NPR News: 10-18-2025 4PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Massive crowds are taking to the streets in cities across the nation today to protest the policies of the Trump administration. The No Kings demonstrations taking place in the greater Cleveland area include the suburbs that President Trump won in 2024. Connor Morris from IdeaStream Public Media has more from Parma outside Cleveland.
Hundreds lined the streets of Ridgewood Drive in suburban Parma, which went to Trump in each of the last three elections. Protester and local resident Holly Fondale says she thinks people are fed up with federal cuts and high prices of groceries.
There's a difference this time. This is affecting a lot of people. A lot of people are going to lose their health insurance. They're not going to be able to afford it. The cost of living is ridiculous.
Several miles away, organizers estimated 3,500 people showed up to a No Kings protest in suburban Strongsville, where the majority of voters also chose Trump in the last election. More than two dozen protests took place in northeast and north-central Ohio Saturday.
What protests are occurring against the Trump administration?
For NPR News, I'm Connor Morris in Cleveland.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says he expects the state will be granted National Guard assistance by the Trump administration. Brooke Thorrington from member station WRKF reports troops could be in place by Thanksgiving.
Governor Jeff Landry made the announcement in an interview with Louisiana First News. The Republican says he wants to help offset a shortage of police officers in cities like New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
And then also use them in other cities that seem to have a very violent crime rate.
Landry's comments come as Democratic governors in Oregon and Illinois continue to fight National Guard deployment. Local officials in New Orleans have argued against the idea, citing a declining crime rate. Landry says he saw the value the Guard provided following the New Year's Day truck attack in the French Quarter. For NPR News, I'm Brooke Thornton in Baton Rouge.
Federal prosecutors in California are charging a labor leader with a misdemeanor in connection with actions near an immigration raid in the state. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports.
Federal authorities detained David Huerta for days after a June immigration raid and ultimately charged him with a felony for resisting law enforcement. Now they've pared down that charge down to a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum of one year in jail. Huerta's attorneys say he's being singled out for being an advocate for workers and an outspoken critic of President Trump's immigration policies. They argue the Justice Department is weaponizing against Trump opponents to try to silence them. In recent weeks, grand juries in California have declined to charge some people accused of resisting immigration officers. Carrie Johnson, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. The toxic metal lead was affecting human ancestors as far back as 2 million years ago. NPR's Nell Greenfield Boyce reports on a new study that examined dozens of preserved teeth.
The fossil teeth show that Neanderthals and other ancient relatives got exposed to a lot of lead from the environment. And Allison Miotry of the University of California, San Diego, thinks this could have affected human evolution. He studies brain development genes, including one gene that's slightly different in Homo sapiens compared to Neanderthals.
The question was why we, modern humans, acquired that mutation. There must be a strong selective pressure.
In the journal Science Advances, he and some colleagues say that pressure could have come from lead. Lab tests show that brain cells with the human version of the gene had some protection against lead, while brain cells with the Neanderthal version didn't. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
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