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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia had a check-in with immigration officials in Baltimore this morning after a federal judge ordered him released from ICE detention yesterday. And he addressed a crowd of supporters gathered outside the courthouse in Spanish. He's heard here through an interpreter.
Regardless of this administration, I believe this is a country of laws, and I believe that this injustice will come to its end.
This morning, U.S. District Judge Paula Zinnes of Maryland, who ordered his release yesterday, issued a temporary restraining order to prevent his re-detention. Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, spending months in a notorious prison there and then returned to the U.S., is fighting deportation. The 22-year-old man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Cook in Utah in September has made his first in-person court appearance. Martha Harris with member station KUER has more from Provo.
Tyler Robinson's family sat in the front row of the gallery. His mother wiped away tears as he was brought in court in handcuffs. The hearing dealt with the ongoing fight about public and media access in this high-profile case. Attorneys for news organizations are asking to be able to argue against any future restrictions to access. Defense attorney Stacey Visser said she had concerns about giving the media that status.
We don't want the chaos that is out in the media in this courtroom.
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The defense also wants to ban cameras entirely in the courtroom. For NPR News, I'm Martha Harris in Provo, Utah.
President Trump talked this week about a booming economy with even better times ahead. But a wide swath of Americans aren't feeling that optimism yet. As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, Trump's insistence that the economy is excellent is making it hard for him to sell his vision.
In Pennsylvania this week, Trump attempted to connect with Americans worried about affordability. But he couldn't resist venting his anger at Democrats who won in November's elections by focusing on the cost of living.
You know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they look at the camera and they say, this election is all about affordability.
By some metrics, like gas prices and real wages, the economy isn't doing badly. But amid elevated inflation, boosted by tariffs, polls show Americans feeling bleak. Nevertheless, Trump continues to give himself top marks, telling Politico this week that he gives his economy a grade of A+++++. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
Less than a half an hour to go to the opening bell on Wall Street, and U.S. futures contracts are trading in mixed territory. Dow futures are up about two-tenths of a percent. NASDAQ futures are down nearly four-tenths of a percent. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In Italy, a nationwide strike by the country's biggest trade union protesting the government's budget plans is mainly disrupting rail transportation on both long-distance and regional trains, along with causing schools to cancel classes. Today's protests target the 2026 budget bill proposed by conservative government of Premier Giorgia Maloney. It comes just two weeks after another general strike that was organized by smaller trade unions with the same goals.
The story of Rockalina, the neglected eastern box turtle, has a new character. She was rescued earlier this year from a New York home where she'd spent the last half century living on a kitchen floor, mostly eating cat food. And Pearsalina Hartunian has more.
Oh my God. She's literally nose to nose.
Chris Leone of Garden State Tortoise in New Jersey said Rockalina's meeting with the hatchling was a milestone. It was the first time she's interacted with her own kind so closely since she was taken from the wild in the 1970s.
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