Colombia permits U.S. deportees and Chiefs to face Eagles in Tremendous Bowl : Morning Rundown

Colombia will permit U.S. deportees into the nation after Trump threatened tariffs as immigration crackdowns are underway across the nation. A high-tech security hazard poses a risk to the L.A. wildfires cleanup. And the Chiefs maintain off the Payments to arrange a Tremendous Bowl rematch in opposition to the Eagles. 

Right here’s what to know right this moment.

Colombia agrees to Trump’s deportation phrases after tariff standoff, White Home says

The White Home mentioned that Colombia has agreed to all of President Donald Trump’s phrases after he threatened to impose retaliatory measures in opposition to it, together with tariffs and visa sanctions, after it denied entry to 2 U.S. navy deportation flights.

“The Authorities of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s phrases, together with the unrestricted acceptance of all unlawful aliens from Colombia returned from the US, together with on U.S. navy plane, with out limitation or delay,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a press release. Different measures introduced earlier Sunday, together with visa sanctions and “enhanced inspections” by U.S. Customs and Border Safety, “will stay in impact till the primary planeload of Colombian deportees is efficiently returned.”

Colombian International Affairs Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo mentioned that the nation “will proceed to obtain Colombians deported, guaranteeing them dignified circumstances as residents topic to rights.”

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Colombian International Affairs Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo mentioned in remarks delivered in Spanish that the nation “will proceed to obtain Colombians deported, guaranteeing them dignified circumstances as residents topic to rights.”

The forwards and backwards started earlier yesterday when Colombia denied entry to deportation flights from the US, prompting Trump to threaten retaliatory tariffs, amongst different measures. The U.S. navy aircrafts departed from California carrying about 80 Colombian migrants every, officers mentioned.

In response, Trump introduced sweeping retaliatory measures that embrace tariffs on Colombian imports, visa sanctions on authorities officers and allies, enhanced customs inspections and monetary penalties, whereas accusing Colombia of violating its obligations to simply accept deported nationals.

The flights are a part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on unlawful immigration, initiated by means of govt orders throughout Trump’s first week in workplace. 

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• The White Home is warning of political penalties for individuals who don’t assist all of Trump’s nominees.
• The Trump administration is swiftly enacting retribution in opposition to political enemies.
• Democratic lawmakers have slammed Trump for not making good on his promise to “instantly” decrease meals costs amid an egg scarcity.
• Vivek Ramaswamy has landed Vice President JD Vance’s high political advisers to information his soon-to-launch bid for governor in Ohio, a supply concerned within the planning advised NBC Information.

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 Immigration enforcement operations underway throughout U.S.

Immigration enforcement operations unfolded throughout a number of cities, marking what President Donald Trump has referred to as the start of an period of mass deportations. The raids would primarily goal migrants with legal backgrounds, however there are considerations that migrants with no legal histories will likely be swept up as nicely.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mentioned in a press release that its operations goal to “implement U.S. immigration regulation and protect public security and nationwide safety by preserving doubtlessly harmful legal aliens out of our communities.” Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, advised NBC Information that a number of individuals convicted of significant offenses, together with homicide and intercourse crimes, have been apprehended. He added that collateral arrests — detentions of individuals with out legal convictions who have been current in the course of the raids — would happen. 

ICE mentioned that they made 956 arrests yesterday — the most important single-day quantity up to now by the Trump administration. Since Trump was inaugurated final Monday, ICE has made no less than 2,681 arrests. It was unclear what number of of these arrested had legal histories or convictions.

Learn the total story right here. 

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles advance to the Tremendous Bowl

After the Philadelphia Eagles cruised previous the Washington Commanders within the NFC championship, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs outlasted the Buffalo Payments within the AFC title sport. NFL reporter Andrew Greif breaks down the way it all unfolded final night time: 

Within the first sport of the day, Philadelphia rushed for seven touchdowns, essentially the most ever in an NFC championship sport, to roll previous Washington 55-23. Whereas profitable on the street the final two weeks at Tampa Bay and over top-seeded Detroit, the Commanders carried the standard of a crew of future behind rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels, who turned solely the sixth rookie quarterback to ever begin in a convention championship. But Washington’s upset hopes crumbled below its personal errors. Eagles star Saquon Barkley rushed for a 60-yard landing on his crew’s first play from scrimmage, and the beautiful rating finally was a harbinger; the Eagles gained 229 yards on the bottom, with 6.4 yards per carry.

Buffalo had received its final 4 video games within the common season in opposition to the vaunted Chiefs, together with a victory this fall that broke Kansas Metropolis’s unbeaten begin. Within the playoffs it has been a distinct story, with Buffalo now dropping its final 4 postseason video games in opposition to Kansas Metropolis, its January nemesis. Together with yesterday, the Chiefs have received their final 17 consecutive video games determined by a landing or much less, together with a 12-0 report this season. 

Buffalo’s Josh Allen threw for 237 yards and ran for 39 extra, however given the ball with an opportunity to land a go-ahead landing within the last minutes, the Payments couldn’t rating. 

Is a 3rd consecutive Tremendous Bowl championship by Kansas Metropolis, the primary time any crew has achieved that, inevitable? Not essentially. When these groups meet in New Orleans — in a repeat of 2023’s Tremendous Bowl LVII, a Kansas Metropolis victory — the Eagles will arrive with one of many league’s finest defenses, with glorious lineman, linebackers and defensive backs. If any protection might resolve the riddle posed by Mahomes, Travis Kelce and head coach Andy Reid, it will be Philadelphia. The Chiefs should be capable to cease Barkley and Philadelphia’s glorious blocking. Each groups appeared equally susceptible at a number of factors in the course of the common season, solely to be higher than every other of their respective conferences at steadying themselves in clutch moments. We are able to’t anticipate the matchup.

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• Israel and Lebanon had agreed to increase the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon till Feb. 18.
• A number of individuals have been injured when a car drove right into a crowd in Philadelphia after the Eagles defeated the Commanders at dwelling to advance to the Tremendous Bowl.
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Workers Decide: After the L.A. fires, lithium batteries pose an pressing security hazard

One of many largest challenges to cleansing up neighborhoods after the L.A. wildfires? An enormous variety of lithium-ion batteries — the sort utilized in e-bikes, laptops, cell telephones, wi-fi earbuds, powerwalls and electrical automobiles. Hybrid and electrical vehicles have been extensively utilized in Pacific Palisades, and lots of of their broken or overheated batteries run the danger of igniting or exploding. My colleague David Douglas and I spoke with federal and metropolis officers about what it’s going to take to take away the risk. One EPA official anticipated the most important lithium-ion battery cleanup “that’s ever occurred within the historical past of the world.”

— Aria Bendix, well being reporter

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