What recent immigration actions occurred in Charlotte, North Carolina?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. In North Carolina, Charlotte's mayor and local police say federal agents are leaving the city today after a week of sweeping arrests in immigrant-heavy areas. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has not confirmed the crackdown has ended. From Eversation WFAE, Eli Portillo reports.
Mayor Vi Lyle said in a statement Thursday it appears Border Patrol's operation has ended. The County Sheriff and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed agents are leaving. Masked agents driving unmarked SUVs arrested more than 370 people against the wishes of Charlotte's leaders.
Border Patrol has said it was focusing on those in the country illegally but has not offered detailed charges against them and has only named a handful of those detained. Federal officials have not answered questions about where they've taken them. For NPR News, I'm Eli Portillo in Charlotte. September's jobs report is out following a nearly seven-week delay because of the government shutdown.
The Labor Department says the economy gained 119,000 jobs that month. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4%. Now that President Trump has signed the bill that directs the Department of Justice to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein, there's renewed focus on the documents that already have been released and what they say about the president.
In thousands of pages that are now public, other powerful people were revealed to keep close ties to Epstein even after he became a registered sex offender. NPR's Stephen Fowler has more. Trump is mentioned quite frequently in these documents.
Epstein appeared obsessed with Trump and his presidency and trying to tell powerful people that he was this sort of Trump whisperer because of their one-time friendship.
But plenty of high-profile Democrats have been in varying degrees of Epstein's orbit, and Trump is directing the Justice Department to investigate links between Democrats like former President Bill Clinton, Summers, and mega-donor Reid Hoffman. NPR's Stephen Fowler reporting. The group Human Rights Watch has released a new report.
It says that the Israeli military's emptying of refugee camps in the occupied West Bank amounts to crimes against humanity. NPR's Kat Lonsdorff reports this comes as Israel's extended military operation in the territory has been going on for nearly a year.
In January, Israeli forces moved into several densely populated areas in the northern West Bank, forcibly displacing more than 30,000 Palestinians, according to the UN. Those people have not been allowed to return to their homes since, which in many cases have been demolished by the Israeli military. Israel says the operation is necessary for its security.
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