Chapter 1: What are the challenges of affording a house in today's 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 Dua Halisa-Cautel. The Senate advanced a massive federal government funding package hours before the Friday night deadline. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs reform following the killing of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis. Here's Schumer on the Senate floor.
The clock is ticking, the nation is waiting, and the abuses of ICE must come to an end.
The government funding package now goes back to the House, which returns Monday. Until then, a partial government shutdown will be in effect starting midnight. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
As Senate Democrats press the Trump administration to stop letting immigration officers wear masks on the job, some states are also considering ways to ban the feds from wearing masks.
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Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in federal government funding?
What's unclear is whether states can do so. As NPR's Martin Costi reports.
Last fall, California was the first state to ban federal and local police from wearing masks. That law is now on hold, challenged in federal court by the Trump administration. It says agents need masks to avoid being doxxed, and it's unconstitutional for states to do this.
But State Senator Scott Weiner, who sponsored the California legislation, says the turmoil in Minnesota shows why states should try.
This law was important when we passed it, and we're now seeing precisely why it is so important. These masks create an air of impunity, and we have to get rid of them.
Anti-mask legislation has been introduced in more than a dozen other states, and earlier this week, a ban passed in the Washington State Senate. Martin Koste, NPR News.
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is currently no longer facing the death penalty. And Piersera Ventri reports.
A federal judge determined that the requirements were not met to charge Mangione with the count that would have carried with it a possible death sentence. Now, if found guilty, the maximum penalty he faces in his federal case is life without the possibility of parole. The federal government could appeal this decision.
The judge also determined that Mangione's backpack and its contents, key pieces of evidence, will in fact be admissible in the federal trial. Mangione's attorney Karen Agnifilo spoke outside the courthouse. We're prepared and have been prepared to fight this case and we look forward to fighting this case.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in September, while Mangione's charges in New York State Court continue to proceed. That trial could begin even sooner. Sarah Ventry, NPR News, New York.
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