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On NPR's ThruLine, witnesses were ending up dead. How the hunt for gangster Al Capone launched the IRS to power. Find NPR's ThruLine wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jaiil Snyder. Protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles after federal immigration agents carried out a series of arrests around the city. ICE says more than 40 people were arrested in LA on immigration violations. The arrests led to clashes with police last night.

There are reports that police used tear gas and flash bangs after some demonstrators hurled chunks of broken concrete. On social media, Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement saying the city will not stand for this. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller responded, saying Bass has no say and that federal law will be enforced. The man at the center of a fight over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is set to be arraigned next week on human smuggling charges. Kilmer Abrego Garcia is being held in custody in Tennessee following his return to the U.S. after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. His lawyer calls the charges fantastical.

NPR's Emily Fang reports on reaction from the scientific community in the U.S. to the Trump administration's threat to revoke student visas for those with connections to China's ruling Communist Party or who are studying in fields deemed critical. Danielle Pletka David Ho is a celebrated virologist whose many accolades include the Presidential Citizens Medal and Time Magazine's Man of the Year. His research was groundbreaking on HIV, AIDS and COVID because he says he could hire the most talented students from all around the world, including from China. Maybe the average American doesn't realize that much of the scientific workforce is comprised of

foreign scientists and Chinese scientists. Now he says he is witnessing a brain drain away from the U.S. No longer are foreign-born students clamoring to get a spot in his lab. Instead, he's getting a different kind of inquiry. Offers from Europe and China for him to work there. Emily Fang and Pure News. The Supreme Court has again handed the Trump administration 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. Here's NPR's Nina Totenberg. 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. And this is NPR News. The manhunt in Arkansas for a former small town police chief turned convicted killer is over. Authorities say Grant Hardin was recaptured in the mountains of northern Arkansas. He's known as the devil in the Ozarks. In Louisiana, authorities are still looking for two inmates who were among those who escaped from a jail in New Orleans three weeks ago. The third leg of horse racing's Triple Crown being run today away from its regular home for the second straight year.

Aaron Shellolovine of Member Station WAMC reports. While Belmont Park undergoes a half-billion dollar renovation, Saratoga Racecourse is once again hosting the Belmont Stakes. The race has attracted Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and Journalism, who won the Preakness Stakes. Locals John and Kathy Horning have been coming to this race course, known as the Spa, for years. They missed last year's Belmont, but made it to the festival's kickoff this year. Well, next week is our anniversary, 47 years, and so this is a week early for that. So last year I did pretty good on our birthday. So I'm hoping our anniversary.

I'll do pretty good too. We'll play our numbers. The race goes off at 7 PM Eastern for NPR News. I'm Aaron Shalalavene in Saratoga Springs. And tennis, the French Open women's final is getting underway this hour. World number one, Irina Sabalinka of Belarus is playing American Coco Golf for the title.

Both players seeking their first French Open Championship. Sabalinka 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 Iguiz Fitek in 2022. This is NPR News. Do you ever look at political headlines and go, huh? Well, that's exactly why the NPR Politics Podcast exists. We're experts not just on politics,

but in making politics make sense. Every episode, we decode everything that happened in Washington and help you figure out what it all means. Give politics a chance with the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.