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>> Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Mexico will request criminal charges from U.S. prosecutors relating to the deaths of its citizens

in the U.S. two days after ICE agents fatally shot a Mexican national in Houston.

From Member Station KJZZ, Nina Kravinsky has more from Air Maso, Mexico. Mexican Foreign Minister Robert Delasco says his country will take additional steps to protect Mexican nationals in the U.S. for mistreatment, more than a year after the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement efforts. Velasco says 14 Mexican nationals have died in immigration custody since the beginning

of President Trump's term, and three more have died during immigration enforcement actions.

>> We're going to move on from the diplomatic sphere and go directly before prosecutors

Velasco says, adding Mexico will also file civil lawsuits against companies that operate immigration detention facilities.

For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky and Air Maso, Mexico.

The investigation continues into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who died while celebrating the 4th of July on an island of the Mississippi Coast. His body was found three days later. The Wells family has brought on prominent civil rights attorney Ben Krump into the case,

at least Greg of Mississippi Public Broadcasting and Gulf States Newsroom has more.

Trump's office has ordered an independent autopsy. On the Don Laman show this week, he said results would be ready on Friday. In the meantime, findings from the state's autopsy are pending.

Public safety commissioner Sean Tindall says they're waiting until all the reports are run

to release any information, including cause of death. The multi-pox technology reports are complete, will be processed and decoreshen provided to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. As impure as Bobby Allen reports, the investment bank is the latest to warn staff about abusing confidential information. Production markets offer betting on many topics involving finance, whether it's a company's quarterly earnings,

or what an analyst will say on an investor call or when a company will introduce a new service. The new rule from Goldman Sachs prohibits employees from placing bets on future outcomes related to finance, corporate America, elections, or geopolitics, it does allow for employees to wage her on sports and entertainment. Billions of dollars are traded every week on production market sites, which are largely unregulated. Despite the new rule Goldman Sachs' CEO David Solomon said earlier this year that production markets were "super-interesting,"

and that he had met with production market executives over possible partnerships, Bobby Allen and PR news. US Futures Contracts are trading lower at this hour, you're listening to NBR News from Washington. In men's World Cup soccer, France, Beat, Morocco, Tunil, today reaching the semi-finals, and France plays the winner of the match between Spain and Belgium that takes place tomorrow. To 15-year-olds were detained by police in California after the Wemo, Robo Taxi they were writing in, recorded them allegedly drinking alcohol and firing guns,

which were later identified as toys. And Pierre Scott Newman reports privacy experts say the incident raises ethical concerns. Police in San Mateo posted on Facebook Monday that they had apprehended the teenagers after being alerted by Wemo, which had disabled their vehicle. Arena Raeku is director of the Internet Ethics Program at Santa Clara University. She says there should be some kind of notice to passengers that cameras in autonomous taxis are monitoring them. We don't see them. They're not these obvious things being stuck in our faces.

A spokesperson for the San Mateo Police says it was wholly appropriate to detain the teens who were later released to their parents. Scott Newman and PR news. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits stiff slightly last week as layoffs in the U.S. remain historically low. The Labor Department says jobless claims were down by 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted to 115,000. And mortgage costs are rising, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the rate on an average 30-year note rose to nearly six and a half percent last week.

I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR news from Washington. President Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is over. This week on Consider This, a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat shares his thoughts on what could happen next. The rulers in Tehran clearly believe they have a stronger will than the United States. I don't think there are any good options. That's this week on Consider This. You can get the full story behind the headlines every afternoon, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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