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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
What is the Justice Department investigating regarding Minnesota officials?
The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey interfered with federal immigration enforcement. The probe centers on public statements they made during recent ICE raids across the Minneapolis region. State Attorney General Keith Ellison says the DOJ is sending a dangerous message.
When powerful leaders use it and weaponize it against people who are just doing their jobs as their voters elected them to do, that's a very sad day in America.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says both men need to, quote, get their city under control, accusing them of encouraging obstruction and even assault. Walls and Fry have called for calm. In a post on X, Walls urged residents not to fan the flames of chaos.
How are the Ogallala Sioux Tribe responding to ICE actions?
Leaders from the Ogallala Sioux Tribe say they're now considering whether to ban ICE agents from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. They say the move is in response to what they say was the unlawful detention of several of their tribe's members in Minneapolis by federal agents. NPR's Kirk Sigler has more.
What protests are occurring in Copenhagen regarding Greenland?
At a press conference in Minneapolis, Ogallala Sioux President Frank Starr comes out, says he's been trying to get information on reports that four homeless tribal members were detained by ICE, but he says he's at a stalemate with Homeland Security. The agency has so far said it has no reports of holding them. But in response, the Ogallala Sioux Tribe and others in the region are holding enrollment drives and issuing tribal IDs and urging their members in the Twin Cities to carry them at all times. Tribal leaders say their priority is to protect their sovereign members who are protected by treaties with the federal government. The Ogallala Sioux Tribe possibly banning ICE follows its banning of then-South Dakota Governor and now Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
from entering Pine Ridge in 2019. Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.
What challenges is the UN General Assembly facing on its 80th anniversary?
President Trump is escalating his push to take over Greenland, an autonomous territory that's part of the Kingdom of Denmark. NPR's Barbara Sprunt is in Copenhagen, where demonstrators are gathering to protest the administration's bid to acquire the world's largest island.
In front of Copenhagen City Town Hall, what looks like thousands of people are gathered, waving flags of Greenland. This is coming on the heels of a congressional delegation to Denmark, a reassurance tour of sorts. U.S. lawmakers met with Danish members of government and business leaders to reaffirm the longstanding relationship between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark.
What advancements is NASA making towards returning to the moon?
Here at the rally, there are signs criticizing President Trump, who's doubled down on his rhetoric recently about the U.S. taking over Greenland. Signs say, Yankee, go home. This land is not for sale. And Americans, I know there is good in you. Come back to sanity. The crowd plans to walk over to the U.S. embassy to continue the demonstration. Barbara Sprunt, NPR News, Copenhagen.
This is NPR News in Washington. The United Nations General Assembly is marking its 80th anniversary this weekend. NPR's Lauren Frere reports the celebration will take place in the same building where it first convened in the months after World War II.
In January 1946, the UN General Assembly convened in a Methodist hall undamaged by the Blitz, the Nazi bombing of London. At the time, the King of England said no more important meeting had ever taken place in the British capital. Eighty years later, delegates are gathering in that same hall with a new set of challenges. Conflict in Ukraine, Gaza, now Venezuela, protests in Iran, tensions over Greenland, and strains in the post-war transatlantic alliance under President Trump. Speaking in New York before departing for London, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says this is a time when international cooperation is needed the most, but that the resilience of multilateralism itself is being tested.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.
NASA is one step closer to sending astronauts back to the moon.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:05
2
What is the Justice Department investigating regarding Minnesota officials?
0:05–0:53
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How are the Ogallala Sioux Tribe responding to ICE actions?
0:53–1:14
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What protests are occurring in Copenhagen regarding Greenland?
1:14–1:58
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What challenges is the UN General Assembly facing on its 80th anniversary?
1:58–2:34
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What advancements is NASA making towards returning to the moon?
2:34–4:38