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For 2 consecutive days, President Trump has launched into racist tirades concentrating on Minnesota’s Somali neighborhood. Yesterday, his remarks included feedback about Somalis as a bunch and talked about deporting Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. His remarks started after a reporter requested the president a couple of fraud investigation in Minnesota, the place some Somalis, amongst others, have been convicted of defrauding social service packages.
President Trump takes questions from the press after saying adjustments to the nation’s gas economic system requirements within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on Dec. 03, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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- 🎧 Making derogatory and racist feedback about a whole group of individuals has been a tactic for Trump over the past decade of his political profession, NPR’s Mara Liasson tells Up First. It generates a variety of consideration and has helped him win over some voters with nativist beliefs. The president’s remarks come as he’s anticipated to satisfy some African leaders in the present day, together with these from Somalia, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- 🎧 The mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have defended the Somali neighborhood and responded to experiences of the Trump administration growing immigration enforcement concentrating on the neighborhood. Hearken to Minnesota Public Radio’s Matt Sepic with the most recent particulars.
- ➡️ Minnesota has the most important Somali inhabitants within the U.S. Here is a quick historical past of how they got here to settle there.
A Pentagon watchdog has decided that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth risked the protection of U.S. servicemembers when he shared extremely delicate navy plans on the Sign messaging app earlier than an assault on Yemen. An inspector common report, which is predicted to be launched in the present day, criticizes the way in which he shared delicate data about airstrikes towards Yemen again in March. The group chat on the encrypted messaging app included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic.
- 🎧 NPR’s Greg Myre experiences that sources, who requested anonymity, have seen the inner report and knowledgeable NPR that it concludes Hegseth violated Pentagon laws by utilizing a private cellphone for official enterprise. Hegseth’s messages reportedly included the exact instances the U.S. navy was launching F-18 warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles at Yemen. Within the report, the protection secretary denied sharing labeled data and said that he has the authority to declassify it. Nevertheless, the report didn’t point out whether or not Hegseth truly declassified the data earlier than sharing it.
Vaccine advisers for the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention are scheduled to satisfy in the present day and tomorrow to debate the protection of established vaccines and to doubtlessly introduce a controversial change to the U.S. vaccine schedule. A key vote anticipated to occur in the present day issues whether or not to withdraw the present advice that the hepatitis B vaccine be administered to infants at beginning.
- 🎧 The advice for the Hep B vaccine has been in place for over 30 years, and unbiased researchers have discovered that delaying it by even a few months might result in lots of of preventable deaths a yr, NPR’s Pien Huang says. In relation to the vaccine schedule, the advisers plan to research whether or not vaccines are inflicting bronchial asthma, eczema, and different autoimmune illnesses in youngsters, new committee chair Dr. Kirk Milhoan advised The Washington Put up. Nevertheless, each vaccine on the schedule has been vetted and is predicated on the age a toddler’s immune system can present the very best safety after receiving it, Dr. Sean O’Leary with the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
Dwelling higher
Dwelling Higher is a particular sequence about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
Have you ever ever sworn off social media for per week or two since you sensed it was dampening your temper? You can be on to one thing, and a brand new examine backs up that feeling. Analysis revealed in JAMA Community Open discovered that younger adults who took only a one-week break from social media confirmed enchancment in despair, anxiousness and insomnia signs. Listed here are just a few ideas that will help you take part in a brief social media detox:
- 📱 Take away apps out of your cellphone’s dwelling display screen and disable notifications from social media apps.
- 📱 “Nighttime scrolling” can disrupt sleep and contribute to insomnia. Attempt going tech-free for at the least an hour earlier than mattress.
- 📱 When you flip to social media when bored, strive changing scrolling with some type of bodily exercise like a stroll or a run.
From our hosts
by A Martínez, Morning Version and Up First host
Lou Bopp in All The Empty Rooms.
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The easiest way I can consider to explain what it felt like in Uvalde, Texas, after a mass capturing killed 19 elementary faculty youngsters is that it was exhausting to breathe. The grief and disappointment have been suffocating.
I went there to report on the capturing and noticed individuals strolling round city with facial expressions starting from anger, fear, shock and consoling to clean faces with a faraway stare.
I’ve tried not to consider Might 24, 2022. However CBS Information reporter Steve Hartman’s 35-minute Netflix quick movie documentary All The Empty Rooms introduced me again there — as nice journalism can do. The movie follows Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they journey throughout the U.S. memorializing the untouched bedrooms of children killed in mass shootings. Uvalde was one of many locations they went to.
There, they met up with the Cazares household, who misplaced 9-year-old Jacklyn. I bear in mind standing close to them throughout a vigil on the Uvalde County Indoor Area. I’d not have been capable of think about it again then, however now Steve says there’s room for fond laughter after they consider and bear in mind her. I do know it nonetheless must be principally painful for them, however it was good to see and listen to that they’ve been capable of finding a option to carry the reminiscences of Jacklyn’s joyfulness again into their lives. All of the Empty Rooms is difficult to look at, however I am glad I did. Possibly you may be glad you probably did too. Hearken to my dialog with Hartman right here.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
- NPR’s Pupil Podcast Problem is again for 2026 and is open to college students in grades 4 by way of 12. For its eighth annual yr, the competitors will characteristic a particular prize to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.
- Test your cheese. Two separate recollects have been issued, citing completely different meals security issues. One impacts lots of of 1000’s of containers of shredded mozzarella and multi-cheese blends, and the opposite impacts a number of manufacturers of grated Pecorino Romano.
- This week’s NPR’s Far-Flung Postcards takes us to western Ukraine, the place individuals head to church on a winter day. Try the photograph and atone for choices from different weeks you might need missed right here.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
