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Decades ago, Brazilian women made a discovery. They could have an abortion without a doctor, thanks to a tiny pill. That pill spawned a global movement, helping millions of women have safe abortions, regardless of the law. Hear that story on the network from NPR's Embedded and Futuro Media, wherever you get your podcasts. Giles Snyder Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. A day of arrest by federal immigration agents in Los Angeles led to clashes with police last night. Police used tear gas and flashbangs after some demonstrators hurled chunks of broken

concrete. There have been similar confrontations in San Diego, Chicago, and Minneapolis. NPR has obtained a memo that offers details on what thousands of National Guard troops would be expected to do in support of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The memo says up to 3,500 would assist ICE agents in tracking down migrants, others to perform guard duty, as NPR's Tom Bowman reports. The memo from Homeland Security to the Pentagon dated May 9th has another category called detention support saying they need up to 2,500 guardsmen to work perimeter security guard duty at contracted and

federal detention facilities. It also says these troops will provide emergency response inside these detention facilities providing both riot control and search teams. The Pentagon has not yet approved the request. Five leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group convicted of felony offenses in connection with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol are suing the Justice Department.

The men have already been granted clemency by President Trump. They now claim they were victims of a corrupt and politically motivated prosecution. Here's MPR's Ryan Lucas. In their lawsuit filed in the middle district of Florida, the five Proud Boys leaders say that their constitutional rights were violated by the Justice Department and the FBI during the investigation into the January 6th attack.

They allege that they were victims of systemic abuse to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump. They are seeking $100 million in punitive damages in their lawsuit. Four of the men, including the group's leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted at trial of seditious conspiracy and other crimes in connection with the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. The fifth was found guilty of multiple other offenses. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of them on his first day back in office. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

Stocks gained ground this week amid positive signs for the U.S. job market. NPR's Scott Horsley reports that all the major stock indexes closed higher. The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. employers added 139,000 jobs last month, roughly in line with what forecasters had predicted. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2 percent. Factories and the federal government cut jobs in May, but that was more than offset by job gains in health care and hospitality. Stocks rallied after the jobs report was released.

President Trump took to social media to urge the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, but investors are betting the central bank will hold rates steady when policymakers meet later this month. For the week that Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.2%, the S&P 500 index climbed 1.5%, and then Aztec jumped more than 2%. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Returned from El Salvador, Akelemah Abrego-Garcia appeared in federal court in Tennessee last night and is set to be arraigned next week on two charges linked to human smuggling. His case is a flashpoint in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Starting this week and for the first time ever, Russians are able to watch the corruption investigation videos of banned and now deceased Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny on TV. And PRS Eleanor Beardsley reports it's made possible through a joint project with Paris-based press NGO Reporters Without Borders. Hello, thank you so much for coming. Julia Navalny, the widow of Alexei Navalny, helped launch the new channel called Russia's Future, which will be beamed in by French satellite UTELSAT. Project director Jim Filipov says Navalny used YouTube because television was always controlled by the Kremlin.

For more than 20 years, the Russian public has been bombarded with anti-Western, anti-Ukrainian, anti-democratic, pro-authoritarian propaganda. Now he says the Navalny team will reach a bigger audience on TV and unlike with YouTube, the Kremlin will not be able to block the satellite. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. Irina Sabalenka of Belarus, an American Coco Golf do on the tennis court in Paris, a women's final at the French Open scheduled to get underway in a couple of hours. Sabalenka has won three Grand Slam titles, but

this is her first final at Roland-Garros. It's a second for golf, a former US Open champion she lost to Iguizvitek in 2022. I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News.