3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow  —  Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.

Whistleblower drops ‘largest ever’ ICE leak to unmask agents: ‘The last straw’  —  A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

You've Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting.  The Truth Is Far Worse.  I'm the Proof.  —  What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets?  We're all finding out.  —  The plan was never to become an ICE agent.

President Trump Filmed Flipping Off Ford Worker Who Yells ‘Pedophile Protector’ at Him  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP HEY, F*** YOU, BUB, FOR THAT PEDO DISS!!! … Donald Trump turned into Donald Grump during a Tuesday appearance at a Ford plant ... launching into an F-bomb attack on a worker who appeared to yell …

Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue  —  Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.

Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry  —  The couple escalated their battle with Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, who said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress.  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday …

Majority Of Voters Think Fatal Shooting Of Minneapolis Woman By ICE Agent Was Not Justified, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 57% Of Voters Disapprove Of The Way ICE Is Enforcing Immigration Laws  — mail_outline  —  Days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …

Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says  — 7 min Click here to listen to this article  —  A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round …

‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss's Bumpy Revamp at CBS  —  Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes.  —  Bari Weiss's message to the “CBS Evening News” team was blunt.

Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich dies at age 59  —  A cause of death has not yet been announced  —  Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has died at the age of 59, according to a statement from his family.  —  PHOENIX — Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich …

Blowback Builds Over Criminal Investigation of Powell  —  Trump allies fear that the inquiry into the Fed chair could complicate the process of replacing him this year.  —  The investigation of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, has prompted fierce blowback from Republicans …

‘When did I do that?’  Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks  —  Those $2,000 dividend checks President Donald Trump has been talking about for months seemed to have slipped his mind during a recent interview with The New York Times.  And the payment date appears to have shifted, too.

The Resistance Libs Were Right  —  For the last decade there's been a debate, among people who don't like Donald Trump, about whether he's a fascist.  —  The argument that he isn't often hinges on two things.  First, when Trump first came to power, he lacked a street-fighting force …

Trump faces limited set of military options on Iran … The president can still order airstrikes that target Iranian leadership or military installations.  But his choices are even more reduced than June, when the U.S. took out Iran's nuclear sites.  And he also must contend with lawmakers who …

Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error  —  A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large number of active police investigations around the country because they have failed …

Fact check: Trump litters Detroit economic speech with numerous false claims about economy  —  Donald Trump Fighting disinformation Inflation Economy  —  Inflation hasn't “stopped.”  Consumer prices are up during this presidential term, not “down.”  Grocery prices are rising, not starting to fall “rapidly.”

Trump declares an ‘economic boom’ as Americans continue to worry over prices  —  The president, speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, said he plans to detail more of his. housing policies next week at the World Economic Forum conference Switzerland.  — Add NBC News to Google

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome  —  Federal agencies US military National security  —  The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators …

Scoop: Trump has been texting with Mamdani  —  President Trump has a surprising phone pal: He and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have texted back and forth recently, two sources familiar with their conversations tell Axios. … - It also suggests that the good vibes …

White House to end funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1 … Sanctuary cities often have policies limiting local law enforcement's ability to cooperate with federal immigration officers.  —  The Department of Justice has identified 11 states as sanctuary jurisdictions, including California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

House GOP tees up two amendment votes on latest funding package  —  House Republican leaders are allowing floor votes this week on several proposed tweaks to the latest government funding package after hard-liners demanded more input.  The House Rules Committee voted Tuesday to allow votes …

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration's demand for ‘lists of Jews’  —  Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights  —  Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration's efforts to obtain information …

An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams  —  In 2025, the DOJ struggled with everything from purges to incompetence to weaponization.  In 2026, its collapse seems to be accelerating.  —  As Attorney General Pam Bondi's tenure approaches the one-year mark …

Video of Minneapolis shooting convinced these Trump voters it was justifiable  —  Video of a U.S. immigration agent fatally shooting a Minneapolis mother in her car on Wednesday has divided the nation, becoming a political Rorschach test that elicits different verdicts depending on who views it.

Organizing bodies have grappled with gender issues, pleasing few.  —  In two cases, the court's conservative majority showed little inclination to strike down laws barring transgender girls from girls' and women's teams.  —  Here's the latest.  —  The Supreme Court's conservative majority …

Department of Labor under fire for language similar to Nazi slogan  —  A social media post from the Department of Labor is attracting criticism for appearing to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century.  —  The department posted to X on Jan. 10, “One Homeland.  One People.  One Heritage.

The Affordability Problem in One Chart  —  Wages aren't rising fast enough to counter still rising prices.  —  President Trump keeps telling Americans they've never had it better, even as polls show Americans are still worried about keeping up with rising prices.

The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident  —  How many Americans actually want a race war?  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Numbers  —  During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport every illegal immigrant who was a rapist, murderer, or thief.  He also promised to deport 20 million immigrants.

Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Dies at 68  —  Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer.  He was 68. … Adams started writing blog posts praising Donald Trump in 2015 …

Terrorist Designations of Muslim Brotherhood Chapters  —  Today, as a first step in support of President Trump's commitment to eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that pose a threat to the United States as described in Executive Order 14362 …

Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE  —  Thin blue line  —  During the last battle over government funding, which resulted in a record 43-day shutdown, Democrats showed that they had it in them to hold firm—at least for a long while—in an effort to push their policy priorities to the forefront of political debate.