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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Minneapolis public schools are now giving students the option to shift back to remote learning for the next month in light of the immigration enforcement standoff playing out in the region. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security says more than 2,000 arrests have been made since the start of December. Confrontations with protesters have not let up since an ICE agent fatally shot U.S. citizen Renee Macklin-Good, a white, 37-year-old mother of three.
What recent changes have been made in Minneapolis public schools regarding remote learning?
The administration says agents have the right to defend themselves while they attempt to make communities safer. Critics, such as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, argue the real threat is ICE and racial profiling.
What's happening is full on discrimination. It's targeting Somali people in our city, targeting Latino people in Minneapolis and looking for a problem that, to be clear, we are not seeing on our streets.
Mayor Fry on NPR's Morning Edition. President Trump says Tehran has asked to set up negotiations over the widespread protests engulfing Iran. He said a meeting could be arranged but would not rule out U.S. strikes against Iran beforehand. Here's NPR's Jackie Northam.
President Trump said the U.S. might have to act before any meeting with Tehran because of, quote, what's happening in Iran. Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in all corners of the country. Videos of large crowds, burning buildings, and dead bodies in the street and morgues were posted on social media despite an ongoing Internet and cell phone blackout. Tehran has not publicly said anything about a meeting with the U.S., Earlier on Sunday, a senior member of Iran's parliament warned that U.S. bases and ships in the region would be legitimate targets for preemptive strikes if it looked as though the U.S. would attack. But Iran's military capabilities were badly weakened during the 12-day war with Israel last June.
Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Nurses across New York City are on strike. NPR's Kristen Wright reports their union says as many as 15,000 are picketing.
Nurses from five hospitals in New York walked off the job. They want to preserve health care benefits, safer staffing, and protections from workplace violence. A man with a sharp object barricaded himself in a hospital room in Brooklyn and was shot and killed by police last week. Darla Joyner is on the picket lines. She's been a nurse for 12 years and is part of the union's bargaining committee.
with our job, it can go from zero to 100. And you can't really say it's just an emergency unit or a psych department. It can happen anywhere in the hospital.
The strike comes during a terrible flu season. Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a disaster emergency due to health care staffing shortages. Kristen Wright, NPR News.
From Washington, this is NPR News. A new portrait of President Trump is on display in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
What are the implications of ICE actions in Minneapolis according to local leaders?
It no longer mentions his two impeachments. NPR's Joe Hernandez reports the change comes as the Trump administration continues to pressure the Smithsonian.
The new photo of Trump in the National Portrait Gallery mentions his birth year, when he was president, and information about the photographer. It does not say that Trump was impeached twice or share other details about his time in office. A Smithsonian spokesperson said in a statement that the museum's America's President's Exhibition Gallery was undergoing an update and would include new labels and wall text. Last year, Trump signed an executive order to eliminate, quote, divisive race-centered ideology from Smithsonian museums and other cultural institutions. And over the summer, the White House ordered an internal review of eight Smithsonian museums, including the National Portrait Gallery. Joe Hernandez, NPR News.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says it plans to hold a hearing January 27th on the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. military helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport.
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