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A federal judge in Minnesota has declined to order a halt to President Trump's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.

NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has our reports.

A partial shutdown of the federal government is continuing this weekend.

In a bipartisan vote, the Senate Friday night passed several spending measures that fund a number of departments through September.

The deal also extends funding for Homeland Security for another two weeks, giving Democrats a chance to push for several changes with ICE.

That's NPR's Ximena Bustillo with that report.

The House has been in recess and won't be voting on that measure until at least Monday.

Israel carried out a new wave of strikes on Gaza Saturday.

At least 30 Palestinians were killed.

That's according to Gaza health officials.

The attacks came just after the first phase of a U.S.-backed ceasefire was sealed and one day before Israel is expected to open a key border crossing.

NPR's Anas Baba reports from Gaza.

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Almost 60 cars were involved in a pileup Saturday morning on a highway in central California.

Law enforcement officials blame the accident on dense fog that's been especially common this winter.

As KVPR's Samantha Rangel reports, it's the region's third major fog-related pileup in two weeks.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Milan, Italy on Saturday to protest the deployment of U.S.

ice agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics Games.

The protests took place in a square named for Italy's liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945.

Milan's mayor says the ICE agents are not welcome in his city, and the country's interior minister has been called to Parliament to testify about the deployment.