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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
What happened in the fatal shooting incident involving immigration agents in Minneapolis?
Minnesota and federal law enforcement officials are clashing over the fatal shooting of a man by immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. The incident has reignited tensions over jurisdiction and transparency in use-of-force cases. Peter Cox with Minnesota Public Radio reports.
After federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Preddy, state investigators say they were blocked from the scene by federal law enforcement, even after returning with a signed judicial warrant. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says the state will do its own investigation.
We need to have a fair investigation, understanding what's happening and held accountable. We continue to hear, and we heard it from the vice president, that these folks can do whatever they want. They can have full immunity. And what I'm telling you is they will not.
How is the winter storm affecting states across the nation?
There will be justice to Minnesotans.
The state is suing to prevent the destruction of evidence, and a judge granted a temporary order to preserve it. For NPR News, I'm Peter Cox in St. Paul.
President Trump has approved emergency declarations in 10 states, including Indiana and Kentucky, as a massive winter storm sweeps across the nation. NPR's Matt Bloom reports no ice and freezing rain has knocked out power for more than 800,000 people, mostly in the South.
Electric companies in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee reported tens of thousands of outages as the storm unleashed freezing rain and snow. Video on social media from Mississippi showed icicles forming on power lines in several cities as the storm moved through. Southwestern Electric Power Company, which services parts of northern Louisiana, eastern Texas, and Arkansas, said in a statement a large number of trees fell on power lines due to heavy ice accumulation. Utilities say they have crew members on standby to repair downed lines, but in many areas hard hit by the storm, outage numbers continue to creep up.
What are the implications of Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods?
Matt Bloom, NPR News, New Orleans.
President Trump is threatening to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if it moves ahead with a trade deal with China. The sudden shift comes just days after Prime Minister Mark Carney made critical remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. NPR's Mara Liason reports.
What's interesting about this is when that trade deal was announced, Trump was positive about it. He said, quote, this is what you should be doing. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that. But then after Carney's speech, he changed his mind and threatened tariffs. So I think the bottom line here is that Trump is very unpredictable. That's why he's forcing other countries to de-risk, to separate from the United States and look for other partners.
What challenges did Alex Honnold face while climbing Taipei 101?
That's NPR's Mara Liason reporting. This is NPR News in Washington. American rock climber Alex Honnold shocked to fame in the documentary film Free Solo. It showed him doing one of the hardest climbs in Yosemite National Park without using ropes. This weekend, Honnold free-climbed a very different goal, Taipei 101, Taiwan's iconic skyscraper. NPR's Emily Fang has more.
A large crowd cheered as Honnold scaled the more than 1,600-foot-high blue glass and steel skyscraper with nothing more than his hands and some chalk, no rope, and no safety net. He said he'd been thinking of climbing Taipei 101 for years.
If you look at a building like Taipei 101, you're just like, dude, it's so big. It's so much bigger than everything around it. The view is insane.
At 101 stories tall, Taipei 101 is one of the tallest buildings in Asia and built in a high-risk earthquake zone, which it compensates for with an internal steel damper that sways whenever there's a quake to counteract it and stop the building from breaking in half. In total, the climb took Honnold about an hour and a half. Emily Fang, NPR News.
Crowds gathered at the zoo in Tokyo today to say farewell to Japan's last two pandas.
What significance does panda diplomacy hold in Japan-China relations?
The twin cubs are heading back to China, which owns the animals under a longstanding agreement known as panda diplomacy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:05
2
What happened in the fatal shooting incident involving immigration agents in Minneapolis?
0:05–0:54
3
How is the winter storm affecting states across the nation?
0:54–2:09
4
What are the implications of Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Canadian goods?
2:09–2:53
5
What challenges did Alex Honnold face while climbing Taipei 101?
2:53–4:15
6
What significance does panda diplomacy hold in Japan-China relations?
4:15–4:39