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What recent ruling did a federal judge make regarding immigration resources in Minnesota?
Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C., I'm Dale Willman. A federal judge today rejected an effort by Minnesota's Attorney General to block the growth of the immigration resources the Trump administration has sent into that state. In response to the ruling, Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noem says they'll continue to work with local law enforcement to make the community safer.
We're grateful when a court sees that the right thing has been done. We'll continue to focus on getting dangerous criminals, murderers, and rapists... and drug traffickers out of this country and bringing them to justice.
The judge denied a preliminary injunction sought by the state, but the lawsuit itself will continue. The state says the Department of Homeland Security is violating constitutional protections of its citizens. Hundreds of angry protesters, meanwhile, gathered in Milan, Italy today to call for U.S. ICE agents to leave that country. The Department of Homeland Security is helping with protection for U.S. athletes at the Olympic Games. In the wake of violence in Minneapolis, many Italians say ICE agents are no longer welcome. NPR's Brian Mann has more on our report.
It's common for U.S. agents, including those from Homeland Security, to help with security at big international events like the Olympics. But Italians gathered here, including Francesco Tattoni, say they've been horrified by video of ICE agents operating violently in Minneapolis.
I don't like what's happening with ICE. I don't want them to come here in Italy. We believe they are doing the same thing the fascists were doing in the 1930s, 1940s.
Many protesters carried photographs of Rene Macklin-Good and Alex Pretti who were killed by ICE agents. Italy's government has downplayed the role ICE will play providing security for the Winter Games, which open officially next Friday. Brian Mann, NPR News, Milan.
The mayor of Nashville says one of his priorities is to restore power to tens of thousands of people who remain without it there. Heavy winter weather last week caused widespread outages in the area. Jackie Sieber with member station WUOT in Knoxville has more.
Nashville Electric Service says it expects to restore power to 99% of its customers by next Sunday, February 8th. Mayor Freddie O'Connell says he shares in Nashvillians' frustration for the slow process to restore power, but adds the new timeline allows residents a chance to move forward.
If you woke up Sunday morning and didn't have power, you didn't know anything about when it might be on. Now, at least I think you can start to plan your lives. I think that's what we have been calling for.
The estimated timeline comes amid demands from city and state leaders that the public utility be more transparent about when power will be fully restored. Nashville Electric Service says by Tuesday, 85 percent of power should be restored. For NPR News, I'm Jackie Sieber in Knoxville.
And you're listening to NPR News. Snow is now starting in the southeastern U.S., where a major storm is expected to drop six or more inches of snow in some areas overnight. Some 240 million people are now under cold weather advisories or winter storm warnings there. And in West Virginia, a low temperature of minus 27 degrees was recorded early Saturday morning. Forecasters say the frigid temperatures should linger throughout the region into February. NASA has resumed efforts to contact a probe that's orbiting Mars. As Joe Palka reports, the spacecraft was last heard from on December 6th.
The probe is called MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution. Its mission is to help scientists understand the climate history of Mars. It's been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade, where it not only studied the Martian atmosphere, it also relayed signals from the rovers operating on the Martian surface. Ground controllers don't know why the probes stopped transmitting. Efforts to regain contact had to be suspended late last year because for two weeks, the orbits of Earth and Mars positioned them on opposite sides of the sun, making radio transmission impossible.
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