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Chapter 1: What happened during Ilhan Omar's town hall meeting?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was rushed as she spoke last night during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis. A man used a syringe to spray a liquid on her. He was tackled and arrested. After a pause to be checked out, Omar continued speaking. Her office says she is OK.
A preliminary government assessment is out about the fatal shooting of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti last weekend. NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports it contradicts the Trump administration's initial narrative of the shooting.
The review describes how Alex Preddy resisted arrest before two officers shot him, but the review makes no mention of Alex Preddy attacking officers or threatening them with a weapon as the administration first described the incident. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has come under intense bipartisan scrutiny for her initial characterization.
She was quick to describe Preddy's actions as, quote, domestic terrorism, saying Preddy was attacking officers first and brandishing a weapon. The review does not mention an attack or that a weapon was brandished. Instead, it notes officers noticed a gun once there was already a struggle to arrest him. Jimena Bustillo, NPR News.
President Trump gave remarks in Iowa yesterday. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben says he was trying to turn the focus to the U.S. economy.
You really got the feeling that he was trying to talk about something new after federal officers shot and killed those two people in Minneapolis. Trump's tone last night was pretty typical for him. He was just trying to sell the economy as mega strong.
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Chapter 2: How does the government assessment contradict initial narratives about Alex Preddy's shooting?
But data contradicts Trump's message here. I mean, inflation has cooled, but it's still elevated and the job market appears to be slowing. And importantly, Americans don't feel that the economy is doing well. Trump's approval on the economy is double digit negative right now.
NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Lehman reporting. More than 400,000 customers lack power from Mississippi to Tennessee. That follows the deadly winter storm over the weekend that killed dozens of people. Residents of Nashville, Tennessee, are trying to stay warm without power. From member station WPLN, Cynthia Abrams reports, many are now worried about their water supplies.
There are two main water concerns after a winter storm like this one. There's worry about pipes freezing, which is why residents are advised to drip their faucets. Now that temperatures are beginning to rise, this becomes less of a risk. But it poses a different danger, says Nashville's Water Services Director Scott Potter.
The bad news is we're going to start seeing more main break activity as the ground begins to thaw. When the ground begins to defrost, the soil and underground pipes can shift. That can cause those pipes to break, which can cause water outages. Water main breaks can be identified by pooling water in the streets. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
You're listening to NPR. South Carolina is reporting 789 confirmed measles cases. This surpasses last year's outbreak in West Texas, where two schoolchildren died. NPR's Maria Godoy reports.
Public health officials in South Carolina have reported 89 new confirmed measles cases since last Friday. The vast majority are in unvaccinated kids and teens. The outbreak is centered in Spartanburg County, where the vaccination rate among students is 90 percent overall. That's lower than the 95% threshold needed to prevent measles outbreaks.
There are currently 20 people in isolation and 557 others in quarantine. That includes students in at least 19 elementary, middle, and high schools in the northwest region of the state, known as the upstate. Officials say at least 18 people, both adults and children, have been hospitalized with complications from measles today. since the outbreak began in October.
Maria Godoy, NPR News. French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the leaders of Denmark and Greenland today. The Danish leader says the U.S. and Europe need to stick together on Arctic security. President Trump has demanded control of Greenland, he says, for national security. The Danish leader says the world order as we know it is over. She says she doesn't think it will return.
A research group estimates casualties from the war in Ukraine could be nearly 2 million this spring. That's at least 1.2 million Russian troop deaths, wounded or missing, and half that number from Ukraine. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.
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