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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. Border Patrol agents are fanning out across New Orleans to arrest and deport migrants accused of entering the U.S.
illegally or committing crimes.

NPR's Martin Costi is in New Orleans. There seems to be a difference between New Orleans proper and the suburbs on this.

For instance, there's a suburb called Kenner, which saw a big increase in Latino residents in the last few years.

There, the city and the police chief have welcomed ICE, and Latinos in the community say they're getting a similar vibe from some of their non-immigrant neighbors.

I talked to a man named Jesse Bermudas earlier today. He runs a Latin American grocery store.
I should say that store was completely empty and he says that's really typical right now.

People just aren't coming out. But he told me that a lot of the people in that neighborhood came here to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

And now he says, at least on social media, they're being told it's time to go. NPRS Martin Costi.

The Trump administration is preparing to announce an aid package for farmers who produce soybeans and other commodities.

Inflation due to President Trump's trade war has put many farmers on the brink of bankruptcy, as NPR's Kirk Siegler reports.

Farmers have been ramping up the pressure on the White House after the harvest.

Millions of tons of soybeans are sitting in bins across the Midwest since China has been buying instead from Brazil amid a heated trade war.

At the President's cabinet meeting, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins told Trump that next week she'll announce, quote, bridge payments to farmers to keep them afloat as trade negotiations continue.

For so long, our farmers, many of them, have been farming for government checks instead of moving their product around the world. These trade deals change that forever.

The White House says China has committed to buying 12 million tons of soybeans this year. That's less than half of what they bought last year.
Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.

In Gaza, Hamas has handed over the body of a Thai citizen who was held hostage for over two years and then killed. NPR's Jerome Sokolovsky reports that only one hostage remains in Gaza.

Suti Sakrin Talak was 42 years old and working in the fields of a kibbutz in southern Israel when it was overrun by Hamas and other militants on October 7, 2023.

He was one of 70 Thai nationals killed or captured in the onslaught.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent his condolences to his family and the people of Thailand after a forensic examination identified the body.

Now the body of just one hostage, an Israeli, remains in Gaza out of more than 250 abducted on the day of the Hamas-led attack.

Israel has demanded the return of every single one of them before agreeing to the next phase of the October ceasefire deal. Jerome Sokolovsky, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

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President Trump says he will release the video of a second deadly U.S. strike on a small boat in the Caribbean.
The September 2nd operation is coming under scrutiny.

Amik reports that there were were survivors from the first strike. Hexeths insists that U.S.

attacks on both in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific are necessary to stop drug traffickers, and the Navy admiral who oversaw the strikes is set to meet with members of Congress later today.

Colorado's mild and dry weather has forced several ski resorts to delay this season's opening.

But the first major storm of the season was expected to dump more than a foot of snow on ski slopes, as Colorado Public Radio Stina Sieg explains.

Three Colorado ski resorts are opening this week, all later than planned. Telluride, the most famous of the bunch, was supposed to open on Thanksgiving.

Chance Kiso is an editor with the website On the Snow, which tracks snow conditions. He says that the ski areas that did open on time, some had only a few trails, or only one, open to guests.

And that's been hard for skiers. You can only do the same run so many times in a day.
With the coming snow, Kiso says much more terrain should be open across the mountains.

For NPR News, I'm Stina Sieg in Grand Junction, Colorado. Giant telepot palm trees in Rio de Janeiro Park are blooming decades after being planted in Brazil.

The rare blossoms occur when millions of tiny flowers shoot up a central plume and cascade above the telepot's massive fan-shaped leaves.

The phenomenon occurs only once during the tree's 40 to 80-year lifespan.

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