Trump sends 'border czar' to lead ICE in Minneapolis
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is sending Tom Homan to lead the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Reports suggest the current border patrol chief, Gregory Bovino, will leave the city with some of his agents, in an apparent White House policy change. It comes after federal agents killed two US citizens - Alex Pretti and Renée Good - in recent weeks. Also: the latest from the storm in North America; we hear from a Palestinian journalist about the likelihood of moving to the next phase of the Gaza peace plan; Nike "automation" lays off more staff; scientists map dark matter; and what makes magic mushrooms magical?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 27th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.2 | I cannot sit idly by while our country changes from what it was a democracy into an authoritarianism, fascist government. |
| 0:28.2 | As protests continue in Minneapolis, Donald Trump shakes up his much-criticized immigration enforcement team will get the latest from the city. |
| 0:38.0 | The body of the last Israeli hostage is returned from Gaza. |
| 0:42.1 | What does that mean for the peace plan? |
| 0:46.3 | Also in this podcast, it's one of the biggest unknowns in astronomy, |
| 0:50.7 | but scientists believe they've now mapped dark matter. |
| 0:54.5 | It pulls things around that we can see. |
| 0:56.6 | It pulls stars and galaxies and rays of light, |
| 0:59.7 | pulls everything around and moves things that we can see. |
| 1:02.3 | And that's how we know where the dark matter is. |
| 1:04.6 | And have they also cracked the mysterious ways of magic mushrooms? |
| 1:14.5 | After cracked the mysterious ways of magic mushrooms. After days of mounting anger in Minneapolis, |
| 1:17.6 | over the killing of another US citizen by federal officials, |
| 1:21.4 | there are now signs that the White House may be changing its tone |
| 1:24.5 | in the wake of sentiments like these from protesters in the city. |
| 1:28.5 | It's disgraceful. They shouldn't be murdering people. Alex did nothing wrong. Neither did or any good. |
| 1:35.4 | I cannot sit idly by while our country changes from what it was a democracy into an authoritarianism, |
| 1:42.6 | fascist government. |
| 1:47.9 | Our government and the Department of Homeland Security is nonsense, |
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