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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Homeland Security says it will review the body camera footage of Border Patrol agents at the scene of the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Preddy in Minneapolis. NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports the second such lethal encounter this month involving a U.S. citizen in Minnesota has increased scrutiny over officer training and the use of body cams.
There is no law mandating the use of body cameras by federal immigration agents. Any such mandate would need to come from Congress. The House recently passed a spending bill that would provide DHS with $20 million for these cameras, but the bill only mandates that the money be spent. It does not mandate the use of the cameras. And now the broader package is in limbo. Senate Democrats are seemingly more resistant to pass the package, which would fund the entire federal government as well after this latest shooting. The investigation into Preddy's death is being led by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and supported by the FBI. Customs and Border Protection will also do an internal investigation.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
Border Patrol is involved in a shooting that critically injured one person in Arizona. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Department says it's working with the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The president of Mexico says her country will continue to stand by Cuba. Her comments come amid reports that Mexico has suspended oil shipments to the island. Here's NPR's Ada Peralta.
Ever since the United States stopped Venezuelan oil from reaching Cuba, Mexico has become the island's biggest provider of oil. Republican lawmakers have since called for Mexico to stop shipments, and Bloomberg News reports the state oil agency has done just that. President Claudia Sheinbaum did not deny the report, but she said Mexico was against the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
Mexico has always been supportive, and Mexico will continue to be supportive.
Mexico has always supported Cuba, she said, and it will keep doing so. But even a short pause in shipments will have repercussions in Cuba because it's already facing an economic crisis. Cuba says the U.S. is trying to starve its government in an effort to provoke a popular rebellion. Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
The last Israeli hostage's body in Gaza was found and returned to his family for burial in Israel on Monday, paving the way for the next phase of the U.S.-backed ceasefire. And Pierre Zanisbaba attended a rally of around 100 people in eastern Gaza who say their homes had been demolished by the Israeli military during the ceasefire. He says people in Gaza City want to return to what's left of their homes.
Most of the Gazans here that's living in the eastern side of Gaza were being totally kicked out of their houses and forcibly displaced from their own houses. Demonstrators here are demanding a full withdrawal. It was outlined in the agreement and an immediate halt of all of the bombardments and demolition operations that the Israelis are still daily going here. It's NPR.
The National Weather Service says temperatures across the eastern half of the United States will remain well below normal through the weekend. Extremely cold windchill values, it says, expected to drop to the minus 20s in parts of the upper Ohio Valley tonight. Low temps will continue to pose life-threatening risk of hypothermia and frostbite. Well, in North Carolina, state funds are helping people repair and insulate their homes and campers. against the dangerously cold weather. Many are still trying to recover from 2024's Hurricane Helene. Gerard Albert III of Blue Ridge Public Radio has details.
Jordan-Durham has been rushing to make dozens of RVs warmer.
One of the biggest challenges that you face when you're trying to live in an RV is the movement of air underneath just strips heat.
He's a construction manager with United Methodist Disaster Relief. The nonprofit, along with several others, received half a million dollars in state grants to help the effort.
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