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Hi, I'm Kim Vennell in Whanganui, New Zealand.
It's Friday, January 16th.
Today, Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota.
Machado hands over her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump.
The Fed's Powell might have an ace up his sleeve when his term ends.
And the Detroit auto show reveals a new gamified army tank.
This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to deploy military forces in Minnesota.
It follows days of sometimes peaceful, sometimes violent protests there.
In Minneapolis, demonstrators confronted ICE agents.
Elsewhere, protesters hurled rocks, ice and fireworks, clashing with law enforcement agents who fired tear gas late into the night.
Protests escalated after federal agents shot a Venezuelan man in the leg as he tried to flee detention.
That followed the fatal shooting of Rene Good, a U.S.
citizen, last week.
Our photographer Leah Millis has covered protests and civil unrest across the country for years and is on the ground in Minneapolis.
We caught up with her in her car yesterday to get a sense of the situation on the ground following Wednesday night's shooting.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado telling reporters she gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump at their meeting at the White House.
A White House official has confirmed that Trump intends to keep the medal.
Trump on social media called it a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.
Now, there's been a lot of talk about who is going to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, but less has been said about what Powell will do once his term as chair ends in May.