Duahli Saikautau

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Over half of the U.S.

could be affected by a major winter storm this weekend.

Forecasters say the system is expected to move through 34 states, from the Southern Plains to the South and up the Northeast.

In New York City, New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani says as the storm nears,

Thousands of trucks with agency partners will be transformed into the nation's largest snow fighting operation.

The National Weather Service is forecasting 6 to 12 inches of snowfall from Sunday into Monday morning.

Meanwhile, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is abruptly halting the termination of federal disaster workers, as NPR's Lauren Summitt reports.

In Minnesota, about 100 members of clergy were arrested while demanding that Delta and other airlines stop cooperating with federal immigration agents at Minneapolis-St.

Paul International Airport Friday morning.

Separately, a coalition of 100 groups, including labor unions, child care workers, and hundreds of businesses closed to oppose the surge of ICE operations in the state,

NPR's Meg Anderson reports thousands marched despite extreme sub-zero temperatures.

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Civil rights organizations in Mississippi have filed a lawsuit against the Rankin County District Attorney,

an office at the center of the, quote, goon squad scandal, where black men were viciously abused at the hands of local sheriff deputies over the course of two decades.

Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Shamira Muhammad reports.

The TikTok video app, used by more than 200 million Americans, has new non-Chinese investors.

Allies of President Trump, billionaire Michael Dell, Larry Ellison of tech giant Oracle, and MGX, an Emirati investment firm.

The Chinese owner, ByteDance, agreed to let these new owners create a U.S.

TikTok to avoid a permanent ban by Congress with new, defined safeguards in Oracle's cloud environment.