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What new immigration subpoenas are landlords being asked to obey?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Immigration authorities are defending a new tactic they're reportedly using to locate people living in the country illegally. The Associated Press says landlords are receiving subpoenas from the Trump administration for information about their tenants. But question if they're legally required to comply, MPR's Tobia Smith reports.
Landlords are getting written demands to share leases, tenants forwarding addresses and ID cards from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Anti Fraud Unit, according to the AP. But the subpoenas are not signed by a judge. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Trisha McLaughlin declined to comment on whether or how many subpoenas are being sent to landlords, saying in a statement to NPR that DHS would not comment on its tactics. But she added, subpoenas don't need to be signed by a judge to be binding.
How is the Trump administration structuring the Indonesia trade tariff deal?
Failure to comply with an ICE issued administrative subpoena, she said. May result in serious legal penalties. Tovia Smith, NPR News.
President Trump says the United States has no plans to pay tariffs in a trade deal with Indonesia. But NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports Indonesia will pay almost twenty percent.
Just a week after threatening a thirty two percent tariff on the Southeast Asian country, president Trump announced that he's reached a quote great deal with Indonesia.
They are going to pay nineteen percent. And we are going to pay nothing.
Speaking ahead of his trip to Pittsburgh for an energy and AI event, Trump would not go into deeper specifics of the Indonesia deal.
What impact will the recent tax‑cut bill have on U.S. electricity prices?
But said the US would have access to Indonesian copper and other resources. Indonesia is a leading exporter of copper ore. Trump also teased that his team is close to reaching a similar deal with India. Franco Ordoniaz and Pierre News, the White House.
The massive tax cut and spending bill that President Trump signed into law this month ends tax incentives for wind and solar projects. That's expected to drive up electricity bills across the US with some of the sharpest increases in Republican led states, MPR's Michael Copley reports.
Without tax incentives, the cost of wind and solar projects will go up, and the country will likely use more natural gas to generate electricity, pushing up power prices nationwide by at least 9% over the next decade, according to Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan think tank. The increase could be much higher in Republican-led states that don't encourage renewable energy projects, which are often cheaper to run than gas plants. Energy Innovation says power bills will likely increase.
Why is poet Andrea Gibson’s death significant to the literary community?
increase by between sixty and three hundred and fifty percent in Oklahoma by twenty thirty five. A White House spokesperson, Taylor Rogers, said in a statement to NPR that President Trump is taking steps to boost U. S. energy production. Michael Copley, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson has died. She was a queer poet who was considered a rock star at poetry slams. They were forty nine, and PR's Elizabeth Blair has this appreciation.
How did the SpaceX AX4 crew’s splashdown and experiments unfold?
Andrea Gibson's poetry takes on dark subjects with both urgency and humor. The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down 13 turnips a day, I would be grounded, rooted, so my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives. Gibson grew up in rural Maine, went to college on a basketball scholarship, and discovered writing in college. They moved to Colorado and gained a following at local poetry slams. Gibson was diagnosed with ovarian cancer four years ago. One of their fans, comedian Tig Nataro, paid tribute to Gibson on social media, writing, So many of Andrea's words have quietly guided me through life's twists and turns. Elizabeth Blair, NPR
News.
What are the key takeaways from today’s NPR news roundup?
Four astronauts traveling in a SpaceX capsule splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California today. And we have splashdown of the AX4 crew back on planet Earth.
Welcome home.
Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson and other astronauts from Hungary, India, and Poland conducted experiments at the International Space Station for the last several weeks.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new immigration subpoenas are landlords being asked to obey?
0:00–0:58
2
How is the Trump administration structuring the Indonesia trade tariff deal?
0:58–1:40
3
What impact will the recent tax‑cut bill have on U.S. electricity prices?
1:40–2:41
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Why is poet Andrea Gibson’s death significant to the literary community?
2:41–3:14
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How did the SpaceX AX4 crew’s splashdown and experiments unfold?
3:14–3:54
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What are the key takeaways from today’s NPR news roundup?
3:54–4:38