Chapter 1: What challenges are people facing in the housing market?
It is hard to get a house. Getting that down payment together? Brutal. You shipped off to Djibouti to afford a down payment for a house? Yes, sir. 100%. On Planet Money, the high price of housing, what the Trump administration is trying to do about it, and will it work? Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahlisa Kautel. Demonstrations against immigration and customs enforcement continue across the country. Some are calling for no work, no school, and no shopping. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is investigating the killing of an ICU nurse, Alex Preddy, but not an earlier shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Baxter reports.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed that Alex Preddy's death last Saturday is being examined for possible civil rights violations. Preddy was shot multiple times as Border Patrol agents tried to arrest him while he was recording immigration officers on his phone. Blanche says the probe is separate from Homeland Security's shooting investigation.
It means talking to witnesses. It means looking at documentary evidence, sending subpoenas if you have to. And the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has... the best experts in the world at this.
He says the fatal shooting of another U.S.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in immigration protests?
citizen, Renee Macklin-Good, is not receiving similar DOJ scrutiny. For NPR News, I'm Brian Baxt in St. Paul.
Former CNN host Don Lemon and an independent video journalist in Minnesota have been arrested by federal authorities in connection with their reporting on an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. U.S. Justice Department officials say they disrupted worshipers, while press rights advocates say the Trump administration is seeking to silence the press. NPR's David Fulkenflik reports.
The precise charges have not yet been revealed, but U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi linked the arrest to Don Lemon and Georgia Fort's presence at the church protest. Demonstrators focused on the church because a pastor there is a senior local ICE official. Lemon interviewed the pastor and congregants as well as protesters.
Lemon's attorney says his client was simply there as a reporter to document the events. He described the arrest as intimidation. Human rights groups and media advocates say this is a clear violation of First Amendment protections for the press.
Chapter 3: How is the Justice Department addressing civil rights violations?
David Folkenflik, NPR News.
The dollar this week fell to its lowest in four years against other major currencies, raising some concerns about the U.S. currency. But one person says that's a good thing, President Trump. NPR's Rafael Nam asks, is he right?
The U.S. has traditionally wanted a strong dollar. But when Trump was asked by a reporter this week about the currency, he had a different take.
I think it's great. I mean, the value of the dollar. Look at the business we're doing. No, dollar's doing great.
In other words, Trump doesn't mind the dollar's decline. There are benefits to a weaker dollar. It makes U.S. exports a little cheaper. And it's good for tourism. Visitors can get more dollars back when they exchange their currencies. But there are also disadvantages. It can make some stuff imported from overseas more expensive.
And that bucket list trip to Paris becomes more expensive for Americans. So yes, there are benefits to a weaker dollar. But there can also be a bit of me.
This is NPR. South Carolina is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, with well over 800 cases. The state this week has confirmed 58 new infections centered in northwestern Spartanburg County, and more than 440 people are currently in quarantine, according to the state's Department of Public Health.
Many of the exposures were reported at elementary schools and some businesses, including a Burger King in the city of Roebuck. Canadian-American actress Catherine O'Hara has died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 71. O'Hara was known for her absurdist comic characters, and Piers Mandelit del Barco has this appreciation.
Catherine O'Hara played the freaked-out mom of a rascally son in the Home Alone movies. She also played the self-centered, whiny matriarch in the riches-to-rags TV sitcom with the rascally name Schitt's Creek. Taking your picture with a motley crew of pale, dewy-faced salamander people. I haven't hit rock bottom quite yet.
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