NPR News: 01-25-2026 1AM EST
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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is defending the conduct of an immigration agent who shot and killed a man protesting federal immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis. Noem said the officers acted in accordance with their training, as NPR's Ximena Bustilla reports.
Nome said that the immigration agent fired defensive shots that killed 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Preti, asserting that he was armed with a handgun. She accused Preti of, quote, brandishing the weapon and attacking officers, but declined to answer questions regarding at what point law enforcement retrieved the weapon. Immediately after the shooting, a top White House official called Preti a domestic terrorist. This is the third immigration officer involved shooting in Minneapolis this month. Two people have been killed. The agency has surged 2,000 officers into the city to conduct immigration enforcement. Over the weekend, thousands in Minneapolis took to the streets to protest the conduct of immigration officers.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
Ahead of the March primary in Texas, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and State Representative James Tallarico faced off in their first public debate Saturday. The Texas newsroom's Blaise Ganey reports on how this could factor in to who will be the Democratic Party nominee in the U.S. Senate race.
Being a border state, one of the constant themes in the questions was around immigration laws. This debate took place just hours after a man was killed by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. When asked what they would do about ICE's funding and whether it should be abolished, this is how Tallarico answered.
ICE executed a man in broad daylight on our streets. It's time to tear down. this secret police force, and replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety.
Crockett voted against the House bill that provides more funding to ICE this week. She says the agency needs to be cleaned up from top to bottom. For NPR News, I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin.
The powerful winter storm making its way across two-thirds of the U.S. is expected to hit the Northeast Sunday. Steve Kastenbaum reports New York could receive its heaviest snowfall in years.
New York City mayors are often judged by how they handle a big snowstorm. Zoran Mamdani is in the middle of that test now as he manages the city's response.
Every single New Yorker is going to receive the same level of service where we prepare the city, take care of the city, and then get the city back on its feet in time after the storm.
Temperatures plummeted into the single digits early Saturday morning, prompting an emergency declaration here.
Visibility will be very low. Winds will be gushing at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour. New Yorkers can expect whiteout or near blizzard conditions.
The weather forecast calls for a foot or more of snow from Sunday into Monday. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New York.
More than 15,000 flights have already been canceled. This is NPR News from New York. Polls in Myanmar opened at 6 a.m. local time in the last round of that Southeast Asian country's controversial general election, backed by China and Russia, but called illegitimate by the United Nations. Myanmar's military-led party, the USDP, or Union Solidarity and Development Party, has already secured the majority of seats in its national parliament, according to the government's election commission. All this while a civil war is ongoing. More than 60 people have been killed in Afghanistan after three days of heavy snowfall and rain-triggered landslides. The unusually cold weather has come at a time when thousands of Afghans have been forcibly deported with little help or aid, as NPR's Dia Hadid reports.
Authorities say the dead include 15 children, according to local media. The heavy snowfall damaged or destroyed more than 450 homes and blocked roads. forcing the Disaster Management Authority to rescue people trapped in cars.
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