NPR News: 01-16-2026 2AM EST
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I'm Jesse Thorne. On Bullseye, I will talk with Regina Hall about her part in the smash hit movie One Battle After Another and about her time at Columbia University Bartending School, which apparently exists.
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Amid the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, President Trump is threatening to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act. NPR's Meg Anderson reports on the centuries-old law that would give the president sweeping powers to control federal troops without state 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. ICE has responded with aggressive tactics, using tear gas, pepper balls, and flashbangs to disperse crowds.
Meg Anderson, NPR News.
President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday morning after a federal officer shot and wounded a man after officials say the officer came under attack with a shovel and broom handle. Meanwhile, protesters are back on the streets outside a federal building where police have used tear gas and peppers balls to try to disperse them. U.S. Treasury Department has announced new sanctions against more than a dozen Iranian individuals and entities amid that country's violent crackdowns on protesters. Empire's Danielle Kurtzleben reports the administration says it's targeting people who are seeking to suppress the protests.
In a video announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said previous sanctions have successfully pressured Iran by slowing the economy. However, he added these new sanctions target sanction evasion.
What are the latest developments in the Minneapolis protests?
Today's sanctions target 18 individuals and entities that the regime uses to evade sanctions on Iranian oil and divert proceeds from its energy sales away from the rightful owners, the Iranian people.
The protests started at the end of December in response to the collapse of the country's currency, but grew to be more broadly against the country's authoritarian leadership. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have revealed a scheme to rig college basketball games. An indictment unsealed Thursday alleges fixers started with two professional games in China before recruiting college players in the U.S. U.S. Attorney Dave Metcalfe.
The defendants would identify a game in which a corrupted player had a team that was favored to lose, and then they would bribe said player to deliberately underperform so that his team would lose by more than they were favored to. They would bet for them to not cover the point spread.
Prosecutors say the scheme came to involve more than 39 players on 17 Division I men's teams. This is NPR. A court in South Korea has sentenced former President Yoon Seok-yool to five years in prison. Yoon was sentenced Friday on some of the charges he faced after he tried to impose martial law in late 2024. Separately, Yoon faces a number of other trials, including a charge of masterminding insurrection. He could be given a death sentence on that charge. The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade deal. The deal, announced by the Commerce Department, involves $250 billion in new investments in the U.S. by Taiwan's semiconductor and tech companies in exchange for easing tariffs on Taiwan exports to the U.S.
The deal, the latest for the Trump administration, following agreements with the European Union and Japan.
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