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Chapter 1: What will President Trump address in his upcoming state of the union speech?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The country will hear from President Trump tonight about the state of the union. Voters across the political spectrum in the United States are expected to hear Trump detail his economic agenda this midterm election year. The latest polls on Trump's tariffs and overall handling of the economy have been unfavorable.
NPR spoke with Karen Borman, a Democrat in New York. The cost of living is still up. And the way Trump is making a mess out of this whole economy, I don't even know what's going on. Texas Republican Deanna Killen says she thinks the economy is moving in the wrong direction.
I would say I am extremely worried where the U.S.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's economic agenda for midterm elections?
dollar is going as far as how it will affect my business.
People are also waiting to see if President Trump rails against the U.S. Supreme Court as he delivers his speech while the justices are present tonight. Last week, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 against his global tariffs policy under an emergency powers law. A lawsuit in Maine accuses federal immigration enforcement agents of illegally surveilling people who record them.
NPR's Jude Jaffe-Block says the federal lawsuit accuses the Department of Homeland Security of violating the First Amendment.
Observers who take video of federal immigration operations say agents are recording their faces and license plates. Colleen Fagan in Portland, Maine, filmed this exchange between herself and a federal agent last month after he seemed to record her license plate.
Why are you taking my information down? Because we have a nice little database.
And now you're considered a domestic terrorist, the agent said. Fagan has joined a federal class action lawsuit asking a judge to stop DHS from tracking observers and retaliating against them. DHS told NPR there is no database of domestic terrorists run by the agency, and its methods follow the U.S. Constitution. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
Today marks four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As NPR's Charles Maines reports, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II shows few signs of abating.
President Trump returned to office, vowing he could leverage his relations in Moscow and Kiev to resolve the conflict in short order. Yet months of U.S.-led negotiations have bogged down over Russian demands for additional Ukrainian territory its forces do not hold and Ukraine's need for U.S.-backed security guarantees that Washington is yet to offer.
The Kremlin says its military will simply take what diplomacy doesn't deliver, despite Russian forces going up against overstretched Ukrainian defense's Russian battlefield advances have come at a glacial pace and with heavy losses. Charles Mains, NPR News, Moscow.
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Chapter 3: How is the Supreme Court influencing Trump's tariffs policy?
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