Louise Schiavone

Separately, Gregory Bovino, the head of U.S.

Border Patrol, said agents attempted to disarm the man, but he, quote, violently resisted.

At that point, the victim was shot by an ICE agent, says Bovino, in self-defense.

The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, rejected the administration's version of events in the cases under investigation.

Across the nation, a winter storm system has communities deep in preparation.

Here is the mayor of New York City, Zoran Mamdani.

U.S.

airlines have canceled thousands of flights.

It was a turbulent week on Wall Street with President Trump's U-turn on Greenland.

NPR's Rafael Nam has more.

President Trump is threatening Canada with a 100 percent tariff on goods imported from Canada if that nation goes through with a trade deal with China.

This is NPR News in Washington.

In San Francisco, a family of four making less than $230,000 a year will now qualify for free child care under a new plan to lower the cost of living in one of the nation's most expensive cities.

Daisy Nguyen from member station KQED has more.

As a major winter storm system has begun moving across the nation, terminations of federal disaster workers at FEMA are on hold.

Recently, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been terminating two- or four-year contract employees when their work agreements are up.

Critics have warned that it's the nature of emergencies that you cannot necessarily predict when you need these workers.

Thursday, the automatic terminations ended abruptly, according to an internal email obtained by NPR.

In a statement to NPR, FEMA said that its disaster workforce is designed to fluctuate.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News.