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Minnesota state and city leaders condemned the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis following Wednesday's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent.

Mexico's federal government is sending thousands of soldiers to Tijuana to stem the brutal drug violence in that border city. Police corruption and attacks against legitimate officers have compromised law enforcement there.

While acts of terrorism like the bombing in Oklahoma City arely occur on American soil, other countries around the globe have been orced to deal with extreme acts of violence throughout their past and current istories. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Conor O'Cleary, the Washington orrespondent for the Irish Times newspaper, about what it's like to live in an nvironment rife with the fear of urban terrorism.

NEXT WEDNESDAY WILL MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. IN OBSERVANCE, THE MUSEUM OF TELEVISION AND RADIO IN NEW YORK CITY HAS BEGUN A LISTENING SERIES CALLED "FDR ON RADIO: THE VOICE OF AN ERA," WHICH WILL BE RUNNING THROUGH OCTOBER 1st. NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK ATTENDED A SYMPOSIUM AT THE MUSEUM.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jack Calhoun cal-HOON), the Executive Director of the National Crime Prevention Council in ashington, D.C., and Buffalo City Court Judge Eugene Fahey (fay-hee) about the ffectivness of youth curfews. Mr. Calhoun says the curfews will only be uccessful if they constitute one part of a community-wide effort that includes arental involvement and recreational programs.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with education specialist Deborah eier (MY-ER). She helped found Harlem's Central Park East in New York's istrict four, where her ideas spread to other schools and turned around an area nce notorious for the worst academic scores in the city. Meier has written bout her experiences in a new book, "The Power of Their Ideas" (Beacon ress)

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Bosnia on the peace process in Mostar and Sarajevo. In Mostar, the city once split between Croats and Muslims, the reunification of the central district has been marred by fist-fights between Croat and Muslim youths. In the Serb suburbs of Sarajevo the exodus of Bosnian Serbs continues. Leaders have ordered an evacuation from areas that are to be handed over to the Bosnian government.

Daniel Pinkwater is paging through National Geographic and comes across a picture of a remote Chinese village that has bagel s. And bagels that he says look pretty good. He mourns that fact that you can get good bagels in China, but not where he lives just a hundred miles north of New York City. He is stuck with the frozen erzatz kind.

Development to tear down low income high rise apartments in inner city Baltimore, and move tenants to the suburbs. The HUD proposal tentatively settles a class action lawsuit brought by public housing tenants.

The storm dumped many inches of rain on Philadelphia and New York City, causing flooding and at least 45 deaths.