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🗓️ 2 February 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. |
| 0:15.5 | Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwa Lisea Kowtel. President Trump said he would be shutting down what he's |
| 0:23.9 | calling the Trump Kennedy Center for two years to bring it to, quote, the highest level of success, |
| 0:29.4 | beauty, and grander. In a new Truth Social Post, President Trump says, he plans to shut down the |
| 0:34.9 | Kennedy Center for two years starting on July 4th to begin construction of a new entertainment complex and bring... |
| 0:42.5 | Trump says this is in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country, adding that financing for the project is already in place, but did not offer further details. |
| 0:52.7 | He added the plan was totally subject to board approval. |
| 0:57.2 | Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arrillas, |
| 1:02.8 | are out of ICE detention in Texas and back home in Minneapolis. |
| 1:07.3 | Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports. |
| 1:10.4 | Preschooler Liam Conejo Ramos arrived back in the Minneapolis area Sunday morning. |
| 1:15.4 | He was released from an immigration detention center south of San Antonio under a federal court order. |
| 1:20.9 | Representative Joaquin Castro says he accompanied them from the South Texas family residential area. |
| 1:26.7 | Liam is now back home with his hat and backpack. |
| 1:29.7 | Castro, a Democrat wrote on social media. |
| 1:32.5 | A picture of the boy in a floppy bunny ear hat before he was taken by ice came to represent |
| 1:38.3 | the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. |
| 1:40.3 | His return follows a sharply worded ruling by San Antonio-based federal judge who |
| 1:46.2 | ordered the government to release the father and son by Tuesday. For NPR news, I'm David Martin |
| 1:51.4 | Davies in San Antonio. Much of the southeast is digging out of from under snow and dealing with |
| 1:57.4 | record cold after a second winter storm struck this weekend. |
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