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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Some Trump voters say they have reservations about the president's pardon of more than 1,500 people who participated in a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021. Trump issued pardons within the first several hours of his presidency. NPR's Ashley Lope has reports. David Brown in South Carolina is an independent voter who has mostly voted for Democrats but last year he voted for Trump and already he disagrees with some of Trump's decisions. Among them is the January 6 pardon. Brown, who earlier in his life served as a police officer in Washington

DC, said Trump's pardons are a miscarriage of justice. I believe if they were instructed to do something and they did not follow the officers or the police enforcement rules and follow what they said, they should be serving their time. I think it's pretty much a slap in the face of the law establishment. An NPR PBS Marist poll conducted right before Trump took office found roughly six out of 10 Americans disapprove of Trump pardoning January 6th rioters. Ashley Lopez, NPR News. The Metro Nashville Police Department says three students were injured in a shooting

at Antioch High School today. In a posting on the social media platform X, the MNPD says the students in Tennessee include a suspect who sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Buses are transferring other students from the school to a site to reunite with their families. There's been no word on motive. In the wake of the administration's immigration enforcement actions, a U.S. official tells NPR, the Pentagon will send up to 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S. border with Mexico, no word yet on which specific units will be deployed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is laying out his priorities at the State Department, downplaying diversity and inclusion as well as the previous administration's focus on climate change and disinformation.

Here's NPR's Michelle Kalamann. Secretary Rubio says his first priority is to secure America's borders and work with countries in the Western Hemisphere to take back those he calls illegal immigrants. He also says he will get back to the basics of diplomacy and eliminate what he describes as a focus on political and cultural causes that are quote divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad that includes LGBTQ rights. Rubio says under his leadership the State Department will help President Trump return to American energy dominance and do away with climate

policies that he believes weaken America. The Trump administration has again withdrawn from the Paris climate accord. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department. Netflix is again raising the price for streaming privileges in the US. The cost of a standard plan without commercials is climbing more than two dollars to $17.99 a month. The cheaper option with ads is going up a buck to $7.99. Netflix has been cracking down on password sharing. Yesterday it announced that total paid memberships in the fourth quarter topped 300 million subscribers worldwide. It's NPR News.

Prince Harry and a senior British lawmaker, Tom Watson, have secured an unprecedented apology from Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids as part of their settlement that resolves their legal dispute and avoids a very public trial. NPR's David Fokinflick reports from Lenin the agreement ends Harry's years-long battle to hold the newspapers accountable for privacy breaches. The News of the World, another Sunday tabloid they then closed during the height of the scandal, had engaged in phone hacking and other unlawful and unwarranted invasions of his privacy. They essentially apologized to him for going into his personal life in deep and unlawful and insensitive ways and even reached back to his childhood and to apologizing

for the treatment of his mother, Princess Diana. NPR's David Fokin flick reporting. Turns out space is kind of chatty. NPR's Regina Barber reports on a natural phenomenon that produces bursts of radiation that scientists call chorus waves. That sound isn't from Star Trek. It's an audio clip created from radiation coming 100,000 miles above Earth's surface. These waves are thought to be created from bunched up charged000 miles above Earth's surface. These waves are thought to be created from bunched-up charged electrons trapped in Earth's magnetic field. These rising

and lowering waves of radiation have been studied for the past 70 years. And a new study from Beijing, China, published in the journal Nature, was the first to find these waves at this location, where Earth's magnetic field is weak and less uniform. This information could help protect satellites and other spacecraft from damage, since coarse waves can accelerate particles to close to the speed of light. Regina Barber, NPR News. The NASDAQ is up 267 points or 1.3 percent. This is NPR.