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What is the escalating conflict between President Trump and Chicago about?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Tensions are mounting in Chicago as President Trump ramps up his threats to send the National Guard and immigration officials into the city. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports state and local lawmakers are strongly pushing back amid widespread protests across the
The city this weekend. Trump says the National Guard would be deployed to fight crime in the city, which he has called a hellhole, even though police data shows violent crime is down in recent years. Protesters filled the streets of downtown Saturday evening, marching by Trump Tower, carrying signs and banners against troops coming in. Both Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker are strongly against the plan, too. In a post on social media, Pritzker wrote, quote, the president of
How did President Trump respond to press questions on his Chicago National Guard threat?
The United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Johnson posted that Trump wants to quote occupy our city and break our constitution and urge Chicago residents to protect each other.
President Trump was questioned by members of the press today about whether he was threatening war with Chicago. He told reporters that his administration is not going to war. He says the goal is to clean up the nation's cities, adding, quote, that's not war, but common sense. The Prime Minister of Japan says he's planning to resign from office. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that he wants to avoid division with the ruling LDP, the Liberal Democratic Party.
Why is Japan’s Prime Minister planning to resign and what does it mean for the LDP?
Prime Minister Ishiba had been under mounting pressure to resign to take responsibility for his party's defeat in parliamentary elections this year. Japanese voters, fed up with inflation and LDP corruption, led to the party losing its majority in both houses of parliament for the first time since the party was established in nineteen fifty five. Voters' dissatisfaction with a political establishment is also evident in the rise of Sansa. An opposition party espousing nationalist anti immigrant views. Ishiba is one of eight of the past ten Japanese prime ministers who have only served for about a year, and his resignation may spur anxiety about political instability. Anthony Kune in PR News Soul.
A Russian missile strike has damaged the main government building in the Ukrainian capital for the first time since the war broke out more than two years ago. The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia launched more than eight hundred missiles and drones, at least eleven people were killed and dozens of others were injured, the BBC Sarah Rainsford reports.
The fact that a government building was hit, you know, we don't believe there are any casualties, at least not so far as we know yet, but it is symbolic.
What impact did the recent Russian missile strike have on Ukraine’s government building?
You know, an attack, a strike right on the heart of government in Kiev does matter because it shows that Russia can get through it, can make it through the air defences.
The BBC Sarah Rainsford reporting. This is NPR News in Washington. The office of former President Joe Biden has announced that his presidential library will be built in his home state of Delaware. The library is expected to highlight Biden's decades of public service and civic leadership. He served in the U.S. Senate for more than 30 years. The discovery of a 400-year-old miniature may have solved a mystery about some of William Shakespeare's best known poetry. Vicky Barker reports from London.
Why were nearly 900 protesters arrested outside the UK Parliament and what were they demanding?
The miniature shows an androgynous young man, glorious copper colored ringlets cascading over his shoulder. It turned up in the collection of a family linked to the gorgeous Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's friend and patron, and it's long been speculated possibly the fair youth of Shakespeare's sonnets. What's got scholars excited is the reverse of the portrait where a red heart was stricken out by a black spear shaped figure. Shakespeare famously incorporated a spear into his family crest, a visual pun on his name, the theory Southampton may have gifted the miniature to Shakespeare, who later returned it when the romance turned sour.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the escalating conflict between President Trump and Chicago about?
0:01–0:48
2
How did President Trump respond to press questions on his Chicago National Guard threat?
0:48–1:34
3
Why is Japan’s Prime Minister planning to resign and what does it mean for the LDP?
1:34–2:43
4
What impact did the recent Russian missile strike have on Ukraine’s government building?
2:43–3:27
5
Why were nearly 900 protesters arrested outside the UK Parliament and what were they demanding?
3:27–4:38