NPR News: 07-14-2026 4PM EDT

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to pause vehicle stops deemed non-urgent, this after shootings days apart in Maine and Texas, where officials later said the men killed were unintended targets. Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil says he is suing the Trump administration for allegedly conspiring to detain him for months over his pro-Palestinian activism. Bahar Azmi is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a suit on Khalil's behalf.

Bahar Azmi· Soundbite0:34

He is suing a series of private actors, including Heritage Foundation and federal government officials, for orchestrating a campaign to arrest and detain him simply for exercising his constitutional rights. And it's the same campaign that ensnared eight other people, uh, in order to, uh, repress and quelch the s- uh, student movements on campuses.

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:57

The Trump administration accuses Khalil and others of promoting antisemitism during campus protests last year and threatening US foreign policy interest. In a statement today, the White House says Khalil obtained his student visa by willfully and intentionally failing to accurately report information relevant to his background. This hour, the US resumes a naval blockade on Iran. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports Iranian and US strikes seem to have intensified, weakening a ceasefire agreement.

Quil Lawrence1:28

A ceasefire paused the war in April,