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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
What are President Trump's comments on Iranian threats?
Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for Tuesday's trip to Detroit, President Trump did not sound worried when he was asked about Iranian threats to retaliate against U.S. forces if he moves to intervene amid the violent protests that have engulfed the country.
Iran said that the last time I blew them up with the nuclear capability, which they don't have any longer. So Iran said that the last time they better behave.
During his speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Trump encouraged Iranian protesters to keep demonstrating and said that help is on its way.
How does the Trump administration justify military strikes on drug cartels?
He did not offer details. Casualties have not been verified, but the U.S.-based human rights activist news agency says the number of deaths from the protests, now top 2,500 in Iran, Nearly 17,000 have been detained. One of the boat strikes ordered by the Pentagon last year may have used a plane that looks like a civilian aircraft. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports that may violate U.S.
What are the implications of the arson charges in Mississippi?
military code and the laws of war.
The Trump administration says it is at war with drug cartels, and it's therefore legal for the military to carry out deadly strikes on small boats on suspicion that they're smuggling drugs. But the first of those strikes, last September 2nd, was already controversial because it included a second round of strikes to kill survivors clinging to their capsized boat. Killing shipwrecked enemies is a textbook violation of U.S. military code and the laws of war. Now, a government official not authorized to speak publicly confirms to NPR that the plane in that strike was painted not to look military, another potential war crime called perfidy. According to that official, the plane is part of a highly classified Pentagon program predating the Trump administration.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
The Trump administration says it welcomes the release of detained Americans in Venezuela as a step in the right direction.
How did Claudette Colvin's actions influence the civil rights movement?
The State Department announced the release of multiple U.S. citizens Tuesday. Mississippi man accused of setting fire to a historic synagogue has been indicted on state charges. He'd already been charged with arson in federal court. A Hines County jury handed down a first-degree arson indictment to Steven Spencer Pittman. The 19-year-old man charged with setting fire to Jackson, Mississippi's only synagogue. Mississippi Public Radio's Shamira Muhammad reports.
The charges carry a hate crime enhancement, meaning harsher penalties if the felony was committed because of the perceived race or religion of the victim. He faces up to 60 years of prison on the state charges alone. Pittman is a former honor student of a well-known Catholic school. The Catholic Diocese of Jackson has condemned the actions attributed to Pittman.
What led to the recent resignations of prosecutors in Minnesota?
And Hines County District Attorney Jody Owens says, quote, crimes motivated by hate and directed at places of worship strike at the core of who we are as a community. For NPR News, I'm Shamira Muhammad in Jackson, Mississippi.
And this is NPR News. Minnesota, at least five prosecutors have resigned amid turmoil over how the Trump administration is handling last week's fatal shooting by an ICE agent of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good. The resignations include Minnesota's top federal fraud attorney. Separately, a status hearing is set for Wednesday and a lawsuit aimed at halting or limiting the surge of immigration officers. It was filed by the state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Claudette Colvin, who was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, has died at the age of 86.
What is the significance of Claudette Colvin's record expungement?
Troy Public Radio's Kyle Cassett reports that Colfin was one of a number of African-Americans who were arrested for violating the law before Rosa Parks.
She was 15 and in her words, glued to the seat of the city bus she was riding when the driver told her to give it up for a white passenger. Like Parks would be nine months later, Colvin was arrested. But her case would not be the one used to challenge segregation on city buses.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What are President Trump's comments on Iranian threats?
0:04–0:37
3
How does the Trump administration justify military strikes on drug cartels?
0:37–1:00
4
What are the implications of the arson charges in Mississippi?
1:00–1:53
5
How did Claudette Colvin's actions influence the civil rights movement?
1:53–2:42
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What led to the recent resignations of prosecutors in Minnesota?
2:42–3:40
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What is the significance of Claudette Colvin's record expungement?
3:40–4:40