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Lawmakers are back in court after an earlier legal victory, challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after its secretary, Kristi Noem, issued a second order seeking to limit their ability to make unannounced visits to immigration detention facilities.

Members of Congress last month won their lawsuit after challenging a June DHS policy seeking to require them to give seven days notice of any intended visit.

The lawmaker’s latest filing accuses DHS of having “secretly reimposed” the policy in an order signed by Noem last Thursday.

“On Saturday, January 9—three days after U.S. citizen Renee Good was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis—three members of Congress from the Minnesota delegation, with this Court’s order in hand, attempted to conduct an oversight visit of an ICE facility near Minneapolis,” the filing states, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Only upon showing up at the facility were they informed Noem had again tried to impose the policy, they stated.

Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) is the lead plaintiff on the lawsuit, which is joined by 11 other Democrats, including the ranking members on the House oversight, judiciary and homeland security committees.

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Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing this weekend after she didn’t show up to church Sunday morning near her home in the Tucson, Ariz., area.

Here is everything we know about her disappearance:

What’s the latest on the investigation?

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said during a news conference on Monday that Nancy Guthrie was last seen Saturday evening around 9 p.m. Her family reported her missing around noon Sunday after she did not show up to church. 

“We believe now, after we processed that crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime scene, and we‘re asking the community‘s help,” Nanos said. 

Nancy Guthrie did not suffer from dementia and had full cognitive function, though she had physical limitations and was not able to walk more than 50 yards on her own, the sheriff said.

Police were combing through hours of surveillance video at the home and imploring neighbors in Guthrie’s area to do the same on Monday.

The FBI is aware of the case, NBC News reported, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with homicide detectives, were assisting with the search, according to the sheriff. 

Nanos expressed urgency as he said Nancy Guthrie needs medication that if not taken within 24 hours of her disappearance could be “fatal.”

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said immigration officers in Minneapolis would begin wearing body cameras “immediately," after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens amid the Trump administration's deportation crackdown in the city.

Noem in a post on X said the decision came after speaking to the Trump administration's border czar Tom Homan, as well as other top immigration officials.

“Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis,” Noem said in a social media post. “As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country.”

President Donald Trump told reporters he would leave the move to Noem, adding that the cameras could help Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

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Russian forces attacked a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, Feb. 1, killing 15 people.

The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration (OVA), Oleksandr Ganzha, said on Telegram that a Russian drone struck near a company bus in the Pavlohrad district.

The State Emergency Service (DSNS) and Ternivka Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Dobrovolskyi also confirmed the attack and casualties. The National Police reported that the bus burned down as a result of the strike on civilian infrastructure.

“The epicenter of one of the attacks was a company bus transporting miners after their shift. As of now, 15 miners are confirmed dead, and seven others were injured,” DTEK said in a statement.

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Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt was busy with activity Sunday as Israel said that limited travel to and from the territory is set to resume after years of near-complete isolation. Reopening the border crossing is a key step as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire moves ahead.

Israel announced Sunday that the crossing has opened in a test. COGAT, the Israeli military agency that controls aid to Gaza, said in a statement that the crossing was actively being prepared for fuller operation, adding that residents of Gaza would begin to pass through the crossing once preparations were complete.

Palestinian security officers passed through the crossing's Egyptian gate and headed toward the Palestinian gate to join an EU mission that will be supervising exit and entry, said an Egyptian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media. Ambulances also crossed through the Egyptian gate, the official added.

The head of the new Palestinian administrative committee governing Gaza's daily affairs has said travel in both directions would start Monday.

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A powerful winter weather system — including an intense low-pressure "bomb cyclone" along the East Coast — is affecting a large swath of the country and driving extremely cold air deep into the Southeast.

Temperatures in southern Florida fell into the 20s on Sunday morning — it's the coldest it's been since 1989, according to the National Weather Service. A statement on the agency's website warned of freezing temperatures and "bitterly cold air" surging down the Florida Peninsula.

"All of our climate sites set new record lows for the date this morning," read a social media statement from the NWS office in Melbourne, Fla., "and most even set new monthly record lows for February!"

Though not unusually cold for much of the country, Florida isn't well-equipped for such temperatures, said Brian McNoldy, who studies cyclones at the University of Miami. " It's just something that people aren't used to," he said, "I mean, not every house even has heat, a lot of people don't have heavy coats."

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The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4 July during renovations, Donald Trump posted on Sunday on Truth Social.

The Kennedy Center, which has seen a wave of performers cancel events in recent months as well as the lowest ticket sales in years, has been in turmoil since the president orchestrated a leadership overhaul in the beginning of his term.

In his Truth Social post, Trump claimed he had been reviewing the venue for one year to decide between a full closure and reopening or partial closure during its reconstruction.

“Based on these findings, and totally subject to Board approval, I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything that has taken place with respect to such a Facility before,” Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social.

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The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched teargas at a crowd of demonstrators – including young children – outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest that he and others characterized as peaceful.

Witnesses said agents deployed teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Erin Hoover Barnett, a former OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (91 metres) from the building when “what looked like two guys with rocket launchers” started dousing the crowd with ga

“To be among parents frantically trying to tend to little children in strollers, people using motorized carts trying to navigate as the rest of us staggered in retreat, unsure of how to get to safety, was terrifying,” Barnett wrote in an email to OregonLive.

Portland mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful, “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.

“To those who continue to work for ICE: resign. To those who control this facility: leave,” Wilson wrote in a statement on Saturday night. “Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”

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