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What are ICE’s plans for mobile detention facilities and how many people have been arrested?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. ICE arrested about a hundred thousand people over the last two months. Now as NPR's jasmine garst reports, ICE plans to create mobile detention facilities.
ICE has been expanding its detention capacity for a while. Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, signed construction contracts worth over seven billion dollars to expand immigration detention in New York, Texas, Arizona, Florida, and California. It also announced that it will expand in Colorado, Washington State, and Pennsylvania. The paperwork for expansion in Pennsylvania includes a mention of quote mobile detention facilities which would follow officers around as they make arrests. The only description, a clause that female detainees cannot be held inside those units for over ten hours. NPR reached out to ICE for details and received no response. Jasmine Garzed, NPR News, New York.
Why are Maine Democrats demanding answers from Senator Susan Collins about a federal investigation?
Maine Democrats are calling for Republican Senator Susan Collins to account for a report that alleged she was the target of a federal investigation over campaign contributions. Collins calls the claims completely false. ProPublica reported that the FBI in twenty twenty four planned to investigate Collins' dealings with a defense contractor and donor to her campaign.
About this is Martin Cow, the CEO of Navatech, made illegal campaign contributions, both to Sunder Collins' campaign and also to her super PAC. And he got caught. And he was arrested and he pled guilty. And then he started talking to the FBI and he said It takes two to tangle. He said, you know, this was a a deal that was struck. This wasn't just me making illegal donations. This was a larger scheme. And the FBI looked into it and they compiled emails, company records, uh, documents from the Navy, contracting documents, and were able to piece together that a lot of what Martin Cow was saying, or at least some of it, checked out.
That's Avi Asher Shapiro from ProPublica. A poll finds voters have a sour view of President Trump and Republicans.
What does the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour poll reveal about voter sentiment toward Trump and the Republican Party?
NPR's Steven Fowler reports respondents said they'd back Democrats for Congress by a twelve point margin.
The latest NPR PBS News Marist poll shows deep dissatisfaction with President Trump and the Republican Party. Republicans have also lost their advantage on several key issues in the eyes of voters, like gas prices, the economy, foreign policy, even immigration. The poll also suggests Democrats have a notable edge in voter enthusiasm and support from independents as a building wave of backlash to the party in power comes into focus. These voters say they're more likely to pick a Democratic congressional candidate, fifty-three to forty-one percent. That swing from Trump's narrow popular vote victory in twenty twenty four shows why reliably red states like Ohio, Texas, and Iowa now have competitive House and Senate races.
Stephen Power, NPR News. This is NPR.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia's first wartime parliamentary election was a sign of public support for his policies. Election officials say the main Kremlin party, United Russia, will get a record more than three fourths of the seats in the State Duma. The tightly orchestrated vote excluded virtually any genuine opposition. Putin said the vote quote shows that the people of Russia support our efforts.
How did President Vladimir Putin describe Russia’s wartime parliamentary election and its results?
Harvey Weinstein's New York sex crimes case came to a close this morning when the former movie mogul was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, NPR's Chloe Weiner reports.
Harvey Weinstein was first convicted of sex crimes in New York in 2020 and sentenced to twenty-three years in prison. But that was thrown out. Prosecutors have since brought him back to court multiple times. Last year Weinstein was found guilty of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley in two thousand six when she was a production assistant. The fifteen year sentence is from that conviction. Weinstein was found not guilty on another charge, and two separate juries in New York have been unable to reach a verdict on a charge of rape.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are ICE’s plans for mobile detention facilities and how many people have been arrested?
0:00–0:59
2
Why are Maine Democrats demanding answers from Senator Susan Collins about a federal investigation?
0:59–2:07
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What does the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour poll reveal about voter sentiment toward Trump and the Republican Party?
2:07–3:23
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How did President Vladimir Putin describe Russia’s wartime parliamentary election and its results?
3:23–4:09
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What were the key outcomes of Harvey Weinstein’s recent New York sentencing and related convictions?
4:09–4:55
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How might the FDA panel’s endorsement of Grail’s blood‑based cancer test change early detection and insurance coverage?
4:55–5:03