Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Chapter 2: What military actions did President Trump threaten regarding Minnesota?
President Trump has threatened on social media to take military action against Minnesota. NPR's Meg Anderson reports the Insurrection Act is a centuries-old controversial law that would give the president sweeping powers to control federal troops without the state's consent.
The president said he would institute the act if state officials don't, quote, stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE. The law has been invoked before. The last time was during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. During that use, the U.S. Marines opened fire on a home during a misunderstanding between troops and police.
Since an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Macklin-Good last week in Minneapolis, more ICE agents have been deployed. Community members have increased their protests of the massive surge in immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities, blowing whistles, yelling, and filming ICE officers.
Chapter 3: How does the Insurrection Act empower the President?
ICE has responded with aggressive tactics, using tear gas, pepper balls, and flashbangs to disperse crowds. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
President Trump is scheduled to host Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House this afternoon. The meeting between Trump and the 2025 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize comes more than a week and a half after the U.S. military seized and removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. NPR's Carrie Conn has the latest.
Machado has tried to win back Trump's support, heaping praise on him in media interviews and pledging to share her Nobel Peace Prize. But Trump has signaled for now his support is solidly behind Venezuela's interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, with whom Trump says he recently had a good conversation.
Machado's political party is widely seen as the legitimate winners of the 2024 presidential election that then-leader Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won. Machado led huge protests and, according to multiple recent polls, remains widely popular inside Venezuela. Carrie Conn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
A Trump administration official confirms with NPR the administration is reversing $2 billion in cuts to mental health and addiction programs. NPR's Brian Mann has more.
An administration official with direct knowledge of the decision who asked NPR not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly said all the grants are being restored. Hannah Wesolowski with the National Alliance on Mental Illness said care providers faced chaos and confusion.
After a day of panic across the country, nonprofits and people with mental health conditions are deeply alarmed, but hopeful that this money is being restored.
The decision to terminate the funding was reversed after the Trump administration faced bipartisan pushback. Brian Mann, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR News. A new report says government censorship on college campuses in the United States has reached unprecedented levels. Researchers say public universities in conservative states have largely been affected, but so have private colleges in liberal states. Kirk Carapazza of Member Station GBH reports from Boston.
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