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US Monthly Headline News January 2026 - Page 3
Story by Adam Lynch

“The Weeknight” Co-host Symone D. Sanders says Republicans at Jack Smith’s Thursday testimony revealed their dangerous plans to disrupt future U.S. elections, even as Smith laid out the details of their leader’s last attempted coup.

“… [W]hile Democrats on the committee focused on the past, Republicans looked to change the subject,” said Sanders. “Instead of sincerely grappling with the violence or the attempt to overturn the election, Republicans focused on process. They questioned procedures, attacked the special counsel and debated legal technicalities. … [T]hey did everything they could to make it feel less consequential. That distinction matters.”

Sanders said Republicans’ antics, as Smith presented the facts, were an exercise in the normalization of coup behavior.

“When a violent attack on democracy is treated as just another political disagreement, something dangerous is happening,” said Sanders. “At times, the hearing felt less like an effort to hold people accountable and more like an attempt to wear the public down until it grew tired of attempting to hold people accountable.”

This was not a presentation of the past, said Sanders. What the hearing was really about was the future.

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US.-Israel vs Iran war begins: Netanyahu’s chilling warning as warships & jets hit Khamenei’s home
Regional tensions spike as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues stark warnings alongside Washington, signaling readiness for confrontation with Iran. Reports claim U.S. and Israeli forces are positioning assets, raising fears of strikes on Iranian ports and infrastructure. Markets, diplomats, and civilians brace as rhetoric hardens and red lines blur. Meanwhile, Iranian media-linked reports say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has relocated to a hardened bunker, underscoring elite anxiety. Alleged shifts of operational authority within Tehran suggest preparations for crisis governance.
Story by Héctor Ríos Morales

For more than a week, the Department of Homeland Security alleged that during a targeted traffic stop in Minneapolis, one Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was violently assaulted with a shovel and a broom handle by three undocumented immigrants who attempted to evade arrest and obstruct law enforcement.

Although the incident took place Jan. 14, it was not until this week that the FBI released its account of the car chase and alleged assault that led an ICE agent to shoot a Venezuelan immigrant. According to a sworn affidavit reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune, FBI Special Agent Timothy Schanz laid out details that contradicted DHS' description of the incident.

In a statement published Jan. 15, DHS said agents attempted to detain Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national living in Minneapolis. The agency said Sosa-Celis fled in his vehicle to avoid arrest, crashed into a parked car and then ran on foot. Once agents caught up to him, DHS said Sosa-Celis resisted and violently assaulted one of the officers.

While they were on the ground, DHS claimed two other individuals exited a nearby apartment and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle. Fearing for his life, the statement said, the officer fired a "defensive shot to defend his life," striking Sosa-Celis in the leg.
During the Bosnian War, Sarajevo wasn’t just besieged—it was hunted. This documentary exposes the so-called “Sarajevo Hunting Club,” a shadowy group accused of turning civilian killings into organized sport under the chaos of war. Drawing from survivor testimony, military records, and postwar investigations, it reveals how ideology, revenge, and impunity combined to erase moral boundaries. Even decades later, accountability remains elusive, and many of those involved were never brought to justice.
Opinion by Amanda Watford, Kansas Reflector

As a growing number of encounters between civilians and Department of Homeland Security agents — including the widely scrutinized fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis — are scrutinized in court records and on social media, federal officials are returning to a familiar response: self-defense.

In more than a handful of recent encounters, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, has said its agents acted in self-defense during violent encounters, even as eyewitness testimony and video footage raised questions about whether those accounts fully matched what happened.

And in a ruling for a recent civil lawsuit, a U.S. district judge said federal immigration officials were not forthcoming about enforcement efforts, citing discrepancies between official DHS statements and video evidence.

“We’re now in a situation in which official sources in the Trump administration are really tying themselves quite strongly to a particular narrative, regardless of what the widely disseminated videos suggest,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University.
Story by Katie Francis

Border Control commander Gregory Bovino came to blows with CNN anchor Dana Bash as she challenged him Sunday on his defense of the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent.

Bovino, 57, appeared in his new “Nazi-style” uniform on State of the Union, where he was ripped by Bash for offering justifications that “fly in the face” of video evidence of the shooting Saturday in Minneapolis.

“Why was an unarmed man shot multiple times by law enforcement, by your Border Patrol agents?” Bash asked at one point, after showing a clip that appeared to show a gun being removed from Pretti’s person before the shooting.

“Dana, you don’t know he was unarmed. I don’t know he was unarmed. That’s freeze frame adjudication of a crime scene, via a photo. That’s why we have investigators. That’s why we have an investigation that is going to answer those questions,” Bovino said.

He mused to himself: “How many shots were fired? Who fired shots? Where were the guns? Where were the guns located? All those questions are going to be answered.”

“Sir, I think you can see the screen,” Bash interrupted, attempting to bring Bovino’s attention back to video evidence.
Julia Conley | Common Dreams

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone.

Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance than the footage taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts.

In the video, the shooting victim, dressed in a brown coat and pants, is seen filming a federal agent with his phone. He’s then seen guiding another person toward the sidewalk as the agent forcefully shoves a third person to the ground.

The agent appears to pepper-spray Pretti and pull him away from the other person as a group of several other officers approach and surround him.

They wrestle him to the ground and struggle with him for several seconds before he appears to try to get up. Roughly 10 gun shots ring out and Pretti falls to the ground.
Story by Marcus Donaldson

President Donald Trump has indicated Ice agents will leave Minneapolis in the wake of a second fatal shooting involving immigration enforcement officers this month.

The US President also announced he would send border tzar Tom Homan to Minnesota to oversee the operations there.

In a Truth Social post, the President stated: "(Homan) has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me."

Mr Homan is viewed as a potential challenger to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who faces mounting scrutiny over the handling of immigration enforcement in the Midwest state.

Mr Trump had previously suggested that immigration enforcement personnel would eventually depart the Minneapolis area, though he declined to specify when this might occur.

"At some point we will leave," the president said, whilst praising the work of federal agents.
Asked about the ongoing situation in Minneapolis, author Salman Rushdie says "the lies that have been told have found an audience."
During former Special Counsel Jack Smith's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) shut down the falsehoods peddled by her Republican colleagues by introducing them to the facts about Jan. 6.
Story by Matthew Chapman

A new motive for President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota and other blue states around the country just became clear, reported Mother Jones on Monday — and it's leaving experts appalled.

Specifically, wrote Abby Vesoulis and Ari Berman, the Justice Department has made clear that the ramped-up immigration presence in Minneapolis that has terrorized locals and led to multiple fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, can end — when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hands over data that would let the administration interfere with elections.
CBS Evening News averaged 4.17 million viewers, down 23% year over year during Jan. 5–9, 2026, underscoring broadcast declines and competitive pressure. CBS Evening News ratings and Tony Dokoupil debut performance were compared against a 2025 week lifted by wildfire coverage.
Jake Tapper reports.
Story by Michael Luciano

CNN’s Anderson Cooper exposed the double standard applied by President Donald Trump when it comes to gun rights.

On Saturday, Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who had been filming them. At one point, one agent shoved a woman to the ground. Video shows Pretti attempting to help her before being swarmed by agents, who took his holstered firearm, for which Pretti had a permit. After disarming him, agents shot him 10 times, killing him.

On Monday’s AC360, Cooper reported live from Minneapolis, where he noted that the Trump administration’s claims about Pretti – particularly ones made immediately after the killing – were contradicted by multiple videos of Pretti’s death. The host also played a clip of FBI Director Kash Patel saying, “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you wanted.”

Notably, Minnesota allows open carry for handguns, provided a permit is obtained. There is no law against carrying a firearm while protesting, which Pretti was not doing. Instead, he was filming agents.

Cooper aired a 2021 clip of Patel soliciting donations for Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people at a protest in 2020. Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder after saying he acted in self-defense. The host noted that Rittenhouse had met with Trump, who called Rittenhouse “a nice young man.”
Story by Robert Davis

A federal court on Monday handed President Donald Trump's administration a major blow to its scheme to rig the 2026 midterm elections.

The Trump Department of Justice has sued multiple states in an effort to obtain their voter rolls. Some experts believe the administration will use the data to limit who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections, the momentum towards which currently favors the Democrats.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last month, Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) gave opening remarks calling out DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on her misuse of taxpayer dollars, spending them for herself and for her friends.
Story by Alexander Willis

Dozens of protesters in Phoenix, Arizona were hit in a drive-by mace attack Monday night by an apparent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Phoenix New Times editor Zach Buchanan reported.

“I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea,” Buchanan wrote in a social media post on X, alongside video of the incident.

“It shows protesters – on the sidewalk, impeding no one – getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.”

In the video, around two dozen demonstrators can be seen protesting ICE on a sidewalk near a sports grill just outside of Phoenix’s downtown area as apparent ICE vehicles drive by. As a silver truck bearing sirens passes by, an individual in the front passenger seat can be seen spraying protesters with what appears to be mace as the vehicle passes by.
Alexander Willis

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was discovered to have unlawfully failed to disclose the deaths of at least eight migrants in detention, a bombshell report from Zeteo revealed Tuesday.

Under existing law, ICE is required to notify Congress of any in-custody deaths within 90 days, but according to a deep dive by Zeteo into ICE disclosures, the agency had failed to do that.

Among the migrants whose deaths had not been disclosed are 34-year-old Leo Cruz-Silva, who died in a Missouri detention facility three days after being arrested, and an unidentified Honduran man who was “struck by a law enforcement vehicle.”
Story by Andrew Stanton

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is investigating allegations that agents left “racist death cards” in the vehicles of detained individuals.

“ICE is investigating this situation but unequivocally condemns this type of action and/or officer conduct. Once notified, ICE supervisors acted swiftly to address the issue,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson wrote in a statement to Newsweek. “The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility will conduct a thorough investigation and will take appropriate and swift action.”

Why It Matters
ICE is facing growing scrutiny over its tactics amid President Donald Trump’s ramped up immigration enforcement. Support for the agency has dwindled in recent weeks—a recent YouGov poll found Americans are split about whether to abolish ICE. Forty-five percent each said they support and oppose the proposal. It surveyed 1,722 adults from January 16-19, 2026.

What to Know
In Colorado, an advocacy group named Voces Unidas said last week that ICE agents who detained nine Latino individuals left ace of spades cards inside the abandoned vehicles. The cards identify ICE’s field office in Denver and were later found by their family members, according to the organization’s statement.

Alex Sánchez, president and CEO of Voces Unidas, said in a statement the group was “disgusted” by their actions.
Story by Dominic Patten

After being available for months, information about ICE agents is suddenly being blocked today on META-owned platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads.

“We restrict certain activity to protect our community,” an IG response said Tuesday after an attempt to post ICE List material. “Let us know if you think we made a mistake.” A similar result came on Facebook, and on Threads any ICE List link or paste simply disappeared with “Link Not Allowed” popping up.

The apparent censoring follows the latest fatal shooting in Minneapolis this past weekend of an American citizen by ICE officers with the death of Alex Pretti. A 37-year-old ICU nurse who was trying to stop masked federal agents from assaulting a woman observing them, January 24 killing of Pretti has proven the tipping point for even some Republicans against Trump’s heavy handed tactics. The jamming of access on META to the anti-ICE website also comes as protests and critiques of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency and its masked officers seems to be repressed on the new-ish US version of TikTok, which has a number of Trump and MAGA supporters among its new minority stake owners.

Having finally sealed an administration brokered deal, TikTok has blamed the whole thing on the bad timing of “a power outage at a US data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate.” Still, outgoing California Governor and likely 2028 POTUS contender Gavin Newsom started a probe on January 26 on whether TikTok is pushing down anti-Trump content.
A video obtained by the AP shows what happened in the minutes leading up to when Alex Pretti was shot in an encounter with federal agents outside a donut shop in Minneapolis.
Story by Zachary Schermele and James Powel, USA TODAY

Two federal agents fired their guns during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, according to a copy of a Department of Homeland Security internal investigation report obtained by USA TODAY.

The report states that the officers began firing after an agent yelled "he’s got a gun" multiple times. It does not say that the bullets from both agency members hit Pretti.

Videos from bystanders − and a witness account in court filings − do not show Pretti brandishing a weapon when he approached agents.

The investigation was performed by Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility and preliminary findings were based on body-worn camera footage and agency documentation, according to the report. It does not name the agents involved in the shooting.

Here is the report of the DHS investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Story by Cheyenne Ubiera

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seemingly used long-range acoustic devices against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis.

Ed Krassenstein, a political commentator, shared a video of protesters standing in front of an army of federal agents as someone with a megaphone declares that agents are using a "long-range acoustic device, LRAD," and counts to three. After the countdown, the protesters are seen retreating across the street.

Krassenstein listed some of the issues people suffer from after being exposed to close-range weapons, including permanent hearing loss, vertigo, migraines, nausea, and ruptured eardrums. One person wrote that this scene is what an "authoritarian police state looks like."

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"Federal agents deploying sonic weapons that can cause permanent hearing loss and other lifelong injuries against peaceful American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights," the person wrote. "Disgraceful. Un-American. Dangerous."

Another person accused the federal government of "itching to roll out sonic weapons" after supposedly bragging about using LRAD in Venezuela. "Now suddenly it's being pointed at protesters."
Story by Libby MacDonald

Dr. Scott Strong, a college professor and numbers expert, recently had an eye-opening experience at White Castle when the restaurant didn’t give him the penny he was owed in his change.

“They just kept it,” he told the Kendall and Casey Show on Indiana’s 93.1 WIBC (1). In fact, Dr. Strong was apparently told that not giving customers their pennies back is now corporate policy.

By Scott’s math, if every White Castle location nationwide kept just one penny per cash transaction, the restaurant would be taking in an extra $835,000 a year. And if the practice becomes commonplace, it could result in a 3% to 5% increase in transaction costs for consumers, or even more for those who use cash regularly.

In Scott’s case, asking for the manager resulted in him going home with a shiny nickel for his troubles, but his experience is one aspect of the confusion that's hitting consumers at the cash register in the early goings of our post-penny world. The rules are now inconsistent and depend on the store, the chain, the location and possibly the cashier’s mood.

For consumers on fixed budgets, that means they’re no longer able to predict the final price of a purchase down to the cent when paying with cash.

It’s been almost a year since President Trump took to Truth Social to announce the phasing out of the one-cent piece in February 2025, stating that pennies “literally cost us more than two cents” to make (2). According to the U.S. Mint, over the past decade the cost of producing each penny has risen from 1.42 cents to 3.69 cents (3).
Story by Ellsworth Toohey

Federal agents in Minneapolis were ordered to compile identifying information on anti-ICE activists, according to communications obtained by CNN and reported by The New Republic. Agents were asked to complete forms titled "intel collection non-arrests" and to "capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form."
Story by David Wainer

Wall Street is discovering that the Republican party’s longstanding romance with Medicare Advantage has entered a more complicated chapter.

For decades, investors in the privatized version of Medicare grew accustomed to a familiar political rhythm. Since its inception, Medicare Advantage has been favored by Republicans, leading markets to expect more generous treatment under Republican administrations than Democratic ones.

That pattern largely held in recent years. The first Trump administration delivered favorable policies, while the Biden administration moved to rein in aggressive Medicare Advantage coding practices. Even at the start of Trump’s second term, his administration initially boosted payments to insurers for this year by more than anticipated.

Which is why it came as a near-unanimous surprise on Wall Street when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, now led by Dr. Mehmet Oz, abruptly shifted course. The agency proposed roughly flat payment rates—far below industry expectations for a second-straight increase of about 5%. In a statement, Oz said the policy would help protect “taxpayers from unnecessary spending that is not oriented towards addressing real health needs.”
A heartbreaking story of a 5-year-old U.S. citizen deported to Honduras by ICE despite being born in the U.S.

Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that you can't have guns at protests.

To be exact, he said, "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

So, if you've been following the plot, guns have been quite a thing at protests for a while now. Here are 22 pictures he should take a look at:
1.A protester at an NRA convention in Dallas:
Story by Rachel Goodman

Staff at Ecuador's Ministry of Foreign Affairs blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from entering the country's consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

The attempted entry prompted Ecuador's Foreign Ministry to send a "note of protest" to the U.S. Embassy in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital, demanding such incidents "not be repeated," the ministry said in a statement.

The statement referred to the incident as an "attempted incursion into the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis by ICE agents," Reuters reported, and said staff members took action to protect Ecuadorian nationals who were inside the building.

The incident happened at about 11 a.m., the statement added.

Alleged footage of the interaction shows a staff member rushing to the door and confronting masked agents, telling them, "This is the Consulate of Ecuador. You are not allowed in here."

In the video, the ICE agent says to the employee, “If you touch me, I will grab you.” The employee responds, “You cannot enter here. This is a consulate. This is a foreign government property.”

The video shows the ICE agent leaving shortly thereafter.
Story by David Edwards

A retired Minnesota couple recalled how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held them at gunpoint after church.

The couple spoke to Paul Graham about their encounter in a video posted this week.

"ICE agents who had the audacity to come and try to arrest and kidnap people leaving church on a Sunday morning," the man remembered. "We turned into a parking lot and were greeted by approximately four unmarked ice vehicles with agents who immediately stopped us and pointed semi-automatic weapons in our face, asked us to roll down the windows, threatened us multiple times with arrest."

The couple said they were told that ICE did not need a warrant for their arrest.
It's 2026 - and Trump is still obsessed with 2020. The FBI carried out an unprecedented raid at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday, seeking ballots from the 2020 presidential election, which he still falsely claims he won. At the same time, photographs showed National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard present during the search. Attorney George Conway and MS NOW political contributor Jelani Cobb join The Weekend: Primetime to discuss the FBI raid, as well as the White House ramping up its efforts to access states’ voter rolls.
A viral clip shows an ICE agent threatening a Minnesota resident, intensifying backlash over federal immigration tactics.
Written By Frank Yemi

A video featuring a man in an ICE uniform telling a Minnesota resident, “You raise your voice, I will erase your voice,” gained wide attention online this week. It drew criticism as federal immigration operations and protests continued in Minneapolis.

The short clip shows the agent speaking from inside a vehicle. The resident, sounding surprised, repeats the statement as a question, and the agent confirms it, according to the video shared on social media and referenced by several outlets.

Minneapolis, Minnesota - A first official investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis shows that two Customs and Border Protection agents fired at him – and that he never brandished his gun.

The New York Times and CBS News reported that one Border Patrol agent initially opened fire on Pretti, followed by a CBP officer, per an email containing the preliminary investigation that the Department of Homeland Security sent to members of Congress.

The killing of Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse who worked at a veterans hospital, inflamed tensions over President Donald Trump's assault on immigrant communities and political opponents in Democratic-run cities.
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Opinion by Thom Hartmann

Jack Smith’s testimony before Congress on Thursday was a master class at demonstrating how elected Republicans have become what psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck termed People of the Lie, in his 1986 bestseller. It was the perfect example for this week being the 16th anniversary of the corrupt Citizens United decision.

For most of American history, lying in politics carried a real and immediate cost. Get caught and you’d lose credibility, maybe get voted out of office, and sometimes — as with the roughly 40 people around Richard Nixon who went to prison — even face criminal consequences.

That informal but effective enforcement mechanism depended on a shared understanding that truth mattered and that the law applied equally to everyone. Five corrupt, on-the-take Republicans on the Supreme Court, however, shattered that understanding when they handed down Citizens United.

By redefining political bribery as “free speech,” Justices Thomas, Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Scalia turned money into power without accountability and, in the process, turned lying into a currency that could be minted, traded, and hoarded by unscrupulous Republican politicians.

Once political power could be bought openly, the incentive structure in American politics changed. The goal of today’s GOP’s is no longer persuasion grounded in reality; instead, it’s morphed into a sophisticated system of lies and half-truths.
Opinion by Greg Palast

For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday's FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.

This is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race, as if he’s some political Captain Ahab trying to chase the Moby Dick of 2020 revenge.

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This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “Blacklanta.” And Atlanta is the electoral heart of Georgia. And Georgia is the swingiest of swing states. If Republicans don’t cut down the Black vote in Atlanta, they lose the crucial seat now held by Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff. And in 2028, the GOP, if they don’t suppress the vote in Fulton, they lose the White House. Fulton was the fulcrum of Trump’s loss in 2020 and could spell doomsday for Republicans in 2028.

So, how exactly do you stop Fulton County Black folk (and the LGBTQ community and the hipsters who left rural Georgia because they hate their parents) from voting? The answer is: DROP-BOX.
Story by Hannah Broughton

ICE agents reportedly laughed in the face of a man who was taking life-saving medication to his father at a detention facility.

The young man's 58-year-old father was arrested while he was working at McDonald's outside of Minneapolis and was later detained at a nearby facility. Knowing that his dad suffered from heart failure, his teen son took his father's life-saving medicines to the detention facility, where ICE agents apparently just laughed at him.

Speaking to a reporter at MS NOW, the teen, named Anthony, said, "I gave an ICE agent my dad's medicine, but I'm not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me," adding, "he laughed in my face."

"I feel heartbroken, I feel alone. I just wish my dad would come home so he can be with my mom and my mom can stop crying at night," he added.

The report then said that Anthony went back to the facility along with lawyers and medical professionals and refused to leave until the ICE agents gave him their word that the medication would be given to his father.
Story by BIN

President Donald Trump made a racially charged remark while speaking at a rally in Iowa this week, drawing attention to how he continues to describe his political support in racial terms.

While touting his performance in the last election and citing a Rasmussen poll, Trump told the crowd he “did so great” with several voter groups. After naming Hispanic voters and Black men, he added, “We did so great with white everything.”

The comments were delivered during a rally in Clive, Iowa, as Trump promoted his economic record and urged supporters to remain energized ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Local coverage noted the president relied heavily on familiar campaign themes, including claims of expanded support across demographic groups.

Public election data from 2024 shows that Black voters overwhelmingly voted against Trump, including Black men, despite his repeated assertions to the contrary.
Story by Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit widened by the most in nearly 34 years in November amid a surge in capital goods imports, likely driven by an artificial intelligence investment boom, which could prompt economists to trim their economic growth estimates for the fourth quarter.

The trade gap increased 94.6% to $56.8 billion, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau said on Thursday. The percentage change was the largest since March 1992. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the trade deficit would rise to $40.5 billion.

The report was delayed because of the 43-day U.S. government shutdown. Imports jumped 5.0% to $348.9 billion. Goods imports advanced 6.6% to $272.5 billion, with capital goods soaring $7.4 billion to a record high. They were boosted by strong gains in imports of computers and semiconductors. But imports of computer accessories decreased by $3.0 billion.

Imports of other goods were also the highest on record. Consumer goods imports increased by $9.2 billion, lifted by pharmaceutical preparations. There have been large swings in imports of pharmaceutical preparations, likely related to U.S. tariffs. Imports of industrial supplies fell by $2.4 billion.
Jennifer Bowers Bahney

An explosive new piece in Salon claims that recruits signing up to become ICE agents under President Donald Trump are motivated more by power and aggression rather than "a sense of noble duty."

Dr. Geoffrey Grammer, a retired U.S. Army colonel and psychiatrist, wrote that before Trump, "ICE agents were typically motivated by integrity, courage, resilience, and a strong sense of duty and allegiance to the Constitution."

Today, however, Grammer claims the emphasis on very public raids and heavy-handed tactics attracts recruits with "authoritarian and punitive traits" who relish the "satisfaction from the suffering they cause" to vulnerable populations.
Story by Lee Moran

Donald Trump drew backlash on Thursday after vowing to keep housing prices high, even as he promotes policies he claims would improve affordability.

Trump sought during a Cabinet meeting to reassure existing homeowners who may worry that efforts to make housing more affordable could reduce the value of their properties.

“Existing housing, people that own their homes, we’re gonna keep them wealthy,” Trump said. “We’re gonna keep those prices up. We’re not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody that didn’t work very hard can buy a home.”

While Trump promised his administration would work to lower interest rates and make buying easier, he said he did not want home prices to fall.

“I don’t want to drive housing prices down,” he said. “I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes and they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.”
Story by Eva Dou

ICE’s lead contractor for a new program to covertly surveil and photograph undocumented immigrants across the United States said after pressure from French officials that its contract is not being executed, in a rare rebuke of the agency by one of its own suppliers.

In December, Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began a nationwide program to track 1.5 million undocumented immigrants through paid contractors using a combination of remote technologies and on-the-ground surveillance.

The contracts ICE secured for what it calls “Skip Tracing Services” — a term commonly applied to finding people who have defaulted on loans — could run to hundreds of millions of dollars over two years, according to ICE procurement filings. The program creates a nationwide force of plainclothes, nongovernment monitors to track and photograph immigrants on behalf of ICE. According to the filings, the initiative is intended to serve as a force multiplier for ICE, potentially helping to accelerate the agency’s raids and deportations this year.

A U.S. subsidiary of Paris-based Capgemini, one of Europe’s largest tech and consulting multinationals with more than 350,000 employees worldwide, signed a contract with ICE last month with an initial $4.8 million order for the first three months and a $365 million ceiling over two years, according to federal procurement records, making it the largest award among the 14 vendors — including defense contractors and local private-eye firms — selected for the program.
David Edwards

The Department of Justice reportedly scrubbed numerous files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump from its website.

After Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the release of around 3 million Epstein documents on Friday, The Bulwark's Sam Stein noted that some details of documents containing Trump's name were "hard to read."

Those documents were unavailable on the DOJ's website less than an hour later.

The pages, however, were archived on X by user Bobby Salsa.

One of the documents recounted the claims of a woman who said that her friend was forced to perform oral sex on Trump.

"[Redacted] reported an unidentified female friend who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ," the document stated. "The friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein."
Story by MARYCLAIRE DALE

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers on Friday that they were making “dangerous” and “horrifying” statements when they said the Trump Administration can decide what part of American history to display at National Park Service sites.

The sharp exchange erupted during a hearing in Philadelphia over the abrupt removal of an exhibit on the history of slavery at the site of the former President’s House on Independence Mall.

The city, which worked in tandem with the park service on the exhibit two decades ago, was stunned to find workers this month using crowbars to remove outdoor plaques, panels and other materials that told the stories of the nine people who had been enslaved there. Some of the history had only been unearthed in the past quarter-century.

“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way,” said Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, an appointee of President George W. Bush.

The removal followed President Donald Trump’s executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. In Philadelphia, the materials were put in a pickup truck and then into storage, leading Rufe to voice concerns about whether they were damaged.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasted Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) on Friday as a “Second Amendment imposter” for defending the Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti, prompting a fiery response from Fine that included a slew of insults.

Pretti was pepper-sprayed, beaten and shot dead in Minneapolis over the weekend by Border Patrol officers, a killing that the Trump administration has defended even though Pretti was lawfully carrying a gun.

While Americans are permitted to legally carry firearms during peaceful protests – as many did during the COVID-19 pandemic to protest lockdowns – Fine took the side of the Trump administration and fiercely defended Pretti’s killing, despite his past remarks suggesting he was an uncompromising defender of the Second Amendment.

“Second Amendment impostor and hypocrite Randy Fine has no problem with federal agents confiscating a citizen’s lawful firearm and then shooting him dead with ten bullets ,” Raskin wrote in a social media post on X.
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As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond.

Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated one-room schoolhouse with a leaky roof and a solitary, underpaid teacher. And each way, there and back, she counted the fenceposts along the road, discovering that she had an aptitude for numbers that would help her bridge the distance between poverty and opportunity, between a life working in the fields and a career helping society advance beyond its limits.

Dr. West, who died Jan. 17 at 95, used her mathematical skills to become a barrier-breaking researcher for the Navy, mastering a bulky supercomputer known as Stretch while calculating satellite orbits and developing a precise model of the Earth’s surface. Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. Thanks in part to Dr. West, anyone with a smartphone — or a receiver-equipped car, airplane or boat — can navigate easily from one place to the next, without having to stop to ask for directions.

Without the mathematical model that she and her team helped develop, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve,” the U.S. Space Force said in an online biography of Dr. West, who was named one of the military’s Space and Missile Pioneers in 2018.

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Intensive care nurses had immediate doubts about claims made by federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents initially stated Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old's brain, according to three nurses familiar with the case.

“It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”

The explanation from ICE is an example of recent run-ins between immigration officers and health care workers that have contributed to mounting friction at Minneapolis hospitals.

Workers at the Hennepin County facility say ICE officers have restrained patients in defiance of hospital rules and stayed at their sides for days. The agents have also lingered around the campus and pressed people for proof of citizenship.

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FBI Director Kash Patel's own words came back to haunt him this weekend in the wake of a new release of files on deceased child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

After the DOJ released millions more Epstein files ahead of the weekend, political analysts and observers began circulating an earlier Patel quote that they see as contradictory to the facts.

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A Minnesota police chief has been forced to intervene to stop the illegal abduction of a woman from her car by ICE goons.

Dramatic dashcam footage shows the moment three unidentified, masked men swerved to cut off a female driver alone in her car, forcing her to stop. The men then jumped out of their unmarked, unlit vehicle and immediately drew their weapons, while yelling at her to get out of the car.

The officers do not read the woman her Miranda rights, nor do they identify themselves, as they drag her from the car, pin her down, and handcuff her.

The woman, who does not wish to be identified, shared the footage with MPR News, and told reporters that she was left with multiple cuts and bruises following the incident.

Later, her husband arrived on the scene and informed the federal agents that they were acting illegally.
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Constitutional lawyer and writer David French issued a bleak warning Sunday over what he argued were clear signs of President Donald Trump’s plan to “unlawfully influence” the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

“A president who doesn’t care about the law, who commands an obedient Congress and is supported by a radicalized base of tens of millions of people who believe his lies, represents a threat to the next election,” French wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in The New York Times. “I fear that millions of citizens are still too complacent. They aren’t aware of the peril we face.”

French cited historical precedent for his concern, pointing to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that was fueled in part by Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged.” More troubling still, French argued, were more recent developments that he described as clear indications Trump is attempting to “engineer the outcomes he seeks” in the upcoming election.

For instance, the FBI’s recent raid on a Georgia election center has raised alarms given the involvement of Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence.
During a White House press briefing in December, press secretary Karoline Leavitt was grilled by a reporter over Trump's decision to pardon a notorious fraudster. A reporter stated, "He defrauded $1.6 billion."
During a roundtable discussion at the White House several months ago in October, Donald Trump came up with the bald-faced lie that the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021 were caused by "infiltrators" from Antifa. If that was the case, then why did he pardon them?
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Recently demoted border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who served as the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in several US cities, was compared to a Confederate general in an email sent to him by a colleague in 2018, according to multiple reports.

A border patrol agent who was later promoted to a senior role in New Orleans sent the email in question as well as a number of Confederacy-related images after Bovino canceled a job listing and installed that same agent – a white officer – in the listed role by bypassing the agency’s standard career-advancement process.

The move led to discrimination lawsuits by two border patrol agents, alleging Bovino’s efforts to manipulate the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hiring process to obstruct the promotion of qualified Black and Latino applicants.

During the hiring process, an email exchange between Bovino and the man he eventually promoted, Christopher Bullock, included a picture of Confederate Gen William Mahone, of Virginia, with the words “Chief Bovino” written at the top.

Bovino reportedly replied, “Oh jeez, DELETE!!!!!” – but did not rebuke Bullock for sending the email.

Below, two other pictures were attached. The first showed civil war re-enactors dressed in Confederate uniforms assembled around a Confederate flag with the caption “NLL all hands meeting”, referring to the border patrol’s New Orleans sector, which stretches from Louisiana’s best-known city to the Florida panhandle.
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Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy who became one of the symbols of the Trump administration's immigration raids in Minnesota, has been released from a Texas detention facility, where he was held for over a week with his father.

“Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack. Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam,” Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said on X.

Ramos and his father, asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias, were taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while in their driveway after the boy came home from school on Jan. 20. Agents at the time refused an offer made by another adult living in the home to take the child.

Instead, the agents led the boy to his front door and ordered him to knock, "essentially using a 5-year-old as bait," according to a news release from Columbia Heights Public Schools.
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Jesse Watters was slammed by viewers for being "dumb" after one of his guests embarked on a racist rant.

The Fox News anchor was joined by Republican strategist Caroline Sunshine on his show as they discussed Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney and her refusal to conform to what Hollywood wants from her.

Sunshine then embarked on a rant about former First Lady Michelle Obama as she slammed her for discussing racism on a recent podcast.

It comes after a Fox News turned on Donald Trump as a guest fumed 'that's no excuse'

Obama has regularly raised the topic of racism and her struggles as a woman of color, something which appears to have irked Sunshine considerably.

Speaking to Watters she said, "I love seeing our first lady, rather than, I saw a clip the other day of Michelle Obama, on a podcast, complaining about how hard it is to be a black woman and I thought, wasn't Michelle Obama First Lady like a decade ago?
ICE and Homeland Security have become the most well-funded enforcement agency in U.S. history, and they are using those funds to become a surveillance state larger than anything we’ve ever seen. ICE is using next generation technology like location tracking, facial recognition and artificial intelligence to create a database of not just of immigrants, but to monitor activists and anyone they deem to be an agitator.
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In another case of police incompetence, Virginia cops arrested a Black man on felony charges for wearing a mask in public for his job.

The Norfolk police officers claimed they were enforcing a state law prohibiting the wearing of masks in public when they arrested Jorge Diaz Jr., who was returning home from his job at a home improvement company, when he was aggressively arrested at his apartment complex by three cops on January 22.

But the cops failed to acknowledge that the law includes exceptions allowing citizens to wear masks in public, including for safety reasons while on the job, which was the case here.

“I’m still on the clock at work! What are you doing? What the f_ck you doing?” Diaz exclaimed as he was being arrested, according to the video recorded by a Black woman named Samira Brooks.

“He didn’t do anything but Walking While Black,” Brooks said while recording the arrest before posting it to her Facebook page that same afternoon, where it has been viewed more than 357,000 times as of this writing.

“You don’t lose your Second Amendment rights because you’re lawfully exercising your First Amendment rights. Fine isn’t a constitutional patriot – he’s a Trump toady and autocratic sycophant.”

The remarks also come as economic indicators continue to show disparities across communities. The Black unemployment rate has risen to 7.5 percent, compared with a national rate of 4.4 percent, and has steadily increased during Trump’s second term.
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