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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Department of Homeland Security will partially shut down late tonight unless Congress can agree on a funding bill. The Senate failed yesterday to advance one. Democrats are demanding major changes to immigration enforcement. This comes after federal agents shot and killed two Minneapolis protesters last month. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is asking state residents to stay vigilant while the federal government withdraws immigration officers from the state. President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, says the drawdown is happening because federal officials were able to get unprecedented cooperation from state and local law enforcement. He says that federal officers now have more access to undocumented people held in county jails.
But Minnesota Public Radio's Estelle T. Marr-Wilcox reports the specifics of Homan's claim are unclear.
The officials we've heard from say they've had productive talks with Homan, but several county sheriffs say they didn't change any enforcement policies. So we're yet to see if county jails really do start giving ICE that increased access, as Homan mentioned.
As still, T. Mark Wilcox reporting. A landmark social media trial against social media platforms Instagram and YouTube continues today in Los Angeles. NPR's Bobby Allen reports... A jury is weighing whether the platforms were designed to addict young people.
Meta and Google have told jurors social media is not clinically addictive. Packing the courtroom are grieving parents whose children have died from self-harm the parents linked to social media use. Like Ellen Room, who traveled from England. She comes to court with a framed photo of her 14-year-old son, Jules.
This is massive. If we can prove the product is faulty, where children are kept on their platforms for hours, but the constant algorithms and constant continuous scroll, they're being fed harmful material.
The trial is a test case for more than a thousand other pending cases blaming social media apps for addictive design features. Meta says it's long prioritized child safety. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify next week. Bobby Allen, NPR News, Los Angeles.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to northern British Columbia today. He'll attend a vigil for this week's mass shooting in Western Canada. Eight people were killed by a shooter who officials say died by suicide. Dan Karpinchuk reports.
After the attack, Carney scrapped his trip to attend a security conference in Munich, deciding to stay home. Carney was also supposed to announce Ottawa's new defence industrial strategy in Halifax before heading to Munich. That planned announcement remains postponed. Several cabinet ministers will join him today at the vigil in the town of Tumbler Ridge. Carney's office has invited leaders of all parties to accompany him to British Columbia. The official opposition leader, Pierre Poliev, says he will attend. Meanwhile, Canadian authorities have confirmed the identities of eight victims at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, most of them children 11 to 13 years old. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
This is NPR. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to create a scientific panel to study the effects and the risks of artificial intelligence. The Trump administration was one of two votes against it. The Trump administration says the U.N. should stay out of AI regulation. A crew of four astronauts is now headed for the International Space Station. They blasted off before dawn from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The crew is set to spend at least eight months in orbit. The big event at the Winter Olympics in Italy today is figure skating. The men's single event is set. The American figure skater Ilya Malinin, who is nicknamed the Quad God, is an overwhelming favorite to win a gold medal. Steve Futterman reports Malinin is transforming the sport.
Rarely is there a performer who virtually everyone expects to win, but Ilya Malinin is an exception. His ability to leap and twist and turn on the ice is unlike anything the sport has ever witnessed.
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