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New video of Alex Pretti 11 days before shooting. Dangerous cold for millions of Americans. FBI raids Georgia election facility. CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick has these stories and more on the World News Roundup.

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A.M. Edition for Jan. 29. Investors are rewarding Meta after the company’s latest earnings showed massive AI investments translating into a jump in digital-ad revenues. State Street’s Altaf Kassam gives his take on the AI boom’s early winners and losers. Plus, WSJ deputy finance editor Quentin Webb gives us the backstory on the metals rally that just won’t quit. And FBI agents search a Georgia election office as part of a broader push to re-examine Trump’s 2020 loss. Luke Vargas hosts.

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Senate Democrats are threatening a partial government shutdown unless Republicans agree to new limits on immigration enforcement by Friday's deadline.
A protest at an ICE family detention center in South Texas turned confrontational as demonstrators demanded the release of a five-year-old boy and his father taken from Minnesota and held at the facility hundreds of miles away.
And despite pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates, the Federal Reserve is holding steady to fight lingering inflation and rising prices.

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Federal agents carry out a search warrant on Fulton County election offices in Georgia, leaving with ballots from the 2020 election. The Department of Homeland Security claims the border agents who shot Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave, contradicting claims from a Border Patrol commander that they’re still in the field. And more American colleges are realizing they’ve been scammed by “ghost students.”

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Alabama

• AL Supreme Court heard oral arguments on appeal case of Mac Marquette
• Sen. Tuberville puts Senate Democrats on blast for seeking another shutdown
• AL House passes the Child Predator Death Penalty Act, now heads to senate
• John Wahl takes on accusations from Wes Allen of improper voting in 2020

National

• Pilot program for Trump Accounts will place $1K start up money
• Border Czar Homan says meeting with MN leadership a productive start
• Senate GOP leader says he WILL bring the SAVE Act to a vote on Senate floor
• FBI seized election docs related to 2020 from a facility in Fulton County GA
• Part 2 of a conversation with Troy Anderson about Designated Disruptor

Alabama

• Lt. Gov. Ainsworth not happy with another AHSAA decision on schools sports
• The Laken Riley Act has passed out of committee in the Alabama House
• A bill passes committee that allows for city/county leadership to both appoint and remove members of a the library board
• A public hearing held on bill allowing pharmacies to sell Ivermectin without a prescription
• Albertville real estate agent is in jail without bond per orders from TX judge
• John Wahl raises $1M dollars in one day for his Lt. Governor's race
• UAB successfully completes a robotic kidney transplant surgery

National

• Trump to name his chosen replacement for Fed Reserve Chairman Powell
• Tentative deal reached between Senate Dems and Trump to avoid shutdown
• MN man posing as FBI is busted trying to jail break a high profile inmate
• Nurse in VA is fired from job for videos on how to harm ICE agents
• Fulton County GA is now the trigger point for election fraud investigation
• Troy Anderson talks revival and National Day of Repentance this May in DC 

Donald Trump has warned Iran that "time is running out" to negotiate a deal on its nuclear programme following the steady build-up of US military forces in the Gulf. The US president said a "massive armada" was "moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose" towards Iran, referring to a large US naval force. Iran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful, but warned that a new US attack would prompt a response "like never before". Also: We report from Mozambique where an intense clear-up operation is underway following weeks of severe flooding. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has made a robust defence of the Trump administration's Venezuela policy, weeks after US special forces seized President Nicolás Maduro. And could dementia be diagnosed earlier by looking at changes in the way people use language?

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FBI conducts raid at the Fulton County, Georgia election office.

DHS says two federal agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis are on administrative leave.

Residents in many parts of the South are still without power four days after massive winter storm.

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Is the United States about to launch a larger attack on Iran, than last June, when 'Operation Midnight Hammer' targeted its nuclear programme? Earlier this month President Trump told protesters that "help was on the way," and now thousands are dead. We hear from a former US envoy to Iran.

Also on the programme: Tensions over ICE agents persist in Minnesota - we get a view from the Democrats; and we hear the extraordinary story of mathematician Dr Gladys West, who has died at the age of 95.

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P.M. Edition for Jan. 28. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and though officials signaled openness to cutting rates again, they didn’t indicate when that might happen. WSJ investing columnist Spencer Jakab discusses the decision and its implications. Plus, Amazon says it’s cutting 16,000 jobs, bringing its total cuts since October to about 30,000. And two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti and the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis have been put on leave. Alex Ossola hosts.

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