NPR News: 07-14-2026 10PM EDT

Jeanine Herbst· Host0:01

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Hurst. A second fatal ICE shooting in a week has the Trump administration changing how ICE officers conduct business in terms of traffic stops and use of deadly force. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran has more.

Sergio Martinez Beltran0:17

DHS's policy on paper says deadly force cannot be used solely to prevent someone from fleeing unless the person poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm to the agent or others. Now, the issue is that in these two last cases in Maine and Texas, we haven't seen video evidence that backs up DHS's claims that in Texas, the man, in their words, "weaponized his car against the ICE agent," and that in Maine, the man posed a public safety threat.

Jeanine Herbst· Host0:44

NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reporting. The Pentagon says President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., has been extended until Inauguration Day twenty twenty-nine. That's as thousands of armed and uniformed troops have been patrolling the city for nearly a year. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has more.

Kat Lonsdorf1:02

President Trump first deployed the National Guard to D.C. last August after declaring a crime emergency in the city despite violent crime being at a thirty-year low. That emergency declaration lifted a month later, but the Guard and the federal law enforcement task force that they're a part of remained. Since then, the number of troops has steadily increased to now nearly five thousand from more than twenty different states and a cost of around three million dollars per day. Two different studies have found that the presence of the National Guard