Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Friday, February 13th. Here's what we're covering.

Tracy Mumford: I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge operation conclude. A significant draw down has already been underway this week and will continue to the next week. In Minnesota, President Trump's border Tom Hman has announced that the administration is winding down its aggressive immigration operations there. The unprecedented deployment, which started late last year, involved thousands of immigration officers and led to widespread clashes with residents and two fatal shootings by federal agents.

Tracy Mumford: The Twin Cities, Minnesota in general, are and will continue to be much safer for the communities here because of what we have accomplished under President Trump's leadership.

Homan: In a press conference, Hman framed the surge as a success, saying 4,000 undocumented immigrants had been arrested, some of whom had been convicted of serious crimes.

Talia Minsburg: The way that life has been impacted in Minnesota, it can't be overstated. My colleague Talia Minsburg has been part of the team of Times reporters on the ground in the Twin Cities over the past few months.

Talia Minsburg: You could see people volunteering to stand outside of daycarees and elementary schools and high schools in neon vests looking out for ice. You would hear these incessant whistles anytime ICE vehicles drove by. Sometimes you would see abandoned cars if ice had taken someone very abruptly.

Talia Minsburg: And when you go to the grocery store, you see a lot of people with really full carts because a lot of people are grocery shopping for friends, neighbors, people who may be hiding in their homes, who may not feel safe going out to the grocery store themselves.

Talia Minsburg: I talked to a lot of people who just as they drove, they just felt that they were looking in their rear view mirror a whole lot. So, it's both something you saw visually and something that was really felt for a lot of people for months now.

Talia Minsburg: Uh we are cautiously optimistic, but the fact of the matter is they left us with deep damage, generational trauma. They left us with economic ruin in some cases.

Tracy Mumford: In response to Hman's announcement yesterday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls said the state was in a trust but verify phase, waiting to see if the operations do actually end. He told residents that in the meantime, they should remain quote hypervigilant.

Tracy Mumford: Even as the White House says it's ending the large-scale deployment in Minnesota, the government's mass deportation efforts are continuing across the country. A few weeks ago, so-called ICE surge teams fanned out across small towns in West Virginia, and said they arrested more than 600 people. In Hillsboro, Oregon, local police responded to multiple 911 calls, reporting that a group of masked men with weapons drawn had approached a car filled with high school students at a drive-thru. Police later determined the men were federal agents. And at a sprawling detention center in Dilly, Texas, the Times has been tracking how the number of children in federal custody has climbed sharply.

Tracy Mumford: Hundreds of kids, usually with a parent, have been detained there in the past year. Some are held for only a few days, but others spend months amid the jumble of trailers and tents. Families and lawyers tell the Times that there's little education and inadequate medical care. Children often lose weight and get sick. Some have had panic attacks and even become suicidal.

Tracy Mumford: The Department of Homeland Security has defended living conditions and education access at the facility and said that families are being offered $2,600 and a free flight to leave the US voluntarily, but many families have refused the offer. Some may have pending cases in immigration court, giving them hope they might be allowed to stay in the US, and others fear returning to their home countries.

Tracy Mumford: This is a big one. If you're into environment, this is about as big as it gets, they tell me. President Trump announced a major policy change yesterday that effectively erases the federal government's authority to fight climate change.

Quote: That's all dead, gone, over.

Tracy Mumford: The move repeals what's called the endangerment finding. It's a scientific determination made under the Obama administration that states that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health.

Tracy Mumford: Getting rid of that finding basically ends the federal government's legal authority to cap pollution that's heating the planet. For climate change deniers, this repeal has been seen as a kind of holy grail because it has the potential to stop even future administrations from regulating some pollutants.

Tracy Mumford: For now, it clears the way for the White House to roll back limits on emissions from things like cars and power plants. The head of the EPA, who joined Trump for the announcement, said scrapping the finding will stop the American economy from being quote strangled by regulations.

Tracy Mumford: But the change flies in the face of decades of scientific consensus around climate change that emissions have supercharged heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and other extreme weather events. It also marks a major success for the oil and gas industry, which has spent years trying to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

Tracy Mumford: leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Those groups gave Trump and his allies an estimated $75 million.

Quote: We need everybody here to make space so that our elected officials CAN GET THROUGH WITH THE FLAG THEY are going to raise.

Tracy Mumford: In Manhattan yesterday, a crowd gathered at the Stonewall National Monument to put a pride flag back up after it was removed following a directive from the Trump administration.

Quote: The Interior Department recently issued guidance addressing the display of quote non- agency flags in the National Park System. And earlier this week, people who work near Stonewall noticed the rainbow flag was gone.

Tracy Mumford: Stonewall was designated a national monument almost a decade ago in recognition of the protests and riots that happened there in 1969 between LGBTQ activists and police after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. Under Trump, the federal government has carried out a widespread effort to police the language and symbols displayed at parks and monuments.

Tracy Mumford: In the last year, the park service has ordered multiple sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans.

Tracy Mumford: The Times has learned that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to add a facial recognition feature to its smart glasses after scrapping previous plans amid privacy concerns. The glasses have been around for a few years. They're made with Rayban and Oakley and have a camera built into the frame.

Tracy Mumford: According to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly, the glasses would be able to identify people and provide information about them via Meta's AI assistant. The company's still exploring what pool of people the glasses would identify. Options include only IDing people you're connected with on Meta platforms like Instagram or IDing everyone who has a public account on those sites.

Tracy Mumford: This isn't the first time Meta has experimented with this technology. 5 years ago, Facebook shut down a facial recognition system for tagging people in photos after it fueled privacy concerns, government investigations, and a class action lawsuit. It also considered putting the tech in one of its first versions of smart glasses back in 2021, but nixed that over technical challenges and ethical questions.

Tracy Mumford: Now, the company's looking to try again. The Times reviewed an internal document from May, which said that the current political turmoil in the US was good timing for releasing the feature. It said, quote, "We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns."

Tracy Mumford: In response to questions from the Times, Meta said it's building products that will help enrich people's lives and wrote that it will take a thoughtful approach if and before we roll anything out.

Tracy Mumford: And finally, if you are having your morning cup of coffee right now, drink up. It might be sharpening your mind, and not just in a making sure you're not a blur-eyed zombie kind of way, but in the long term.

Tracy Mumford: A large new study published this week provides evidence of cognitive benefits from caffeinated coffee and tea. It followed over a 100,000 participants for a long time, in some cases more than 40 years, and found that people who consistently drank two to three cups of coffee a day or 1 to two cups of tea had lower chances of developing dementia than people who drank little to no caffeine.

Tracy Mumford: To be clear, it doesn't prove caffeine is what causes those beneficial effects, but scientists say it can reduce inflammation, which might protect brain health. And research also suggests caffeine improves insulin sensitivity, helping protect against diabetes, which is a dementia risk factor.

Tracy Mumford: In terms of drinking a lot of coffee, the study found the results pretty much plateau at a certain point. No need to chug more than about 2 and 1/2 cups a day.

Tracy Mumford: Overall, this may be one of those rare moments where you learn something you do every day might not be terrible for you. So, enjoy it.

Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines. If you'd like to play the Friday news quiz, it is just after these credits. Today on the Daily, how the fight over President Trump's immigration policy will almost certainly cause a limited government shutdown starting at midnight tonight.

Tracy Mumford: This show is made by Will Jarvis, Yan Stewart, and me, Tracy Mumford. Original theme by Dan Powell. Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Lissa Anderson, Miles McKinley, Zoe Murphy, and Paula Schuman.

Tracy Mumford: Now, time for the quiz. Got a few questions for you about stories the Times has been covering. Can you get them all? Here we go.

Tracy Mumford: At the White House this week, President Trump rolled out the red carpet for a group from a specific industry. Some executives in suits, some workers in their safety gear and helmets. At one point

Quote: stage and we are going to present you an award, sir.

Quote: Thank you very much. One of the execs got up on stage to give the president a trophy celebrating his commitment to their industry.

Quote: Sir, to show our appreciation, the uh trophy says the undisputed champion of

Tracy Mumford: what did they say Trump is the champion of? If you need a hint, they said he's the champ of beautiful clean what? The answer.

Quote: The undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal.

Tracy Mumford: The Trump administration has been focused on boosting fossil fuels, including coal. This year, the Interior Department's even been promoting a mascot, an illustrated lump of coal they say will be the quote spokespiece of coal for their energy policy. It is named Coley. Really dug deep for that one.

Tracy Mumford: Next question. It may be all about the Winter Games right now, but in just a few months in Las Vegas,

Quote: our goal is not to break a world record. Our goal is actually to break all the world records.

Tracy Mumford: A different competition called the enhanced games will pit athletes from all over the world against each other with one major twist.

Quote: Human potential. What is that potential? Where is the max? Where's the limit?

Tracy Mumford: Your question, what makes it the enhanced games? The answer, the competitors are allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs. The organizers say they're working closely with doctors to keep athletes safe, but it has sparked widespread condemnation over health concerns. Still, that hasn't stopped dozens of athletes from signing up. They've been promised up to a million dollars for every world record they break. We'll just say branding wise, enhanced games is descriptive, I guess, but let me throw this one out there. the swole Olympics.

Tracy Mumford: And last question, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Don't worry, you absolutely still have time to pretend that you remembered. In honor of the holiday, we're going to test your love song knowledge. But there's a catch.

Quote: I, an AI bot, will read the lyrics because I cannot feel love. Can you name these famous songs?

Quote: If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So, I'll go, but I know I'll think of you every step of the way.

Tracy Mumford: I will help you out here. The answer, Whitney Houston, I will always love you. Okay, next song. Take it away, bot.

Quote: Like a river flows surely to the sea. Darling, so it goes. Some things you know are meant to be. Your clue the answer.

Tracy Mumford: That's Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley.

Tracy Mumford: And last one, which is from this century,

Quote: yellow diamonds in the light. Now we're standing side by side as your shadow crosses mine. What it takes to come alive.

Tracy Mumford: Few notes to help you out. Wait, maybe maybe I'm starting to feel something.

Tracy Mumford: That's it for the news quiz. Our email, as always, is the headlines at nytimes.com. I'm Tracy Mumford. The show will be back on Monday.