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Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. The tension is reaching a boiling point in Minneapolis after ICE agents fatally shot a protester during a confrontation this weekend. The second fatal shooting involving ICE there this month. Leading Democrats responded by doubling down on opposing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement raids in Minneapolis. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. This is an inflection point, America. If we cannot all agree, that's a smearing of an American citizen and besmirching everything they stood for and asking us not to believe what we saw.

I don't know what else to tell you. The man killed was Alex Preti, a 37-year-old. The Department of Homeland Security or DHS says he was armed, and agents fearing for their lives fired defensive shots as he approached them. Border Patrol commander at large Gregory Bovino. The suspect put himself in that situation, the victim. are the Border Patrol agents there. But critics say videos shot by bystanders and reviewed by news organizations like the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press do not clearly back up DHS's version of events, though that

doesn't necessarily undercut agents' claims they felt they were in mortal danger. In the wake of this weekend's ICE involved shooting, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer now says Democrats won't support more funding for DHS. The Senate needs to pass funding for government agencies, including DHS this week, to avoid a partial shutdown. Schumer is urging Republicans to drop that part of the funding and overhaul ICE. Maryland's Democratic Governor Westmore says a shutdown would hit his state hard. We've had over 25,000 people, Marylanders, fired, federal workers, just in the process of this past year. And so the impact of the federal government decisions has significant impact.

More on Fox News Channel's The Sunday Briefing with Peter Ducey. When you've just completed what many sportscasters consider the greatest story in college football history, it takes more than a winter chill to keep you from celebrating. Tens of thousands of fans braved the bitter cold this weekend to see their title-winning team in person one last time, making their way to Memorial Stadium in Bloomington to celebrate the Indiana Hoosiers National College Football Championship, In front of a TV audience of more than 30 million, the Hoosiers knocked off Miami last week to win IU's first ever national title and complete college football's first 16-0 season in more than 130 years. For World Radio, I'm Mark Mellinger.

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