Minnesotans Protest Against ICE and the Historic Radford Studio Defaults On Its Mortgage

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

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Hundreds of businesses across Minnesota are expected to close on Friday as part of a general strike against the tactics and actions of ICE. New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen described what she saw in Minneapolis as a "civil war." And after decades of debate, Metro's board unanimously approved plans for a multibillion-dollar underground rail line through the Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, more than 175 million Americans are facing winter weather warnings with a massive storm barreling across the country. And before Ernest Hemingway was discharged in 1961 from St. Marys Hospital in Minnesota, he gave Sister Immaculata his novella "The Old Man and the Sea," inscribing a personal note in it; that book is now in the hands of the Nobel Prize Museum in Sweden for the world to see. In business, an L.A. startup is using SpaceX rocket-engine technology to cool data centers, and the historic Radford Studio Center defaults on its mortgage due to Hollywood's production slowdown. Read more at LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an LA Times Studios podcast.
0:02.0	Hi, I'm Faith Pino from LA Times Studios in Washington, D.C.
0:14.0	Here are some of today's top stories from the Los Angeles Times.
0:18.0	Temperatures are hovering around negative 14 degrees
0:22.4	in the Twin Cities, as hundreds of businesses
0:25.3	across Minnesota are expected to close on Friday
0:28.8	as part of a general strike against immigration enforcement
0:32.4	in the state.
0:33.5	Neighbors, teachers, and union leaders joined together
0:36.7	in protest against ICE, which has arrested and estimated 3,000 people in Minnesota.
0:43.3	Just weeks ago, an ICE agent killed 37-year-old mother, Renee Nicole Good.
0:48.3	And a few days ago, an image circulated of a five-year-old boy being detained in the driveway of his Minneapolis home
0:56.2	on his way back from preschool. He's now reportedly being held at an ICE detention center with
1:01.6	his father in Texas. The five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is one of four children recently detained
1:08.6	by ICE in Minnesota. New York Times columnist Lydia Pull Green described what she saw in Minneapolis as a civil war.
1:17.6	And Martha Hurtado, a United Nations human rights spokesperson, said this Friday.
1:22.6	UN Human Rights Chief Falkerturg calls on the United States to ensure that its migration
1:28.8	policies and enforcement practices respect human dignity and due process rights, decrying
1:35.0	the dehumanizing portrayal and harmful treatment of migrants and refugees.
1:39.9	Also, imagine getting from the west side of Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley in less than 20 minutes and without driving.
1:49.0	No, that can't be.
1:51.0	Well, after decades of debate, that might finally be a reality for Angelinos.
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