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A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis. That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post, I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Thursday, January 15th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Last night, protesters and ICE agents faced off in Minneapolis. In the days since 37 year old Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, the federal government has sent thousands of additional officers to the city. In a primetime address yesterday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls called on the federal government to end this occupation and urged Minnesotans to continue to protest peacefully.
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Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live. They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US Citizens and demanding to see their papers. And at grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools, they're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans. Kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.
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Last night, the Department of Homeland Security said a federal officer had shot another person in Minneapolis. DHS said the person was a Venezuelan man who had attempted to evade arrest and that both the officer and the person shot were being treated at a hospital. The Post could not immediately confirm details of the incident nor the identity of the person. Shot footage from the streets of Minneapolis late yesterday showed protesters shouting, filming ICE officers on their cell phones and calling for them to leave the city. The Pentagon moved troops away from key facilities in the Middle East. That's number two. President Donald Trump is considering military strikes against Iran. Anti government protesters there are facing a deadly crackdown and Trump has promised them that help from the US Is on the way. As a precautionary measure yesterday, the Pentagon began relocating personnel and equipment away from some facilities in the region. That echoes actions taken before US Strikes in Iran last year. However, later in the day, Trump said important sources in Tehran told the US Government that the regime has halted its brutal crackdown. That leaves open the question of whether he will still order strikes. Number three, White House talks on Greenland's fate ended with fundamental disagreement yesterday. Vice President J.D. vance hosted a high stakes meeting about the future of Greenland. President Trump has said he wants to own the Arctic territory, but Danish officials say that isn't going to happen. Greenland is a self governing territory that is part of the Danish realm. Diplomats from Denmark and Greenland attended the talks. Denmark's foreign minister said it was a frank but also constructive conversation, but that the two sides have a fundamental disagreement over Trump's demands to take over Greenland. Denmark's foreign minister, Lars Lucke Rasmussen gave a press conference after the talks for.
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US Ideas that would not respect territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable.
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Trump told reporters after the meeting that he had not yet been briefed on the talks, but said that the US Had a good relationship with Denmark and that he thought something would be worked out.
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President Trump's promised manufacturing boom is a bust so far Last spring, on a day he dubbed Liberation Day, Trump introduced widespread tariffs. He said they would help American workers and boost manufacturing. But employment in the sector has declined every month since that day in April. 72,000 fewer people are now employed in manufacturing. Most mainstream economists say the trade measures that Trump claimed would boost manufacturing have actually hampered the industry. Small and mid sized businesses in particular have struggled to cope as tariff policy keeps changing. But it's not all down to the Trump administration. American factory jobs peaked at 19.5 million in the summer of 1979 and have been falling ever since. That's mainly down to the introduction of new technologies. Five FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home yesterday morning. At 6am The FBI executed a search warrant at the Virginia home of our colleague Hannah Natenson. Federal agents seized her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. The search was part of an investigation into a government contractor who was accused of illegally retaining classified materials. Hannah reports on the Trump administration's transformation of the federal government. She has written about what it's like to be the Post's federal government whisperer, handling more than a thousand sensitive sources. She is not the subject of the FBI's investigation and is not accused of any wrongdoing. But the search of a journalist's home is exceedingly rare. Many journalists see the FBI search as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information. A novel treatment is keeping bone marrow cancer patients alive. That's number six. Multiple myeloma is an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow. A recent clinical trial showed some very promising results published last month for an experimental immunotherapy treatment. More than 80% of patients who got the new therapy were still alive without their cancer spreading after nearly three years. That's compared with 30% of patients in a control group who received a standard treatment. The new treatment carries risks of serious reactions, including infections. But the trial results are still raising hopes among physicians and researchers about finding a potential cure for multiple myeloma. That's something that was unthinkable not long ago. And at number seven, Microplastics from washing clothes could be hurting your tomatoes. In a new study by researchers at Cornell and the University of Toronto, tiny polyester fibers shed from clothing harmed the growth of cherry tomato plants, experts say. Every load of laundry releases millions of tiny fibers into sewage systems and subsequently into waterways, soil and the atmosphere. Many of these fibers are microplastics shed from polyester and other synthetic fabrics. This study with cherry tomatoes could be bad news for agriculture, which uses treated sewage sludge as fertilizer for crops. That sewage sludge contains microfibers from household washers. Sorry to keep saying sewage sludge while you might be drinking your coffee. While this is concerning news, there is a lot you can do to reduce the amount of microfibers released by your clothes other than becoming a natural fabrics Instagram influencer. You can find our tips of how to do that in today's newsletter. All right, you're all caught up. Good journalism is even better when it's shared. With a premium subscription to the Washington Post, you get three extra accounts to share with friends and family so they can stay informed, too. Right now, you can get a premium subscription to the post for $6 every four weeks. Just $6 unlocks trusted reporting to share with other people in your life. After your first six months, it'll cost $19 every four weeks. You can cancel anytime. Head over to washingtonpost.com subscribe and get premium access to the Washington post today. That's washingtonpost.com subscribe I'm Hannah Jewell. I'll meet you back here tomorrow.