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What is the Trump administration’s new deportation campaign targeting Illinois?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The Trump administration ex is expanding its deportation campaign. WBEZ Alex Degman has details on the Department of Homeland Securities Operation Midway Blitz.
The effort is targeting Chicago, some of its suburbs, and Illinois at large over policies that protect residents without legal status. Daniel Biss is the mayor of Evanston, a sanctuary city that borders Chicago.
Frightened. They need to know that Evanston Police Department is not going to be participating, and Evanston Police officers can be trusted. DHS says the deportation effort honors twenty year old Katie Abraham, who was killed by a Guatemalan immigrant without legal status in a hit and run car crash earlier this year. For NPR News, I'm Alex Dagman in Springfield, Illinois.
Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration's use of federal troops for immigration raids in California. A US House panel has released documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, including a copy of a book of tributes prepared for the late sex offender's fiftieth birthday. The book compiled by imprisoned Epstein accomplice Glenn Maxwell
How is President Trump linking religion to American strength and school prayer?
is among a set of records being made public by the oversight committee. It contains a salacious note allegedly signed by President Trump who says it is not his handwriting. President Trump is suggesting that America needs more religion, tying national strength to religious faith. Trump says there is a strong anti Christian bias in the US that his administration will soon end. Speaking at the Muslim the Museum of the Bible Monday, the president also said there will be new guidance on prayer in school.
For most of our country's history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today students are instead indoctrinated with anti religious propaganda and Some are even punished for their religious beliefs.
A nineteen sixty two Supreme Court ruling outlawed mandatory prayer in public schools. Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced new security measures in wake of a fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a light rail train. Remember station W A F E Nick Delacanal has more.
The stabbing took place August 22nd, but has gained national attention after the release of surveillance video.
What happened in the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light‑rail and how is the city responding?
It shows 23-year-old Arina Zarutska boarding a train and watching her phone as the attacker, seated behind her, suddenly stands up and stabs her from behind. Police have charged a 34-year-old man with a long criminal record. Mayor Vylials is calling the attack, quote, a tragic failure by the courts, and says the city will hire more security. Step up fair enforcement and increase police patrols. The case has become a political flashpoint, with some Republicans and the White House blaming Democrats and city leaders. For NPR News on McDella Canal in Charlotte.
You're listening to NPR. North Korea says it has carried out its final ground test of a solid fuel rocket engine that's designed for a long range ballistic missile. It would be the ninth such test coming a week after the North's leader Kim Jong un visited a research institute that developed the engine. A spokesperson for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says officials in Seoul and in Washington are closely monitoring North Korea's weapons developments. Rick Davies, the singer and founder of the British rock band Supertramp, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 81 years old.
Why is North Korea conducting its final solid‑fuel rocket test and what does it mean for global security?
NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has this appreciation.
In 1969, working-class pianist Rick Davis took out an ad in a magazine looking for bandmates. He heard back from a posh teenager named Roger Hodgson. Together, they formed Supertramp, which carved its own middle ground between progressive rock and pop. In 1979, the band struck gold with the album Breakfast in America. It landed three singles in Billboard's top 100, including Goodbye Stranger.
We have enjoyed mistakes. But it must be moving on.
It brilliantly contrasted Davis' jaded baritone against Hodgson's vibrant falsetto. Though the two co-founders parted ways in the nineteen eighties, Rick Davis continued playing with iterations of Supertramp on and off for decades to come.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the Trump administration’s new deportation campaign targeting Illinois?
0:01–1:19
2
How is President Trump linking religion to American strength and school prayer?
1:19–2:25
3
What happened in the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light‑rail and how is the city responding?
2:25–3:35
4
Why is North Korea conducting its final solid‑fuel rocket test and what does it mean for global security?
3:35–4:30
5
Who was Rick Davis and what legacy did he leave with Supertramp?
4:30–4:39