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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump Friday said he's sending the USS Gerald IV to the Mideast. The ship is the world's largest aircraft carrier.
What military actions is President Trump taking regarding Iran?
It will join other military assets in the region as Trump continues to increase pressure on Tehran to reduce its nuclear program.
We have a situation right now where we sent a very big carrier group to Iran. I'd love to see if we could make a deal. They've been difficult to make a deal. I thought we would have had a deal last time. They wish they did.
Trump was speaking to military families at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He told the families a change in power in Iran would be, quote, the best thing that could happen. A federal judge in Massachusetts has issued a preliminary injunction against federal immigration agents from entering houses of worship to carry out enforcement actions. NPR's Jason DeRose reports.
In early 2025, the Trump administration rescinded guidance telling immigration agents to avoid making arrests at sensitive locations such as schools and houses of worship. A group of religious organizations from across the U.S. sued. Now, a Massachusetts judge says such enforcement at or near churches may violate the First Amendment by imposing, quote, a substantial burden on the exercise of religion. The injunction lays out some limited circumstances under which arrests could still take place, but largely prevents such actions until the case can be heard in full. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
London's High Court has ruled that the United Kingdom's ban on a prominent pro-Palestinian group is unlawful, but it's allowed it to stay in place, at least for now. NPR's Lauren Frayer has our reports.
Cheers went up through the crowd outside a London court where judges ruled the government's labeling of Palestine Action as a terror group was, quote, disproportionate. Since 2020, the group has vandalized U.K. arms factories, including some manufacturing weapons for Israel. After the U.K. banned Palestine Action... It became illegal to express support for it. And thousands of otherwise peaceful protesters were arrested for carrying placards or wearing T-shirts with the group's name. Some faced up to 14 years in prison. Protests over this grew during the Gaza war, prompting questions about free speech and civil liberties. The court says the ban will stay in place, though, pending a government appeal next week.
Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.
German Chancellor Friedrich Murch opened the Munich Security Conference on Friday by saying there's a rift in transatlantic relations between Europe and the U.S. And he said even the U.S. is not powerful enough to go it alone in what he called an increasingly tough world. Murch then called for a new transatlantic partnership. The rift began at last year's conference when Vice President J.D. Vance lectured Europeans about the state of democracy on the European continents. You're listening to NPR News. Anthropic, which is one of the major artificial intelligence companies, is partnering with a nonprofit to redesign computer science courses taught to thousands of colleges and universities.
What are the implications of the Massachusetts judge's ruling on immigration enforcement?
As Lee Gain explains, it's part of an effort by all the big AI companies to get their technology into the hands of students.
Anthropic's partnership with the nonprofit CodePath, which provides computer science courses to students at colleges and universities across the country, is expected to give the company an in with a wide range of schools and students. Other tech companies, including Google and OpenAI, have also partnered with colleges and universities to give students access to their AI products. Anthropic says its partnership will give more than 20,000 students, many from low-income backgrounds, access to the chatbot Claude and coding tool ClaudeCode. And recent survey data shows many employers expect college graduates to have some experience using AI tools. For NPR News, I'm Leigh Gaines.
Judges declared a mistrial of five current and former Stanford University students. They faced felony charges for vandalism and conspiracy to trespass during pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
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