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Podcast: NTD News Today
Episode: Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act to End Minneapolis Protests; US Seizes Venezuela-Linked Tanker Ahead of Trump–Machado Meeting
Description: President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell protests against ICE agents in Minneapolis. This comes as tensions escalate in the city following a violent nighttime confrontation between an ICE agent and an illegal immigrant in the city. The Department of Homeland Security said the immigrant ambushed the agent, who shot the attacker in the leg in self-defense.President Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado will meet at the White House on Thursday. Just hours before the meeting, U.S. Southern Command confirmed in a post o...