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Dave Mattingly
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. A man is under arrest in Minneapolis after authorities say he charged Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota at a town hall event and sprayed her with an unknown liquid. Annie Russell with Minnesota Public Radio says Omar continued with the event yesterday after the man was taken out of the venue.
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Annie Russell
The lawmaker told reporters after the confrontation that she wouldn't be intimidated. She had been calling for the ouster of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the time. The man was tackled by security and led away. Omar has come under increasing criticism by Republicans, including President Trump. At a rally hours earlier in Iowa, Trump mocked Omar's love for America amid boos from those in attendance. Omar is a US Citizen who was born in Somalia. Omar is in her fourth term in the House and is seeking reelection. For NPR News, I'm Annie Russell in St. Paul.
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Dave Mattingly
During his remarks in Iowa, President Trump pledged to bring back law and order to the US As Isabella Liu reports, there were demonstrators outside the event protesting the president's immigration enforcement efforts. In Minnesota, Trump claims he's helped lower.
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Isabella Liu
Crime in cities like Washington, D.C. memphis, and New Orleans by removing thousands of criminals. The president made his remarks less than a week after federal agents fatally shot Alex Preddy in Minneapolis. The event location for a speech was less than four hours away from the Minnesota city.
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Donald Trump
So you read much about Minnesota, where, unbeknownst to the public, we have brought down crime very substantially in Minnesota. We've taken out thousands of hard criminals, hardened, vicious, horrible criminals.
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Isabella Liu
Hundreds of anti ICE protesters stood outside the event center before the rally. They called on Trump to remove federal ICE agents. From Minneapolis. For NPR News, I'm Isabella Liu in Des Moines.
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Dave Mattingly
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to testify today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to his prepared testimony, Rubio is expected to say the Trump administration is ready to use force against Venezuela if that country's interim leadership falls short of what the US Expects. Earlier this month, the US Military seized Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, and his wife in Caracas. They're being held in New York after pleading not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges. The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged when it wraps up its first policy meeting of the year this afternoon. This follows three separate quarter point rate cuts in the final months of last year. Economists say the Fed remains concerned about elevated inflation in the US Economy paired with a sluggish job market. Inflation is still above the central bank's annual target of 2%. This is NPR News from Washington. A judge in Virginia says a congressional redistricting plan proposed by Democratic state lawmakers is illegal. As Jad Khalil with member station VPM reports, supporters of the proposal say they will appeal the judge's ruling.
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Jad Khalil
Virginia's constitution requires several steps before it can be changed. A judge in southwest Virginia says the state's Democrats didn't follow the right legal or legislative steps for it to be before voters. Democrats are still aiming to put it to a vote in April in time for new congressional districts to be drawn before the 2026 midterms. Party leaders in the legislature say in a statement the court case was an attempt to sow confusion and they won't be deterred. But Republicans are calling this ruling a decisive victory. Virginia's current congressional delegation has six Democrats and five Republicans. Democrats could seek a 10:1 majority. For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Richmond.
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Dave Mattingly
States including Texas, California, Missouri and North Carolina have recently approved redrawn congressional maps in hopes of flipping political party advantages in the November midterm elections. President Trump had first urged Republican led states to do so. E Commerce giant Amazon says it plans to close all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations in the U.S. the company has more than 70 nationwide. Most will be shut down beginning Monday. Amazon says it plans to focus more on grocery deliveries, though it says some of the locations will be converted to Whole Foods Market stores. Amazon is a financial supporter of npr. I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington.
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