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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump has signed a bill to end the four day partial government shutdown after the Republican led House narrowly passed it today. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports.
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The plan directs full year funding for the Departments of Defense, Transportation and Health and Human Services and more. But it funds the Department of Homeland Security for only two weeks to allow lawmakers to negotiate new rules over how immigration officers do their jobs. Lawmakers are facing the daunting task of reaching a bipartisan deal to address public outcry over the deaths of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Preddy. In Minneapolis, Democrats have elicited demands they want in exchange for funding dhs. They include new rules for the use of force for agents to remove their masks and put body cameras on. Republicans will likely push back. Claudia Gorisales, NPR News.
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There's been another wave of resignations at the U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis. Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports.
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The mass exodus started last month after an immigration agent killed Renee Macklin Good and the Justice Department pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow. It continues with the resignations of eight people, including three prosecutors, a victims advoc, and four civil division lawyers. Attorneys from elsewhere in the country and the military are backfilling the open positions.
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Minnesota Public Radio's Matt Sepik reporting. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. the Temporary Protected status designation for Haitians was scheduled to end today. President Trump has sought to end the protections for migrants from many countries. French prosecutors raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk's social media plat X today, investigating claims that the platform's systems helped spread illegal content, including child sexual abuse images, sexually explicit deep fakes and posts denying the Holocaust. Rebecca Rossman reports.
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Prosecutors say they have summoned Musk for questioning in an investigation that started in January. Last year, it expanded after complaints about how X's systems rank and spread content and after Musk's AI chatbot Grok produced sexualized deepfake images when users asked for them. Prosecutors also cite posts that denied the Holocaust, which is illegal in France. In July, X called the investigation politically motivated and said prosecutors were trying to restrict free speech. The rate comes as European regulators increase scrutiny of social media companies over harmful content and lack of safeguards. For NPR News, I'm Rebecca Rossman.
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Walmart became the first retailer to hit $1 trillion in market valuation today, fueled by growth in its online business. Shares rose nearly 26% over the last year and 468% over last decade. It's now among the ranks of companies like chip maker Nvidia and Google owner Alphabet. This is NPR News. PepsiCo is cutting prices on Lays, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos chips in an effort to win back consumers exasperated by rising prices. The company has leaned on price increases in recent years as the cost of packaging, ingredients and transportation grew. The record breaking cold snap over the weekend has some South Floridians completely stunned. Across the region, cold stunned iguanas are piling up. In Miami, WLRN's Sophia Zaran reports. The iguana trappers are having a field day.
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The invasive green iguana is not an unusual sighting in Florida, however. The cool weather has longtime iguana trapper Blake Wilkins leaping for lizards.
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The sheer numbers of them was surprising. Even knowing that it was getting as cold as it was going to. I'm still kind of like borderline shocked with how many we we found and got.
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Wilkins is the owner of Redline Iguana Removal and said that the cold snap helped his team catch 3,000 iguanas in just two days. Iguanas are cold blooded and cannot regulate their own body heat, so when temperatures dipped below 40, some became stunned while others died. Wilkins warns people to remain alert because one cold snap won't solve south Florida's invasive iguana problem. I'm Sophia Sahran. In Miami.
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This Valentine's Day, McDonald's is creating a limited time caviar McNugget. The kit available at mcnuggetcaviar.com pairs a 1 ounce tin of Paramount's Siberian Straw Sturgeon Caviar with a 25 McDonald's gift card. Also on the holiday, White Castle will continue to transform its restaurants into love castles with host seating and tableside service. This is NPR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor free on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or.
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