Dwahli Saikautal

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Officials in Minnesota continue to push the Justice Department to include state police in the investigation of the killing of a Minneapolis mother by an immigration agent.

Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports.

Despite officials in the U.S.

and Venezuela announcing that a significant number of political prisoners would be released from jails, so far only 10 have been freed.

President Trump said the U.S.

had requested the release and that Venezuelan officials were complying, as NPR's Carrie Khan reports.

Protests in Iran are in its second week.

The government has cut the internet and phone lines, making it difficult to gauge the reality on the ground.

The U.S.-based human rights activist news agency reports at least 65 people have been killed and more than 2,300 detained.

The BBC's Khazra Najee reports.

That is the BBC's Khazra Najee reporting.

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Russia continued its attacks overnight, according to Ukraine's air force, which reported intercepting nearly 100 drones.

In the Dnipro region, tens of thousands of families continued to be without power during near-freezing temperatures.

The fresh attacks came as Moscow used a seldom-used hypersonic missile against Kyiv on Friday, killing at least four people.

The Associated Press also reports that a Ukrainian drone hit an oil depot, sparking a fire in Russia's Volgograd region.

The Washington National Opera announced it is leaving the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which has been its home since 1971.

As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, the opera's departure comes in response to new policies which put a strain on the opera's financial model.

And I'm Dwahli Saikautal, NPR News, from New York City.