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Iran ceasefire “OVER”: President Trump said Wednesday that he believed the ceasefire with Iran was over, after the U.S. and Iran traded strikes in the region. The stunning turnaround came just three weeks after Trump celebrated the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran to help end the war he and Israel started. More back-and-forth attacks followed. On Friday, Trump said on social media that talks with Iran would continue, but reiterated that the ceasefire is “OVER.”
Trump dismisses election watchers: Voting rights advocates are sounding alarms after President Trump relieved the remaining members of the bipartisan U.S. Election Assistance Commission. As voting editor Ben Swasey reports, the move comes as Trump continues to try to influence elections in unprecedented ways.
This U.S. visa program is growing rapidly: But no one is happy with it. Immigration correspondent Ximena Bustillo explains why a visa program for foreign farmworkers has garnered opposition from all sides.
He sent a harsh email to ICE's top official: Five months later, federal agents tracked him down and gave him a warning notice, alleging that he had potentially violated the law. Now, he’s suing, arguing that his email was protected speech and the federal agents violated his First Amendment rights. Jude Joffe-Block breaks down the story.
Spouses of citizens face new challenges under Trump: The Trump administration's sweeping effort to slow down the rate of legal migration has affected a group traditionally immune from such efforts: spouses of U.S. citizens. Some have been separated from their American loved ones and are afraid to engage with the U.S. immigration system, families and lawyers told NPR.
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Going Deeper: Trump's Red Scare |
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It seems that President Trump has a new favorite attack on Democrats ahead of the fall midterms: They’re bringing communism to America, and it’s the biggest threat that the country has faced since its founding.
As White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez reports, invoking communism is not a totally new tactic for this president, and it’s a strategy that was effective in U.S. politics for decades. But it’s not clear how much it will resonate with today’s voters.
Read more on Trump’s latest messaging push, and why one professor of political messaging says the president is trying to create “a new boogeyman” amid falling poll numbers. |
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The Shot: The Long Road To Reconciliation |
Lynne Jackson is the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, a Black man who sued for his freedom in 1857.
Charlie Taney is the great-great-grandnephew of Roger Taney, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who wrote the decision denying Scott his freedom – and declaring that Black Americans could never be citizens of the United States.
The two first met about a decade ago, and in 2017, Taney publicly apologized to Jackson for the “odious” legal ruling. They've since appeared together more than a dozen times to talk about the process of reconciliation and healing.
They met again last week at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., just steps away from the Supreme Court, at a time when the country and the court are once again considering the role race plays in the law and what it means to be an American.
NPR's Carrie Johnson brings us their story. |
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