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Noor Ram this week on Consider This, we look into the message underneath Trump's military parade, also the administration's revamped travel ban, and how the chaotic New Ada operation in Gaza turned deadly. We have reporters everywhere to bring you the stories you care about. Listen now to Consider This podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Noor Rahm Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm. In Los Angeles, officials and community members are expressing anger following a series of ICE raids yesterday. At least 44 people were detained.

Steve Futterman reports clashes broke out between protesters and police. Steve Futterman The Friday morning raid sparked evening protests. Hundreds took to the streets near L.A.'s Federal Detention Center. Here they are chanting, demanding those detained be released. There were several confrontations. Some rocks and bottles were thrown, even some concrete blocks. Police responded with pepper spray and flashbangs. LA Mayor Karen Bass has expressed outrage,

prompting White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to respond, you have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. Kylmar Abrego-Garcia is back in the U.S. He was swept up in an immigration raid and sent to El Salvador in March. Despite a court order that he should not be sent there, he's now in Tennessee where he

faces charges of transporting undocumented immigrants, charges his lawyer calls baseless. The World Pride celebration is underway in Washington, D.C., the host city this year, attracting LGBTQ people from around the world and their supporters. A march gets underway at this hour, which will take participants within a block of the White House grounds. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports, this year's celebration comes at a challenging time. From its earliest moments, the second Trump administration has passed all sorts of executive orders affecting LGBTQ people from the anti-diversity equity and inclusion, DEI, ideology efforts

that has affected LGBTQ people. The White House has declared there are only two sexes and they cannot change. Transgender people cannot compete in sports. There are limits to healthcare access, military service. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine, says the city was hit by Russian missile and drone attacks overnight. At least three people were killed. Lawmakers in the Baltic states are expressing support for Ukraine's path to membership in NATO and the European Union. Terry Schultz reports. The foreign affairs committees of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania say their countries will support Kyiv until complete victory against Russia, including the liberation of all occupied

territories and the punishment of war crime perpetrators. They call on NATO leaders to take concrete political steps toward Ukrainian membership at their summit in The Hague later this month, saying this will strengthen peace in Europe. They also want Ukraine's ongoing negotiations to join the EU completed by 2030. The U.S. staunchly opposes Ukraine joining NATO for now, although a pledge for eventual membership was reiterated at the Alliance's last summit in Washington. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. This is NPR News in Washington.

Israel said today it's retrieved the body of a Thai farm worker kidnapped during the This is NPR News in Washington. Israel said today it's retrieved the body of a Thai farm worker kidnapped during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The military says he was taken to Gaza where he was killed by his captors. Meanwhile, Israel's offensive in Gaza continues. Gaza's health ministry says at least 55 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes this weekend. Archaeologists have discovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient agriculture site in the eastern half of what is now the United

States. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boice reports, it's in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Nell Greenfield-Boice, NPR News Anchor Researchers used a drone to survey over 300 acres near the Menominee River. The drone was equipped with a laser that could map the shape of the ground. Madeline McLeaster is an archaeologist with Dartmouth College. She says the drone detected row upon row of raised gardening beds. I mean, I didn't expect them just to keep going and going and going. This surprisingly large agricultural system was built by the ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

In the journal Science, the researchers say the discovery suggests that large-scale agriculture may have been common in the region before Europeans moved in. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. The Belmont Stakes is today the third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown. It's being held for a second year at Saratoga Racecourse while Belmont Park is being renovated. The field includes Sovereignty, which won the Kentucky Derby, and the Preakness Stakes winner, Journalism. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington. On the Planet Money Podcast, you've seen them, those labels that say, Made in China I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.