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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

Amy Stearns works for the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center in Minnesota, which is organizing an ice harvest to build an "ice palace." She talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Susan Kent pleaded guilty to one count of a terrorism-related charge for assisting in shooter Benjamin Song's escape from the ICE facility after the shooting.

Police have apprehended a man accused of stealing five tons of ice from a glacier in Chile. The Guardian reports police nabbed him with the illicit ice in his refrigerated truck. They believe he planned to sell it as designer ice cubes to the trendy bars of Santiago.

There have been several incidents of ICE agents fatally shooting or injuring people in U.S. cities. After a shooting in Portland on Thursday, city officials there called it a "pattern of violence."

Host Bob Edwards talks to Prestly Blake one of the founders of the Friendly Ice Cream company. Blake and his brother founded Friendly's in 1935. They sold the company to Hershey Foods in 1979. Since then the company has change hands and is deep in debt.

Scientists are surprised by the rapid disintegration of a large ice shelf around the Antarctic Peninsula. Is this more evidence of global warming? With Antarctica, it's hard to tell. For All Things Considered, NPR's Richard Harris has the story.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the watery North Pole. Last month, a group of tourists traveled there, expecting to see ice. Instead, they found open water. Many people are blaming global warming, and suggest this is an unusual phenomenon. But other scientists say so much open water could be due to the season and other weather conditions.

Hans Japp Melisson of Radio Netherlands reports on tomorrow's planned ice skating marathon. 16,000 skaters are to follow a course 125-miles long through eleven Dutch towns. A million spectators are expected to line the canals and inland waterways. Another 10 million Dutch are expected to watch the event on TV.

For the second year in a row in Brainerd, Minn., a mysterious hole has appeared in a frozen lake. Locals and experts can't determine why a certain area of North Long Lake won't freeze over -- even though the ice around the area is 15 inches thick. Steve speaks with Marlene Hudalla, co-owner of Iven's On the Bay, a restaurant and bar located on the lake.