NPR News: 01-24-2026 6PM EST
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.1 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. A border patrol agent has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, |
| 0:23.0 | whom officials say was apparently a U.S. citizen. Senator Amy Klobuchar identified him as 37-year-old |
| 0:30.0 | Alex Prett. Immigration officials say they were targeting a person they say is an undocumented |
| 0:36.0 | person, and the man who died approached them with a weapon. |
| 0:40.5 | Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem says officers tried to disarm him, but the man allegedly violently resisted. |
| 0:47.1 | Governor Tim Wall says video show, that's not true. |
| 0:50.3 | Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye blames the Trump administration. |
| 0:53.5 | The city of Minneapolis is filing a declaration after today's shooting to encourage the judge to rule on a temporary restraining order on Monday that would grant us immediate relief and would help stop this operation that has been so harmful to the city of Minneapolis. The state of |
| 1:12.2 | Minnesota has resulted in multiple shootings and tragic deaths. Three people have been shot, two |
| 1:18.0 | died. A massive winter storm is sweeping from the southwest through the Mid-Atlantic and up |
| 1:23.2 | through New England this weekend, affecting some 200 million people. More than a dozen states have declared |
| 1:28.8 | states of emergency. And Pierre's Amy Held has more. The storm will last through Monday. |
| 1:35.0 | National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says it could go down in history as the biggest. |
| 1:40.4 | This may be the all-time, both population impacts and geographical scope. |
| 1:45.1 | With more than half, the U.S. population hit by some combination of snow, topping a foot in parts, ice, up to an inch or more, and cold as low as sub-zero. |
| 1:55.5 | Officials say stay home, but for some people, that's outside. |
| 1:58.9 | It's brutal out there. It's so cold, it hurts. Like, it hurts. It's painful. |
| 2:03.6 | Whitney Slater was sleeping in his car, but moved to a warming center set up in Detroit. |
| 2:08.5 | The cold will lock in the snowpack for days. |
| 2:11.0 | And in parts of the south, forecasters warn of catastrophic ice threatening the power system. |
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