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Chapter 1: What concerns do tradeswomen have about Trump's DEI crackdown?
President Trump says he wants to make America skilled again, but tradeswomen worry that his crackdown on DEI will undo decades of progress. You cannot look at the workforce of the construction trades and say they've taken DEI too far. This weekend on The Sunday Story, what role is there for women in the skilled trades renaissance? Listen now to The Sunday Story on the Up First podcast from NPR.
Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C., I'm Dale Willman. A federal judge has ordered the government to release a father and his five-year-old son who were taken into custody during the crackdown on immigration in a Minneapolis suburb earlier this month. Judge Fred Beery condemned what he called a perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty.
Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Fred Beery was a harsh rebuke of the Trump administration and ordered the release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Alexander Conejo Arias. The two were detained in Minnesota by immigration officials. Local school officials and the young boy's mother say he was used as bait to get her to open the door of their home.
They were taken to a detention center about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio. Last Wednesday, protests erupted outside the facility and two protesters were arrested. Judge Beery accused the Trump administration of ignoring the Declaration of Independence and, quote, traumatizing children. The order requires the pair's release to a public place no later than Tuesday.
I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio.
The Justice Department released more files related to Jeffrey Epstein Friday, weeks after a legal deadline set by Congress to release all the files. Some three million documents were published. That's about half of the remaining documents. NPR's Stephen Fowler explains why officials say they missed the deadline and why so many documents were left out of the release.
The Justice Department said it took time for them to comb through six million documents and make sure that they complied with existing laws around victim privacy and this new laws directive to share as much information as possible. That said, about half of those six million files will not be released because the Justice Department says they contain child pornography.
deliberative internal process and attorney-client privileged information, duplicate information, or unrelated material.
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Chapter 2: What did the federal judge say about the immigration crackdown?
On Friday night, activists cheered outside a prison in Caracas as they heard about the new amnesty bill announced by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. This is a ray of hope for us, said Mayra Morales. Her brother was accused of participating in an effort to overthrow the government and has been in prison for five years. The amnesty bill follows a U.S.
raid on Venezuela in which President Nicolás Maduro was captured. Now, the Trump administration is pressuring Venezuelan officials to free hundreds of dissidents who were imprisoned during Maduro's rule. Opposition leaders welcomed the bill, but said that many more reforms need to be made to restore democracy in Venezuela. For NPR News, I'm Manuel Rueda in Caracas.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. In a vote that will narrow the slim majority Republicans hold in the U.S. House, Democrat Christian Menefee has won a special election in Texas. Menefee was the Harris County attorney. He beat Amanda Edwards in a runoff vote on Saturday. He replaces Representative Sylvester Turner, who died in March of last year.
The seat has been vacant since then. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott did not schedule the first round of voting until November. One of the biggest categories for the Grammy Awards is for Best New Artist, and this year, TikTok had a big effect on just who made the cut. MPS Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has our reports.
This year's Best New Artist nominees run the gamut from an indie pop band from Los Angeles to an English soul singer. The one thing they have in common? They all had a breakthrough moment this year thanks to TikToks. Nominees Addison Rae and Alex Warren were TikTok creators who used their popularity on the app to launch music careers.
Artists like Leon Thomas, Lola Young, The Marias, and Olivia Deen were signed artists who gained major traction on TikTok. And some of the nominees, like the girl group Cat's Eye and the Gen Z rocker Somber, fall somewhere in between. On Sunday night, all eight nominees will perform during the Grammy ceremony. Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.
Justin Rose has a six-stroke lead with one round left to play at the PGA Open underway in San Diego this weekend. He ended the day with a 4-under 68, and at one point he led the field by eight shots. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News in Washington.
On Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, it's not so much we get to talk to celebrities, it's that we get to talk to celebrities about other celebrities, like we did with actor Nathan Lane. I remember having to tell George C. Scott that I was leaving the show to do this musical, and he said to me, you're leaving me to do a f***ing magic show?
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