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Why is the Department of Homeland Security planning to use military bases to detain migrants?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. NPR has learned the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to use military bases to detain migrants who've entered the country illegally. NPR's Tom Bowman reports.
The bases include the National Guard's Camp Atterbury, Indiana, and also the active duty Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. And both locations will be used for temporary housing for those who have connections to transnational criminal organizations or criminal drug activity. Now, the military airfield at the New Jersey location will be used for, I'm told, removal operations. I'm told the Pentagon will allow up to two contracted commercial flights by ICE at a time.
ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is also planning to increase the number of migrants detained at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.
What led a federal appeals court to overturn Pedro Hernandez’s conviction in the Eitan Pates case?
A development today in the case of a missing boy that captured attention in the U.S. for decades. A federal appeals court threw out the conviction of Pedro Hernandez in the killing of six-year-old Eitan Pates in New York City. NPR's Brian Mann reports.
Eitan Pates vanished near his school bus stop in 1979. His face and story were among the first missing children in the US to be featured nationwide on milk cartons, sparking fear among parents about child safety. His body was never found, but in 2017, a jury convicted Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega worker of murder in the case, But a panel of federal judges has now ruled that jurors in that trial were given improper instructions about how to weigh the validity of a series of confessions given by Hernandez after hours of interrogation, during which time he was given medications for mental illness. Hernandez will now be set free unless Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin Bragg, chooses to try him again.
What new information might be revealed by the thousands of documents released about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination?
Brian Mann, NPR News, New York.
The National Archives has published thousands of documents related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., As NPR's Elena Moore reports, it's in response to an executive order signed by President Trump to release and declassify records connected to King's murder.
It's not immediately clear what new information related to King's assassination will be found in these documents. But Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says more than 230,000 files are being released. She says that it includes details about the FBI's investigation and James Earl Ray, who was convicted of murdering King. In response, King's family argued that the documents should be viewed within their full historical context, saying that during King's lifetime, he was targeted by federal law enforcement in what his family called a, quote, invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign. Elena Moore, NPR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR
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How did actor Malcolm Jamal Warner die and what were his most notable career achievements?
Actor Malcolm Jamal Warner has died at the age of 54. Officials in Costa Rica confirm he was on a family vacation and drowned while swimming yesterday. Warner was best known for his role in the 80s and 90s as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. He played the only brother to four sisters and shaped his character with memorable comedic timing. He was nominated for an Emmy. He also starred in the sitcom Malcolm and Eddie and on Read Between the Lines. Outside of acting, Malcolm Jamal Warner won a Grammy in 2015 and recently launched a podcast, Not All Hood. A federal judge in Boston is reviewing arguments made today by lawyers for Harvard and the government. At issue is more than $2 billion in research grants and contracts frozen by the Trump administration.
What does recent research show about dogs’ reactions to television and what does it reveal about their personalities?
A new study on dogs takes a look at their TV-watching behavior. NPR's Nate Roth reports the research says a dog's reaction to a TV can say something about their personality.
We all know that all dogs go to heaven, but not all dogs watch TV. The new study in the journal Scientific Reports focuses on dogs that do, surveying 650 dog owners to see what kinds of on-screen visuals and noises dogs reacted to. Jeff Katz, the study's co-author and a professor of psychological sciences at Auburn University, says they found energetic dogs reacted more to other animals.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why is the Department of Homeland Security planning to use military bases to detain migrants?
0:01–0:57
2
What led a federal appeals court to overturn Pedro Hernandez’s conviction in the Eitan Pates case?
0:57–1:54
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What new information might be revealed by the thousands of documents released about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination?
1:54–3:00
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How did actor Malcolm Jamal Warner die and what were his most notable career achievements?
3:00–3:46
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What does recent research show about dogs’ reactions to television and what does it reveal about their personalities?
3:46–4:40