Chapter 1: What recent developments occurred in Minnesota's immigration leadership?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump spoke by phone with Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz on Monday. Both struck a conciliatory tone. And speaking to Minnesota Public Radio, Walz said a leadership change is coming.
He pledged that, look, I'm going to send Tom Holman in. We'll do things differently. He explained to me how he thought it was very successful in Louisiana, very successful in Louisville, which I shared with him. But ICE did not shoot anybody there, and the presence was much smaller and much more targeted.
Tom Holman is the Trump administration's border czar and a veteran of immigration and customs enforcement.
Chapter 2: How did the winter storm impact airline operations across the U.S.?
He is to arrive in Minnesota today to take charge. Wells also confirmed... that Greg Bovino, the top Border Patrol official who's been leading the surge of immigration agents, will be leaving the state. Bovino provoked anger when he referred to Border Patrol agents as the victims in Saturday's fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Preddy.
A federal judge has ordered Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in federal court in Minneapolis on Friday. in a case in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to follow the court-ordered release of a man detained by ICE. The man's attorney says his client must be released because ICE failed to provide him with a bond.
Hearing the judge's order notes that this is one of dozens of court orders with which ICE has failed to comply in recent weeks. Flight cancellations and delays may stretch further into the week after that powerful winter storm swept across large parts of the U.S., and PRS Jewel Rose reports.
Airline operations were battered by the weekend storm that dumped heavy snow and ice across more than a dozen states.
Chapter 3: What changes are being proposed for the FEMA Review Council?
Sub-zero temperatures and other weather issues across the Northeast forced airlines to cancel thousands of flights and delay thousands more again on Monday, complicating their efforts to get aircraft and crews back in position for regular service. The storm also impeded road travel across a wide swath of the central and eastern U.S.
In the south, ice brought down trees and power lines, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. with the most outages reported in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump has officially extended the deadline for the FEMA Review Council to issue its recommendations. NPR's Rebecca Herscher reports that council was created by the president to suggest changes to the government's top disaster agency.
President Trump has repeatedly suggested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, is ineffective and should be dramatically downsized or even eliminated. The council that Trump appointed to make reform recommendations was supposed to deliver its final report at a meeting in December, but the White House abruptly canceled that meeting.
Now, the president has officially extended the deadline for that report until late March.
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Chapter 4: Why has the CDC stopped updating important health databases?
Congress is responsible for overseeing FEMA. A bipartisan FEMA reform bill was introduced in the House of Representatives last year.
This is NPR News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped updating databases that track important health issues. Here's NPR's Rob Stein reporting.
Researchers examined more than 82 CDC databases that the agency had been updating at least monthly and found that at least half, 46%, had stopped updating. Most of the paused databases had been tracking vaccinations, respiratory diseases, or drug overdoses. The findings were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
In a statement to NPR, the Health and Human Services Department says the CDC continues to monitor important health problems and that at least some of the delays may be due to the CDC consolidating databases.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Canadian snowboarder's drug smuggling charges?
Rob Stein, NPR News.
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder has pleaded not guilty to charges of becoming a cocaine smuggling kingpin. Ryan Wedding made his first federal court appearance Monday in Santa Ana, California. He was flown there after nearly a year-long effort by authorities to arrest him. Wedding was on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list.
Former FIFA president Seth Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the actions of the Trump administration. In a social media post, Blatter joined a call by Mark Piaf saying Piaf has right to question the upcoming World Cup. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper, Piaf said fans should stay away from the World Cup games in the U.S.
He chaired the Independent Governance Committee's oversight of FIFA reform a decade ago. I'm Giles Snyder.
Chapter 6: What actions are being taken regarding fan boycotts of the upcoming World Cup?
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