NBC announced that sportscaster Mary Carillo would replace Savannah Guthrie as host for the opening of the Winter Olympics this weekend, as Guthrie's mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, remained missing in Arizona. Nancy Guthrie was last seen Saturday evening at her home in Arizona, and a relative contacted authorities around noon Sunday to report her missing, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
In other news, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened an investigation into Nike for policies that allegedly discriminated against white workers. The EEOC, created by the Civil Rights Act to enforce laws against employment discrimination, stated it was investigating systemic allegations of D.E.I.-related intentional race discrimination against white employees and job applicants at Nike. Andrea Lucas, the chair of the commission, who has made diversity, equity and inclusion programs a target since taking the role last year, said in a recent interview, "it’s clear that I have priorities to deal with race and sex discrimination coming out."
Meanwhile, Turning Point USA announced its lineup for an alternate "All-American Halftime Show" to counterprogram against the NFL's performance featuring Bad Bunny. Kid Rock would headline the show, which was scheduled for Feb. 8, according to Fox News. Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett were also slated to perform at the event.
In Minneapolis, Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on Wednesday that the federal government would immediately withdraw 700 law enforcement officers from the city, scaling down the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area, according to the New York Times. Approximately 2,000 officers and agents would remain in the state, Homan said. The change came after the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers and agents to Minnesota, a deployment that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said was the agency’s largest operation to date. Homan stated that federal officials in Minnesota had made significant progress working with state and local officials, despite some differences.
Also in Minneapolis, a federal prosecutor, Julie T. Le, was fired from the U.S. attorneys office on Wednesday after she expressed frustration with the crippling case load arising from the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, according to three people familiar with the matter, the New York Times reported. During a hearing on Tuesday in Federal District Court in St. Paul, Le told a judge that she and her colleagues in the local U.S. attorneys office were completely overwhelmed by the number of cases they had been forced to handle because of the White House’s widespread immigration sweeps in Minnesota. At one point, she sardonically told the judge that she would welcome being held in contempt of court because it would allow her to get a g
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