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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Another pro-Palestinian protest organizer has been detained by immigration officials. Mohsen Mahdawi was an organizer at Columbia University's protest last year. He was detained by officials after arriving for an immigration appointment. More from NPR's Jasmine Garz. Mohsen Mahdawi was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank and moved to the US in 2014. He'd recently gotten his BA and was planning to enroll at Columbia for a master's degree

in international affairs. He has a green card. His lawyers say he believed he was arriving to an immigration appointment that would bring him closer to becoming a US citizen. He is detained at an immigration center in Colchester, Vermont. A judge has granted his lawyers' request for a temporary restraining order to prevent federal officials from transferring him to a more conservative jurisdiction, which is what has happened to several other college demonstrators who've been arrested. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York. Democratic lawmakers say big cuts to Medicaid proposed by many Republican lawmakers could

end treatment for hundreds of thousands of people struggling with fentanyl addiction. A new report found care for people on low-income areas would be especially hard hit. More from NPR's Brian Mann. Republicans are pushing for deep budget cuts that many experts say will shrink Medicaid, the biggest source of insurance coverage in the U.S., for people seeking treatment for fentanyl and other forms of addiction. A report issued by Democrats serving on Congress' Joint Economic Committee found hundreds of thousands of people now receiving drug treatment through Medicaid won't qualify for other

forms of coverage. A separate study by the Brookings Institution found the loss of Medicaid funding could also hit many hospitals and clinics, especially in low-income rural and urban areas. This comes at a time when drug overdose deaths have been dropping, experts say in part because of access to affordable treatment. Brian Mann, NPR News, New York. The head of tech giant MetaMark Zunkerberg faced questions on the witness stand on the first day of a high-stakes antitrustrust trial the FTC case focusing on whether the company broke any competition laws more from MPR's Bobby Allen. Well so far a lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission is going over Metta's early history Zuckerberg said from the witness stand that he rejected advice early on that he

should sell the company because it just wouldn't be able to compete with MySpace. That was the advice way back when. Zuckerberg then described launching Facebook's news feed in 2006 and from there Zuckerberg explained the rationale behind various product updates to Facebook. The day ended by Zuckerberg being grilled about when Metta started thinking about acquiring Instagram, having him read old emails about this, and this is all setting the foundation for the FTC's case, which is expected to get a lot more juicy tomorrow. NPR's Bobby Allen, who is in the courtroom today, Metta is an NPR sponsor. You're listening to NPR. While some prominent tech sector heads have embraced the policies of the Trump administration

that has put bosses in odds in some cases with their employees, many of the traditionally liberal employees of the big tech firms increasingly say they are feeling disillusioned with the direction the industry is going. And even in the case of those tech sector leaders who are not publicly backing the president, many have gone out of their way not to antagonize him. Most Americans don't eat enough vegetables, but a new food hack on TikTok makes it extremely simple. It's called Dinosaur Time. Sarah Bowden reports all you need are some plain leafy greens. With Dinosaur Time, you take a big handful of greens, give them a rinse, and then shove them in your mouth. Humans have been

chomping on leafy greens for millennia. But one of the first people to do this on TikTok seems to be a former science teacher named Amy Garrett. She has 50,000 followers. She says she likes veggies, but making them taste good takes time. And instead of feeling guilty about not eating vegetables, I'm just gonna stuff them down my face

and then eat what I normally would have eaten without any guilt. Garet adds that dinosaur time is not a meal replacement or a way to lose weight. It's a strategy to add nutrition to your diet. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Boden. A group of five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who apparently sought to climb the famous cathedral in Cologne are now in custody. German police saying they were alerted by private security guards with the church who spotted the group with headlamps on

for climbing the building. Climbers were seeking to scale the cathedral in the middle of the night. Police in riot gear arrived. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News.