Dave Mattingly

Senate Democrats say they're unwilling to support a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security until reforms are made to how DHS enforces immigration laws.

This follows the fatal shootings of two people in Minnesota by federal officers during separate enforcement actions in Minneapolis.

Approval of a funding bill in the Senate would require support from some Democrats, with 60 votes needed for passage.

The FBI has removed hundreds of boxes of ballots from an elections warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia.

As Amanda Andrews with Georgia Public Broadcasting reports, the ballots are from the state's 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden.

From Texas to New England, power is slowly being restored to homes and businesses affected by last weekend's winter storm.

The number of outages is now less than 300,000.

On Monday, that total topped 800,000.

Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana remain the top three states where crews are busiest.

The storm dumped lots of ice in those states, leading to broken tree limbs that took down power lines.

Much of the U.S.

has been experiencing bitterly cold temperatures since that storm hit.

NPR's Debbie Elliott says forecasters are warning of another blast of Arctic air before the weekend.

Wall Street futures are higher this morning.

This is NPR News from Washington.

E-commerce giant Amazon says it plans to cut another 16,000 corporate jobs.

The company is not specifying where the cuts will be made.

This is the second round of job cuts announced by Amazon since October when it said it was laying off 14,000 employees.

Previously, Amazon has said it will turn to artificial intelligence to reduce its corporate workforce.

Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR.