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Boy, 5, and father detained by ICE return to Minnesota after release; Higher ACA costs hit Michigan families; Bill would require study of missing Black women, children in Nebraska; Climate 'superfund' bill advances in Maine legislature; Seahawks fans shake stadium more than local quake.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, February 2, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

A five-year-old boy and his father, who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Minnesota, have returned home, a congressman has said.

That's from the BBC.

The report, Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, announced Sunday that Liam Canejo-Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Canejo-Arias, were released from Dilley Detention Center in Texas and have traveled back to Minneapolis.

Castro said Liam is now home with his hat and his backpack.

Meantime, in Michigan, more than 530,000 people depend on Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.

Having this worn coverage is becoming harder to afford as enhanced federal tax credits expire.

New enrollment data show fewer Michiganders signed up for coverage this year as premiums and deductibles rose for many individual plans.

Corey owns the Corey Agency, a health insurance brokerage in Bay City.

She says she's seeing the impact firsthand among Michigan families.

Husband and wife that live in Michigan, their household income is $32,000 and last year they were paying $88 for their plan and to renew in the same plan it was gonna be $888.

Can you imagine going from $80 to $888?

Corey notes that federal subsidies weren't eliminated altogether but that enhanced credits added during the pandemic had expired.

Supporters of the changes say the shift is aimed at limiting federal spending and stabilizing insurance markets.

Crystal Blair reporting.

Next to Nebraska where lawmakers are considering legislation that would look into the high number of reports of missing black women and children in the state.

Legislative Bill 751 would authorize a study to improve the reporting and investigation of these cases.

Black people make up less than 6 percent of Nebraska's population, yet cases of missing black women and children have numbered in the hundreds for years.

Omaha Democratic Senator Ashley Spivey introduced the bill and says there were 850 cases in 2024, noting they're also more likely to go unresolved.

We don't know what happened to those women and children.

Were they found?

Were they harmed?

Was it due to domestic violence, sex trafficking?

Were they actually runaways?

How do we categorize that?

Spivey explains a landmark study in 2019 looked into the high number of missing and murdered indigenous women in the state.

Serving as an important policy breakthrough that helped lay the groundwork for her bill.

I'm Eric Tegethoff reporting.

And a bill to create a climate super fund in Maine has advanced out of legislative committee.

Richard Peterson Emeritus professor of environmental studies at the University of New England says if you break it you fix it.

Those who are most responsible for causing climate damage here in Maine and we have experienced a lot of climate damage, have the most responsibility to try to pay for the damages.

Critics, including the Main Chamber of Commerce, argue the bill would punish companies for producing fuels that have powered the state's economy.

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Doctors in private practice, especially those who perform procedures in their offices, are asking the Congress to revamp the Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rules so they can afford to keep their doors open.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did recently boost reimbursement rates for office-based services, but federal data show that in 2025, doctors weren't getting enough to cover the cost of medical equipment and supplies.

Jason McKittrick heads the Office-Based Facility Association and is a principal with Liberty Partners Group, a D.C. lobbying firm.

He says many private practices have shut down over the last decade, forcing patients to travel farther for more expensive hospital-based care.

The office space setting is just as safe but often a fraction of the costs in a hospital.

So patients are paying more, they're driving farther and their outcomes are worse because if you're missing a treatment because you just can't make it to the place to get treated, your outcomes are going to be worse.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

And this season the Seattle Seahawks are sending shock waves through the state.

Literally.

Scientists set up seismographs at Lumen Field during recent playoff games to measure hard fans shake the stadium during big plays.

Harold Tobin of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network or PNSN says the crowds did not disappoint.

For comparison, he says during one of the games there was a simultaneous earthquake about 11 miles away that was measured at magnitude 2.6.

And when we directly compare the shaking of that to the stadium shaking from the fans, there's no comparison actually.

The earthquake is much, much smaller shaking.

So stadium shook harder than a local nearby 2.6 earthquake.

PNSN says the experiments help give scientists practice using their equipment and analyzing the data as fan enthusiasm is much more predictable than actual earthquakes.

Tobin adds the experiments also help engage the public around their work as seismologists.

I'm Isabel Charlay.

Finally climate change isn't going away and New Mexico conservation groups say goals to address the issue need to be written into law.

Senator Mimi Stewart has reintroduced the Clear Horizons Act, which stalled last year over affordability.

The bill would codify the state's climate targets by requiring state regulators to craft new rules for meeting a 2030 target of cutting emissions 45 percent below 2005 levels.

Camilla Feibelman with the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter believes the legislation responds to the growing cost New Mexicans already pay for climate change.

We are paying for fire damages, fires that put lives and livelihoods at risk.

We're seeing extreme drought, failed snowpack, curtailment of irrigation, new mosquito species.

I'm Roz Brown.

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