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Jeanine Herbst (0:00)
This message comes from Mint mobile. Starting at $15 a month, make the switch@mintmobile.com Switch $45 upfront payment for 3 months 5 gigabyte plan equivalent to $15 a month Taxes and fees Extra first 3 months only. See Terms live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The government is heading toward another partial shutdown unless there's a deal on paying for the Department of Homeland Security. NPR's Luke Garrett reports. The top says negotiations have stalled.
Luke Garrett (0:35)
Democrats demand changes to DHS after its agents killed two Minnesotans in January. Minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries want a requirement for judicial warrants, better identification for DHS officers and new use of force standards. Last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the demands, quote, unrealistic. And Jeffries tells CNN this Sunday the two sides aren't talking. Unfortunately, we haven't heard back from the White House or Mike Johnson or Speaker or Lita Thune in terms of the demands that we've put on the table. The DHS funding deadline is midnight Friday. Its agencies like the Coast Guard, the TSA and FEMA would be affected if funding lapses. Meanwhile, DHS's mass deportation agenda would still have money to operate despite the shutdown. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
Jeanine Herbst (1:23)
After gambling on a high stakes snap election, preliminary results show Japan's conservative Prime Minister Shnae Takaichi won a landslide victory, securing a two thirds supermajority and clearing the way for her right wing agenda. That includes boosting Japan's economy and military capabilities as tensions grow with China and she tries to nurture ties with Washington. Russian authorities detained a suspect in Friday's shooting of a senior military intelligence officer who survived the attack. NPR's Charles Mainz reports from Moscow. It's the latest in a series of apparent assassination attempts of high ranking military military officials.
Charles Maynes (2:03)
Russia's Federal Security Service said a Russian citizen had been detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the attack on Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was now in custody in Moscow. Alekseyev, who serves as first deputy head of Russia's GRU military intelligence service, was shot three times in his apartment building in Moscow Friday morning. He's since undergone surgery and is expected to survive. Russian authorities claim the apparent assassin was working for Ukrainian intelligence, a charge Kyiv has denied in this case. Since the beginning of Russia's full scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has claimed responsibility for the assassination of several senior Russian officers, including in the Russian capital. Charles Maynes, NPR News, Moscow.