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By JACK DURA

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, have been released following a judge’s order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.

The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador, were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.

Katherine Schneider, a spokesperson for the Democratic congressman, confirmed the two had arrived home. She said Castro picked them up from Dilley on Saturday night and escorted them home on Sunday to Minnesota.

In a statement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not target or arrest Liam Conejo Ramos, and that his mother refused to take him after his father’s apprehension. His father told officers he wanted Liam to be with him, she said.
The New York Times found more than 5,300 files with references to Mr. Trump and related terms. They include salacious and unverified claims, as well as documents that had already been made public.
By Steve EderMichael C. Bender and David Enrich

The Justice Department looked into sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump in connection with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein but did not find credible information to merit further investigation, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said on Sunday.

Mr. Blanche’s comments, which he made on CNN’s “State of the Union,” came less than 48 hours after the Trump administration released about three million pages of documents collected by the Justice Department as part of its yearslong investigation into Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019.

The controversy over Mr. Epstein has dogged Mr. Trump for the past year. After Mr. Trump’s allies vowed on the 2024 campaign trail to release the Epstein files, his administration rapidly backtracked. Mr. Trump’s resistance to releasing the government’s files fueled speculation that they contained damaging information about him or his allies.

The files are peppered with references to Mr. Trump, who had been a close friend of Mr. Epstein’s until the early 2000s. While Mr. Trump has repeatedly downplayed the relationship, the two men bonded over their pursuit of young women. Mr. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection to Mr. Epstein.
Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets.
By Associated Press

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators — including young children — outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest that he and others characterized as peaceful.

Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Erin Hoover Barnett, a former OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (91 meters) from the building when “what looked like two guys with rocket launchers” started dousing the crowd with gas.

“To be among parents frantically trying to tend to little children in strollers, people using motorized carts trying to navigate as the rest of us staggered in retreat, unsure of how to get to safety, was terrifying,” Barnett wrote in an email to OregonLive.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful, “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.

“To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave,” Wilson wrote in a statement Saturday night. “Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”
Emails suggest Sarah Ferguson and former Prince Andrew contacted disgraced financier during his house arrest
Caroline Davies and Geraldine McKelvie

The more than 3m Jeffrey Epstein documents released by the US Department of Justice include emails from accounts labelled “The Duke” and “The Invisible Man” as well as from “Sarah”, and references to “Fergie”, suggesting they are from the former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.

They appear to reveal the two were in contact with Epstein immediately after the end of his house arrest in August 2010, and Mountbatten-Windsor’s visit to the US that December.

Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution, for which he served 13 months in a jail work-release programme. He was later released under house arrest for a year.

Key revelations include:
Competitive primaries in a few key states have helped Republicans maintain a cash advantage, according to new filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission.
By Erin Doherty and Jessica Piper

One bright spot for Democrats as they face a tough path to taking back the Senate this year: Their candidates are raising a lot of money.

Democrats outraised their GOP counterparts across several of this year’s marquee Senate races heading into 2026, according to new filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Saturday.

Sen. Jon Ossoff, the only Democrat running for reelection in a state Donald Trump won, enters the year with a massive fundraising advantage over any of his GOP rivals in battleground Georgia. Democrats in North Carolina and Ohio also started the year with a major financial edge over their GOP rivals.

But heated Democratic primaries have helped Republicans maintain a cash advantage in a few key states, including Michigan, Maine and Iowa.

Strong fundraising will be critical to Democrats’ efforts to hold all their seats — including several that are open following battleground senators’ retirements — while also flipping four Republican ones.

In a handful of primaries, including the Democratic contests in Michigan and Texas and the Republican lineup in Georgia, fourth-quarter fundraising numbers largely did not show any one candidate majorly distinguishing themselves from the rest.

Here’s a rundown of what the fundraising looked like in key Senate races.
When Donald Trump most recently ran for president, he made scores of promises to the American people — but he’s only kept one.
BuzzFeed

In 2024, political pundits and operatives saw affordability as the key issue of the presidential campaign. Trump certainly played it up: On the campaign trail, he pledged that he would bring down inflation and make groceries cheaper again, and when he won, observers credited that strategy for his victory.

One year into his second term, his approval numbers are in the tank, and inflation persists.

But that’s because the president’s real campaign promise wasn’t about the economy. Instead, it was all about racism.

He spouted dehumanizing lies about immigrants, dabbled in eugenics and pledged to conduct mass deportations. “When I win on November 5, the migrant invasion ends, and the restoration of our country begins,” Trump said at a rally in October 2024.

When he got back to the White House, he immediately began delivering on both the explicit promises and the tacit implications.

In the last year, Trump has deported immigrants without so much as a trial, defunded government programs dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and deployed thousands of federal agents to blue cities to wreak havoc on people of color and their allies.

“This is the government weaponizing the social and political views of the president,” William Roberts, the senior vice president for rights and justice at the Center for American Progress, a think tank that promotes liberal policies, told HuffPost.

“It’s not just ‘Donald Trump is a racist,’” Roberts said. “It’s Trump’s government engaging in policy-making to harm certain people.”
Multiple law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant on Saturday morning. Investigators say they discovered refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids.
Story by Robert Davis

A political analyst sounded the alarm on Sunday after reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attended an FBI raid of a Georgia elections office last week.

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump's FBI raided the Fulton County voting offices in search of evidence that Trump won the 2020 general election. Trump has repeatedly claimed he won Georgia in 2020, despite several federal judges throwing out his team's lawsuits contesting the results. Trump also called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded that he find more than 11,000 votes for Trump to win.
Story by Adeola Adeosun

A United States citizen was detained at gunpoint by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents in St. Peter, Minnesota, on Thursday after she recorded federal immigration enforcement operations from her vehicle. The woman, who asked MPR News not to be identified for safety reasons, was tracking and filming agents’ movements when three vehicles began pursuing her.

Video shared with MPR News shows agents boxing in her SUV before three officers exit with drawn weapons, screaming, “Get out of the car!” repeatedly. When the woman refused and asked observers on speaker phone to call 911, agents opened her unlocked door, dragged her from the vehicle, and forced her to the ground, leaving her with cuts, scrapes and bruises.

A DHS spokesperson told Newsweek on Saturday that officers were conducting a targeted operation to arrest “a serial criminal illegal alien” when “an agitator began stalking and obstructing law enforcement.” The spokesperson said the woman drove recklessly, ran stop signs, nearly collided with multiple vehicles, and drove at officers “in an attempt to ram their vehicle,” adding that “obstructing law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime.”

St. Peter Police Chief Matt Grochow reportedly intervened to prevent the woman from being transported to the federal detention facility near Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, according to MPR News. However, the city of St. Peter issued a statement Saturday denying the chief intervened, saying he merely “ensured the resident was safely transported home” after federal authorities dropped her off at the police department.

Newsweek reached out to the St. Peter Police Department via email on Saturday for comment.

Why It Matters
The incident marks what’s believed to be the first time a local Minnesota police department has become involved in federal immigration enforcement since the surge of ICE and CBP agents to the state began two months ago.

The video comes amid heightened tensions over federal agents’ tactics following recent fatal shootings of civilians during immigration and border control operations, including Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this month.

The conflicting narratives—with DHS describing the woman as driving recklessly while her video shows her calmly refusing commands—highlight broader tensions between federal enforcement and community oversight as immigration operations intensify across the country.
Story by Tushar Auddy

In the wake of the latest saga concerning the Epstein files, President Donald Trump has come into the crosshairs of Nick Fuentes, a far-right influencer. He called out Trump and his administration for gatekeeping information, despite 3.5 million pages worth of information being shared at the end of January 2026.

On Feb. 1, 2026, Fuentes publicly lambasted Trump and his Department of Justice (DOJ) for delaying the release of the Epstein files. He tweeted on X, urging American citizens to “never forget” how they have delayed the release of the files for a year, claiming that they “DO NOT EXIST.”

Fuentes said that the DOJ had been lying and decided to release these files only after the president was forced to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The act compelled them to release the files within 30 days, but they failed to do so. However, the DOJ has now released the final wave of files, fulfilling its legal obligation to make all available files public.
Story by Anthony Blair

Thousands of cryptic messages tying Jeffrey Epstein to Vladimir Putin have been discovered in the latest release of files related to the late pedophile financier — raising a new theory about whom he was really working for.

Emails showing unnamed sources discussing meetings between Epstein and the Russian president are prompting questions about whether the disgraced Wall Street figure may have trafficked girls from Russia in a state-backed effort to run the world’s “largest honeytrap” to ensnare the rich and the powerful.

Putin is named almost 1,000 times in the latest tranche of documents released Friday, while there are almost 10,000 references to Moscow.

People close to the Russian tyrant say he maintained his links to Epstein even after the financier’s 2008 conviction for engaging a child in prostitution.

Other newly released documents pointed to Epstein’s alleged strong influence in Russia, with the perv sending one in November 2010 asking an unnamed recipient if they needed a Russian visa.

In another email, dated Sept. 11, 2011, an anonymous messenger discusses plans for an “appointment with Putin” on Epstein’s next trip to Russia.

“Spoke with Igor. He said last time you were in Palm Beach, you told him you had an appointment with Putin on Sept 16 and that he could go ahead and book his ticket to Russia to arrive a few days before you,” the newly released email reads.

In May 2013, Epstein wrote that he wanted to help Putin and Russia “reinvent the financial system,” in an email to Council of Europe secretary general Thorbjorn Jagland.

That same month, in an email to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Epstein claimed Putin had tried to set up a meeting with him, which he had turned down.
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