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3:45 PM ET, January 11, 2026

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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran warns it will target US troops and Israel if America strikes over protests  —  Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country's capital and its second-largest city into Sunday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding …
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Politico:
Trump to be briefed on range of options in Iran … “We could step up the pressure campaign in a number of ways,” the official said.  “The window [for the President to take action] is small but the people are angry.”  —  Trump is not expected to send American forces to the country …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Steps Up Planning for Possible Action in Iran  —  Trump aides are set to brief the president Tuesday on measures, including military, cyber and economic, to follow through on his threats  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on specific options to respond …
Politico:   Death toll in crackdown on protests in Iran spikes to at least 538, activists say
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options
Daily Mail:
Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation  —  Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
New year's blitz reveals Trump's limitless view of power  —  The first week of 2026 left little ambiguity about what President Trump thinks of power — or whether there are any limits on his.  Just listen to him and top aide Stephen Miller.  — Trump to The New York Times …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Sen. Chris Murphy says ‘it would be the end of NATO’ if the U.S. annexed Greenland
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Post
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Branding Trump a neocon does a disservice to the label
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration  —  Government data show the Trump administration's immigration policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.  The latest data indicate a substantial drop in foreign-born workers …
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Joseph Politano / Apricitas Economics:
The ‘No Hire’ Economy  —  US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest  —  Thanks for reading!  If you haven't subscribed, please click the button below:  —  By subscribing, you'll join over 75,000 people who read Apricitas!
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Why are federal agents gunning down Americans in the streets?  —  The shooting of Renee Good, like all of the ICE abuses, is symptomatic of a deeper mental illness.  —  Cross-posted by Noahpinion … - Brad DeLong  —  “What if you knew her and/ Found her dead on the ground/ How can you run …
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Thomas Zimmer / Steady:
When the State Terrorizes the People  —  The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism's violent, authoritarian essence.  MAGA is at war with the reality of American society. … Renee Nicole Good, mother of three children, died mere blocks away from where she lived with her wife and her youngest son, who is 6 years old.
David French / New York Times:   Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again.
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’  —  Where Things Stand  — Minneapolis crackdown: The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, told Fox News on Sunday that “hundreds more” federal agents were being dispatched to Minneapolis …
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New York Times:
Trump's ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor  —  President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.”  They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.  —  President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark …
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries  —  State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans  —  The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries …
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New York Times:
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78  —  His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band's sound as it became an American institution.  —  Bob Weir, a guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of the Grateful Dead …
Letters / Augusta Free Press:
Vanishing act: How UVA's presidential search missed what took us an hour to find  —  Inside Higher Ed's recent story, “UVA Presidential Hire Raises Process Concerns,” frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president as follows …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump threatens Cuba: Negotiate “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE” … - But after backing off Colombia and facing allied pushback over Greenland, Havana has emerged as the hemispheric target du jour. … - The U.S. strike in Venezuela put allied Cuba, already strained by a sagging economy …
Politico:
States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting … Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week.  But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states.
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Times
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Purged  —  The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House.  Seventeen inspectors general—internal watchdogs embedded throughout the federal government—received emails notifying them of their termination.  Three weeks later came the Valentine's …
CBS News:
Transcript: Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 11, 2026  —  The following is the transcript of the interview with Secretary of Energy Chris Wright that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Jan. 11, 2026.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
The Guardian:
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok's nudification tool went viral  —  The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted  —  Like thousands of women across the world, Evie …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie's Latest Stunt Sent Trump Insiders Into Panic  —  NOEM MAS!  —  “I don't know how we recover from this,” an administration official told Politico.  —  White House insiders are privately panicking that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials are digging ICE into an inescapable hole.
 
 
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Zen Reading / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Joins Germany's AfD, Far-right Europeans in Backing Orbán as Hungary Campaign Begins
Reuters:
Sweden to invest $1.6 billion in air defence systems
Discussion: Bloomberg
Martina Sapio / Politico:
Germany rebukes RFK Jr.'s claims Berlin prosecuted doctors over Covid vaccine
Discussion: New York Sun and Associated Press
Anthony L. Fisher / MS NOW:
The country I love doesn't look like Trump's America
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Williams / Bloomberg:
Trump Set to Name Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ to Advance Rocky Truce
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Washington Post:
Iraq War critic, Venezuela mission defender: Vance's foreign policy journey
Discussion: New Yorker
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Minneapolis mayor says there's a ‘deep mistrust’ of federal investigation of ICE shooting
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
After fleeing the Taliban, they felt safe in America. A shooting in D.C. changed everything.
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
The Dream of a Florida Retirement Is Fading for the Middle Class
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists
Discussion: Washington Post
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Turns Out the Obamacare Subsidy Extension Was Only Mostly Dead
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria
 

 
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