WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 2-10-26 (3/3)

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Kent Covington. Fireworks on Capitol Hill today as lawmakers race the clock to try and reach a compromise to fund the Department of Homeland Security. A deal must be in place by the end of the day on Friday or yet again, the nation will be facing another partial government shutdown, this time only DHS. Trump administration immigration officials testified

before the House Homeland Security Committee where Democrats on the panel grilled them over a pair of fatal shootings involving immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota. Democratic Congressman Pete Aguilar. The American people are fed up with what they are seeing in their hard-earned tax dollars going toward brutalizing law-abiding immigrants. But Republicans say rhetoric from Democrats is endangering ICE agents who are only trying to enforce the law. And GOP Congressman Todd Emmer added. Democrats want to stop immigration enforcement almost entirely. They're even willing to shut down vital government functions like TSA, the Coast Guard,

and FEMA to do so. Republicans say what ICE agents need most is greater protection. In time, the House is expected to vote this week on a bill that would implement new rules that Republicans say are designed to safeguard elections. They call it the Save America Act, and it would require voters to show a valid form of identification when casting a ballot in national elections. Democratic leaders oppose the measure calling it voter suppression, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Americans who have trouble leaving their homes could get.

Get shut out. That means rural Americans could be shut out of our democracy. Republicans say that simply isn't true. Schumer also compared the measure to Jim Crow laws. But House Majority Whip Steve Scalese counters that at the last Democratic National Convention... Guess what? Chuck Schumer made you show a picture ID to get into his own convention that he's calling Jim Crow. The House passed a similar measure last year, which Democrats blocked in the Senate. And if the current bill passes in the House, it faces a similar uphill climb in the Senate. upper chamber where Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

Japan's stock market has hit record highs this week as investors cheered recent election results. World's Mary Muncie has more. The NICA 225 index climbed past 57,000 points, a new peak as traders reacted to the ruling parties clear win. Prime Minister Sunae Tchaichi's conservative-leaning party secured a supermajority in the lower house, capturing 316 seats on its own, and about three quarters of the chamber with allies. That gives her government the power to advance tax cuts and spending aimed at growth. It could also allow Japan to further strengthen its military amid tensions with China.

For World, I'm Mary Muncie. And I'm Kent Covington. For more sound journalism grounded in facts and biblical truth, visit world radio.