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Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C., I'm Dale Willman. A federal judge in Minnesota has declined to order a halt to President Trump's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis. NPR's Kat Lonsdorff reports.
Attorneys representing Minnesota and the Twin Cities argued in court that the federal actions on the ground were causing, quote, tremendous damage and asked the court to immediately halt the immigration surge with a temporary restraining order.
What recent immigration enforcement actions are being discussed in Minneapolis?
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, a President Biden appointee, denied that request while acknowledging that the surge, quote, has had and will likely continue to have profound and even heartbreaking consequences for the state of Minnesota. But she said that an injunction halting the operation would go too far and harm the federal government's efforts to enforce immigration laws. The operation has sent thousands of immigration agents to the city, sparking weeks of protests and the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Minneapolis.
The Justice Department released more files related to Jeffrey Epstein Friday, weeks after a legal deadline set by Congress to release all the files. Some three-mile documents were published. That's about half of the remaining documents. NPR's Stephen Fowler explains why officials say they missed the deadline and why so many documents were left out.
The Justice Department said it took time for them to comb through six million documents and make sure that they complied with existing laws around victim privacy and and this new law's directive to share as much information as possible. That said, about half of those 6 million files will not be released because the Justice Department says they contain child pornography, deliberative internal process and attorney-client privileged information, duplicate information, or unrelated material.
NPR's Stephen Fowler. Hundreds of angry protesters gathered in Milan, Italy Saturday to call for U.S. ICE agents to leave the 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 reports.
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 Preddy 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.
One day after Israeli forces launched attacks on Gaza that killed at least 30 Palestinians, Israel has just announced that the Rafah crossing from Egypt to Gaza has been reopened to foot traffic. You're listening to NPR News. As many as 240 million people are under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings this morning as a powerful storm system moves across the East Coast. A low temperature of minus 27 degrees was recorded Saturday morning in West Virginia, and parts of the Appalachians, the Carolinas, and Georgia could see 6 to 10 inches of snow. The suspense thriller Send Help is narrowly beating the video game spin-off Iron Lung at the box office this weekend, but NPR's Bob Mondello says it's the third-place finisher that everyone's talking about.
Both of the week's frontrunners, the genre flick Send Help from Disney and the scrappy indie Iron Lung made by a YouTuber, are poised to take in about $17 million through Sunday. But the surprise of the weekend is the documentary Melania, about First Lady Melania Trump.
I will move forward with purpose, and of course, with style.
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