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Partial Government Shutdown Looms as Senate Deadlocks Over Immigration Enforcement
Washington, D.C. - The Senate edged closer to a partial government shutdown this week, driven by a political clash over immigration enforcement and funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to Time. With funding for a significant portion of the federal government set to expire after midnight on Friday, Republicans and Democrats remained at odds over a six-bill appropriations package passed by the House that includes funding for Homeland Security.
The impasse follows a recent shooting in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents, prompting Democrats to demand changes to the bill's immigration provisions. They have signaled a willingness to allow funding to lapse if their demands are not met, Time reported.
Meanwhile, the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics has sparked controversy in Italy. The Winter Games are scheduled to take place from February 6-22. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala criticized ICE, stating to Italian media outlet RTL Radio 102, "This is a militia that kills... It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt," according to The Associated Press, as reported by Time.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed to TIME that ICE agents would support U.S. security operations at the Winter Games. McLaughlin clarified that "ICE does not conduct immigration enforcement operations in foreign countries."
In other news, research from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, as reported by Phys.org, has shown that rhodium (Rh) clusters of an optimal, intermediate size exhibit the highest catalytic activity in hydroformylation reactions. This research suggests that "Goldilocks size" rhodium clusters advance reusable heterogeneous catalysts for hydroformylation. The findings were published in ACS Catalysis (2025).
Nature News issued author corrections for two separate articles. One correction concerned a palaeoclimate study, "Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum," where a label on a color scale bar in Fig. 1b was corrected from 35.50 to 35.00. The other correction addressed duplications in Extended Data Fig. 4 of an article titled "Nutrient-sensing nuclear receptors coordinate autophagy."
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