Traci Mumford

Drones made their debut more than a decade ago at the Winter Games in Russia, but now they're everywhere, controlled by pilots in a little white tent off to the side of the finish line.

Sometimes small crowds gather there to watch the drones stick their landings.

One of the main drone pilots at the Games said his team had done test runs with every athlete before the Games started, so the Olympians could get used to that...

Apparently, they are able to decline drone footage if they're worried about being distracted while they're competing.

But one spectator told The Times that, at least for her, the drone footage has given her a new appreciation for some of the events, providing way more detail on what used to just look like a blurry spandex blob racing by.

She said, quote, I think skeleton would be a bit boring without the drones.

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I'm Tracy Mumford.

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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.

I'm Traci Mumford.

Today's Wednesday, January 14th.

Here's what we're covering.

In Minnesota, six federal prosecutors have resigned over how the Justice Department is handling the investigation into the deadly ice shooting in Minneapolis last week.

Sources tell The Times that after Renee Good was killed in her car by a federal agent, the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, who was appointed by President Trump, told her staff they would not investigate whether the agent had violated federal law.

Instead, the department pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of Good's widow and her potential connections to local activist groups opposed to Trump's immigration crackdown.

The most senior figure to resign was the second-in-command at the U.S.

Attorney's Office in Minnesota, Joseph Thompson.

People familiar with his decision say he had also objected to the fact that the DOJ blocked his efforts to work with state officials to investigate the killing.

Before the shooting, Thompson had been overseeing the complex investigation into welfare fraud in the Somali community there.