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Chapter 1: What is the focus of the 1A podcast series 'If You Can Keep It'?
With a major shift in our politics underway in this country, 1A is drilling down on what's at stake for you and our democracy. In our weekly series, If You Can Keep It, we put these changes into focus and answer your questions about the impact of the Trump administration on the U.S. Join us every Monday for If You Can Keep It on the 1A podcast from NPR and WAMU.
Chapter 2: What is the current news update from Kentucky?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Multiple people reported dead in Kentucky after powerful storms ripped through the state last night. Multiple people reported dead in Pulaski and Laurel counties in southern Kentucky. Stan Ingold reports from member station WEKU.
The towns of Somerset and London have been hit particularly hard, with many homes and buildings damaged in the early morning hours. Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency Friday morning in advance of the severe weather. Tens of thousands of power outages are reported throughout Kentucky.
Crews are working to evaluate the situation with responders, searching homes and buildings for survivors. For NPR News, I'm Stan Ingold in Richmond, Kentucky. To St.
Chapter 3: What impact did the storms have on Missouri?
Louis now, where searchers are also going door to door looking for survivors. A potential tornado struck during afternoon rush hour yesterday. At least seven people were killed in Missouri, as St. Louis Public Radio's Chad Davis reports.
Chapter 4: How did St. Louis respond to the recent tornado?
St. Louis officials say more than 5,000 homes have been affected and that several buildings have collapsed. The storm caused damage in areas of St. Louis County and neighborhoods in St. Louis City. St. Louis Mayor Kara Spencer issued a curfew Friday evening through Saturday morning for the northern parts of the city. She says the city will be going through a lot in the next few days.
We're going to have a lot of work to do in the coming days. There is no doubt there. But tonight we are focused on life, saving lives and keeping people safe and allowing our community to grieve.
City leaders requested residents stay off their phones Friday so that cell service could be used for critical needs. For NPR News, I'm Chad Davis.
The storms that hit St. Louis and Kentucky were part of a severe storm system that left tens of thousands without power from Missouri to Ohio and North Carolina. U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrants in Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.
Chapter 5: What is the Supreme Court's decision regarding the Trump administration's deportations?
That 18th century wartime power was invoked by Trump to quickly deport Venezuelans it says are members of a gang. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
The Supreme Court says the Trump administration did not give the men at a detention center in northern Texas enough time to challenge their deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. The unsigned order says detainees are entitled to more notice than the roughly 24 hours the government gave the Venezuelan men at the center of this case.
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. This ruling did not address the question of whether Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was legal. The high court did say that this order does not stop the government from removing people from the U.S. under other lawful authorities. Sergio Martinez-Peltran, NPR News, Austin.
President Trump is back at the White House from his trip to the Middle East. He returned last night as Republicans plan to try again tomorrow night to advance his budget package called that big, beautiful bill. It hit a roadblock yesterday. and the House Budget Committee. This is NPR News.
Authorities in Louisiana are searching for seven inmates who remain on the loose after escaping from a New Orleans jail. Ten initially broke out yesterday, escaping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall. Three have been caught so far, and three jail employees have been placed on suspension pending an investigation.
The science magazine Nature has announced the winners of this year's Scientists at Work photo contest, as NPR's Ari Daniel reports.
Each winning image is a dramatic, intimate portrait of research. In one, a scientist kneels in a forest, beaming at eight tiny frogs in her hands. In another, a researcher crouches atop a foggy mountain as he measures the cloud forming around him. And then there's the riveting photo that Emma Vogel, a spatial ecologist at the University of Tromsø, took aboard a little boat in a Norwegian fjord.
In the center of the photo, you see my supervisor, and he's in this bright yellow survival suit.
Behind him is a large fishing boat and hundreds of seagulls. Over his shoulder, you can just make out... A killer whale surfacing.
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