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This is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. So much is changing so rapidly right now with President Trump in office. It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what. To try and do that, we've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in. This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump is questioning the due process rights

of people in the US. NPR's Luke Garrett says that during an interview aired Sunday in NBC's Meet the Press, Trump said the courts and legal proceedings are getting in the way as he tries to deport millions of people. NBC's Kristen Welker asked the president if he thinks both citizens and non-citizens deserve due process, their day in court.

Trump responded by saying he wants to deport millions and doesn't know if deportees deserve this due process. When asked whether this violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump said he was elected on the promise of mass deportation, but the courts were preventing him from doing that. Trump also said he does not think military force would be needed to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. Nashville officials are criticizing a raid by immigration and customs enforcement agents

on the city's immigrant quarter. Maryana Bakhiyaw from Member Station WPLN reports that several drivers were arrested Saturday nights. Lawyers and family members of those detained say they haven't been able to contact them since the arrests. During a protest outside Nashville's ICE office Sunday, a bus full of people could be heard slapping their hands against the glass of the windows as they were driven out of the office to an unknown location.

ICE did not respond to requests for comment. Immigrant advocate Giselle Huerta told the crowd that the raid amounts to racial profiling. They swear my people are criminals. They swear my people are aliens when they look like you and me. Nashville's mayor says that the arrests further erode trust between law enforcement and the community. For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bacallao in Nashville. In Gaza, a group believed to have ties to Hamas police says it has executed at least nine looters. They claim those killed were working in organized crime gangs.

Aid warehouses have been looted across Gaza during the continuing Israeli blockade of food and basic supplies. MPR's Anas Baba has more. In Gaza City, chaos erupts as hundreds of Palestinians break into this UN warehouse. In recent days, crowds have broken into several aid facilities throughout Gaza. Furniture, solar panels and other equipment, anything that can be repurposed or sold or hauled away. There is no food for the looters to steal. These warehouses have run out of food stocks due to the Israeli blockade. Gaza's interior ministry told a local news agency that it has formed a new 5,000th member police

force to deal with looting and armed gangs. Local police, however, say Israeli drones firing at police officers prevent them from effectively patrolling. With Israel allowing no food entry for over two months, this looting comes amid widespread hunger and lawlessness. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City. The U.S. is working to move a Patriot air defense missile system to Ukraine. The Pentagon is also working with allies to provide another system to Ukraine from Europe, most likely either Greece or Germany. Both systems would help Ukraine in its war with Russia.

You're listening to NPR News. Police in Brazil say they stopped a bomb threat aimed at the free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro Saturday night. Officials say police arrested two people connected with the alleged attack. NPR's Andrew Limbong has more. More than two million people gathered at Copacabana Beach on Saturday night to dance and sing. According to a police statement, the group allegedly responsible for the planned attack were targeting children, adolescents, and the LGBTQIA-plus community using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails. The two unnamed people arrested included the alleged leader of the group and a teenager,

who police say was storing child pornography. A spokesperson for Lady Gaga told the Associated Press that the pop star only learned about the alleged threat via media reports Sunday morning and that her team worked closely with law enforcement and was confident in the safety measures in place. Andrew Limbang, NPR News. Officials in Ukraine say 11 people, including two children, were wounded in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv overnight. Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, said Sunday that his country has the strength

to bring the conflict there to a logical conclusion. And he said there has been no need so far to use nuclear weapons in the fighting. He's rarely spoken in the past about nuclear weapons use in Ukraine. The Swedish hit television show The Great Moose Migration has ended for the year. The show streamed 20 days of 24 hour live coverage of the country's annual spring moose migration, which takes place about 180 miles Northwest of Stockholm. Some 9 million people watched the annual spring event this year.

The show began in 2019 and is now a major event. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. You may have heard that President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.