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What new military initiatives did President Trump announce?
President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S. The president made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most Lethal surface warfare ships.
The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly two dozen. The president says they will be Trump-class ships.
The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic person. alongside our partners in American industry. And we're going to have Pete Hegseth and Marco and a lot of very talented people involved.
It's part of a strategy, the president says, to create a, quote, golden fleet. More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status since President Trump took office. This is the largest effort to make migrants deportable despite using legal pathways. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
Immigration rights advocates say this figure, 1.6 million people, is likely an undercount, but it includes people who came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole, temporary protected status and visas. Todd Schulte is the president of Forward.us, an immigration advocacy organization.
These were like legal pathways. People like did the thing the government asked them to do. And this government went and is kind of preemptively trying to revoke that status.
The Trump administration has said it has done more to limit legal and illegal immigration than any other administration. It has said it will continue its aggressive effort to crack down on immigration in 2026. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.
The Palestinian Authority says more than 460 Palestinian structures and buildings have been demolished by Israel and the Jerusalem governorate this year. NPR's Hadil al-Shashi has details.
The most recent demolition of a residential building in East Jerusalem has left about 100 Palestinians homeless, according to the Palestinian Authority. The Authority's Ministry of Jerusalem says there's been a sharp uptick in these demolitions, calling them forced displacement. It says they are part of a policy to change Jerusalem's demographic to support Jewish settlement expansion. Israeli authorities say that the homes are, quote, illegal due to a lack of Israeli-issued permits. Rights groups say the Israeli planning and permit system is discriminatory because they limit where and how Palestinians can build in East Jerusalem. Hadil Al-Shalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S., Because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away, the recall includes some F-150 Lightnings, Mustang Mach-Es, and Mavericks. Wall Street, the Dow closed up 227. This is NPR News in Washington. Attorney General Pam Bondi is announcing a Second Amendment-based lawsuit against the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, arguing that its ban on AR-15s and many other firearms is unconstitutional. Bondi declared that living in the nation's capital should not preclude a citizen's Second Amendment right to own the assault-style weapon. The American College Theater Festival is suspending its 58-year relationship with the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The National Theater Program, featuring thousands of students, plans to skip the Kennedy Center next spring. Jeff London explains.
In a Facebook post, the National Board of the American College Theatre Festival writes, "...unfortunately our affiliation with the Kennedy Center is no longer viable due to circumstances and decisions that do not align with our organization's values."
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