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Today’s prime tales

Congressional Republicans are regrouping after a chaotic night. The House failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on costs of failing to implement border coverage. Four Republicans joined Democrats to reject the measure. Additionally, a bipartisan Senate package deal that pairs border safety insurance policies with international assist for Israel and Ukraine may crumble as a result of Republicans now oppose the border policy they previously demanded.

Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks throughout a information convention on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.

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Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks throughout a information convention on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.

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• Election-year politics play an enormous position in what’s taking place, NPR’s Claudia Grisales tells Up First. Republicans would lose a major campaign talking point if Congress had been to repair the border disaster by laws.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley misplaced the Nevada main yesterday regardless of her opponent, former President Donald Trump, not being on the poll. Nevada voters opted for the “none of the above” option on their main ballots. Trump will compete in Nevada’s Republican caucus tomorrow. Because the celebration uses the caucus to award delegates, a main win would have been purely symbolic for Haley. Still, the loss is a setback for her marketing campaign.

•  A brand new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist ballot discovered that immigration is the top issue for Republicans this yr, whereas Democrats prioritize preserving democracy.

Jennifer Crumbley, the mom of the Oxford High School shooter, was discovered responsible of four counts of involuntary manslaughter yesterday. Ethan Crumbley, who killed 4 individuals on the Michigan highschool in 2021, is presently serving a life sentence for the mass taking pictures. Ethan Crumbley’s father, James Crumbley, has but to go to trial.

• NPR’s Martin Kaste says it is not clear whether or not this verdict makes gun-owning dad and mom extra criminally liable for his or her youngsters’s actions. Experts inform him this case is much less about how Crumbley acquired the gun and extra about how the dad and mom ignored clear warning signs that their son was a hazard and did not cease him.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel to work out phrases to barter a Gaza cease-fire. Yesterday, Hamas leaders responded in a “positive” manner to the continued proposal talks, based on the Qatari mediator who helped draw up the plan. In Gaza, individuals took to the streets to name on Israel to just accept the deal, chanting, “The people want peace right now.”

•  NPR’s Michele Kelemen says the deal is available in phases. The first part of calm would enable for the discharge of ladies, youngsters and aged hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Blinken spoke with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who mentioned he needed an finish to the Gaza battle and a “clear, credible, time-bound path to the institution of a Palestinian state.” He’s anticipated to debate all of this with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu throughout his journey.

Picture present

Demonstrators shout slogans and maintain up a picture of Handala, an emblem of Palestinian battle, on Jan. 27 throughout a protest in Madrid in assist of Palestinians and to demand a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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Demonstrators shout slogans and maintain up a picture of Handala, an emblem of Palestinian battle, on Jan. 27 throughout a protest in Madrid in assist of Palestinians and to demand a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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A cartoon created in 1969 is an emblem for Palestinian resistance. But who is that this spiky-haired boy? His identify is Handala, and he was created by Palestinian newspaper cartoonist Naji al-Ali, two years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. “This character represents insurgency, refusal and struggle,” says Egyptian columnist Nadi Hafez of al-Qabas newspaper, the place al-Ali labored for a very long time.

See some variations of Handala here.

From our hosts

Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer report on election evening in 1984.

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Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer report on election evening in 1984.

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Steve Inskeep is a number of NPR’s Morning Edition radio present and Up First podcast. Today, he displays on one among NPR’s founding moms: Linda Wertheimer. She announced her retirement yesterday after greater than 50 years of service.

When I first encountered Linda Wertheimer, I used to be a broke freelance reporter who often acquired to file for NPR. Once, I filed a characteristic a few tiny West Virginia city with a wealthy historical past. It was for All Things Considered, which she co-hosted. It was thrilling to listen to her nice voice saying a line I had written for the introduction: “A handful of people live amid the ruins of another age.”

Years later, we crossed paths in presidential election seasons and shared the airwaves on September 11, 2001. Years after that, she typically visitor hosted alongside me on Morning Edition. It was a pleasure to share the studio along with her as a result of we talked when the microphone was off. She knew all people in politics — or not less than knew individuals who knew them — and had insights and observations about all of them.

In a farewell interview, She informed me one thing she had realized from delivering breaking information, which frequently was disturbing: “One of the things that live radio teaches you is that you just forget [what] you’re terrified by. And you keep talking, and you acquire information and convey that information. That’s the job.” It struck me as a metaphor for all times: you determine the state of affairs you are in, then you definitely face it and go on.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with every change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece of music on this planet, has modified for the sixteenth time. This signifies that the six-sound piece that has been performed within the Burchardi Church since February 2022 has turn into a seven-sound piece.

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View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with every change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece of music on this planet, has modified for the sixteenth time. This signifies that the six-sound piece that has been performed within the Burchardi Church since February 2022 has turn into a seven-sound piece.

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1. Play this piece as slowly as potential. That was the challenge composer John Cage left to these performing his piece Organ2/ASLSP. A gaggle of music students, artwork professors and theologians determined that taking part in the piece for 639 years can be sluggish sufficient. 
2. Lauryn Valladarez was 5 months pregnant and her fiancé could not swim after they acquired too distant from the seashore shore. Luckily, a surfer observed them struggling. The unsung hero rescued them and left with out introducing himself.
3. Can’t determine if that is an AI-generated picture? Don’t fear; Facebook and Instagram say they are going to start labeling images generated by AI as a part of a broader mission to type out what’s actual and what’s pretend.

This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Mansee Khurana contributed.