--:-- Will Jarvis: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Will Jarvis, in for Tracy Mumford. Today's Friday, April 18th.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Here's what we're covering. In El Salvador, the man at the center of a fierce debate over the Trump administration's immigration policies was seen for the first time since being wrongfully deported.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia was temporarily released from the high-security prison where he's been held for weeks, and met with Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Van Hollen, a Democrat who's been trying to spotlight Obrego Garcia's case, didn't give details about their conversation, but he shared a photo of them sitting together and talking in a hotel.
--:-- Will Jarvis: I do intend to keep at this until we ensure that Mr. Obrego Garcia has his rights to due process.
--:-- Senator Chris Van Hollen: At a press conference before the meeting, I said I will continue to push to get Abrego Garcia released and brought back to the U.S.
--:-- Senator Chris Van Hollen: He had entered the country illegally more than a decade ago, but had permission from a judge to stay. And government lawyers have acknowledged that his sudden deportation was an administrative error.
--:-- Senator Chris Van Hollen: We need to make sure that the court system works and due process works, because if you take it away for any individual, it's a very short road to taking it away for every American.
--:-- Will Jarvis: For the moment, both American and Salvadoran officials have refused to take steps to release Abrego Garcia, accusing him of being a violent gang member, though he's never been charged or convicted of that.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And in a social media post, El Salvador's president seemed to mock concerns about his detention in the mega prison, which has a history of human rights abuses.
--:-- Will Jarvis: He wrote that Abrego Garcia had, quote, miraculously risen from the death camps and was sipping margaritas in Tropical Paradise.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The photo he posted from the hotel showed two glasses with cherries and salted rims.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The Times learned that one of his aides had placed the drinks there to try and stage the photo.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The clock is ticking on a major new push by the Trump administration to overhaul the federal government.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The White House wants to assemble essentially a kill list of regulations from across the federal government to eliminate.
--:-- Will Jarvis: This would be rules from agriculture, environment, labor, transportation, commerce.
--:-- Will Jarvis: All the agencies are kind of combing through a lot of rules to probably be put on this list.
--:-- Will Jarvis: My colleague Coral Davenport is covering the effort.
--:-- Coral Davenport: She says the White House has given government agencies a deadline of this weekend to add to the kill list.
--:-- Coral Davenport: Elon Musk even built an AI tool to comb through more than 100,000 pages of federal regulations in search of cuts.
--:-- Coral Davenport: Once the administration completes the list, Coral says it has a two-part plan to slash the rules.
--:-- Coral Davenport: For some of them, it will try to use a novel legal strategy to avoid the standard lengthy repeal process that past administrations have followed.
--:-- Coral Davenport: And for the rest of the rules, it will simply stop enforcing them.
--:-- Will Jarvis: So some examples. There's a rule that establishes minimum staffing requirements in nursing homes that they're looking at eliminating.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Rules on mining safety that are intended to protect miners from lethal dust.
--:-- Will Jarvis: There are many rules that affect which employees are eligible for minimum wage or overtime or sick leave.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Dozens of environmental rules to protect drinking water, wetlands.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The list of potential rules goes on and on.
--:-- Will Jarvis: A lot of experts say there probably is a lot of red tape and dead wood that could be eliminated.
--:-- Will Jarvis: But it's important to understand that this approach is radically new.
--:-- Will Jarvis: These rules really serve as a safety net for American society.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And this approach of immediately and rapidly ripping that out could have profound effects all throughout American society on millions of people in a way that we haven't seen before.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Now, two other quick updates on the Trump administration.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The effort to slash government spending has reached AmeriCorps, the agency that organizes community service work around the U.S.
--:-- Will Jarvis: This week, almost all of its federal staff were placed on administrative leave and told not to return to the office.
--:-- Will Jarvis: A Trump administration official said the agency's billion budget was targeted in an effort to eliminate government waste.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The cuts could gut AmeriCorps disaster response efforts as well as volunteer work around environmental protection and wildfire prevention.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Also, officials in Wisconsin say cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are undermining their effort to tackle a lead paint crisis in Milwaukee public schools.
--:-- Will Jarvis: They say flaking lead paint and lead dust were discovered in at least seven school buildings.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And in recent months, four students were found to have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead, which can damage kids' brains and nervous systems.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Parents have focused most of their frustration on the local government, saying the response has been too slow.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Though local health officials say the situation was made worse when the CDC recently fired the two lead experts advising Milwaukee.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And a request for more federal assistance was formally denied.
--:-- Will Jarvis: In the past, cities with lead problems have received extensive help from the CDC.
--:-- Will Jarvis: We're absolutely heartbroken by the violence that occurred on our campus earlier today.
--:-- Will Jarvis: In Tallahassee on Thursday, officials say a student at Florida State University opened fire on campus, killing two people and injuring six others.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Police arrested a suspect and identified him as the 20-year-old son of a local sheriff's deputy and a member of the Sheriff's Office Youth Advisory Council.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Officials said he used his mother's gun in the attack, a former service revolver she'd been allowed to keep for personal use.
--:-- Will Jarvis: We kind of just heard there was like a commotion.
--:-- Will Jarvis: I thought it was like a fight breaking out or something, but we just heard people yelling and stuff, and everybody just got up and ran.
--:-- Will Jarvis: We didn't really know what was happening.
--:-- Will Jarvis: As shots rang out, students scrambled to shelter in place, barricading classroom doors with tables and chairs.
--:-- Will Jarvis: For some, it wasn't their first time going into lockdown for a school shooting.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Several said they were students in Parkland, Florida in 2018, when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Two separate legal cases are threatening to break up Google as the internet giant faces a reckoning over its online dominance.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Yesterday a federal judge ruled that Google acted to illegally maintain a monopoly in advertising technology the tech that it uses to put up almost 90 of all online ads.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And on Monday, Google will be back in court in front of another federal judge for a hearing about the company's online search tool.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Last year, the judge found that Google also acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in that field.
--:-- Will Jarvis: In both cases, the government is asking the courts to force Google to sell off parts of its business as part of a broader antitrust effort to limit the power of big tech.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And finally, after years of Americans eating less beef, pork, and chicken, a recent report has shown that meat consumption has hit an all-time high in the U.S.
--:-- Will Jarvis: For a while, foods like grain bowls and plant burgers were having a moment as people turned to veggies to try and eat healthier and fight climate change.
--:-- Will Jarvis: But now, meat is back.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Sweetgreen is now serving steak.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Are you serious?
--:-- Will Jarvis: Restaurants are adding more meat to their menus.
--:-- Will Jarvis: All right, I'm here at Fogo de Janeiro Brazilian Steakhouse.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Steakhouse chains are expanding.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And even just the flavor of meat seems to be in right now.
--:-- Will Jarvis: We finally found the late night sizzling cheeseburger Doritos.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Experts say a big reason for the comeback is Americans' growing obsession with protein.
--:-- Will Jarvis: As food trends like the carnivore and keto diets have gone big.
--:-- Will Jarvis: If your TikTok feed is also full of people eating ground beef with mushed bananas, now you know why.
--:-- Will Jarvis: There are also many Americans who are trying to build back muscle they've lost while taking weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
--:-- Will Jarvis: And on average, the number of Americans who say they're trying to eat less meat has slipped to just 22%, the lowest level in years.
--:-- Will Jarvis: But maybe the most telling stat is this.
--:-- Will Jarvis: For years, Olive Garden was the top casual dining restaurant in the country.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Now, it's the Steakhouse Chain, Texas Roadhouse.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Those are the headlines.
--:-- Will Jarvis: This show is made by Jessica Metzger, Tracy Mumford, Jan Stewart, and me, Will Jarvis.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Original theme by Dan Powell.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Larissa Anderson, Jake Lucas, Zoe Murphy, and Paula Schumann.
--:-- Will Jarvis: The headlines will be back on Monday.
--:-- Will Jarvis: Thank you.
