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NPR News: 01-08-2026 6PM EST

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

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0:00.0

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0:12.6

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0:19.1

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

0:23.3

The Trump administration continues to express support for the immigration agent who shot

0:27.8

and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday.

0:32.6

The agent, Jonathan Ross, was involved in another incident last summer.

0:36.5

His arm was trapped in a vehicle and he was dragged as he attempted to arrest a man.

0:41.2

As NPR's Jasmine Garst reports, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome says he was following his training.

0:47.0

Secretary Nome says the officer who fired the shots was, quote, surrounded and assaulted and locked in by protesters.

0:56.3

She says the woman who was killed Renee Nicole Good bears responsibility. They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against

1:02.0

the law. And when they demanded and commanded her to get out of her vehicle several times,

1:06.8

she did not. Democrats have condemned the shooting saying the administration's account conflicts with

1:11.8

the evidence captured in multiple videos. The FBI has said there is an investigation underway. Minnesota

1:17.7

officials say they've been forced to withdraw from the investigation after not being given

1:22.2

complete access to the evidence, witnesses, and information. Jasmine Garz, NPR News, New York.

1:28.6

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with a former UN diplomat

1:33.2

who's expected to be on President Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza.

1:37.7

NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports Trump's peace plan is still in phase one,

1:41.6

nearly three months after he announced it.

1:43.4

President Trump has said he will chair the Board of peace, but he hasn't yet named anyone

1:47.8

else, nor has he stood up a promised international force for Gaza.

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