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

The head of immigration and customs enforcement will likely not have to travel to Minnesota to testify in court this week.

As Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports, ICE is abiding by a judge's order to release a man who's been detained for the last three weeks.

U.S. District Judge Patrick Schultz directed acting ICE director Todd Lyons to appear in court

in Minneapolis personally on Friday after ICE didn't respond to orders to set a bond hearing

for Juan Hugo Tobai Robles. ICE arrested the 43-year-old on January 6th, but his lawyer says

the agency never gave a reason. On Monday, Judge Schultz wrote,

quote, the court's patience is at an end, but he gave ICE an off-ramp and said he'd cancel the

hearing if it freed Robles. Immigration attorney Graham Ojula Barber says ICE released his client

from a detention facility in Texas less than a day after the judge issued the order.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Seppig in Minneapolis.

Much of the country is dealing with frigid cold temperatures after last weekend's winter storm,

and there are still nearly half a million power outages from Texas to Tennessee,

which was particularly hard hit, as WPLN's Blake Farmer explains.

It just is so widespread and really unprecedented for the local utility here in Nashville.

I mean, half the city had no power at one point.

And unlike a hurricane or like a tornado, new power outages are still popping up.

Talk to a utility official today who told this story about a crew fixing a line,

then they pack up, drive off, and literally in the rearview mirror, they see a branch take out the

line. WPLN's Blake Farmer reporting, for the first time, pure electric vehicles outsold

traditional gasoline vehicles in the European Union. This says the EU plans to cut emissions

from cars by 90% by 2035. In the U.S., meanwhile, federal policy has shifted sharply against

...