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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Mass deportations of people in the country without legal status could begin as soon as next week. That's what President-elect Donald Trump has promised over the past few months of his inauguration on Monday. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports immigrant rights groups are bracing for Trump's actions.
National and local organizations advocating for immigrants say they are anticipating a range of scenarios.
We are prepared to meet the impending Trump administration head on.
Felicia Gomez, a senior policy advocate at the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, says her group has led Know Your Rights training for migrants in different languages. It's also putting in teams to respond rapidly to potential at-home and workplace raids. Trump has said he will start mass deportations on day one.
According to an NPR-PBS News Marist poll released this week, 49% of Americans approve of mass deportations. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Washington.
President Biden says he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to be part of the Constitution. His declaration is a symbolic one. The National Archives says the amendment can't be certified without further action from Congress or the courts. Here's NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben.
In a statement, Biden declared the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law, regardless of their sex. Congress originally passed the ERA in 1972, but the required 38 states had not ratified it by a 1982 deadline. States continued ratifying it, though, and in 2020, Virginia became the 38th.
Senior administration officials told reporters that Biden wants the archivist to publish the amendment, a crucial final hurdle for it. However, they said he is not directing her to do so. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
Much of the U.S. will be hit with frigid temperatures this weekend thanks to a polar vortex. Millions of Americans living from the Rockies on eastward could be experiencing wind chills as cold as minus 30 degrees. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports.
There will be relatively few areas in the U.S. free from bone-chilling cold in the coming days. The National Weather Service warns the polar vortex will bring the coldest air this season. Areas unused to such cold, like the South and Mid-Atlantic... are expected to get freezing or below freezing temps. And it's set to stick around for several days, affecting three of four NFL playoff games.
It's even forced a change of plans for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. The forecast of life-threatening cold has pushed the event indoors. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.
On Wall Street, stocks rallied to their best week in two months. Tech sector shares helping boost the broader market. The Dow rose 334 points. The Nasdaq was up 291 points today. You're listening to NPR News. As crews continue to work to extinguish wildfires burning in and around Los Angeles, where students will be going to class is also a major headache.
Two elementary schools were destroyed in the Palisades fire. Some of those students arrived for their first day of classes at other campuses. Seven schools in the L.A. Unified School District are in evacuation zones and remain closed. Palisades-Turner High School is looking for help in finding temporary classrooms for upwards of 3,000 students.
British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in works including A Taste of Honey and Enchanted April, has died. She was 95. Empire's Bob Mondello has this remembrance.
Supremely dignified in her later years, she was squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as Laurence Olivier's adoring granddaughter in The Entertainer.
I've got my glasses.
They married shortly after the movie came out, and Plowright became closely associated with Olivier's stage work. After his death, she came into her own in such films as Tea with Mussolini and her Oscar-nominated performance in Enchanted April as a stern widow in literary circles.
Did you know Keats? Keats? No, I didn't. And I didn't know Shakespeare or Chaucer either.
Declining eyesight forced Plowright to retire from acting in 2014, but she was amusing as herself in the 2018 documentary Nothing Like a Dame, alongside fellow acting legends Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Crude oil futures prices closed lower. Today, oil was down 80 cents a barrel. To end the session, it's 77.88 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.
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