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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Trump signed executive orders this morning aimed at ending cashless bail policies. One of the orders specifically targets Washington, D.C. This comes as the federal government continues its takeover of D.C.'s police department. Here's WAMU's Alex Koma. Trump signed executive orders threatening to withhold federal funding from the district and other cities unless they re-institute cash 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 D.C. lawmakers are skeptical of how Trump's order will work in the district, as only Congress has the authority to overturn locally passed laws or withhold previously approved funding. The D.C. Council abolished cash bail back in 1992. Under the policy, a judge decides whether a person whose charge should be released to await trial. Supporters say cash bail disproportionately affects low-income communities and people of color. For NPR News, I'm Alex Koma in Washington. in D.C. Kilmar Abrago Garcia is back in federal custody and now set to be deported to Uganda. NPR Serio Martinez Beltran reports.

This was expected. Last week on Friday, Abrago Garcia was released from federal custody in Tennessee pending a trial on separate criminal charges. Shortly after that, the government said that Abrago Garcia had been served with a notification requiring him to report to the ICE offices in Baltimore today. And that's what he did. The case became a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration policy standoff with judges after Abrago Garcia was wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The administration wants to increase deportations and to that end enlist thousands more immigration agents. Alex Helmick of member station WABE says a facility in Georgia is set to train many of them. Deportation officers find and remove non-citizens who can no longer stay in the U.S. for a variety of reasons,

As the Trump administration ramps up deportations, the Republican Congress approved more than $76 billion to speed them up. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 10,000 deportation officers by the end of 2025. And many of those new recruits will be sent to the coastal South Georgia town of Brunswick to attend the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, which is set to double the number of instructors focused on deportations. The official who runs training for ICE told the Associated Press, it has cut its Spanish language requirements to reduce training time by five weeks. For NPR News, I'm Alex Homick. U.S. stocks are mixed this hour.

The NASDAQ is up 48 points at 21,544. The Dow has fallen 233 points or roughly half a percent. From Washington, this is NPR News. For the first time, in decades, a case of the deadly New World screw worm has been confirmed in a human in the United States. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more. Health officials say the patient became infected after traveling in Central America and was diagnosed upon returning home. The screw worm is a flesh-eating parasite that lays eggs in open wounds. The larva can cause severe tissue damage and even death if untreated.

The discovery is raising alarms because the screw worm was eliminated in the U.S. in the 1960s after a massive government program. Officials say risk of humans getting infected is low from this introduction, but the parasite is a major threat to livestock. USDA is now ramping up an aggressive program to fight the spread of screw worm. For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio. In the aftermath of an offshore hurricane, an investigation is underway in New Hampshire, where a 17-year-old boy who was swimming with relatives off Hampton Beach died Sunday night. Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard and Massachusetts police resume their search today for a man in his 50s whose boat capsized Saturday off Salisbury Beach. The same day, another man was rescued when his boat also capsized during high surf off. Maine. The storm never made landfall, but it produced dangerous surf and rip currents all along

the eastern seaboard. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington.