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The CEOs of more than 60 Minnesota companies, including Target, Best Buy, and General Mills, are urging local, state, and federal officials to de-escalate tensions following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Preddy by federal immigration officers.

In an open letter, the company executives called for peace and focused cooperation as some businesses reported recent losses.

Meanwhile, there are calls for further investigations to determine what led to the fatal shooting of Preddy, a U.S.

citizen who worked at a local VA hospital in Minneapolis.

Here's Greg Bovino, the Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large, updating reporters.

President Trump speaking to The Wall Street Journal said, quote, We're reviewing everything and we'll come out with a determination.

Governor Tim Walz, meanwhile, told Trump, You can end this today.

A winter storm that has pounded more than half of the country from Arizona to Maine has buried New Jersey under nearly a foot of snow and sleet, as Bruce Kahnweiser reports.

On Monday, Israel is scheduled to cut off power and water to a number of facilities run by a UN agency that's come under fire by Israel.

Doing so would effectively close them down, the agency said.

NPR's Emily Feng is in Tel Aviv with this report.

And you are listening to NPR from New York City.

The Sundance Film Festival is in full swing for the last time in Park City, Utah, before it moves to Boulder, Colorado next year.

Empress Mondelez de Barco reports on some of this year's films.

It is day 93 for the Walk for Peace monks who started their journey to Washington, D.C.

from Texas in October.

And for the first time, the 19 men, dressed in gold and maroon clothes, faced wintry, icy conditions, walking through snow and frigid temperatures in North Carolina.

In Raleigh, at the state capitol, thousands gathered to meet them.

Governor Josh Stein thanked the monks for inspiring unity and hope in the country, telling them, "...we live in a time of partisan rancor."

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