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The National Weather Service issued its most extreme alert for the windy conditions. And a polar vortex is set to grip large swaths of the country over the next few days. One National Weather Service meteorologist told NPR anything east of the Rockies will see lower than normal temperatures, with wind chills in some places potentially reaching minus 50 degrees.

And finally, it's MLK Day, only the second time ever it's fallen on Inauguration Day. And as Donald Trump reassumes the Oval Office, Martin Luther King Jr. 's son, Martin Luther King III, told USA Today that he wants Americans to double down on the work his father started of making America a more equal society.

And finally, it's MLK Day, only the second time ever it's fallen on Inauguration Day. And as Donald Trump reassumes the Oval Office, Martin Luther King Jr. 's son, Martin Luther King III, told USA Today that he wants Americans to double down on the work his father started of making America a more equal society.

And finally, it's MLK Day, only the second time ever it's fallen on Inauguration Day. And as Donald Trump reassumes the Oval Office, Martin Luther King Jr. 's son, Martin Luther King III, told USA Today that he wants Americans to double down on the work his father started of making America a more equal society.

The King family has a goal of having Americans participate in 100 million hours of community service by 2029, the year Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 100 years old. In fact, MLK Day is the only national holiday designated as a day of service. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.

The King family has a goal of having Americans participate in 100 million hours of community service by 2029, the year Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 100 years old. In fact, MLK Day is the only national holiday designated as a day of service. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.

The King family has a goal of having Americans participate in 100 million hours of community service by 2029, the year Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 100 years old. In fact, MLK Day is the only national holiday designated as a day of service. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.

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And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up next. New York Magazine looks at how several new startups are in the business of friendship making as Americans have become increasingly lonely. If you're listening in the podcast app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.

And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up next. New York Magazine looks at how several new startups are in the business of friendship making as Americans have become increasingly lonely. If you're listening in the podcast app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.

Yeah, so look, I do fall in the camp of believing the thing that makes the United States of America unique is that we are bound by a set of ideals. And that's different than the blood and soil vision of American identity. And I do think that that's gaining currency. It's popular. I'm empathetic to it. But I think that that fails. The blood and soil vision fails.

Yeah, so look, I do fall in the camp of believing the thing that makes the United States of America unique is that we are bound by a set of ideals. And that's different than the blood and soil vision of American identity. And I do think that that's gaining currency. It's popular. I'm empathetic to it. But I think that that fails. The blood and soil vision fails.

Yeah, so look, I do fall in the camp of believing the thing that makes the United States of America unique is that we are bound by a set of ideals. And that's different than the blood and soil vision of American identity. And I do think that that's gaining currency. It's popular. I'm empathetic to it. But I think that that fails. The blood and soil vision fails.

First of all, our national identity will always then be thinner than that of somewhere like Japan or Italy, for that matter. Right. Or Israel. Like these are countries where you have deep blood and soil connections, genetic lineages dating back or religious ties. Like that is not the United States of America.

First of all, our national identity will always then be thinner than that of somewhere like Japan or Italy, for that matter. Right. Or Israel. Like these are countries where you have deep blood and soil connections, genetic lineages dating back or religious ties. Like that is not the United States of America.

First of all, our national identity will always then be thinner than that of somewhere like Japan or Italy, for that matter. Right. Or Israel. Like these are countries where you have deep blood and soil connections, genetic lineages dating back or religious ties. Like that is not the United States of America.

So if we pretend that somebody is more American because they've been here for seven generations where somebody's only been here for two or one. Well, guess what? Our national identity is always going to be a weaker form than that existing in most other countries.

So if we pretend that somebody is more American because they've been here for seven generations where somebody's only been here for two or one. Well, guess what? Our national identity is always going to be a weaker form than that existing in most other countries.

So if we pretend that somebody is more American because they've been here for seven generations where somebody's only been here for two or one. Well, guess what? Our national identity is always going to be a weaker form than that existing in most other countries.

In fact, most other countries have not only a stronger claim on that national identity, but it also denies the possibility of American exceptionalism, which is this idea that the United States, which I actually buy into, this idea that the United States of America is exceptional relative to all other nations across time and space because of the common ideals that otherwise brought together a divided and even in some ways polyglot group of people, religiously diverse group of people in a way that's never been done in human history.