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Dwalissa Kowtow
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwalissa Kowtow. Caleb Vitello has been chosen to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. President elect Donald Trump made the announcement Thursday night. NPR's Lucer Martinez Beltran reports.
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Sergio Martinez Beltran
Caleb Vitello has worked for ice for over 23 years. He had many roles at the agency, including serving as assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs and chief of staff for enforcement and Removal Operations. Vitello's role is key officers from this agency will likely carry out President Elect Trump's promises of deporting millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally. In a statement, Trump says Vitello's leadership and experience makes him an excellent choice to implement his efforts to enhance safety. ICE, with more than 20,000 employees, is the agency in charge of immigration enforcement, including anti smuggling and removals. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.
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Dwalissa Kowtow
Ahead of back to back talks with the new Department of Government Efficiency heads Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that few details will be released about the Capitol Hill meetings, but that the focus is on making government leaner and more focused on its objectives.
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Mike Johnson
There's an enormous amount of waste, fraud and abuse in the government, and I think everyone knows that intuitively. And so the efforts here, both with our subcommittees that are being created here and with the DOGE effort itself, will be to explore that, to investigate it and lay it bare for the American people to see.
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Dwalissa Kowtow
He said the big government Democrats are in charge until January, saying they are spending money recklessly and he wants to, quote, claw that back under Donald Trump's second attempt administration. In New York today, a state judge is hearing oral arguments in a case about a novel approach to protecting against racial discrimination in elections. NPR's Hansi Le Wang reports. The outcome of this New York lawsuit could affect the future of state level voting rights acts around the country.
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Hansi Le Wang
Eight states have additional legal protections for voters of color, while critics of the federal Voting Rights act continue to chip away at that landmark law in court. In New York, a group of black, Latino and Asian American voters filed the first ever lawsuit challenging a map of voting districts with the state Voting Rights Act. They argue that in Nassau county, where voting is racially polarized, Republican officials approved a redistricting plan that dilutes the collective power of voters of color. The state judge is hearing oral arguments over the county's request for the judge to rule without a trial. Opponents of state voting rights acts see this case as a chance to get these laws struck down for violating the U.S. constitution. Last month, another New York judge made that ruling in a separate case now on appeal. Anzilawong, NPR News.
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Dwalissa Kowtow
At this hour, Asian stocks are mixed. The Nikkei is down. The Shenzhen is up. Wall Street. The dow closed down 248 points. This is NPR News. New reporting by the Associated Press warns that more children may die in Gaza, awaiting sometimes months for the Israeli military to approve medical evacuations. UNICEF cited at least 2,500 cases involving children need to be transported immediately for war wounds or chronic diseases. Rosalia Bolin of UNICEF tells the AP they cannot afford to wait. These children will die, she said. They're dying in waiting. And she finds it striking that the world is letting that happen. Canada is expanding its list of banned firearms. As Dan Karpenchuk reports, hundreds of additional makes and models are being added to a still to be implemented buyback program.
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Dan Karpenchuk
Legal gun owners of the newly prohibited weapons will be granted amnesty from criminal liability with strict conditions. That's why they take the steps needed to comply in advance of disposing of their firearms through the program. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the best we can do to honor those lost in mass shootings is to act on gun control and to restrict access to the very weapons used to commit these horrible crimes. The move revises the classification of more than 300 makes and models of semiautomatic assault style weapons. They will have to be disposed of within the amnesty period, which expires at the end of next October. The Trudeau government says additional measures will be coming in the months ahead. The firearms collected could be shipped to Ukraine to aid in its war effort. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
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Dwalissa Kowtow
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to meet with political leaders today to name a new prime minister. This is NPR News.
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