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Chapter 1: What is NPR's Trump's Terms podcast about?
Following the news out of Washington, D.C. can be overwhelming. I'm Scott Detrow, and NPR has a podcast that can help. It's called Trump's Terms. Stories about big changes the 47th president is pursuing on his own terms. Each episode is short, usually around five minutes or so. We keep it calm and factual. We help you follow what matters, and we leave out what doesn't.
Listen to Trump's Terms from NPR.
Chapter 2: How did President Trump use the Alien Enemies Act?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. President Trump deported about 250 migrants this weekend after invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a rarely used law that gives wartime deportation powers to the president. A federal judge had blocked Trump's use of the law. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
Chapter 3: What are the reactions to the deportations under President Trump?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. deported hundreds of people who he says are members of the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs on Sunday. Rubio posted on X that El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele will take these migrants to, quote, very good jails at a fair price.
The president of El Salvador then posted a video of the deportees in handcuffs and said the deportees would be held behind bars for one year. Bukele also responded to reports of a federal judge blocking the deportations with a post saying, quote, oopsies, too late.
On Sunday, Trump's press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, defended the president's use of the 18th century law, not invoked since World War II. With the migrants now in El Salvador, it's unclear what jurisdiction U.S. courts will have. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
Chapter 4: What challenges is the U.S. Census Bureau facing?
The U.S. Census Bureau's internal watchdog says the agency... has not been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for key national surveys. NPR's Hansi Luang has more.
Economic indicators and other statistics the Census Bureau produces rely on survey responses that are often collected in person or over the phone by field representatives.
Chapter 5: Why is the staffing issue affecting the U.S. Census Bureau?
A review by the Commerce Department Inspector General's Office has found that the Census Bureau has not met its staffing goal for those interviewers, including for the current population survey that produces the monthly jobs report.
Many field representatives don't stay in their jobs for long, the inspector general's office found, in part because the pay is often relatively low and it can be difficult to persuade people to participate in a government survey. The inspector general's report recommends that a plan for addressing staffing gaps be developed by the Census Bureau's director.
President Trump has not yet named a nominee to fill that position.
A major storm system, including tornadoes, hit much of the Midwest and southern U.S. this weekend. At least 34 people have died. In Oklahoma, high winds and low humidity have fueled dozens of fires. Donald Ramos from member station KOSU reports.
The central Oklahoma town of Stillwater was one of the worst damaged by Friday's rampant fires. It's a college town, home to about 50,000 people, surrounded by vast swaths of dry plains. Natalie Brown is Stillwater Public Schools Family Resource Specialist. She says people were prepared for the wind.
But not the fires. And so yesterday as the wind started picking up, The smoke started happening clear on the other side of town, and it smelt all the way over here.
Less than 12 hours later, Brown would find herself setting up a small triage center for displaced families in Stillwater. About 50 homes were lost in town. Throughout the day, people stopped by to pick up a toothbrush, shoes, an outfit, whatever they needed to start over. For NPR News, I'm Lionel Ramos.
This is NPR News in Washington. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to shore up alliances as he faces President Trump's attacks on Canada's sovereignty. At his swearing-in ceremony last week, Carney said that Canada is fundamentally a different country and will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the U.S.
Hundreds of people demonstrated outside the U.S. consulate in Greenland this weekend, showing their opposition to President Trump's desire to take over their island. They carried signs that said, Yankees go home and no means no, stop threatening us.
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