NPR News: 07-15-2026 4AM EDT

Giles Snyder· Host0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The Trump administration is telling Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops nationwide. The order comes after two fatal shootings within a week. NPR's Ariel Martinez Beltron reports.

Ariel Martinez Beltron0:18

The news was confirmed to us by the office of Maine US Senator Angus King. Uh, you know, the two men killed in Houston and Maine had been driving their vehicles when ICE officers attempted to pull them over. In both cases, the two victims were not the intended enforcement target of ICE. Now, DHS told NPR it will not discuss enforcement's tactics, so we don't yet know all the details of this change, but Senator King's office says this is happening, and this could mark a significant shift in policy.

Giles Snyder· Host0:46

President Trump's supporters are Tom Homan told Fox News Tuesday that the pause is not a policy shift, but a temporary pause to conduct a short-term review. Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a lawsuit alleging, quote, "A public-private conspiracy to target critics of Israel." The suit claims that the federal government and several private groups worked together to suppress supporters of a movement fueled by Israel's war on Hamas. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports.

Kat Lonsdorf1:15

Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student who gained prominence as a student activist protesting Israel and its actions against Palestinians in Gaza. He is a legal permanent resident and married to a US citizen, but in March of twenty twenty-five, he was arrested by