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Immigration authorities yesterday morning took Kilmar Abrego Garcia into federal custody, the place he is ready to learn how lengthy he’ll stay within the U.S. The Maryland man was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and later returned to the U.S. The U.S. authorities now says it’s going to deport Abrego Garcia once more — this time to Uganda. In yesterday’s court docket listening to, federal Choose Paula Xinis mentioned it’s “completely forbidden” to take away Abrego Garcia from the U.S. with out giving him the prospect to problem the deportation in court docket.

• 🎧 Abrego Garcia’s detention has been one of many first high-profile immigration circumstances of the Trump administration’s crackdown, NPR’s Jasmine Garsd tells Up First. On the core of his case are questions on due course of for undocumented immigrants. Abrego Garcia got here to the U.S. from El Salvador illegally in 2011 to flee gang demise threats. He has not been convicted of any crimes since coming to the U.S., however the Trump administration accuses him of being a member of the MS-13 gang. He has denied this declare. In 2019, an immigration court docket dominated that he could not be deported again to El Salvador.

President Trump took steps to fireside Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Prepare dinner yesterday. This motion marks the newest escalation in his efforts to exert management over the central financial institution, which he has been pressuring to decrease rates of interest for months. The Federal Reserve is supposed to function independently from political affect by the White Home, so Trump’s choice could face authorized challenges. Invoice Pulte, who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, accused Prepare dinner of constructing false statements on a mortgage utility in 2021, earlier than she joined the Fed.

• 🎧 Pulte says that Prepare dinner utilized for residence loans on two properties simply weeks aside, in two totally different states, stating that every residence could be her main residence. NPR’s Scott Horsley says that this is able to result in extra favorable mortgage phrases. Trump expressed that he doesn’t trust in Prepare dinner’s integrity, and that was trigger to take away her. Prepare dinner says the president would not have the authority to fireside her, and she is going to proceed to hold out her duties as Fed governor. If Trump succeeds in ousting Prepare dinner, it will create a emptiness that he may fill with somebody extra aligned together with his pursuits.

The president is vowing to punish Washington, D.C., and different areas throughout the nation for abolishing money bail. Washington hasn’t had money bail since 1992. The driving pressure behind the choice was that money bail disproportionately impacts poor Black people who find themselves caught in jail till trial. Trump’s announcement comes as he seems to develop his weekslong navy intervention within the nation’s capital. He additionally expressed his hope to develop the Nationwide Guard’s function in policing.

• 🎧 Trump says that the bail system has let murderers simply stroll free. That is extraordinarily uncommon, as simply 4% of all folks launched earlier than trial final 12 months within the nation’s capital have been accused of violent crimes, says Alex Koma of NPR community station WAMU. Many individuals in Washington doubt that what Trump desires to do is authorized, and solely Congress can overturn D.C. legal guidelines. Native leaders are on edge as a result of president’s ongoing meddling within the metropolis’s affairs. Trump has expressed that he desires to coach a particular Nationwide Guard unit devoted to public security in D.C. He has command of the guard within the capital, as a result of it isn’t a state.

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Sporting sunscreen is crucial well being recommendation, however many customary sprays and lotions miss an essential profit. During the last decade, extra analysis has targeted on hyperpigmentation and melasma. Although ultraviolet radiation would not solely trigger these situations, proof reveals that radiation from seen mild, which penetrates the pores and skin extra deeply than UV rays, can contribute to them. Tinted sunscreens, which comprise pigments to match a spread of pores and skin tones, block seen mild radiation. In keeping with analysis revealed within the journal Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine, tinted sunscreens present higher safety towards injury from seen mild in comparison with non-tinted merchandise. Here is what to search for on the label.

• ☀️ The primary ingredient in seen mild safety is the chemical compound iron oxide. It offers tinted sunscreen with its colour, and is often used to lend a skin-toned hue to concealer and basis.
• ☀️ A focus of round 3% iron oxide in sunscreen seemingly offers the very best safety, says Dr. Jenna Lester, affiliate professor of dermatology on the College of California, San Francisco. She notes that sunscreens which are white or off-white in colour seemingly do not comprise ample ranges of the compound.
• ☀️ Tinted titanium dioxide does a superb job of scattering seen mild. Moreover, antioxidants equivalent to vitamin C could assist defend towards seen mild.
• ☀️ Should you can’t discover a tinted sunscreen in a shade you want, think about using a basis with iron oxide, and apply non-tinted sunscreen beneath it.

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by Michel Martin, Morning Version and Up First host

Earlier this month, two 15-year-olds in Washington, D.C., have been arrested for beating up a person in what is claimed to have been an tried carjacking. He was not simply any man, however a member of a high-profile Trump initiative. Infuriated, the president lashed out on the metropolis’s Democratic leaders.

Members of the Nationwide Guard carrying sidearms stand exterior Union Station in Washington, D.C., on August 25, 2025. The Trump administration deployed federal officers and Nationwide Guard models to the District to put the Metropolitan Police Division beneath federal management and help with crime prevention efforts within the nation’s capital.

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However as a result of D.C. has an uncommon relationship with the federal authorities, he may do greater than complain. And he did: He took over the town’s police division (not less than briefly), redeployed federal brokers and introduced in Nationwide Guard troops. Former Fox Information character and present U.S. Legal professional for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, whose workplace prosecutes adults charged with severe crimes, complained that extra children — or “younger punks” as she put it — must be prosecuted for extra crimes at youthful ages, whilst younger as 14.

I’ve seen this film earlier than — the truth is, I’ve made this film earlier than. I used to be a part of a crew that reported and produced a documentary on juvenile justice for the PBS sequence FRONTLINE that first aired in January 2001. That was a time when increasingly more states have been transferring juvenile offenders into grownup methods. The factor is, then and now, that this occurred at a time when crime charges, together with amongst youth, have been really falling … however stats aren’t driving this prepare. There’s something about children who do severe crime that simply hits otherwise.

I can let you know from private expertise that once you see these children in a lockup, regardless of how tatted up or laborious they attempt to look, they appear like children — children who needs to be worrying about zits, promenade and their SATs, not weapons, jacking vehicles and stickups. The query then, as now, is what ought to occur after they have gotten into that life? What are we really making an attempt to perform? To get them heading in the right direction or simply get them out of sight? Then, as now, it appears we nonetheless have not determined.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Micherre Fox reveals the diamond she discovered on her hand.

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1. Micherre Fox from New York Metropolis spent three straight weeks digging at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark., to search out her personal diamond for an engagement ring.
2. Stephen Nakagawa, a choreographer and former dancer with The Washington Ballet, has been appointed as the brand new head of the Kennedy Middle’s dance programming. This comes simply days after the complete workers of the well-known performing arts establishment’s dance division was fired.
3. The Library of Congress has acquired uncommon artifacts linked to the beloved 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Amongst these artifacts are 35 musical manuscripts, together with the primary handwritten drafts of music and lyrics for a number of the movie’s most well-known songs.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.