The Trump Administration Pulls 700 Immigration Officers From Minnesota

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Here's your midday brief for Wednesday, February 4th. I'm Alex Osele for The Wall Street Journal.

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The Trump administration is pulling 700 federal officers out of Minnesota, even as it plans to continue large-scale immigration operations in Minneapolis. Border Czar Tom Homan announced the drawdown this morning, noting that roughly 2,000 officers will remain in the state.

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This shift follows a public outcry after immigration officials shot and killed two people, Renee Good and Alex Preddy, in January. Homan said he wanted to turn down the temperature but would continue the search of federal officials in Minnesota until attacks on immigration agents stop. U.S.

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private sector hiring slowed last month as the labor market continues to cool. A report out today from payrolls processor ADP shows that companies added 22,000 jobs in January, about half of what economists expected and down from December.

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Investors are paying extra attention to these numbers right now because the Labor Department's jobs report has been delayed by this week's partial government shutdown. And we're exclusively reporting that AI voice startup Eleven Labs has raised $500 million, valuing the company at $11 billion. That's more than triple its valuation from a year earlier.

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Eleven Labs generated $330 million in annual recurring revenue last year and hopes to double that this year. It's courting business customers and expanding into AI-generated music. Heads Up, an artificial intelligence tool, helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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