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🎧 The Senate has advanced a funding package to reopen the government, but the deal keeps DHS on a short leash with only two weeks of funding, NPR’s Luke Garrett tells Up First. The timed funding is meant to force lawmakers to negotiate over department policy. The deal faces some sticking points in the House. Some Republicans don’t want any reforms to DHS, and they want to include election integrity legislation, which could send the bill back to the Senate. Some House Democrats don’t want to support even a short period of DHS funding. 

🎧 Attorneys for Minnesota and the Twin Cities argued that the federal immigration actions violated constitutional protections and asked for a temporary restraining order. U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, a Biden appointee, said she didn't think the case would succeed in court, but acknowledged that her ruling has significant constitutional stakes and implications for the federal government. She also wrote that the immigration crackdown in the city has already had and will likely continue to have profound and heartbreaking consequences for Minnesota.
➡️ Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort vow to keep reporting after federal authorities arrested them for covering an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Officials released them from custody on Friday, following criticism from human rights advocates and press freedom groups.
➡️ A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected a Norwegian cap design once used to protest Nazi occupation. The owner is donating all proceeds from the hat patterns to support the local immigrant community.

🎧 The center has faced a number of challenges since the president renamed the building the Trump Kennedy Center in late December. A lawsuit challenges the legality of the name change, and artists have pulled out of performances at the center, NPR’s Tamara Keith says. Patrons have canceled their memberships and refused to buy tickets, fueling questions around how the center will continue to sustain itself.