UPDATE- Munich, Dubai Epstein fallout, Guthrie FBI block

Hi, I'm Tara Oaks in the book. And I'm Sharon Reichgarson in New Jersey today. An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to evidence and Nancy Guthrie's abduction. The Epstein files take down one of the most prominent CEOs in the Middle East. The Minnesota Immigration Crackdown is ending. Trump looms large over the Munich Security Conference and Russia blocks WhatsApp. This is Words as World News. Bringing you everything you need to know on the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty in a Minnesota federal court. He's facing charges over his livestream coverage of a protest that disrupted a church service back in January. Prosecutors say Lemon conspired to do private worshipers of their civil rights. His lawyers argue the case is a direct attack on press freedom. Supporters have turned up inside the courtroom filling seats and outside more have rallied, calling the charges politically motivated. The Trump administration is suing Harvard, accusing the University of dragging its feet in a federal probe into whether it has illegally considered race in admissions. The Justice Department says Harvard has been slow walking key documents, including policies and emails tied to diversity and equity programs that are now banned. The suit lands as Trump is threatening to freeze federal funds over pro-Palestinian protests, diversity, and transgender policies. Harvard hasn't commented. The fallout from the newly released Epstein files is spread to Dubai. The CEO of Dubai Port Giant DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin Salayim, is resigning over his alleged ties to Epstein. bin Salayim is one of the most prominent business figures in the Middle East. The allegations have put the logistics giant under significant foreign pressure. Pressure, which Emirati companies usually don't give into, as our reporter Naze Asyran explains. We kind of really have to understand the scale of DP World here. It's employees more than 100,000 people worldwide. It's active in more than 80 countries. It has massive, massive investments around the world. It has partners and sponsorships that include some of the most prominent organizations in the world, including McLaren, for example, the Formula One racing team. So this is a shake-up in one of the pillars of global trade. This comes after sustained pressure from DP World's partners from around the world. And we've seen them pause investments with DP World. And what's very noteworthy here is that this is one of the few instances that I can recall where Emirati companies are sort of acquiescing to foreign pressure. We usually see kind of Emirati companies do what they want because of the scale of resources under that address as a sponsor and because of the kind of relationships they have with global powers. And in the US, the Epstein files have led to the most high profile exit in the banking world. Goldman Sachs' top lawyer has stepped down after documents shows she accepted gifts from a late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and advised him on how to address media inquiries regarding his crimes. Kathy Rumless says she had no knowledge of his ongoing criminal conduct. A sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the mother or potato show host Savannah Guthrie. That's according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of a case. The FBI asked Pima County sheriff Chris Nanos for evidence including a glove and DNA from her home in order to process it at the FBI's National Crime Lab in Quantico, Virginia. But Nanos insisted on using a private lab in Florida. According to Woters' source, outsourcing that forensic analysis is hampering the FBI's ability to help in the case. A spokesperson for the sheriff did not immediately respond to a request for comment. And now the endangerment funding is hereby limited, as well as all greenhouse gas emission standards that followed. The red tape has been cut. That's EPA administrator Lee Zeldin and the red tape he's referring to is the endangerment finding. That's the 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten human health and rolling it back means ending the federal government's authority to control pollution. It's the most sweeping climate change policy roll back by the administration to date. I have proposed in President Trump as concurred that this surge operation conclude. Bordessard Tom Homan announcing a significant drawdown of immigration officers in Minneapolis, following the tumultuous surge, which has left two US citizens dead and sparked nationwide protests. Homan says the agency should prioritize targeting criminals and stressed that the pullback was not a retreat. Noting some success in arresting what he called public safety threats, as well as gaining cooperation of local law enforcement. But also say we are backing down from immigration enforcement or the problems of mass deportations. You are simply wrong. Look at the data. Record number of arrest deportations under President Trump's first year. And we'll continue that effort. Meanwhile, Democrats in the US Senate have blocked legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security passed today's deadline, raising the likelihood of a DHS shutdown tomorrow morning. Democrats said they would not support funding the agency, unless Republicans agree to reforms that would rein in immigration agents. I have with the French President Emmanuel Macron, first of all, spoken about europatian nuclear weapons. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the Munich Security Conference, announcing that Germany in France have begun confidential talks about a European nuclear deterrent. He says the world's old order is crumbling, and Europe needs to grow stronger to reset its relationship with Washington. The conference is arguably the most significant gathering of European and American defense officials. Our correspondence Sabina Zibold in Munich says European leaders are hoping US Secretary of State Mark Rubio will strike a different tone than Vice President J.D. Vance did last year. Munich last year, suddenly was a total shock. J.D. Vance basically took the stage and raised doubts over free speech in Europe, for example. It was very much an attack. People were absolutely shocked because they felt that the Americans were actually pulling the rock beneath transatlantic relations. This year we'll have Secretary of State Rubio taking the stage in Munich. He has been the one in the US administration in the past to basically chose a much, much softer language and chose to really engage with Europeans much more. Russia has banned the popular messaging app WhatsApp. The government says the meta-owned platform violated local laws, but it may also be part of an effort to move citizens to a state controlled messaging service. Our Russia chief political correspondent Andrew Osborne has more. I mean WhatsApp for years now has been one of the most popular messenger apps inside Russia. It's been under pressure for some time. This is not an overnight development. In August, Russia's state communications regulator came out with an announcement that it wasn't happy with WhatsApp. At that point, Russians lost the ability to make phone calls on WhatsApp. They just stopped working overnight. What the authorities are trying to do is are trying to make the max, state backed app, an indispensable part of everyday life, something that you cannot do without to carry out your kind of basic business. They've been trying to encourage people voluntarily to make that switch. But of course, at the same time, they've been exerting this enormous pressure on foreign owned apps like WhatsApp. The other big one, of course, in Russia is Telegram. The Telegram app critics say that Russia is increasingly moving in direction of China where the internet is very tightly controlled and there's less scope for freedom for citizens. Russia says it's actually not doing that. But yeah, what it means in practice is that if you are a Russian citizen and you want to use apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, you can only do that if you have access to a reliable VPN of virtual private network. At the same time, Russia is clamping down on VPNs themselves. So it's a game of cat and mouse, really. And finally, a recommended listen for your weekend. Our system market's podcast morning bid is also on 7 days a week, wherever you get your podcasts. But all your market moving news from the week that was. you can catch the week in review which drops on Saturday mornings. 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