Following yet another deadly shooting by ICE agents in Minnesota, more than 60 CEOs there have now signed a letter calling on federal, state, and local officials to de-escalate. Some smaller businesses across the state have temporarily closed or reduced hours as employees and customers worry about being stopped or profiled by ICE. Also: Surging precious metal prices hint at investor anxieties, and we look at the economic impact of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Marketplace All-in-One - Europe bets big on wind
From the BBC World Service: A group of European countries has signed a clean energy pact, committing to build an offshore wind power grid in the North Sea. The agreement is in contrast to the U.S. and President Donald Trump's strong opposition to wind power. Then, gold hit another high. Plus, Peru’s Chinese-funded “mega port” has ambitious plans to become a local and regional hub for Latin America, but is it delivering?
WSJ Minute Briefing - Fatal ICE Shooting of Minneapolis Nurse Sparks Further Tensions
Plus: A hearing is scheduled for today in Minnesota federal court that seeks to bar Homeland Security and Justice Department officials from destroying or concealing evidence related to this weekend’s shooting. And gold has surged past 5000 dollars for the first time ever - adding to its historic rally. Luke Vargas hosts.
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WSJ What’s News - Pretti Shooting Escalates Standoff Between Federal Agents, Minnesota Officials
A.M. Edition for Jan. 26. Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti marks the second time federal agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis in two weeks. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump declined to say whether the officer who shot Pretti acted appropriately and said his administration was investigating. Plus, we’ll bring you a massive scandal at the very top of China's military leadership. And WSJ’s Joe Wallace explains why gold just can’t seem to lose its lustre. Luke Vargas hosts.
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Marketplace All-in-One - Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”
Billions of dollars has been poured into the AI economy in recent years. As part of a new series about what the AI economy means for you, Marketplace Tech is looking at the infrastructure build-out behind the AI boom, starting with a visit to an Amazon Web Service lab in Cupertino, California, where AWS developers are squeezing as much networking efficiency out of their servers as possible for their AI ambitions.
Headlines From The Times - Minnesotans Protest Against ICE and the Historic Radford Studio Defaults On Its Mortgage
Hundreds of businesses across Minnesota are expected to close on Friday as part of a general strike against the tactics and actions of ICE. New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen described what she saw in Minneapolis as a "civil war." And after decades of debate, Metro's board unanimously approved plans for a multibillion-dollar underground rail line through the Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, more than 175 million Americans are facing winter weather warnings with a massive storm barreling across the country. And before Ernest Hemingway was discharged in 1961 from St. Marys Hospital in Minnesota, he gave Sister Immaculata his novella "The Old Man and the Sea," inscribing a personal note in it; that book is now in the hands of the Nobel Prize Museum in Sweden for the world to see. In business, an L.A. startup is using SpaceX rocket-engine technology to cool data centers, and the historic Radford Studio Center defaults on its mortgage due to Hollywood's production slowdown. Read more at LATimes.com.
Up First from NPR - Minnesota ICE Shooting Aftermath, Senate DHS Funding Vote, Icy Weather
Protests and a general strike continue in Minneapolis after federal immigration agents fatally shot 37 year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti during a crackdown, the second ICE related killing in the state this month.
Senate Democrats threaten to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to new limits on immigration enforcement, a standoff that could trigger a partial government shutdown.
And across the country, states are digging out from a major winter storm that left deadly ice and snow, widespread power outages, and thousands of canceled flights.
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Senate Democrats threaten to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to new limits on immigration enforcement, a standoff that could trigger a partial government shutdown.
And across the country, states are digging out from a major winter storm that left deadly ice and snow, widespread power outages, and thousands of canceled flights.
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(0:00) Introduction
(01:55) Minnesota ICE Shooting Aftermath
(05:44) Senate DHS Funding Vote
(09:26) Icy Weather
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The Daily - 10 Shots: Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minnesota
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis resident, on Saturday. It was the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city during protests against a ramped-up immigration enforcement effort by the Trump administration.
Devon Lum, from the Visual Investigations team, and Ernesto Londoño, who covers the Midwest, explain how the shooting unfolded and what may come next.
Guest:
- Devon Lum, a New York Times reporter working on the Visual Investigations team.
- Ernesto Londoño, a reporter for The New York Times based in Minnesota, covering news in the Midwest.
Background reading:
- Timeline: A moment-by-moment look at the shooting Mr. Pretti.
- Here’s what we know about the shooting.
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Opening Arguments - The Complicated Web of Immunities That Makes Accountability So Difficult
Part 1 of 2.
OA 1229 - What happens when a government worker does you wrong? How is it different to prosecute and sue them? When does qualified immunity come in to play?
We discuss the steps involved in prosecuting and suing someone for a simple battery, and how that differs for a regular person versus a state actor. We cover how and when defenses can be raised, federal and state sovereign immunity, suing in official versus personal capacity, the difference between absolute and qualified immunities, and the ways this will apply differently to criminal prosecution versus civil litigation.
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Siegell v Herricks Union Free School District, 7 AD3d 607 [2d Dept 2004] (Elements of civil battery in NY)
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N.Y. Penal Law § 120 (NY criminal “battery”)
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Fla. Stat. § 776.032 (Florida self-defense as an affirmative defense and immunity)
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Ohio Rev. Code § 2901.05 (Ohio self-defense as a standard defense)
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N.Y. Penal Law § 35 (NY justification defenses)
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Roger Fairfax, The Grand Jury’s Role in the Prosecution of Unjustified Police Killings - Challenges and Solutions, 52 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 397 (2017).
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Michael Gentithes, Harvesting the Grand Jury’s “Lay Expertise” in Officer-Involved Shootings, U. Ill. L. Rev. 989 (2025).
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In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890)
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Gregory C. Sisk, A Primer on the Doctrine of Federal Sovereign Immunity, 439 Okla. L. Rev. 58 (2005).
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Miles McCann, State Sovereign Immunity, National Association of Attorneys General (Nov. 11, 2017)
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State Sovereign Immunity - Generally, Interstate Commission for Juveniles, https://www.juvenilecompact.org/bench-book/chapter-6-1
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Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908)
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Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232 (1974)
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Moor v. County of Alameda, 411 U.S. 693 (1973)
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O’Shea v Littleton, 414 U.S. 488 (1974)
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Judicial Immunity at the (Second) Founding: A New Perspective on § 1983, 136 Harvard L. Rev. 1456 (2023).
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Start Here - The Killing of Alex Pretti
Another demonstrator has been killed by federal agents in Minneapolis - and several videos seem to contradict the Trump administration’s initial claims. Revelations about Alex Pretti’s concealed carry permit spark a debate over Second Amendment rights at protests. And congressional Democrats threaten a potential government shutdown over ICE funding.
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