NPR News: 01-29-2026 4AM EST
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A partial government shutdown seems increasingly likely as the Senate heads toward a crucial vote today on legislation that would fund the Homeland Security Department and other government agencies. Senate Democrats say they will not agree to extend DHS funding without enforceable limits on President Trump's immigration crackdown. And Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar told NPR that Democrats want to overhaul immigration and customs enforcement.
And I'll just give you some ideas. Stopping the search, getting ICE out of Minnesota and other places. the training that has been reduced to 47 days for the 47th president when it should be months and months of training, getting rid of these masks and, in fact, requiring mandatory body cameras.
During a search Wednesday, FBI agents took hundreds of boxes of 2020 presidential ballots from an election hub in Georgia. Amanda Andrews with Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.
Three white trucks were filled with archived ballots from Fulton, the most populated county in Georgia. President Donald Trump has routinely alleged widespread voter fraud took place in Fulton in 2020. Multiple audits have validated the votes and the county's election results. Fulton County Chairman Rob Pitts says he's not sure what will happen to the ballots now that they've been moved.
I can no longer, as chair of this board, satisfy not only the citizens of Atlanta, but the citizens of the world that those ballots are still secure. So that is a major concern that I have right now.
Fulton County leaders are not sure where the ballots are headed. For NPR News, I'm Amanda Andrews.
To Kentucky now, where bitter cold temperatures are keeping roads slick and with at least 13 storm-related deaths, schools and some businesses remain closed. From Member Station WUKY in Lexington, Karen Czar says residents are still trying to dig out.
Amy Brown tried to break her car free of an encasement of ice Tuesday to no avail. With nothing but time on her hands, she took another crack at it Wednesday. It took some de-icer and some heavy scraping. After about 10 minutes, she was in the driver's seat. With kitty litter under the tires... I did it!
Success! Success is mine!
So now that she can get out, what are her big plans?
I'm going to pull the car right back into the driveway, go back inside and have a bowl of chili.
Below freezing temperatures remain in Kentucky's forecast through the weekend. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zar in Lexington.
Hundreds of thousands remain without power. Multiple southern states following last weekend's winter storm. The hardest hit states are Mississippi and Tennessee. This is NPR News. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is warning Canada against picking a fight ahead of a formal review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal under the USMCA that took effect in 2020. A joint review must be launched by July 1st this year, but trade relations worsened over the past week following Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Carney condemned economic coercion by major powers. President Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from Canada if Ottawa moves forward with a trade deal with China.
Tesla profits fell 46% last year as the electric automaker saw sales decline year over year. The company also announced its ending production of the Model S and Model X, as CEO Elon Musk focuses on a future that's more about self-driving taxis and robots. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports.
Last year, Tesla lost its crown as the world's top EV maker. The Chinese company BYD sold more all-electric vehicles, and it wasn't even close. But Tesla has long maintained its pivoting toward fully autonomous vehicles with no pedals or steering wheel and robots. That's why the company is discontinuing its higher-end vehicles. Here's CEO Elon Musk.
We're going to take the Model S and X production space in our Fremont factory and convert that into an Optimus factory.
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