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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Iran says protests that have swept the country and raised the prospect of U.S. military action there have stopped. But as NPR's Jane Araf reports, Iran's blackout on communications has made it extremely difficult to tell what is happening there.
Iran's chief of police says the country has been calm since Thursday, despite calls from outside Iran for continued protests. The Iranian government has cut phone and internet lines, making it extremely difficult to verify independently what's happening inside the country. U.S.-based Iranian human rights groups say security forces have killed more than 2,000 people in protests over Iran's collapsing economy. Iran's foreign minister says hundreds have died, including security forces and protesters. President Trump, who has warned Iran against the crackdown, said midweek he had been told the killing had stopped.
Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman. About 3,000 federal agents are now on the ground in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and more are coming. They're supposed to be conducting immigration raids in Minnesota. Their tactics are increasingly aggressive. That includes last week's shooting death of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. NPR's Domenico Montanaro says overall Americans don't like this.
And there's new polling this week out from a couple of outfits. Quinnipiac poll found that 57 percent disapprove of the way that ICE is enforcing immigration laws. 53 percent said that they don't think that the shooting was justified, while only 35 percent say that it was. And this has become the real problem for Trump on something that had been an advantage with immigration. You know, people may be in favor of deporting criminals who are in the country illegally, but they've also been saying for months that they see this administration's approach as going too far or acting too harshly when it comes to deportations. And that's been dragging down Trump's numbers overall on immigration.
NPR's Domenico Montanaro reporting. A watchdog group is calling on the Deputy U.S. Attorney General to give up his role in overseeing access to President Trump's documents. NPR's Kerry Johnson explains there are concerns about independent access to papers from Trump's first term in office.
The president designated Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general and Trump's former personal lawyer, as his representative on the records. The group American Oversight says Blanche has a conflict between his obligations under the post-Watergate records law and his personal duty to Trump. They're calling on him to step aside as they demand more details. about Trump's family separation policy and actions toward Ukraine. Under federal law, documents from President Trump's first term could become available to the public as soon as next week. American Oversight says presidential records belong to the American people. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down about 80 points. You're listening to NPR. The man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk returns to court in Utah today. Lawyers for Tyler Robinson are seeking to have the prosecutors in the case disqualified. They say court documents show a child of one of the prosecutors in the Utah County Attorney's Office was present when Kirk was shot to death. The defense says there is a potential conflict of interest for the prosecution. Senate Republicans have blocked an attempt by Democrats to protect funding for a large federal climate lab in Colorado. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports President Trump is planning to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research that is located in Boulder.
Colorado's Democratic senators, including Michael Bennett, tried unsuccessfully to add an amendment to the Senate Appropriations Bill that would have protected funding for the massive NCAR lab in Boulder. which was founded in 1960 and today employs hundreds of scientists. Its research is credited with helping communities plan and adapt to catastrophic disasters like wildfires.
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