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President Trump renewed his threat to fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but
“his NPR Scott Horsey reports the administration's actions could backfire.”
After the recent death of another Mexican national in ICE detention, the country called the pattern of its citizens dying in U.S. immigration custody unacceptable. From member station KJZ, Nina Kravinsky reports from Hermosio, Mexico. Go, says at least 15 Mexican nationals have died in ICE detention, or during immigration enforcement actions since January of 2025.
The latest being a 49-year-old, who ICE says was found unresponsive at a Louisiana facility over the weekend. Mexican President Claudia Shaymbam says she's called on all Mexican consulates in the U.S. that have an ICE detention facility under their jurisdiction to increase consular visits to those facilities from weekly to daily.
We're going to do everything necessary to defend Mexican national Shaymbam says Mexico says it has formally asked U.S. authorities to conduct thorough investigations into each of the deaths. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky, and I'm of Moseo, Mexico. U.S. central command says that no vessels have made it through a 48-hour naval blockade
“in the straight-of-war moves, but how is this war selling across the country?”
A new focus group of swing voters observed exclusively by NPR expressed reservations about the way things are going, and PR is more Eliason has more. Well, most of the 13 voters in this was Georgia, disapprove of the President, and the war, and they set a version of this. Here's Don.
Why have you gotten us into so many things outside our borders when there's so much what do you take care of inside our own?
This sounds like a Trump ad, take care of America first.
In some sense, these voters felt a betrayal from the President. Here's Nick. I'm very anti-war, and initially I was led on to believe that he was also very anti-war, but that hasn't necessarily been played out. Now some of these voters were happy with a few aspects of the Trump administration's
policies, like getting the southern border under control. And PR's Mar Eliason reporting, President Trump told Fox Businesses this morning that the war in Iran was very close to over. The tax filing deadline from most Americans is today, President Trump's administration highlighted the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law.
The law eliminates taxes on tips and over time from millions of people, exempts interest on certain car loans and gives new deductions to some seniors.
The administration says more than 53 million filers claimed deductions under these
provisions as of yesterday. This is NPR News. The National Weather Service is advising of a very dynamic weather pattern across the Central United States and Great Lakes for cast to produce severe thunderstorms after an overnight of heavy thunderstorms in parts of Michigan that damaged property cut off power and
flooded streets continued stormy weather is forecast across the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley regions. And the East, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. are in for a heat wave. The Census Bureau has released new lists of the most common names of people in the United States, using the 2020 Census.
NPR's Hansi Lohan reports that among last names, Rodriguez has become more frequently used than Davis. Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Garcia, and Miller held onto their top seven spots from the 2010 list of the most common last names in the United States. In 2020, though, Rodriguez moved up to number 8 bumping down Davis to the ninth spot.
They're filed by Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez, Gonzalez, Wilson, and Anderson. The Census Bureau says many of the country's most used last names have stayed the same
since the first US headcount back in 1790.
But the last names of people who identified as Latino have been on the rise since 2000. It was to the fastest-growing last names in the US where people identified as Asian, including Zhang Liu, Wang, Ahmed, and Core. As for first names, Michael Tafts, a list filed by John James David, Robert, William Mary, Maria, Daniel, and Joseph.
Hansi Lohan and Pernuys. On Wall Street at the close, the S&P 500 hit its highest-ever gaining 55 points. The S&P 500 ended the day at 7,022 points. I'm Louise Skivone, NPR News, Washington We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twist-ending of a movie or they tell you who dies at the end.
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