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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and later returned to the United States, has been taken into immigration custody. Now he's being processed for deportation to Uganda. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports. Today's development was expected. That's because last week, the U.S. government served Abregor Garcia with a notification requiring him to report to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Baltimore. for a mandatory check-in. This came after he was released from federal custody in Tennessee

pending a trial on separate criminal charges. The government also notified him then. He was likely to be deported to Uganda. Abrego Garcia has already filed a lawsuit challenging his new detention and the efforts to deport him without due process. That could delay his deportation and put his fate again in the hands of a federal judge.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News. President Trump wants to do a way with a cashless bail for people arrested in Washington, D.C. He signed an executive order today against the practice, which he described as a pass for violent criminals in the district. They kill people and they get out. Cashless bail. They thought it was discriminatory to make people put up money

because they just killed three people lying on a street. Any street all over the country, cashless bail, we're ending it. But we're starting by ending it in D.C. and that we have the right to do through federalization. Supporters of the policy view it as a measure against financial-based discrimination. President Trump is also ordering the prosecution of anyone who engages in flag burning. Medics and reporters say Israeli attacks on a hospital complex in Gaza

have left at least 21 people dead. Those killed include several Palestinian journalists working for international news organizations. And Pierre's Ayabatrawi has details. An Israeli strike appears to have hit a live position for Reuters broadcast at a main hospital before the military struck the medical complex a second time, striking a stairwell where more journalists and rescue workers had gathered. Media outlets, including Reuters, confirmed their journalists were killed in Israel's attack on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. The four journalists killed were identified as Reuters cameraman Hossam al-Mosri, Al-Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Salama, freelance journalists.

journalist Madhiam Abol Dukka, a mother who freelance with the AP and others, and journalists Moise Abolteha. A Reuters photographer is among several wounded. Palestinians count more than 240 journalists killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks in the war. A. Abatrawi, Empire News, Dubai. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 222 points or nearly half a percent. This is NPR News. This week marks 70 years since Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi. The murder of the black teenager is considered one of the country's most infamous cases of racially motivated violence.

NPR's Amy Held says the federal government is now releasing additional records about Till's death. The National Archives has posted thousands of pages related to the federal government's response or lack thereof. There's a 1955 memo from then FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover saying, despite pressure, they would not investigate what happened to Emmett Till. The 14-year-old, accused by a white woman of unwanted attention, was kidnapped and killed. The men who later confessed to the crime acquitted by their Mississippi peers. The surrounding publicity would expose the unwritten code of the Jim Crow South, and it became a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Review Board says the new documents, documents offer long overdue clarity. And note, even after all these years, Emmett Till's story is still being written. Amy Held and PR News. Firefighters in Central Oregon are trying to contain a growing blaze. It's already destroyed at least four homes. Officials say that and another fire have put thousands of homes in Oregon and Northern California's wine country under evacuation orders. Oregon's flat fire has spread across 29 square. miles. The picket fire in northern California has scorched 10 square miles. The Dow's off 227 points at last glance. This is NPR.