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Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman. The man illegally deported to a prison in El Salvador this year and then returned to the U.S. has been detained again by immigration officials. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia reported to an immigration office in Baltimore, Maryland this morning. Before surrendering, he spoke of the brief time he had this weekend back with his family. Abrago-Garcia is heard here through an interpreter, provided by one of the groups that helped organize this gathering. when I was finally able to reunite with my family, all of those emotions, all of those

memories will be forever ingrained in me. Federal officials wanted Obrigo Garcia to plead guilty to human smuggling, but he refused. Now, federal immigration officials say they may deport him again, but this time to Uganda. President Trump is threatening to send more military deployments to democratically run cities. He has said Chicago, New York, and and possibly Baltimore, could follow Washington, D.C. in having a military presence. NPR's Ashley Lopez has more. Trump recently announced Chicago could be the next city in which he will deploy active-duty troops for an alleged crackdown on crime.

Illinois governor J.B. Prisker said in a statement Saturday that the state has not yet received any request or outreach from the federal government. Pritzker said there's no emergency in the state that warrants this kind of intervention. He accused Trump of manufacturing a crisis and abusing his past. In a truth social post Sunday, Trump also went after Maryland's governor and threatened to send troops to Baltimore. Trump also wrote he'd now have to rethink federal funding to repair Baltimore's Francis Scott Keybridge, which was demolished by a cargo ship in 2024. Ashley Lopez, NPR News. Researchers at the University of Michigan say that fully electric vehicles have lowered lifetime emissions than any other vehicle type in every county in the contiguous United States.

As NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports, this contributes to a body of research that finds EVs are generally cleaner than gas cars. Electric vehicles cost a lot of energy to produce. Their efficiency varies based on the temperature, and the electricity they rely on is only as clean as the electric grid. The UM researchers factored all of that in and found that over their lifetime, EVs are better for the climate than gas, hybrid, or plug-in hybrid vehicles. They did not compare them to alternatives to driving. The paper was published in environmental science and technology. It noted small EVs with modest batteries were the cleanest, but pickup drivers could see the biggest drop in emissions from going electric, a 75% decrease.

Camila Dominovsky, NPR News. Hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli attacks on a hospital there today have killed at least 21 people, four of the dead or journalists who were working for international news organizations, that includes Reuters and the Associated Press. This is NPR. Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lafroff, says there's no meeting yet scheduled between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia. Speaking to NBC, Lafroff says before any meeting can happen, the leaders need an agenda, and he says there's no agenda in place.

His statement seems to contradict efforts by President Trump to arrange a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders. It was 50 years ago today, rock star Bruce Springsteen released his Born to Run album, NPR's Isabel Gomez Sarmiento has more. Columbia Records was getting ready to drop Bruce Springsteen. His first two albums received critical acclaim, but they were commercial flops. The label gave Springsteen one more shot, and he took it seriously. He spent months in the studio on strenuous recording sessions. On August 25, 1975, Springsteen released a cinematic album grappling with disillusionment, loneliness, and the quest for freedom.

The album became Springsteen's first big commercial success, and it cemented his status as a prolific American songwriter and storyteller. Isabella Gomez-Armiento and PR News. Veteran character actor Jerry Adler has died at the age of 96, that's according to a funeral home in New York. Adler gained fame with roles on HBO's The Sopranos, as well as the TV series The Good Wife. Before his TV work, Adler was a Broadway stage manager and director.

Adler did not turn to acting himself until he was in his 60s. You're listening to NPR News.