The News Roundup For January 30, 2026
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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Another deadline for a government shutdown is fast approaching. And questions are mounting about whether Democrats will continue to dig their heels in over the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
And more acts are pulling out of scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center. Composer Phillip Glass announced his decision to not debut a symphony he wrote in honor of Abraham Lincoln written for the Center’s 50th anniversary.
And, in global news, President Donald Trump said this week that Iran needed to give into a list of demands related to its nuclear disarmament and that “time was running out.” The military is now moving Navy and Air Force assets to the Middle East.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he couldn’t rule out further military intervention in Venezuela during testimony before the Senate.
And traditional U.S. allies are looking elsewhere for aid and trade deals, as the president continues to demolish the old world order in favor of one that centers himself.
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| 0:14.7 | Hey, everybody, it's Todd, your host for this edition of the News Roundup. As you know, news develops fast and things may have changed |
| 0:21.6 | by the time you hear this episode. Stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your |
| 0:25.6 | local NPR member station and visiting npr.org. You're listening to the 1A podcast, and it's time for our weekly news roundup. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Todd's Willick. |
| 0:42.5 | For Alex and René, I'm going to let it shine. |
| 0:50.3 | Alex and Renate, I'm going to let it shine |
| 0:56.4 | Let it shine |
| 0:58.1 | Let it shine |
| 0:59.8 | Voices raised Wednesday here in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:03.6 | In memory of the two American citizens shot to death |
| 1:07.2 | by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis |
| 1:10.1 | Reneg Maclin Good on January 7th and now |
| 1:13.2 | Alex Prettty on Saturday. In both killings, Trump administration officials responded by smearing |
| 1:19.6 | the victims, calling them terrorists, or in Preddy's case saying he was out to massacre federal |
| 1:25.1 | agents. But now this week, for the first time, since the |
| 1:28.6 | start of the crackdown in Minnesota, lawmakers who had stayed silent or who had defended |
| 1:33.3 | the administration's actions are starting to break ranks. We're going to talk about the |
| 1:38.4 | investigation into Preti's killing and the political reverberations of lethal government |
| 1:43.5 | aggression so far without accountability, |
| 1:46.2 | but also other big news of the week, including a Trump administration raid on the election |
| 1:52.0 | center in Fulton County, Georgia, and a storm of propaganda and disinformation around voting coming |
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