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The U.S. is facing another partial government shutdown as Department of Homeland Security funding expires at midnight.

NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports.

Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department,

specifically Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two U.S.

citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis. But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of

ICE itself. That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer.

Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected

to be out of town next week, but they'll be on notice to return to D.C. if there's a deal.

Barbara Sprint and PR News, Washington. Federal authorities are investigating whether two immigration

officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month. Ice director Todd Lyon says video evidence showed testimony made by two separate officers

appeared to have included untruthful statements about the shooting of one of the

Venezuelan men.

The officers have been placed on administrative leave pending the completion of an internal

investigation.

At the Winter Olympics in Milan,

an unexpected result in the men's figure skating competition. Ilya Malinin of the United States,

the reigning world champion, and the overwhelming favorite fell twice and failed to win a medal.

Steve Futterman was at the Milano Arena. It is without doubt one of the biggest shocks in

Olympic history. Ilya Malinen was virtually given the gold medal before the Olympics. This was

supposed to be a coronation, but he just had a horrible free skate. He fell twice. He completed only

three of his seven-planned quadruple jumpsple jumps and when it was over he didn't win

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