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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. Border Patrol agents began making arrests this weekend in the city's immigrant corridors, as Nick De La Canal, a member station WFAE reports. Agents were filmed smashing a man's car window and pulling him from a vehicle in South Charlotte. On the city's east side, restaurants locked their doors as agents chased a man into a laundromat and tackled an employee at a nearby. car repair shop. The shop's owner, who didn't want her name used for fear of retribution, said the man was her lead mechanic. The business depends on clients and workers. If my worker are taken, I can't, I got to close my

business. Just blocks away, a woman filmed agents who stopped her landscaping crew as they were putting up Christmas lights, then let them go after questioning. For NPR news, I'm Nick Delac Canal in Charlotte. The Homeland Security Department says the surge is aimed at ensuring public safety, but Charlotte's Democratic mayor says it's causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty. The surge drew several hundred protesters to a city park, but there have been no major clashes. President Trump is cutting ties with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. The president made a series of social media posts announcing his withdrawn his support of the Georgia Republican. NPR's Ava Pukatch reports that Green is hitting back and says she suspects a rift came from her support for the release of the Epstein files.

post, Trump called for conservatives to primary Green, saying, quote, if the right person runs, they will have my complete and unyielding support. Green said in a post of her own that she had sent the president a text regarding the Epstein files, which she said, quote, sent him over the edge. She said Trump is trying to make an example of her to scare other Republicans ahead of the House's vote to force the release of the Epstein files. Green has been a long-time Trump ally in prominent mega-figure. but she's been at odds of the president, notably in calling for the Justice Department to release the files about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Eva Pukatch and PR News, Washington. The rains have now eased, but Southern California remains on alert for the potential for high water and mud and rock slides from that atmospheric river storm.

Tim Maurice lives in the Naples neighborhood of Long Beach where kayakers paddled the streets. The water just started coming up really fast, and, you know, it's up past the sidewalk now and almost put some sandbags around the house, almost in the house. It's a little scary. The storm dumped up to six inches of rain on Saturday, flooding highways, and according to the Los Angeles Times, there have been mudslides, but no major property damage in the vulnerable Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, which were scarred by those wildfires back in jail. January. And you're listening to NPR News. President Trump has issued two pardons linked to the investigation into the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. One is for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who are investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol. Trump issued the second pardon for a January 6 defendant who had remained behind bars, despite the president's clemency grant issued when he regained the White House. He'd been convicted on separate. charges. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the rebel groups in the

country, the M23, have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal. Michael Koloki has more. Fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese forces has been going on for decades now. Under a mediation effort hosted by the Qatari government and backed by the United States, both sides yesterday signed the framework agreement for a peace deal in the Qatari capital, Doha. According to Massad Bulos, President Trump's senior advisor for Africa, the deal covers eight protocols, which include the exchange of prisoners and the monitoring of a ceasefire. Bulos added that more still needs to be done to reach an agreement on how a number of the protocols will be implemented. According to the United Nations, since the start of this year, thousands have been killed in the conflict in Eastern Congo.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Koloki in Nairobi. The NFL's first regular season game in Spain is set to get underway in a couple of hours of Washington Command, are to take on the Miami Dolphins in a game being played at the home stadium of Real Madrid, one of the most successful soccer teams in the world. The game is the seventh game of this international game of the season, most ever for the NFL. This is NPR News.