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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
Chapter 2: What recent actions have immigration agents taken in Minnesota?
Immigration agents in Minnesota have arrested more than 100 refugees despite their legal status. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports it's part of a larger administration plan to re-examine refugee cases.
When ICE agents arrested one 20-year-old refugee, his mother says she felt the same fear her family had fled in Venezuela. Their masked paramilitary groups kidnapped people, she says. She did not want to use her name for fear of retaliation. The Trump administration says it's reviewing refugee cases for potential fraud.
Chapter 3: How are aid organizations responding to the situation in Syria?
But Jane Grotman with the International Institute of Minnesota says they are already intensely vetted. You know, the FBI has already checked them. They've had biometric screenings. Many have been detained in Texas, then released with no charges.
Chapter 4: What details are emerging about the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother?
A class action lawsuit calls arresting refugees unlawful, and a judge has ordered them stopped while the case plays out. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Minneapolis.
Aid organizations are raising the alarm over interrupted assistance to a detention camp for the families of ISIS fighters in northeastern Syria. It holds more than 10,000 children.
Chapter 5: What is the current status of the government shutdown negotiations?
NPR's Jaina Raff has more.
Save the Children warns that food and medicine is running dangerously low at El Hall camp after Syrian government forces took control in January after clashes with Kurdish-led fighters. The group's Syria director, Rasha Mahrez, says 60% of the roughly 20,000 detainees there are children detained with their mothers while their fathers were killed or imprisoned when ISIS fell seven years ago.
And they all depend, they're all 100% aid dependent, so there is no other source of income apart from what aid agencies are able to deliver.
Thousands of the detainees are foreigners whose countries will not take them back. Aid groups are calling for a humanitarian corridor to allow safe passage for aid. Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman.
Chapter 6: How is Ukraine coping with the winter amidst Russian attacks?
The mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie is missing. Officials in Arizona held a press conference this morning. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says authorities are investigating the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie as a crime.
I think I told you she is very limited in her mobility, right? We know she didn't just walk out of there. That we know. There are other things at the scene that indicate there was a... She did not leave on her own.
The sheriff says things found at her home near Tucson are of grave concern. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House won't vote on ending the partial government shutdown until tomorrow at the earliest. There's disagreement over the government's immigration enforcement operations.
The Senate approved funds for the Department of Homeland Security only through late next week, giving Congress until then to reach consensus on new restrictions on ICE. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Much of Ukraine's capital has been plunged into darkness and cold this winter, as Russia has stepped up its attacks on the country's energy sector.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley in Kyiv says the strikes have prompted many people to leave the city, while others have begun throwing ice parties.
Ice parties are the latest way Ukrainians are coming together to survive Russia's onslaught, with barbecues and disc jockeys along the frozen Dnieper River and on Kyiv's massive reservoir.
I'm at an ice party in Kyiv. It's on the reservoir, which is also known as the Kyiv Sea. It's amazing. People are coming out to dance.
They're also racing and spinning their cars and dune buggies along the vast expanse of ice. The temps are frigid, but the sun is bright. Anton Kucharenko says he came out to forget the war. People just want to have fun, relax, and do not worry about the war. It's like a pause.
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Chapter 7: What renovations does President Trump plan for the Kennedy Center?
A pause, he says, until the next Russian attack. Eleanor Beardsley in PR News, Kyiv.
President Trump says he plans to close the Kennedy Center in Washington for two years for renovations. In a post on True Social last night, the president said he'd begin construction of a, quote, new and spectacular entertainment complex. Trump secured $250 million in funding for it in the Big Beautiful Bill. He says the performing arts center will close on July 4th.
I'm Kristen Wright, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.