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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The federal government has sent more than 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul.
What immigration operations are happening in Minneapolis?
The Trump administration says it's doing immigration operations, but protests are growing over their tactics. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. Venezuelan opposition leader Marina Corina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump. The move has been opposed by the Nobel Committee. NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Laban reports the two met yesterday at the White House.
In a social media post, Trump wrote, quote, Trump has openly coveted the prize and last week expressed anger that President Obama won it. Machado won the prize for leading opposition to former authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro. whom the Trump administration has deposed. Though Machado has heaped praise upon Trump, he said he didn't think she could rule the country. Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, is now acting president. The Nobel Committee said in an earlier statement that a prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is in Denmark today. They're meeting with Danish and Greenlandic leaders. This comes as President Trump insists the U.S.
What recent developments involve Venezuelan opposition leader Marina Corina Machado?
needs to take over Greenland. New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen Gape remarks today at Copenhagen University.
I'm here today because millions of Americans are deeply concerned about the recent rhetoric. of the United States taking over Greenland, either buying it or using military force.
Polls show that by an overwhelming margin, neither Greenlanders nor Danes want the U.S. to do that. Some European nations have moved some of their troops to Greenland for military exercises. The health care priorities that President Trump outlined this week do not include a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But as NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports... One key idea could seriously weaken those health insurance marketplaces.
A fact sheet about Trump's health care plan says it would, quote, execute the president's vision to send money directly to the American people. Cynthia Cox of the nonpartisan health research organization KFF says the details are sparse.
What it seems like is this idea of turning the financial assistance that's available for Obamacare enrollees into essentially cash. that they might be able to use to buy health insurance that is not compliant with the Affordable Care Act.
She says that could cause ACA marketplace premiums to skyrocket and weaken the markets. The White House hopes that lawmakers will turn these ideas into a bill, but did not set a specific timeline. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
On Wall Street, in pre-market trading, Dow futures are flat. This is NPR. The Pentagon says it is overhauling the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. In a statement, the Defense Department says the paper cannot include, quote, woke distractions. The newspaper is required by Congress to be independent, even though the Pentagon provides half of its budget. This week, the Washington Post reported that applicants to the newspaper are now being asked whether they support President Trump's policies. The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a new batch of projects it's funding. Many of them are in line with the Trump administration's goals of celebrating the nation's 250th anniversary. NPR's Andrew Limbaugh has more.
The NEH is awarding more than $75 million to 84 humanities projects across the country. These include an art exhibit in Texas examining the influence of the American Revolution on the people there. an academic conference in Athens, Ohio, discussing the meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and a podcast series produced by the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia exploring the concept of liberty in 1776 and today. Not all projects were related to celebrating America 250, though. Ten awards went towards teaching and training museum, archival, and conservational professionals, new methods of preserving records and artifacts, and a number of schools got grants to fund great books programs.
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