NPR News: 01-25-2026 3AM EST
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Who was Alex Jeffrey Preddy and what happened in Minneapolis?
Minnesota officials identified the person shot and killed in Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Preddy. He's the second person killed by federal immigration agents in less than three weeks, as NPR's Meg Anderson reports.
In a news conference with city officials, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith named Preddy as the shooting victim. They said Preddy was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen, and a Minneapolis resident. Senator Tina Smith. The Trump administration has already called Alex Preddy a domestic terrorist. He was a nurse. She stressed that if this can happen in Minnesota, it can happen in any community in the country. In the aftermath of the shooting, Mayor Jacob Fry requested that the governor deploy National Guard members to support Minneapolis police officers. Guard members will wear yellow safety vests to distinguish them from other entities on the ground. Meg Anderson, NPR News, Minneapolis.
President Trump has approved emergency disaster declarations for states affected by a massive winter storm. Karen Tzar with member station WUKY reports from Kentucky.
On Saturday, President Trump confirmed on social media that he had approved emergency declarations. for Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the declaration means federal aid is immediately available, and at the state level, help has already been deployed.
We are prepared. We have National Guard ready all over Kentucky.
Guard Bureau Chief General Stephen Nordhaus said hundreds of National Guard troops from 12 states had been activated as of Saturday. Forecasters say freezing rain is likely to cause widespread power outages. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zar in Lexington.
The Democratic National Committee says it will spend millions to register voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. From Member Station KJZZ, Ben Giles reports.
DNC Chair Ken Martin says the investment is part of efforts to get the party more involved in voter registration. In the past, he says, Democrats have relied on nonpartisan groups barred from discussing the party's candidates or core values. Directly involving party leaders from the national to local level will allow volunteers to better connect with voters that Martin says Democrats have taken for granted.
As we learned in 2024, we can't just assume that certain demographics, whether they be young voters, voters of color, or otherwise, will automatically support the Democratic Party. We have to earn every registration so that we can earn every vote.
Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 300,000 voters in Arizona. For NPR News, I'm Ben Giles in Phoenix.
And you are listening to NPR News from New York City. Trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. have ended after two days of negotiations in the United Arab Emirates. No clear outcomes were made public by the participants, which included U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump. Writing on his official Telegram channel, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled that the discussions were constructive, but no final framework was agreed to on the oversight of the country's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is currently occupied by Russia. The talks concluded as Russia continued its attack on Ukraine. The Trump administration is canceling solar projects in Puerto Rico despite ongoing power outages and a failing electric grid.
And Piers Windsor-Johnson reports the projects were meant to serve about 30,000 low-income households in rural parts of the U.S. territory.
In an email obtained by the Associated Press, the Energy Department warned that Puerto Rico's push toward a 100 percent renewable energy system could threaten the reliability of the island's power grid. The message said the rapid expansion of rooftop solar has created instability, arguing the grid cannot currently support widespread distributed solar power.
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