ABCNEWS - Witness disputes DHS account of fatal Minneapolis shooting: Court documents
A witness to Saturday’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man is disputing the government account of the incident.
NPR (Joe Hernandez) - Power outages and canceled flights as winter storm brings snow, sleet and ice
Reporters from across the NPR Network are covering the storm in each state — the impact and how officials are responding.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Jada Yuan, Kadia Goba) - Utah police arrest man accused of assaulting Rep. Maxwell Frost
The congressman, who was at the Sundance Film Festival, says the suspect was overheard making racial slurs during a party he was attending.
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NYTIMES (Kevin Draper) - Hard Times in the Mississippi Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot
Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.
NYTIMES (Vanessa Friedman) - Fashion Is Exaggerating the Female Form Like Never Before. What Is Going On?
Fashion has begun exaggerating, or distorting, the female form like never before. What exactly is going on?
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NYTIMES (Sharon Otterman) - Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President
Jennifer Mnookin has led the flagship campus of the state university system since 2022.
AXIOS (Kyle Stokes) - Minnesota takes rare legal steps to ensure probe of Alex Pretti shooting
Within hours of a Border Patrol agent's killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday, Minnesota officials launched a series of extraordinary legal maneuvers to stake local authorities' claim to investigate the shooting. Why it matters: The moves are meant to counter what state officials and legal experts framed as unprecedented obstruction by federal authorities surrounding a shooting investigation that — under most circumstances — would involve state and local authorities. "This is uncharted territory," Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters Sunday . "We've never had to do anything like this before." - "Closing the crime scene, sweeping away the evidence, defying a court order and not allowing anyone to look at it … This is an…
NYTIMES (Gabe Castro-Root) - Winter Storm Drives U.S. Flight Cancellations to Pandemic-Level Numbers
More than 8,230 departures were canceled on Sunday, more than on any other day since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Diamond, Jonathan Edwards) - Trump says it’s ‘too late’ to stop White House ballroom construction
The president’s comments came after Justice Department lawyers argued that the ballroom plans can still be modified and they plan to wait for federal reviews.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck) - DOJ, FBI take back seat in Minnesota shooting, state vows investigation
Since an immigration officer fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, the federal agents who would typically be involved in investigating have been sidelined.
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