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Up First briefing: Congressional chaos over border, Nikki Haley loses Nevada
Congressional Republicans are opposing a border bill that they demanded. Nikki
Haley loses the Nevada primary.
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Congressional Republicans are regrouping after a chaotic evening. The House
failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on charges of
failing to enforce border policy. Four Republicans joined Democrats to reject
the measure. Additionally, a bipartisan Senate package that pairs border
security policies with foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine could fall apart
because Republicans now oppose the border policy they previously demanded.

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 * Election-year politics play a big role in what's happening, NPR's Claudia
   Grisales tells Up First. Republicans would lose a major campaign talking
   point if Congress were to fix the border crisis through legislation.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley lost the Nevada primary yesterday despite her
opponent, former President Donald Trump, not being on the ballot. Nevada voters
opted for the "none of the above" option on their primary ballots. Trump will
compete in Nevada's Republican caucus tomorrow. Because the party uses the
caucus to award delegates, a primary win would have been purely symbolic for
Haley. Still, the loss is a setback for her campaign.

 *  A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that immigration is the top
   issue for Republicans this year, while Democrats prioritize preserving
   democracy.

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Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the Oxford High School shooter, was found
guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter yesterday. Ethan Crumbley, who
killed four people at the Michigan high school in 2021, is currently serving a
life sentence for the mass shooting. Ethan Crumbley's father, James Crumbley,
has yet to go to trial.

 * NPR's Martin Kaste says it's not clear whether this verdict makes gun-owning
   parents more criminally liable for their children's actions. Experts tell him
   this case is less about how Crumbley got the gun and more about how the
   parents ignored clear warning signs that their son was a danger and failed to
   stop him.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel to work out terms to
negotiate a Gaza cease-fire. Yesterday, Hamas leaders responded in a "positive"
manner to the ongoing proposal talks, according to the Qatari mediator who
helped draw up the plan. In Gaza, people took to the streets to call on Israel
to accept the deal, chanting, "The people want peace right now."

 *  NPR's Michele Kelemen says the deal comes in phases. The first phase of calm
   would allow for the release of women, children and elderly hostages held by
   Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Blinken spoke with the crown
   prince of Saudi Arabia, who said he wanted an end to the Gaza conflict and a
   "clear, credible, time-bound path to the establishment of a Palestinian
   state." He's expected to discuss all of this with Israeli Prime Minister
   Benjamin Netanyahu during his trip.




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Demonstrators shout slogans and hold up an image of Handala, a symbol of
Palestinian struggle, on Jan. 27 during a protest in Madrid in support of
Palestinians and to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

A cartoon created in 1969 is a symbol for Palestinian resistance. But who is
this spiky-haired boy? His name 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, where al-Ali worked for a long time.

See some versions of Handala here.


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Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition radio show and Up First
podcast. Today, he reflects on one of NPR's founding mothers: Linda Wertheimer.
She announced her retirement yesterday after more than 50 years of service.

When I first encountered Linda Wertheimer, I was a broke freelance reporter who
occasionally got to file for NPR. Once, I filed a feature about a tiny West
Virginia town with a rich history. It was for All Things Considered, which she
co-hosted. It was thrilling to hear her great 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 sometimes guest hosted
alongside me on Morning Edition. It was a joy to share the studio with her
because we talked when the microphone was off. She knew everybody in politics —
or at least knew people who knew them — and had insights and observations about
them all.

In a farewell interview, She told me something she had learned from delivering
breaking news, which often 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 life: you figure out the situation you're
in, then you face it and go on.




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Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After
two years, the sound of the slowest piece of music in the world, has changed for
the 16th time. This means that the six-sound piece that has been played in the
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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 each change of sound. After
two years, the sound of the slowest piece of music in the world, has changed for
the 16th time. This means that the six-sound piece that has been played in the
Burchardi Church since February 2022 has become a seven-sound piece.

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 1. Play this piece as slowly as possible. That was the challenge composer John
    Cage left to those performing his piece Organ2/ASLSP. A group of music
    scholars, art professors and theologians decided that playing the piece for
    639 years would be slow enough. 
 2. Lauryn Valladarez was five months pregnant and her fiancé couldn't swim when
    they got too far away from the beach shore. Luckily, a surfer noticed them
    struggling. The unsung hero rescued them and left without introducing
    himself.
 3. Can't figure out if that's an AI-generated image? Don't worry; Facebook and
    Instagram say they will start labeling images generated by AI as part of a
    broader mission to sort out what's real and what's fake.

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

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