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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Chapter 2: What updates are there on the Israel-Gaza border situation?
Israel has narrowly reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. It's been entirely closed since July 2024 in the midst of the war with Hamas. Israel is limiting crossings. Only 50 Palestinians can cross in each direction every day. Parts of the federal government are still shut down this morning. Congress didn't fund all agencies by last week's deadline.
On Friday, the Senate passed a huge bill to reopen them, but it only funded the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks. Speaker Mike Johnson says the House now needs to meet and pass the bill in order to end the shutdown.
Our intention is by Tuesday to fund all agencies of the federal government except for that one, and then we'll have two weeks of good faith negotiations to figure it out.
He spoke to NBC's Meet the Press. A preschooler and his father arrested in Minneapolis and moved to detention in Texas are now back home. A federal judge ordered their release. Officials at the boys' school say federal agents used the boy as bait to lure other adults out of his house. From Minnesota Public Radio, Matt Sepik has more.
Liam Conejo Ramos was photographed wearing a blue hat with bunny ears and a Spider-Man backpack when masked ICE agents pulled him from his dad's car on January 20 after school. Local school officials say agents led the five-year-old to his front door and directed him to knock to see if anyone else was home. ICE flew the boy and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, to a Texas detention center.
In ordering their release Saturday, Judge Fred Beery called the move a, quote, perfidious lust for unbridled power that's, quote, bereft of human decency.
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Chapter 3: What is the current status of the federal government shutdown?
Attorneys say the family, from Ecuador, is focusing on finding peace. They entered the U.S. legally in 2024 to seek asylum, their lawyers said. For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
The National Weather Service says bitterly cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills persist this morning from Florida to the northeast. The wind chill makes it feel like 21 degrees in Daytona Beach, Florida right now. Back-to-back weekend winter storms also brought rare snowfall to parts of the Carolinas. NPR's Amy Held has more.
We just don't get snow like this very often.
They got it this weekend. And hundreds of crashes throughout the region. In Charlotte, firefighters plucked a pickup driver from a pond after skidding. Not far away, a semi got stuck on tracks and struck by a train. That driver also okay. This as a massive storm that swept more than half the country the weekend before left lingering snow, ice, and headaches, from travel delays to power outages.
Entrenched Arctic air had made it colder in parts of Texas and Florida than it was in Juneau, Alaska. Topsy-turvy temperatures that should turn around. Meteorologist Bob Orovac.
Temperatures will start to moderate, so they won't be quite as below average.
But still, colder than normal this week. Amy Held, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR. Jury selection starts today in New Mexico. The state is suing big tech company Meta. State officials claim the parent company of Instagram and Facebook fails to protect children from sexual exploitation and mental health harm. The lawsuit targets how Meta sends its content to children or how it uses its algorithm to appeal to them.
The lawsuit does not target the online content itself. During last night's Grammy Awards, several musicians addressed the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrant communities. And Piers Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports that included some of the night's biggest winners.
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Chapter 4: What happened to the preschooler and his father detained by ICE?
All three artists used their acceptance speeches to speak out in favor of immigrant communities. Here's Eilish accepting the award for Song of the Year. No one is illegal on stolen land. Olivia Dean, who won Best New Artist, spoke about coming from an immigrant family, adding, quote, those people deserve to be celebrated.
And Bad Bunny, who made history for taking home the first album of the year award given to a Spanish-language record, called for, quote, ice out. Earlier in the day, during a pre-show ceremony where most of the awards are handed out, a handful of other artists expressed similar sentiments, including Kehlani and Shibuzi. Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.
Voters in Costa Rica have elected a new president. Laura Fernandez is a conservative political scientist. She ran on a tough-on-crime platform. She was also selected by the outgoing Costa Rican president, Rodrigo Chavez, as his successor. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.