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Hey, it's a Martinez a lot of short daily news podcasts focus on one story, but sometimes you need Thomas for up first on NPR We bring you the three top world headlines every single day in under 15 minutes because no one story can capture all that's happening It's the mundo tangrande on any given morning. So listen to the up first podcast from NPR Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Ahram. President Trump deported about 250 migrants this weekend after invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a rarely used law that gives wartime deportation powers to the president. A federal judge had blocked Trump's use of the law. NPR's Luke Garrett reports. Luke Garrett, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR

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have. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. The U.S. Census Bureau's internal watchdog says the agency has not been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for key national surveys. NPR's Hansi Luang has more. Economic indicators and other statistics the Census Bureau produces rely on survey responses that are often collected in person or over the phone by field representatives. A review by the Commerce Department Inspector General's Office has found that the Census

Bureau has not met its staffing goal for those interviewers, including for the current population survey that produces the monthly jobs report. Many field representatives don't stay in their jobs for long, the Inspector General's Office found, in part because the pay is often relatively low and it can be difficult to persuade people to participate in a government survey. The inspector general's report recommends that a plan for addressing staffing gaps be developed by the Census Bureau's director. President Trump has not yet named a nominee to fill that position. Anzila Wong, NPR News, Washington.

A major storm system, including tornadoes, hit much of the Midwest and Southern U.S. this weekend. At least 34 people have died. In Oklahoma, high winds and low humidity have fueled dozens of fires. Al Ramis from Ember Station KOSU reports. The central Oklahoma town of Stillwater was one of the worst damaged by Friday's rampant fires. It's a college town, home to about 50,000 people, surrounded by vast swaths of dry plains.

Natalie Brown is Stillwater Public Schools' family resource specialist. She says people were prepared for the wind. But not the fires. And so yesterday as the wind started picking up, the smoke started happening clear on the other side of town and it smelt all the way over here. Less than 12 hours later, Brown would find herself setting up a small triage center for displaced families in Stillwater. About 50 homes were lost in town. Throughout the day, people stopped by to pick up a toothbrush, shoes, an outfit, whatever

they needed to start over. For NPR News, I'm Lionel Ramos. This is NPR News in Washington. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London to shore up alliances as he faces President Trump's attacks on Canada's sovereignty. At his swearing-in ceremony last week, Carney said that Canada is fundamentally a different country and will never ever in any way, shape or form be part of the U.S. Hundreds of people demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate in

Greenland this weekend, showing their opposition to President Trump's desire to take over their island. They carried signs that said, Yankees go home and no means no stop threatening us. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Johann Strauss, his most famous composition, The Blue Danube, will be beamed into space. A collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra,

the live performance will be transmitted in the cosmos in May. Jeff London reports. Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, A Space Odyssey, made the Blue Danube waltz synonymous with space. Now, it's becoming a reality. When the Vienna Symphony plays the Johann Strauss Waltz live on the evening of May 31, it will be transmitted by electromagnetic wave at the speed of light from a deep space antenna in Cebrero, Spain.

According to the European Space Agency, the sound will reach NASA's Voyager 1 in deep space 23 hours later. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London. And I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.