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6:40 PM ET, January 13, 2026

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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
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.
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Six Prosecutors Quit Over 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, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak  —  The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before Federal Reserve subpoenas  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week …
Steve Benen / MS NOW:   An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting
Matt Sepic / MPR News:
Minn. fraud prosecutor quits over ICE shooting probe
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Top prosecutors in D.C., Minneapolis leave amid turmoil over shooting probe
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
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.
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach  —  INTERNAL REVOLT  —  A DHS whistleblower appears to have exposed data on federal immigration workers after the shooting of Renee Good.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE …
ProPublica:
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing  —  Immigration agents have put civilians' lives at risk using more than their guns.  —  An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy's neck …
Discussion: WBUR
Laura Jedeed / Slate:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Jacobin
Annie Karni / New York Times:
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 …
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Johnson backs holding Clinton in contempt over Epstein subpoena
Discussion: Newsweek, NewsMax.com and The Guardian
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House GOP moves to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress in Epstein probe
TMZ.com:
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 …
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
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.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses 2,000, activists say, as chaos recalls 1979 revolution
Los Angeles Times:
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 …
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
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
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New York Times:
‘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.
Mike Snider / USA Today:
‘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.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
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 …
Alice Speri / The Guardian:
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 …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
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 …
Politico:
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 …
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CNN:
Classified legal memo argues Trump wasn't constrained by US or international law for Maduro capture operation  —  A new classified legal opinion produced by the Justice Department argues that President Donald Trump was not limited by domestic law when approving the US operation …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Memo Said Trump Could Send Troops Into Venezuela on His Own
Discussion: Lawfare and The Contrarian
NBC News:
Some Democrats push for a fight over DHS funds after ICE shooting in Minneapolis  —  They want guardrails on immigration agents.  The issue has risen to the fore ahead of a key Jan. 30 deadline after an ICE officer shot and killed an American woman in Minneapolis.
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Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Discussion: New York Times and New York Sun
CNN:
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 …
Discussion: HUMINT, The Hill, NewsMax.com and Axios
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Over 50 House Dems sign onto Kristi Noem impeachment articles  —  Over 50 House Democrats have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios has learned. … - Reps. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), Al Green (D-Texas) and Haley Stevens …
Discussion: MS NOW
Axios:
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 …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
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 …
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
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 …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
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.
Julia Harte / Reuters:
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.
Kathryn Palmer / USA Today:
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.
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
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 …
Lauren Coates / Variety:
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 …
 
 
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Rand Paul: GOP lawmakers 'don't give a s— about these people in the boats'
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Times
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
White House to end funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court seems poised to deliver another blow to trans rights
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
How a G.O.P. Senator Quietly Became a Best-Selling Author
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Greenland's PM has a blunt message for Trump: ‘We choose Denmark’ over the U.S.
 Earlier Items: 
Duncan Hosie / The Atlantic:
How the Supreme Court Broke Congress
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Young Americans Are Turning Antisemitic
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NPR:
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
Steph Brawn / The National:
New Ukip logo slated over ‘similarities to Nazi symbol’
Discussion: PinkNews
Preston Mizell / Fox News:
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis in US
 

 
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