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Live from NPR News, I'm Corva Coleman. The Trump administration is moving a top border patrol officer out of Minneapolis and out of his leadership role.
What recent changes have occurred in the Trump administration's immigration policy?
Greg Bovino has been the face of the Trump administration's immigration efforts across the country. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says he spoke with President Trump. Walz says Trump told him he's sending his border czar to Minneapolis instead.
He pledged, 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.
The governor spoke with Minnesota Public Radio. Separately, a federal judge has ordered the acting head of ICE to appear in a courtroom in Minnesota Friday. He wants to know if Todd Lyons should be held in contempt. The judge says ICE has disobeyed his order to release a detained man or give him a bond hearing. President Trump is leaving for Iowa this morning where he's looking to recapture the narrative. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports Trump hopes to turn the page to his economic agenda as his administration faces backlash over his immigration crackdown.
The White House says the trip is the beginning of what will soon be weekly travel ahead of the midterm elections. But veteran strategist Ryan Williams says clearly Trump is looking to wrestle back the national conversation after a second death at the hands of federal agents.
The primary news story at the moment isn't just the ICE-related shooting. It's the response to the ICE-related shooting. That's what's going to be the focus. And the president can attempt to focus on the economy, on what he views are successes of his administration on the economic front.
But he's going to be stuck talking about this issue for a significant period of time. Some Republicans are calling for further investigations and questioning Trump's broader goals with the crackdown. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
More than half a million power customers still lack electricity after a mammoth winter storm hit much of the country over the weekend. The worst affected state is still Tennessee. From member station WPLN, Rose Gilbert reports from Nashville, much of that city is still without power.
And with temperatures dipping into the single digits at night, officials have warned that the cold could be life-threatening for those without heat. Lots of people are looking for a place to stay, and hotels are filling up fast. Breland Burham and his family checked into a Nashville hotel Sunday afternoon. While holding his one-year-old son in the lobby, he says he's here for the same reason as everyone else.
Just heat and keeping food cold and trying to find him something to eat, unless he wanted to eat gazpacho.
At least four people in Tennessee have died in the winter storm. More than 100 warming stations have opened across the state. For NPR News, I'm Rose Gilbert in Nashville.
On Wall Street and pre-market trading, Dow futures are lower. This is NPR. Policymakers for the Federal Reserve will open their two-day policy meeting today in Washington, D.C. At issue is short-term interest rates. President Trump has been heavily pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut these rates. His administration has also launched an investigation into testimony that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave to Congress. Powell issued a public statement this month saying he would not give in to pressure and would continue to act in the public interest. Social media apps have long been accused of harming children. Now a jury in Los Angeles will hear these claims. NPR's Shannon Bond reports on a trial opening there today.
The case in California State Court is the first in a wave of lawsuits against social media companies brought by more than 1,000 individuals, school districts, and state attorneys general. They accuse the companies of designing their apps to be nearly impossible for kids to put down, leading to mental health problems.
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