‘Freaked out’ about the bond market: White House reels from Powell probe … The inquiry, which blindsided many White House aides, is renewing fears over the future of the central bank's independence and offering fresh fodder for concerned Senate Republicans, many of whom will be needed to confirm the next Fed chair.

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane  —  Even accepting the Trump administration's claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”  —  The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane …

Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: ‘I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent’ (Exclusive)  —  “It really creeps me out that those are my neighbors — that that's the kind of people I live next to,” the Chaska, Minn., resident tells PEOPLE.

F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim's Possible Ties to Activist Groups  —  Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized.  —  Federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting …

House Republican introduces bill to let Trump annex Greenland  —  A House Republican on Monday introduced legislation that would give President Trump the authority to annex Greenland and turn it into a U.S. state. … - Lawmakers in both parties have brushed off the notion of invading Greenland …

Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting  —  At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the administration's handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis …

Minnesota sues federal government to try to end deployment of immigration agents  —  Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called the deployment a “federal invasion of the Twin Cities.”  — Add NBC News to Google  —  Officials in Minnesota are suing the federal government to stop …

FBI: Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire targeted house of worship because of its ‘Jewish ties’  —  A suspect in an arson fire at a historic Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the house of worship because of its “Jewish ties” and was turned in to authorities by his father …

Crowd yells ‘cowards!’ after federal agents crash into a car and fire tear gas in Minneapolis  —  Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents …

Trump leans toward Iran strikes but keeps diplomacy open for now  —  President Trump is leaning toward striking Iran to punish the regime for killing protesters, but he hasn't made a final decision and is exploring Iranian proposals for negotiations, a White House official with direct knowledge told Axios.

Frontliners erupt at DNC's Martin … The tense exchanges show a wide gulf between Democratic Frontliners and the man charged with rebuilding the party following 2024's setbacks.  —  Martin attended a meeting of Democratic Frontliners on Dec. 18, where many of the vulnerable lawmakers …

Judge Strikes Down Trump's Latest Effort to Stop Offshore Wind Project  —  The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now.  —  A federal judge on Monday ruled that construction could resume …

Trump Has Complained About Pam Bondi Repeatedly to Aides  —  The president has privately criticized his attorney general as weak and ineffective in recent weeks  —  President Trump has complained to aides repeatedly in recent weeks about Attorney General Pam Bondi, describing her as weak …

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution  —  In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.  —  For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency …

Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case  —  The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey …

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good  —  The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe's own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.

Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order  —  The Trump administration has tried to eliminate funding for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.  Appropriators in Congress have had other ideas.  —  Lawmakers from both parties and houses of Congress …

Central bank chiefs ‘stand in full solidarity’ with Jay Powell  —  Governors from 11 institutions issue statement of support for embattled Fed chair  —  Claire Jones in London and Olaf Storbeck in Frankfurt  —  Global central bank chiefs said they “stand in full solidarity” with Jay Powell …

Trump's ‘flexible’ abortion stance frustrates key GOP bloc  —  Anti-abortion groups fear President Trump is softening on some of their key policy priorities, creating a rift on the right one year into his second term.  —  Following an initial flurry of executive orders a year ago …

We're all just content for ICE  —  Four days on the ground in Minneapolis … MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The frontline of America's slow-moving civil war has come to Minnesota.  The Department of Homeland Security doubled down on their occupation of the state following last week's murder of Renee Nicole Good.

Former Congressional Employee Arrested, Indicted in Theft of 240 Cell Phones  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia  —  WASHINGTON - Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested Friday and charged in a federal indictment unsealed …