NPR News: 09-03-2026 3PM EDT

0:00Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Federal prosecutors are charging an officer with immigration and customs enforcement for lying to investigators about a shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year. The criminal case is not yet public but was confirmed by a person not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. The charges represent a rare moment of the Justice Department seeking to hold immigration officers accountable. In Castro, the ICE officer was in North Minneapolis in January as part of a broad immigration crackdown in the state known as Operation Metro Surge. Authorities say he fired his weapon through a closed door and shot Julio Sosa-Saleis of Venezuela in immigrant in the leg. When the Federal Reserve meets again in less than two weeks, investors will watch to see if it holds interest rate steady or increases them. Board of Governors member Christopher Waller said today he's in favor of keeping the rate at its current level, depending on how the economy performs.

1:02Today, Vice President J.D. Vance took issue with the Central Banks action so far. We believe that the Fed should be lowering interest rates. We feel quite confident that if you look at the inflation numbers, if you look at the CTI numbers, that it's proper and responsible for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. So that is a very important thing. It's something we care a great deal about. Vance was leading the White House's first press briefing in over a month. Ousted Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were asking a federal judge in New York to toss the drug trafficking case against them. The new court filing the Maduro's attorneys say their clients should have immunity as the head of a foreign state and first lady. Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas. And the new filing in federal court in Manhattan, Maduro's attorneys say no American court has ever presided over the criminal trial of a foreign leader who was recognized in their own country as the sitting head of state. They say that's because heads of state are immune from prosecution in any national court but their own.

2:02And therefore they say the U.S. court lacks jurisdiction and must dismiss the indictment. Maduro faces narcoterism, drug and gun charges. Both he and his wife, Celia Flores, were captured by the U.S. in a military raid in Caracas in January and brought to the U.S. to face trial. Both of them have pleaded not guilty. Ryan Lucas and B.R. News, Washington. A Massachusetts jury spent a six-day attempting to reach a unanimous decision on whether to find Lindsey Clancy criminally responsible for the 2023 killings of her three young children. She said that happened while she was suffering postpartum psychosis. The prosecution claims she knew exactly what she was doing. The case could end in a mistrial if the jury were to return to the judge for a third time claiming that they are deadlocked. You're listening to NPR News. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo passed another grim milestone so far

3:07where the 3,000 people have died in the outbreak. But in Pierce-Doth-Alambra reports, countries trying to contain the spread of Ebola and there are signs of hope. But the number of new cases seems to have come down slightly from the peak in August, according to Africa CDC official, Wesam Mancula. It's very early to say we have sustained the decline in this outbreak, but we see a good sign with this kind of plecophase for the last two weeks. The virus is starting to recede from previous hotspots, like Mangualu and Wampara, where the first cases were reported, but the virus is spreading in new regions in DRC, underlining the challenge of containing this outbreak. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. In Florida, a leak Grand Jury report details how Governor Ron DeSantis' administration misappropriated millions from a Medicaid settlement, W. U.S.F. Stuglusso has more. Reports says the money first went to a charity, then ultimately went to oppose an unsuccessful state ballot proposal to allow recreational marijuana. The Grand Jury didn't issue indictments, saying no one would take responsibility.

4:08It did recommend more guardrails. U.S. Representative Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for Governor agrees. My commitments are very clear. We are going to work with the legislature. We're going to make the necessary laws changes, so that just does not occur again. Democratic nominee David Jolly also wants reports, though he wants another investigation too. The report details the involvement of two officials DeSantis later appointed to hire office, both are on November's ballot and deny wrongdoing. For NPR News, I'm Douglas Sol in Tallahassee. This is NPR News.