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On NPR's Wild Card podcast, comedian Michelle Butoh says she's glad she ignored the people who told her to lose weight. I'm just going to show you what it looks like to love my body, my double chin, my extra rolls, okay? My buckets of thighs. Sauce on the side, you can't afford it. I'm Rachel Martin. Michelle Butoh is on the Wild Card podcast, the show where cards control the conversation.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. There's no indication that immigration authorities have started major raids to detain migrants in the U.S. illegally. But the Trump administration says federal agents can now go into places previously off limits to remove migrants. That includes children's schools, hospitals, and churches. It's part of Trump's executive actions on immigration. That includes his move to end birthright citizenship,

a right protected by the U.S. Constitution. New Jersey and several democratically led states are suing over the issue. New Jersey State Attorney General Matthew Plotkin says birthright citizenship is settled law. It's been upheld by the Supreme Court multiple times. This is until Monday night, not something that was ever contested by a president who

signed an order that was extraordinary, unprecedented, and upended the rule of law. He spoke to NPR's morning edition. President Trump's executive actions on energy also call for boosting resource development in Alaska. Republican leaders in Alaska are praising these, but Alaska public media's Liz Ruskin reports environmental groups are pledging to fight the president's actions. The order covers nearly every Alaska land use controversy this century.

It calls for new oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and roads across protected federal land to help logging and mining. It's exactly what Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation wanted. But Alaskans who advocated for these protections are seeing years of work erased. Conservation advocates are ramping up for lawsuits. As for Trump's order to restore the name Mount McKinley, a new poll by Alaska Survey Research found Alaskans

by a wide margin favored the mountain's current name, Denali. For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin. President Trump has also issued another executive order to dismantle all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Any federal employee involved in DEI programs dismantle all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Any federal employee involved in DEI programs has been put on paid leave immediately. Stocks opened higher this morning as President Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary moves

toward confirmation. And BR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 115 points. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent won a measure of bipartisan support in the Senate Finance Committee, which voted 16 to 11 Tuesday to send his nomination to the full Senate. If confirmed, Besson will play a leading role in pushing the president's agenda on taxes, tariffs, and other economic policies. Trump has suggested February 1 could be a start date for stiff new tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico.

Canada is a major supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Retail gasoline prices have already jumped four cents a gallon in the last week. Stock in Netflix is up after the video streaming service announced better than expected financial results. Netflix is also raising prices by between $1.00 and $2.50 a month. NPR's Scott Horsley. It's NPR. Israel has launched a new operation in the occupied West Bank, with arrests and deaths reported among Palestinians there. But about 50 miles away in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is holding for the fourth day.

NPR's Ea Batraoui reports. From the southern city of Rafah to the edges of northern Jabalia, for the fourth day. NPR's Ea Batraoui reports. From the southern city of Rafah to the edges of northern Jabalia, the Gaza Strip lies in ruins, the result of more than a year of war and sustained Israeli airstrikes. Palestinians are able to see now what's left of their homes in areas Israeli forces have withdrawn from. But there's little reprieve here. Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, turning cities into gray mounds of rubble as far as the eye can see. Gaza's health ministry says more than 47,000 people were killed by Israeli fire in the war. Local health officials say they've recovered around 150 bodies from the rubble and decay of different

parts of Gaza since the ceasefire began Sunday, and they estimate more than 10,000 bodies remain missing under the rubble. Aya Batraoui, Ampere News. There are three new elected members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. They include former Seattle Mariner star Ichiro Suzuki. He first rose to fame in his home nation of Japan. Also included are pitcher Cece Sabathia and closing pitcher Billy Wagner. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Pfeiffer has died at his home in New York, according to his wife.

He was 95 years old. Pfeiffer worked for years for The Village Voice, but he was best loved for illustrating the beloved children's book, The Phantom Tollbooth. I'm Corva Kuhlman, NPR News.