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Who was the protester shot by federal agents in Minnesota?
Minnesota authorities have identified the protester shot to death yesterday by federal immigration agents. They say he's 37-year-old Alex Preddy, an ICU nurse. Preddy's father, Michael, says Alex was upset about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong.
But Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says yesterday's shooting only happened because the federal agent feared for his life.
An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.
But online video footage appears to contradict what she's saying. It shows Preddy being surrounded by multiple federal agents. Several restrained him and hit him while he's on the ground. and then he is shot multiple times. So far, no video has surfaced showing that Pretty brandished a firearm or tried to use one. A mammoth winter storm is continuing to move across the U.S. More than 170 million people are under some kind of weather caution. NPR's Matt Bloom says more than half a million customers have lost power.
videos on social media for mississippi showed long 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 a large number of trees fell on power lines knocking off power to many utilities say they have thousands of crew members on standby to repair down lines but right now Outage numbers are still ticking up as the storm moves east.
NPR's Matt Bloom reporting. The Trump administration is ordering public housing authorities nationwide to immediately verify their tenants' citizenship status. Otherwise, they could lose federal funding. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports the Department of Housing and Urban Development recently did an audit.
HUD says the audit uncovered nearly 200,000 tenants whose eligibility had not been fully verified. HUD says the review was part of a broader effort to prevent misuse of taxpayer-funded housing assistance. In a statement, the New York City Housing Authority said federal rules already require housing authorities to verify tenant citizenship or immigration status and that it's reviewing HUD's latest guidance. Under federal law, U.S. citizens, permanent residents, refugees, and asylum seekers may qualify for public housing assistance. Immigrants without legal status, foreign students, and diplomats are not eligible. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
And you're listening to NPR News. President Trump is again threatening Canada with more tariffs on its goods exported to the United States. In an online post, Trump said he'll slap levies on Canada if it goes ahead with a proposed trade deal with China. Trump had initially said this was a good thing for Canada to do. Last week at a conference in Switzerland, Canada's prime minister gave a blistering speech about the dangers of authoritarian leaders who use tariffs as economic weapons. He never named Donald Trump. A U.S. tennis prodigy has eliminated three-time men's singles finalist Daniel Medvedev from the Australian Open. He's now made it to his first-ever Grand Slam quarterfinal. Christina Kukulia reports from Melbourne.
It took less than two hours for the American 25th seed, Leonard Thien, to eliminate the Russian former world number one in straight sets. 6-4, 6-love, 6-3. Fighting back the Melbourne Heat and a late comeback by Daniel Medvedev, Tien's stunt spectators and his opponent.
It feels amazing. I mean, so special to do it, especially here where, you know, it's always so special for me to come back and play every year.
At age 20, Thien is the youngest man to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals since Australian Nick Kyrgios in 2015 and the youngest American to do so in over two decades.
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