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NPR News: 01-08-2026 5PM EST

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

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0:19.1

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

0:23.4

Vice President J.D. Vance took questions from the press today, largely about the ICE

0:27.9

officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports,

0:33.8

Vance took the briefing as an opportunity to slam the media.

0:36.8

Vance announced the creation of a new assistant attorney general position to target fraud,

0:41.4

saying that person will initially focus on Minnesota where there has been fraud

0:45.3

and state-run social service programs. However, much of the briefing ended up being about the

0:50.4

shooting that has roiled Minneapolis. Vance chastised the gathered reporters.

0:55.1

Everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive

0:59.8

in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

1:04.5

Every single one of you.

1:05.5

Vance accused 37-year-old Renee Good of trying to hit the officer with her car.

1:10.4

However, eyewitnesses told Minnesota

1:12.2

public radio that agents were shouting conflicting orders and videos appear to show her driving away from

1:17.8

not at the agents. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. A federal judge has ruled that another acting

1:24.3

U.S. attorney put in place by the Trump administration is unlawfully serving in the job.

1:29.4

This time it's the top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.

1:34.6

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield applies to John Sarkone, the top federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York.

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