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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Countel.
What are the key issues in the upcoming government spending package?
The House could vote as early as Tuesday on a compromise spending package that would fully reopen the government. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is the key sticking point, as NPR senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith reports.
They want immigration enforcement reined in. No more roving patrols of ICE agents grabbing people off the streets or using administrative warrants, which don't require a judge to sign off. They want agents to remove their masks and identify themselves. And they also want to change the rules for use of force to more closely match local and other federal law enforcement. You know, President Trump didn't dismiss these ideas out of hand, but said that it would be the subject of talks in coming days.
NPR's Tamara Keith reporting. The Justice Department says it's done reviewing files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but a top congressional lawmaker says the law requires their review and release of files to continue. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
The DOJ released more than 3 million pages of Epstein files Friday, revealing conversations with high-profile figures like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch told ABC News Sunday their work is nearly done.
This review is over. I mean, we reviewed over 6 million pieces of paper, thousands of videos, thousands, tens of thousands of images, which is what the statute required us to do.
Congress passed a law requiring the DOJ to release all of its Epstein files. And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, also speaking to ABC, says there's more files to review.
It's not over, and it will not be over until there is full and complete transparency, as demanded by the survivors.
Blanche said lawmakers can request to view the unredacted files. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
Much of the country continues to experience severe winter weather as icy winds swept into Florida on Sunday, and some parts of North Carolina received more than a foot of snow overnight. That's following days of blizzard conditions and coastal flooding across much of the eastern seaboard.
In North Carolina, Governor Josh Stein implored people to stay home and to take this weather seriously.
This is no joke. This weekend we saw more than 1,000 collisions, including two fatalities, and a major traffic jam involving more than 100 vehicles on I-85.
This kind of weather is highly unusual for North Carolina. Stein warned roads will continue to be compromised in the coming days and asked people to stay inside. Florida was also reporting record-breaking temperatures. Among other hazards, residents there were watching out for cold, stunned iguanas, which can fall out of trees and cause pedestrian or traffic problems. Katie Riddle, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR from New York City. A Russian drone attack has killed at least 12 people in the eastern Dnipro-Tresk region. The country's largest private energy firm confirms the death toll on a service bus carrying miners to work. Sixteen other people were injured. The Oblast governor said half of them are in critical condition. The energy firm's CEO Maxim Timchenko says this was an unprovoked terrorist attack on a purely civilian facility for which there can be no justification. Nationwide lawsuits and federal investigations have pushed schools to help students with disabilities make up for the services they went without during the pandemic. In Pittsburgh, students missed out on more than 600,000 hours of special education support.
Jillian Forshead of member station WESA reports on the district's efforts there.
Pittsburgh Public Schools has spent $2.7 million this school year in an effort to help students with disabilities catch up. The district is paying for things like after-school tutoring, specialized art classes, and even rock climbing. Some people question how rock climbing can help students make up for lost learning time. District official Maria Paul defends it.
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