Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Minneapolis protests?
Tensions remain high in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good last week. Protesters back outside a federal building where police used tear gas and pepper balls to try to disperse them. This latest clash came after frustrations boiled over Wednesday night after a federal agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant in the left leg.
NPR's Jasmine Garst is in Minneapolis.
The mood is very tense. Homeland Security says there are more than 2,000 ICE agents on the ground and more on the way.
Chapter 3: How does President Trump plan to address healthcare issues?
A lot of people out here are terrified of retaliation for protesting and don't want to give their full names. Right now, the streets are fairly empty. A lot of stores have their doors locked. And on every street corner, there are one or two people, citizens, just standing monitoring for ICE agents.
President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military to quell the protests.
Chapter 4: What military exercises are happening in Greenland and why?
On the final day of open enrollment, President Trump announced an outline for new health care legislation. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports the plan would not immediately help people facing sky-high premiums on healthcare.gov.
What Trump is calling the Great Health Care Plan does not have any new or large-scale policy ideas in it. It expresses support for price transparency and health savings accounts and drug pricing that considers the cost of medicines in other countries, all longstanding Republican health policy ideas.
In a press call, senior White House officials explained there is no current bill that accomplishes these goals. Rather, the administration is calling on Congress to create a new bill.
Chapter 5: What recent court ruling affects former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil?
What this plan would not do is extend the enhanced premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans. Millions of people's premium costs are double what they were last year. A bipartisan group of senators is working on a deal to increase subsidies to 2025 levels. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
European soldiers have begun a military exercise in Greenland meant to show solidarity in the face of President Trump's talk of making the Arctic island a part of the U.S.
Chapter 6: What is the current status of the cryptocurrency bill in the Senate?
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports a meeting between U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic officials failed to resolve disagreements.
France, Sweden, Germany and Norway announced they would deploy military personnel in Greenland as part of a European reconnaissance mission to explore options for ensuring security in light of U.S. pressure. Retired French General Pierre de Villiers spoke about the mission on French public TV channel France 2.
It's to give a signal to the international community that Europe is reacting and exploring its options, he said. De Villiers said the specialized Alpine soldiers would see what kind of cooperation can be done alongside Denmark and weigh whether Europe should send combat troops to protect the territory. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
This is NPR. A federal appeals court has opened the door to the eventual re-arrest and deportation of former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil. An appeals panel in Philadelphia has reversed a lower court decision that released Khalil from an immigration jail. The panel ruled in a two-to-one decision that a federal judge in New Jersey did not have jurisdiction over the case.
The Senate has delayed a vote on a closely watched cryptocurrency bill. And Piers Maria Aspin reports a delay came after the CEO of a major crypto company publicly criticized the bill.
The Senate Banking Committee was scheduled for a markup of the landmark bill, which would help bring the fast-growing crypto industry more into mainstream financial markets. But it's been hotly contested by lawmakers and by different constituencies within the financial industry.
Traditional banks have long dominated finance, while younger crypto companies also have powerful supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who runs the largest U.S. crypto exchange, posted on X that his company, quote, can't support the bill as written.
Then Republican Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the banking committee, announced that the vote was postponed as bipartisan negotiations continue. Maria Aspin, NPR News.
Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from Star Wars studio Lucasfilm in a statement. The Walt Disney Company said Kennedy will stay on to work full-time as a producer and that Dave Filoni will now lead the company. I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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