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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement will likely not have to travel to Minnesota to testify in court this week. As Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports, ICE is abiding by a judge's order to release a man who's been detained for the last three weeks.
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz directed acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court in Minneapolis personally on Friday. after ICE didn't respond to orders to set a bond hearing for Juan Hugo Tobai Robles. ICE arrested the 43-year-old on January 6th, but his lawyer says the agency never gave a reason. On Monday, Judge Schiltz wrote, quote, the court's patience is at an end, but he gave ICE an off-ramp and said he'd cancel the hearing if it freed Robles. Immigration attorney Graham Ojala-Barber says ICE released his client from a detention facility in Texas less than a day after the judge issued the order. For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
Much of the country is dealing with frigid cold temperatures after last weekend's winter storm, and there are still nearly half a million power outages from Texas to Tennessee. which was particularly hard hit, as WPLN's Blake Farmer explains.
It just is so widespread and really unprecedented for the local utility here in Nashville. I mean, half the city had no power at one point. And unlike a hurricane or like a tornado, new power outages are still popping up. Talk to a utility official today who told this story about a crew fixing a line, then they pack up, drive off, and literally in the rearview mirror, they see a branch take out the line.
WPLN's Blake Farmer reporting. For the first time, pure electric vehicles outsold traditional gasoline vehicles in the European Union. This as the EU plans to cut emissions from cars by 90 percent by 2035. In the U.S., meanwhile, federal policy has shifted sharply against EVs. As NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports, battery-powered cars are still rising globally.
In December, for the first time ever, more pure electric vehicles were sold than traditional gasoline-only vehicles across the entire EU. Now, hybrid vehicles were more popular than either traditional gas or pure electric, but plug-in vehicles are rising rapidly. Sales of pure electric vehicles were up more than 50% year over year, while hybrids rose just 6%. And old-fashioned gas and diesel sales dropped 20%. European automakers have been facing increasingly stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers. The fastest growing automaker in Europe last year was China's BYD. Camilla Dominovsky, NPR News.
President Trump says trading partners will invest trillions of dollars in the U.S., but a study out today raises doubts about whether the money will actually materialize and questions how it would be spent if it did. A nonpartisan think tank looked at more than $5 trillion in investment commitments made last year by the EU, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and others. This is NPR News. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he stands by his comments that he wants to diversify Canada's trade away from the U.S., That's despite claims by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant that Carney walked back his remarks. Trump recently threatened a 100 percent tariff on Canadian goods if Canada pursues a trade deal with China.
Carney says Canada is making new trade arrangements across four continents. Yale University will make tuition free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less. As NPR's Alyssa Nadwerni reports, the Ivy League school joined several other elite schools that have done the same.
The university in Connecticut expanded its financial aid program for students enrolling next year. There are two significant changes. Families making up to $100,000 a year will have attendance at Yale entirely free.
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