Gary Ezard

Among people displaced in Lebanon are migrant workers who went there fleeing wars in their homelands. to.pbs.org/4bkeKVv

When the U.S. ignited a war with Iran last weekend, the State Department advised Americans to "depart now" from several countries in the region. But airspace closures left thousands of Americans suddenly stranded. Over the last five days, nearly 24,000 U.S. citizens have safely returned to the United States from the Middle East. We spoke with some of the Americans who were stranded overseas.

Democratic and Republican senators pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over what they described as overly aggressive immigration enforcement. to.pbs.org/4b2g3qF

Delroy Lindo earned his first Oscar nomination for his performance as Delta Slim in "Sinners." to.pbs.org/3N3RL7z

Tonight 6pm ET: War with Iran: a PBS News Special. The special, co-anchored by @IAmAmnaNawaz and @GeoffRBennett, w reporting by @nickschifrin @ElizLanders @LisaDNews, + Check your local PBS station- also continuous coverage pbs.org/newshour YouTube and our socials

Join PBS News' Deema Zein for a live conversation Wednesday about the speech and its major takeaways with Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins and White House correspondent Liz Landers. to.pbs.org/4rDHRJ5

Join PBS at 9 p et for the State of the Union @IAmAmnaNawaz @GeoffRBennett w/ @LisaDNews @ElizLanders @nickschifrin @KevinMaddenDC @fshakir @amyewalter @TiffanyMSmiley Get your snacks ready. It's going to be a long one ! Watch here or on your pbs station youtube.com/watch?v=tTK3om…

@AnnieAgar Gold take

Hellebuyck is unreal. after the super bowl it’s good to see a patriot who actually knows how to block.

A 1960s-era sewer pipeline, northwest of the nation’s capital, collapsed in January, flooding the Potomac River with millions of gallons of wastewater. The pipeline is a 54-mile-long sanitary sewer system called the Potomac Interceptor. It moves raw sewage and household wastewater from Maryland and Virginia to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Southwest D.C. According to D.C. Water, more than 243 million gallons of wastewater have spilled into the river since the rupture occurred, with most of it spilling out in the first five days. A week after the spill, water quality sampling found E. coli near the site to be more than 1000 times what the EPA considers safe for swimming. Officials say D.C. drinking water has not been affected by the spill, and while E. coli levels have significantly dropped in the weeks since, health officials still recommend humans and pets avoid contact with the river. DC Water is working to complete a bypass system that is meant to contain and reroute the wastewater while the main pipeline is repaired. The emergency repair is set to take another four to six weeks. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday that he would direct federal agencies to intervene in what has become one of the worst wastewater spills in US history, adding that FEMA would play a key role in the response. But the Department of Homeland Security, which is home to FEMA, is operating at reduced capacity during the current partial government shutdown. Trump also blamed the disaster on Maryland Democrats and Gov. Wes Moore, accusing them of “gross mismanagement” of the situation. Moore is a potential 2028 presidential candidate who has increasingly been at odds with Trump. A spokesperson for Moore responded to Trump, saying the federal government, not Maryland, is responsible for the pipeline and, “Apparently, the Trump administration hadn’t gotten the memo that they’re actually supposed to be in charge here.”

@alanthomasdoyle @RamsHeadOnStage @TheEastPointers @banditsontherun Looking forward to your show at the Birchmere as usual

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A federal grand jury put a halt to the Trump administration's efforts to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers under an anti-insubordination law. "They threatened us, they tried to bully and intimidate us. They failed. They will always fail," Democratic Rep. Jason Crow tells @IAmAmnaNawaz. "If they think they're going to get us to back down, they have another thing coming. So what I'm trying to make very clear to them ... there's going to be costs to this. There's going to be accountability for this."

@ElizLanders Borrowed from @AlbertBreer

This set design is so intricate and amazing.

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Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron tells me the layoffs are "going to do enormous damage to the newspaper's ability to cover its community, to cover the country, and to cover the world in all the ways that it should." Our conversation: pbs.org/newshour/show/…

An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the "Doomsday Glacier" because of its potential impact on sea levels if ice continues to melt. Miles O'Brien reports on the work to drill into the ice to record temperatures and understand the impact of climate change. His story is part of our series, "Tipping Point."

A two-month-long expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” because of its potential impact on raising sea levels if ice continues to melt. Researchers are trying to drill a small hole into the glacier at the place where ice, land and the sea meet. The instruments they drop into the seawater could yield unprecedented data. @milesobrien has more.

The ICE operations in the Twin Cities are also affecting children who are caught up in the surge of personnel and detentions. A 5-year-old boy who was detained by ICE this week is a student in the Columbia Heights School District. "He is in a detention center," Superintendent Zena Stenvik tells @ElizLanders. "A five-year-old is being held in a detention center. I have a real problem with that."

@MetMattRitter I got an email today saying the storm is named Fern.

Dear American Airlines, thanks for the email. Winter storms are not named, by official convention. Please don't do that again.

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her said that both Republicans and Democrats need to respect "sacred spaces," following a protest that disrupted a church service in Minnesota. "That is the only way that we're going to bring calm and order back to our city, is if everyone on both sides of the spectrum agree that they're going to respect sacred spaces," she told PBS News Hour's Geoff Bennett on Wednesday. A group of protesters disrupted a service on Sunday at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where one of the pastors is an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that three people related to the demonstration have been arrested, including prominent civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong. "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP," Bondi wrote on the social media platform X. The arrests come as the Trump administration is ramping up its aggressive approach to immigration with ICE's latest surge targeting the state of Maine.