President's Day Protests, America's Wicked Weather, Delta Crash In Toronto, New Arrests Tied To Border Agent Killing

Today on America in the Morning President’s Day Protests On President's Day, thousands of protesters in different cities across the country, including the nation's capital, took to the streets to voice their concern and displeasure at the policies being implemented by our current president Donald Trump and his DOGE team. John Stolnis has more from Washington. Dangerous Weather Across America Wicked weather across America - severe rain and flooding claimed the lives of at least 11 people in Kentucky, sent temperatures plummeting with wind chills below minus 40 in North Dakota and Minnesota. Correspondent Julie Walker reports. New Arrests Tied To Border Agent Killing Police have arrested the apparent leader of a cult-like group suspected in several homicides throughout the U.S. As correspondent Donna Warder reports, police believe there is a link between these murders, and the killing of a border agent gunned down in Vermont near the US-Canadian border last month. Adams Dealing With Dissent Four top deputies to the New York City mayor have resigned, but Eric Adams, who corruption case was ended by the Justice Department, remains defiant as he fights back against calls to resign from within his own party. Rubio In The Middle East Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Benjamin Netanyahu, and soon after, met with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. Trump’s DEI School Order The Trump administration is drawing a line in the sand, ordering schools to remove DEI inclusions in their decisions, or risk losing federal education funding. Correspondent Katie Clark has details. Delta Crash In Toronto A Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Toronto overturned on landing, and miraculously everybody on board survived. Europe Upset Over Trump Ukraine Plans The European Union and a number of US allies are irate after the Trump administration began negotiations with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, and effectively left Europe’s military powers as well as Ukrainian leadership on the sidelines. China Upset With Trump Administration China is accusing the United States in what it is calling “serious aggression” in its position on Taiwan, after the State Department updated the Taiwan section of its website to remove a reference to the independence of the Beijing-claimed island. Mexico Threatening Map Lawsuit One nation that is taking great offense to the re-name of the Gulf of America is Mexico, which is demanding the change be reversed. Correspondent Julie Walker reports that Mexico’s government is considering a number of options, which could include a lawsuit. Trump’s SCOTUS Appeal The Trump administration has issued its first filing with the Supreme Court, an emergency appeal asking the justices to permit its firing of the head of the independent watchdog agency overseeing workplace protections for federal employees. Too Cold For School Kids in Minneapolis and in other parts of Minnesota won’t be going to school today, but they also won’t be celebrating by going outside. Finally The Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special was not without controversy. Kevin Carr has a recap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices