Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. Border Patrol agents began making arrests this weekend in the city's immigrant corridors, as Nick DeLaCanal of member station WFAE reports.
Agents were filmed smashing a man's car window and pulling him from a vehicle in South Charlotte. On the city's east side, restaurants locked their doors as agents chased a man into a laundromat and tackled an employee at a nearby car repair shop. The shop's owner, who didn't want her name used for fear of retribution, said the man was her lead mechanic.
The business depends on the client and workers. If my workers are taken... I can't. I got to close my business.
Just blocks away, a woman filmed agents who stopped her landscaping crew as they were putting up Christmas lights, then let them go after questioning. For NPR News, I'm Nick Delacanel in Charlotte.
The Homeland Security Department says the surge is aimed at ensuring public safety, but Charlotte's Democratic mayor says it's causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty. The surge drew several hundred protesters to a city park, but there have been no major clashes. President Trump is cutting ties with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The president made a series of social media posts announcing his withdrawal and his support of the Georgia Republican. NPR's Ava Pukach reports that Greene is hitting back and says she suspects a rift came from her support for the release of the Epstein files.
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Chapter 2: What recent immigration actions have occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina?
In his post, Trump called for conservatives to primary Greene, saying, quote, If the right person runs, they will have my complete and unyielding support. Greene said in a post of her own that she had sent the president a text regarding the Epstein files, which she said, quote, sent him over the edge.
She said Trump is trying to make an example of her to scare other Republicans ahead of the House's vote to force the release of the Epstein files. Greene has been a longtime Trump ally and prominent MAGA figure, but she's been at odds with the president, notably in calling for the Justice Department to release the files about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Ava Pukach, NPR News, Washington.
The rains have now eased, but Southern California remains on alert for the potential for high water and mud and rock slides from that atmospheric river storm. Tim Maurice lives in the Naples neighborhood of Long Beach, where kayakers paddle the streets.
The water just started coming up really fast, and it's up past the sidewalk now and almost by Put some sandbags around the house, almost in the house.
It's a little scary. The storm dumped up to six inches of rain on Saturday, flooding highways. And according to the Los Angeles Times, there have been mudslides, but no major property damage in the vulnerable Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, which were scarred by those wildfires back in January. And you're listening to NPR News.
President Trump has issued two pardons linked to the investigation into the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. One is for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol.
Trump issued the second pardon for a January 6th defendant who had remained behind bars, despite the president's clemency grant issued when he regained the White House. He'd been convicted on separate charges. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the rebel groups in the country, the M23, have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal. Michael Koloke has more.
Fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese forces has been going on for decades now under a mediation effort from the M23. Hosted by the Qatari government and backed by the United States, both sides yesterday signed the framework agreement for a peace deal in the Qatari capital, Doha.
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