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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, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Three more employees at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota have |
| 0:22.1 | quit. The resignations are in addition to the at least six prosecutors who quit earlier this month, |
| 0:27.5 | after the Justice Department pressured them to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent. |
| 0:32.3 | NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. The three new resignations at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota |
| 0:37.1 | include a division chief. The departures addations at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota include a division |
| 0:38.2 | chief. The departures add to the already significant exodus of veteran attorneys from the office there |
| 0:43.2 | in recent weeks. They come as the Trump administration continues its ramped-up immigration enforcement |
| 0:48.3 | operation in Minneapolis, where federal agents have shot and killed two U.S. citizens this month, |
| 0:54.0 | Renee McClain Good and Alex Pretty. At least six federal prosecutors killed two U.S. citizens this month, Renee Maclin Good and Alex Prettie. |
| 0:56.5 | At least six federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office there recently quit |
| 1:00.2 | after the Justice Department pressured them to investigate goods' widow. |
| 1:04.3 | Meanwhile, an FBI agent who tried to investigate goods killing resigned last week |
| 1:08.6 | after being pressured to drop the matter. |
| 1:11.2 | Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. Many after being pressured to drop the matter. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. |
| 1:13.1 | Many Nashville residents are going on their fourth day with no heat after a winter storm |
| 1:17.6 | knocked out power to half the city's residents. |
| 1:20.3 | People there are helping each other to stay warm as freezing temperatures continue. |
| 1:24.8 | Justin Barney at member station WPLN reports. |
| 1:27.4 | Getting a hot meal in Nashville has been tough. Most restaurants temperatures continue. Justin Barney at member station WPLN reports. |
| 1:34.1 | Getting a hot meal in Nashville has been tough. Most restaurants are closed and over 100,000 people have gone days without power. Melissa Bruner drove two and a half hours down from |
| 1:40.3 | Kentucky to set up shop in a Kroger parking lot. She's giving away free, hot meals with the help of World Central Kitchen. |
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