NPR News: 01-15-2026 11AM EST
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On NPR's Wildcard podcast, comedian Tig Notaro.
It always makes me laugh when people say she had her sense of humor to the end. And I always thought it would be so funny to put in my obituary that I lost my sense of humor in the end.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. As thousands of federal immigration agents descend on the Minneapolis area, protesters have resisted their tactics. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, the Insurrection Act allows a president to deploy the military, not just the National Guard, but the U.S. Army, against civilians.
Trump posted on social media this morning that he will invoke the act if Minnesota politicians do not stop demonstrators from, quote, attacking the Patriots of ICE. President George H.W. Bush was the last president to invoke the law in 1992 in response to violence in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted police officers in the brutal beating of Rodney King. However, it's also known for when President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 called up federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Hours prior to the president's post, the Department of Homeland Security posted that an agent in Minneapolis had shot a person in the leg. They said the person is in the country illegally, resisted arrest, and attacked the officer.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House. When asked about the Insurrection Act this morning, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says she considers the conditions in Minnesota violent. She says federal agents are going to look at anyone in the area when they're targeting people.
If we are on a target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they're there and having them validate their identity. That's what we've always done in asking people who they are so that we know who's in those surroundings. And if they are breaking our federal laws, we will detain them as well until we run that processing.
Local government leaders and activists in Minnesota say Americans are exercising constitutionally protected free speech. Today's the last day Americans can sign up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. It's going to be much more expensive for many.
What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding the Insurrection Act?
Congress has not extended subsidies that helped people pay for coverage. Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick broke with the GOP last year to push for an extension of the subsidies. From member station WHYY, Carmen Russell-Sluchansky reports, Fitzpatrick represents a swing district.
Fitzpatrick presents himself as a pragmatic moderate, which makes sense in a district nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Scott Wadsworth, who calls himself an independent moderate, says Fitzpatrick's health care move may earn him his vote this year. I like that he has a bipartisan kind of record. He still votes a lot with Trump, so I don't like that. But I think he's one of the better guys. Jane Rickenback, a Democrat, said she also appreciated it.
I am pleased that he is standing up for things like that, and he should be doing that.
However, Rickenback said she plans to vote for the Democratic nominee in November in order to help the party take back the House.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The State Department says it's pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries. It's a further step to reduce legal pathways to come to the U.S. NPR's Jimena Bustillo says the change starts in a week.
This new step of pausing visa processing also comes as other parts of the administration have completely halted immigration processes for those on a list of countries with travel restrictions to the U.S., The move generally further limits legal avenues of travel into the country as the Trump administration increases scrutiny for those who are here without or with legal status.
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