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is planning to give ICE officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks to people
they're arresting. As NPR's Meg Anderson reports the no bid contract would go to the company compliant technologies, which says the device is meant to be used as a de-escalation tactic. Kenneth Corey, former New York City police officer, says use of force is like a ladder. Each run gets more intense.
If someone charges at you with a knife, more force might be warranted. He says it's how an agency uses a new tool that matters most.
“Any new piece of equipment that's being introduced, you have to have strong policies”
that governance use and then you have to make sure that your people are being held accountable. But ICE has faced intense scrutiny over its use of force, including multiple fatal shootings. Some immigrant advocates worry those guard bills won't happen at the agency.
In a statement, DHS told NPR that ICE is always assessing officer needs to ensure they
have the tools to safely make arrests. Compliant technologies declined to comment. Meg Anderson and Berenuse White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt will be departing her role at the end of the month, and an online post president Trump says it's so she can spend more time with her family.
He says she'll now be one of his top outside advisors. She recently returned from parental leave for her second child. The death toll from Monday's powerful earthquake in Colombia has risen to at least 250 as rescuers rushed to try and find anyone still alive under the rubble.
“In contrast, civilian run websites are filled with thousands of posts of missing and loved”
ones, leading to fears that the death toll will climb dramatically and PR's carry con reports. One website lists more than 4,000 missing relatives. Meanwhile, dramatic rescues of people pull the live from the rubble continue like this scene late Wednesday afternoon at the side of a collapse for story building in the Western
Colombian city of Pereira. It was broadcast live on Caracol TV. A rescue worker hears a man buried under the rubble then screams to the crowd digging through the shattered concrete. There's life.
There is life. Cali Colombia's mayor where dozens of buildings collapse has rescued teams continue to find signs of people alive as crews rush to save them. Caracol and PR news, Rio de Janeiro.
“Lawyers for the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk say he shouldn't be eligible for”
the death penalty because the shooter hit the quote "intended target" during the event attended by thousands last year in Utah. Tyler Robinson's attorneys say prosecutors have not proven that others who attended the event at Utah Valley University were in danger by the shooting. That's a potentially aggravating factor under state law that would make it a capital crime.
Wall Street finishes shy of its records today, you're listening to NPR news from Washington. Severe storms struck the Midwest today causing tornadoes heavy rains and flash flooding. First responders have been working to clear roads and restore power around 500,000 ratepayers are without power in Illinois and Indiana or Ohio and Kentucky. The France, Italy and Spain, some 92 million people are sweltering in temperatures exceeding
95 degrees Fahrenheit in cities largely without air conditioning, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. Some 300 million people, more than half Europe's population, will see intense temperatures this week. The latest blast of extreme heat comes just a week after France and Spain faced some of the
worst wildfires they've ever dealt with. The fires were brought on by the heat and intense drought which has led to water restrictions
across nearly 70% of French territory, French officials spoke of a historic and critical
drought affecting the country's rivers and also nuclear capacity. Europe is warming twice as fast as any other continent due to atmospheric and oceanic currents and the fact that it borders the Arctic where glaciers are melting to leave their land that absorbs instead of reflecting sunlight, Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris.
A giant replica of the legendary Hoosier cabinet has been unveiled in a northern Indiana town celebrating its 150th anniversary, Hoosier cabinets were popular in the 1890s through 1930s, their free-standing kitchen workstations and storage areas that centralized and sped up food preparation at home, Hoosier cabinets waned after World War II as built-in cabinetry became the norm, this is NPR.
The working class, it's a term politician to throw around a lot these days but do we know what it actually means? Midterm elections are coming up and on it's been a minute, we discuss who these candidates are really talking about. Watch the full it's been a minute episode on YouTube or listen in the NPR app or wherever
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