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Attorney General Todd Blanche is refusing to say that he will always be independent from
President Trump.
“But he says Trump never asked him to prosecute specific people, and that he never will.”
"No, I'm not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that. The president, I mean, if I were to pledge, I will be independent of the White House. What that means is that if President Trump says I want the Department of Justice to go after every violent criminal in this country, which is what he has said, what you're
saying to me is I just say, no sir, I'm not going to do it. So I will act with integrity." Speaking there, two NBCs meet the press. The Trump administration is continuing to push a program that partners state and local law enforcement with ICE.
The program gives local police the power to enforce federal immigration laws.
A lot of details have been hard to get, but NPR's Jaclyn Diaz has more. Under the Trump administration, the 287G program has exploded. ICE has signed more than 2,300 contracts with local agencies across the country. Giving officers in those agencies various powers for immigration enforcement, like interrogating or arresting immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
Not every department in the program sees immigration enforcement as a major priority. In Florida, Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson says his office does some 287G work. But their approach is narrow. His office joined 287G last year. We're not doing immigration sweep because, quite frankly, we have day jobs here.
“We have other things that are critically important to the local people here that they expect”
to be done. But other agencies are participating in operations and making a lot of arrests. Jaclyn Diaz and PR News. In eastern Indonesia, six more bodies have been recovered after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck yesterday, bringing the death toll to at least 53.
Thousands have been displaced more than 900 homes destroyed. U.S. and Canadian trade negotiators have ramped up talks ahead of this week's tariff deadlines by the White House. Dan Carpenterchuk reports physicians appear to be hardening on key issues. Ottawa's Minister of Kennedy, U.S. trade Dominic Leblanc and his chief negotiator remained
in Washington over the weekend, signaling the intensity of the talks over the next few days. Sticking points remain. It's a ban by most provinces on American liquor products, Canada's dairy quota system, and Canadian counter tariffs on U.S. autos.
For its part, Canada wants to head off the additional 50% tariffs president Trump has threatened, which are to kick in on Wednesday. It also wants tariffs lowered or eliminated on steel and aluminum, autos and forestry products. If the talks fail, and tariffs are imposed, Canada says it will retaliate. U.S. trade representative Jamison Greer says Washington will not tolerate any retaliatory
measures, for NPR News and Dan Carpenterchuk in Toronto. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. A prayer vigil was held in Lexington, Kentucky today for teenager killed and amassed shooting the left-for-the-people injured, including two children. For member-station WUKY, Karen Zarr has more.
Charles Young Park was quiet on Sunday, the sounds of the fountains and the breeze were a start contrast to Saturday night when gunshots ran out during a community concert. God made promises to us in his wear. Ericsson and the Deacon at Liberty Baptist Church led prayer near the spot where his 16-year-old cousin, Desan Robertson, was fatally shot.
A sweet young man would do anything for anybody. A sweetness that was taken in an instant. Now, unruly, ungodly, person destroyed that. For other victims, a 14-year-old, a four-year-old and two adults are expected to recover. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr, in Lexington.
Nearly 30 years after two-poch Shakur was killed in a drive-by-shooting, the trial of Duane Davis gets underway in Las Vegas tomorrow.
He's pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
The 63-year-old is the first and only person to be charged in two-pochs' death, partly because of a memoir he wrote and in-related interviews, where he claimed he orchestrated the confrontation and provided the gun, but he says, "Someone else shot two-poch. The judge says the book and interviews are admissible, but Davis says parts of that book have been fictionalized."
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