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These days, there is a lot of news. It could be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, the backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Protesters hit the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Friday after federal ICE agents carried out a series of immigration raids across the country. Three separate locations were targeted for the raids, including the city's Fashion District.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she's investigating whether L.A. police were involved in the raid. We're going to have to figure out where we go. I told Chief McDonnell that I want to review all the tapes. I want to understand what the deployment of LAPD was and why, and we need to get to the bottom of this. The protesters tried to stop the vans carrying the ICE agents from leaving the area, and some people threw objects at the vehicles. The Supreme Court Friday once again handed the Trump administration at least a temporary victory.

By a 6-3 vote, the court overturned two lower court orders allowing Doge, at least for now, to have unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration. And here's Nina Totenberg reports. The court, in an unsigned order, temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited Doge's access to sensitive private information, including Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court records. The court's conservative supermajority sent the case back to the Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond for a ruling on the merits of the case, which likely will take months, while

Doge digs into the records. Justice Kagan noted her dissent while the court's other two liberals accused the majority of having, quote, truly lost its moorings. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. The Department of Homeland Security is requesting 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration enforcement. NPR's Jimena Bustillo says this would be a new way to use service members. A memo obtained by NPR shows a detailed request from DHS to the Defense Department for thousands

of troops. Their tasks range from file management to logging to guard duty and detention centers. The request has not been approved yet by the Pentagon, but the move would be the first time that the National Guard is used for interior immigration enforcement at a national scale. Individual states have previously sent their own guard to help with border security, and Texas gave its National Guard the authority to make immigration arrests. Multiple U.S. officials tell NPR that the Pentagon is still working with state governors to determine which states will provide troops, though they are expected to come mostly from Republican-led states. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is back in the US after being mistakenly deported in March by the Trump administration. He's been charged with transporting people who were in the country illegally. Those federal charges come from a traffic stop in 2022. The indictment also says Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gang member. The Trump administration has never offered evidence of any gang membership and he has denied any such membership. Stocks finished the week on a high note on Friday.

You're listening to NPR News. 27 wildfires are continuing to burn across the Canadian province of Manitoba this weekend and eight of them are still considered to be out of control. One thousand people in the town of Snow Lake were ordered to evacuate their homes on Friday. A total of 19,000 people have left their homes since the fires began. The Trump administration Friday authorized a nearly 60 million ton coal mine expansion in eastern Montana and did it without public review. Montana Public Radio's Alice Julin has more.

The U.S. Department of the Interior approved the Bull Mountains Mines expansion, citing the National Energy Emergency Declaration President Trump issued in January. The decision allows for expedited approvals of energy development projects. It also lowers the permitting requirements, meaning there will not be a draft environmental impact statement for the public to review and comment on. Opponents of the mine include environmental groups and local ranchers who voice concerns over water depletion and pollution from the mine. The final destination of the mine's coal has also been questioned since the majority is exported overseas to Japan and South Korea. The company that owns the mine, Signal Peak, was found guilty of violating environmental and

worker safety standards in federal court in 2022. For NPR News, I'm Ellis Julin in Missoula, Montana. A judge on Friday granted final approval to a $2.8 billion settlement with the NCAA. The deal would for the first time allow schools to compensate student athletes for past and future commercial use of their names, images and likenesses. The terms of the deal include approval for each school to share up to $20.5 million with athletes over the next year and $2.7 billion with former players. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.