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The Trump administration is preparing to begin immigration sweeps to include New Orleans.

What's being called Operation Swamp Sweep aims to round up roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and Mississippi.

An immigration crackdown in North Carolina now is being expanded to include Raleigh.

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Honda is recalling more than 256,000 hybrid Accords because of a software problem that could lead to a sudden loss of power.

The defect can cause the internal software to reset while the car is in motion, potentially causing a crash.

The recall pertains to vehicles from the 2023 through 2025 model years.

Honda says that as of October, it received more than 800 warranty claims linked to the problem, but no reports of related injuries.

New research from the College of William & Mary finds that the U.S.

has been the biggest recipient of Chinese loans and grants for the past 20 years.

As NPR's Emily Fang reports, the overall size of Chinese lending abroad is much higher than previously known.

U.S.

futures are virtually unchanged in after-hours trading on Wall Street.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.

Government agencies are beginning to reopen after a six-week-long shutdown, and federal workers who keep tabs on unemployment, inflation, and spending will soon return to measuring the health of the U.S.

economy.

But NPR's Scott Horsley reports that it won't be easy compiling that data.

NPR's Scott Horsley reporting.