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The Latest: 01/28/2025 09:59am ET
This is your 24/7 News Update, the latest views this hour in just four minutes. President Trump is ordering a freeze on domestic and foreign federal aid, Alice Barr reports that a White House internal memo sent overnight lays out the changes. — "including but not limited to financial assistance for foreign aid, non-governmental organizations, DEI, Woke Gender Ideology, and the Green New Deal, calling it a temporary pause to determine the best use of funding." — "That pause is scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. Eastern time today. Social security and Medicare are not affected. Democrats are pushing back with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying Donald Trump's administration blatantly disobeys the law by holding up virtually all vital funds that support programs in every community across the country. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are conducting raids in New York City this morning. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is with agents." She posted on social media pictures and a video of what looks to be an arrest. She wrote, "enforcement operation in New York City, criminal alien with kidnapping assault and burglary charges is now in custody, thanks to ICE. Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets." The Trump administration is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on criminal investigations into the now-president, Brian Schook, with more. A letter from Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they cannot be trusted to faithfully execute Trump's agenda. This comes as the White House moves to investigate prosecutors who oversaw criminal cases against the January 6 defendants. I'm Brian Schook. Wall Street is opening with stocks higher that comes one day after a major tech sell-off over concerns of the new Chinese startup DeepSeek and its impact on the AI trade. The Nasdaq lost more than 3 percent on Monday. I'm Michael Kastner. New Jersey Congressman Josh Gaffimer is trying to bring down the rising cost of food through new legislation, Scott Pringle reports. Gaffimer's legislation will direct the Department of Agriculture to appoint a special investigator to strictly enforce price-fixing laws for the meatpacking industry. It will also require the department to encourage new meat producers to enter the market. You can't have four meat producers controlling 85 percent of the market, cornering the market and setting prices and jacking up meat prices. It's crushing middle-class families. The Congressman is also introducing the Lower Grocery Prices Act. This is going to require the U.S. Government Accountability Office to create a national plan to combat high food prices and deliver relief to struggling families, he says. Those mysterious drone sightings are returning to the Northeast after the FAA has lifted its 30-day flight ban more from Sarah Lee Kessler. The lights are coordinated. From New Jersey to Connecticut plus New York for Mona, Massachusetts, those unexplained drone sightings are back. So are the videos. If you look at the reports that people are submitting, they're saying, you know, I'm still seeing them. Christina Kim of Enigma Labs on NBC's Today Show Monday. New York Senator Chuck Schumer confirmed the sightings on Sunday. We have now seen new drone sightings and we're going to have to look into these. There have been hundreds of mysterious drone sightings since January 19th when the FAA lifted its one-month ban on drone flights over New York and New Jersey. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler. Others and family members are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. I stood and watched helplessly as little girls from the nearby barrack were marched away crying and shivering to the gas chamber. That survivor, Tova Friedman, speaking at Monday's ceremony, I'm Michael Kastner.