truth Social post saying inflation has put the American dream of homeownership out of reach for many. He said he'd asked Congress to codify a ban, though such proposals in the past have failed to gain steam. In recent years, there's been a surge of corporate landlords buying homes to rent out, and it sparked tension in a lot of cities.
Officials say corporate owners are more likely to hike rents, evict tenants, and let houses fall into disrepair. They also outbid potential buyers with all-cash offers. Overall, though, housing experts say large investors own only a sliver of the market, and the bigger problem driving up home prices is a lack of supply. In Pierce, Jennifer Ludden, this is NPR.
A Dallas TikTok user has been fired from her job at a Hilton hotel after posting a video claiming ICE agents were staying there. From member station KERA, Becca Moore has more. The woman who only identifies herself as Gia in the clip warns people to stay away. There are ICE agents staying at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas.
Quite frankly, I don't really care if I lose my job because I could get in trouble for posting this. But honestly, I don't care because I care more about your families. Her video has since ignited calls for a boycott. Gia was fired Thursday by Hilton's third-party valet company, Town Park, after refusing to take her videos down.
Tensions between ICE and the communities they're entering has reached a boiling point this week after the fatal shooting of Rene Good in Minneapolis. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Dallas on Thursday night. For NPR News, I'm Becca Moore in Dallas. The Pentagon says the U.S.
military carried out large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria. It's part of an operation started last month in response to the deadly ISIS attack on U.S. and Syrian forces that left two American soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter dead. In a social media post last night, President Trump says he wants a one-year 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates.
It's not clear if he would do that through an executive order or through congressional legislation. Trump says he hopes it will be in place by the 20th of this month, one year after he took office. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from WISE, the app for international people using money around the globe.
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