White House shares video of Minneapolis shooting from ICE officer's perspective  —  The White House on Friday shared a new video that appears to show the perspective of the ICE officer who shot and killed a Minneapolis woman during an altercation over her vehicle earlier this week.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center  —  The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump's second term.  —  The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move its performances …

Renee Macklin Good's wife releases statement about ICE shooting  —  {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent.  Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.","type":"text" …

John Thune and Donald Trump had a ‘spirited’ conversation over Senate war powers vote  —  McALLEN, Texas — Shortly after five Republican senators broke with Donald Trump and voted Thursday to advance a measure constraining his military options in Venezuela, the president lashed out and called for them to lose their seats.

Judge blocks Trump's $10B welfare fund freeze … The attempt to withhold the funds was in response to what the Trump Administration has alleged without evidence is widespread fraud and waste in the states' welfare programs.  Along with the cuts, administration officials are also requesting reams …

Gov. Jared Polis considers clemency for Tina Peters as he begins final year in office in Colorado  —  Gov. Jared Polis says he has an ambitious agenda for his final year in office.  —  He's been full throttle since he was elected governor seven years ago, leading the state through COVID-19 …

Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high  —  Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence … On Wednesday morning, Jan. 7, an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed a 37-year-old mother, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 282. 1/9/26  —  ... The cover-up by DHS of the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross is well underway, with Kristi Noem declaring him innocent before any investigation has been conducted while refusing to cooperate with state and local investigators.

Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’ … President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.

UK's deputy prime minister raises X deepfake deluge with JD Vance  —  In the past the U.S. administration has criticized the U.K.'s online safety regime.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  LONDON - Britain's Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy raised the recent flood of AI-generated sexualized images of women …

2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows  —  The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, a mixed report capping off a difficult year for the labor market.  —  The U.S. economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, capping off the worst year for hiring since 2020 …

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards  —  X's deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines.  Why won't Apple and Google pull it? … Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable …

Revealed: ICE shooter has an IMMIGRANT Filipina wife and is an Iraq veteran as father comes to his defense  —  The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good is unmasked for the first time by the Daily Mail - as his shaken father defends his decision to shoot dead the 37-year-old mother.

Kristi Noem impeachment goes mainstream among House Democrats  —  Democrats who wanted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were on the fringes.  Then the shootings in Minneapolis and Portland happened. … Now that sentiment is thawing, and impeachment is going mainstream.

Jim Jordan commits to public hearing for Jack Smith  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said in an interview Friday he will invite former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in an open hearing as soon as this month in what would be a politically high-stakes event for members of both parties and the White House.

The Shadow Over ‘60’ … Earlier this week, on Tuesday, members of the “60 Minutes” team gathered for a meeting to discuss the future of Sharyn Alfonsi's delayed piece on migrants deported by Donald Trump's administration to a notorious El Salvadorian prison.

Federal court blocks key parts of Trump's anti-voting order, restores states' control over elections  —  A federal court blocked core provisions of President Donald Trump's anti-voting executive order Friday, ruling that the president had no authority to impose new election rules that threatened …

Dr. Oz claims there's no data to support reducing alcohol consumption.  That's not true.  —  How much alcohol should you drink?  The US government now vaguely, in effect, says just don't drink too much.  And what qualifies as too much?  Well, that's up to you.

Scoop: White House contacted Secret Service about MTG, sources say  —  The relationship between President Trump and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene grew so poisonous that the White House told the Secret Service that Greene may have tipped off Code Pink protesters about his surprise visit …

Transcript: Can Trump's Thugs Be Reined In?  These Dems Have an Idea.  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

Doctor Says More Than 200 Reported Dead in Tehran as Regime Opens Fire on Protests  —  As protests against Iran's government swelled significantly in size on Thursday night, the regime responded in many places by opening fire.  A Tehran doctor told TIME on condition of anonymity …

The Poison Always Drips Through  —  Sometimes, history seems to be commenting on itself.  That's what it felt like when I learned that Renee Good was murdered roughly a mile away from the spot where, five and a half years earlier, Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death.