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What impact will the historic winter storm have on the U.S.?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dualisa Kautau. An historic winter storm could affect more than 180 million people in the U.S. this weekend. Already, more than 100,000 customers are without power, as NPR's Jeff Brady reports.
The storm is sweeping across the south with freezing rain and sleet, and up into the northeast in New England with up to two feet of snow expected in some places. Forecasters warn freezing rain and ice could be a problem for the southern plains to the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S., and cold temperatures will last into next week. More than 30 states are under some sort of winter weather advisory for snow, sleet, wind, and extreme cold. Governors in more than a dozen states have warned their residents about the storm and declared some form of emergency or state of preparation. Schools and universities in some of the affected states have announced they plan to close or offer virtual classes Monday.
What details emerged about the Minnesota ICU nurse shooting incident?
Jeff Brady, NPR News.
DHS Secretary Christine Noem is describing a Minnesota ICU nurse who was fatally shot yesterday as an individual who committed domestic terrorism. She said the individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, but multiple videos appeared to contradict this. This situation that we have today is a tragedy that we don't have to have. We have it because we have a mayor and a governor who encourage this violence in and encourage this type of rioting. Hours after the victim was identified as 37-year-old Alex Preddy, a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, protesters were seen clashing with immigration agents and police. Here's Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
What was the response to the protests at the South Texas ICE detention facility?
This federal occupation of Minnesota long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. It's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state. And today that campaign claimed another life. I've seen the videos from several angles, and it's sickening.
Walz called in the National Guard to support local police. A prominent immigration lawyer says a disturbance broke out Saturday at the South Texas ICE detention facility where five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from Minneapolis are being detained. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports.
Immigration attorney Eric Lee was at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Dilley, Texas, about 70 miles south of San Antonio. He says guards ordered him to leave because there was a mass protest happening at the detention center.
How is the situation in Myanmar affecting its general election?
Guards started to shout, everybody out, everybody out. There's been an incident. So I left and walked out. And as I was walking back to my car, I heard what sounded like hundreds of children shouting.
Lee spoke to a client afterwards who told him the protest was triggered by the treatment of Liam Ramos. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio.
And this is NPR News. 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.
What new findings were revealed about Hunter S. Thompson's death?
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 Election Commission. All this while a civil war is ongoing. Authorities in Colorado have reaffirmed the cause of writer Hunter S. Thompson's death in 2005 as a suicide. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced the results of its comprehensive review following a request to reopen the case at the behest of Thompson's widow.
In a press release issued on Friday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it did not uncover any new facts or evidence to support a conclusion different from the original one, that Hunter S. Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home northwest of Aspen, Colorado, on February 20, 2005. He was 67. The Bureau says Thompson's widow, Anita Thompson, contacted the Pitkin County Sheriff last summer to share, quote, new concerns and potential information about her husband's death.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What impact will the historic winter storm have on the U.S.?
0:01–0:58
2
What details emerged about the Minnesota ICU nurse shooting incident?
0:58–1:42
3
What was the response to the protests at the South Texas ICE detention facility?
1:42–2:33
4
How is the situation in Myanmar affecting its general election?
2:33–3:15
5
What new findings were revealed about Hunter S. Thompson's death?
3:15–4:31
6
What are the implications of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's review?
4:31–4:38