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10:25 AM ET, January 17, 2026

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor  —  The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.  —  The Justice Department has issued subpoenas …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders  —  The Justice Department's investigation is a major escalation in the state-federal battle over the conduct of immigration agents in Minneapolis.  —  The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents  —  The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents …
Washington Post:
Minneapolis judge bars DHS agents from arresting peaceful protesters  —  The order comes in response to a lawsuit from local residents alleging that their rights were violated while they were observing or protesting immigration raids.  —  A federal judge on Friday night prohibited Department …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Judge Restricts Immigration Agents' Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters  —  A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.
Discussion: The Contrarian and UNICORN RIOT
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Watch What They're Doing: Trump Threatens to Make War on the States
Discussion: The Wrap and Townhall
Associated Press:
Justice Department investigating whether Minnesota's Walz and Frey impeded immigration enforcement
CNN:
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Well, President Donald J. Trump finally has his Nobel Peace Prize.  Yesterday, in a visit to the White House, Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado presented Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize medal the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded to her in October 2025.
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Jack Revell / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Appears to Forget Name of Woman Who Just Gave Him Her Nobel Peace Prize  —  THANKS... YOU  —  The president seemed to have difficulty recalling exactly who handed him the award he's been hankering after.  —  President Donald Trump was handed the Nobel Peace Prize he has been whining …
Washington Post:
In Denmark, U.S. lawmakers contradict Trump on need to own Greenland  —  Leaders of the bipartisan delegation said most Americans don't want to acquire Greenland, and that Russia and China don't pose imminent security risks to the territory.  —  Making a symbolic visit to Copenhagen …
Jasmyn Jordan / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Interior Sec. Doug Burgum — Greenland and Venezuela Are Strategic Priorities for Defense and Energy
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Wrap and The Hill
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Trump can now travel to Mar-a-Lago on a street bearing his name  —  Trump's latest naming recognition is a 4-mile stretch of Florida roadway connecting Palm Beach International Airport to his Mar-a-Lago resort.  —  WASHINGTON ‒ Presidents typically wait until they've left the White House ‒ …
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
DOJ Moves to Block Independent Monitor in Maxwell Case, Says Courts Cannot Force Epstein File Disclosures  —  DOJ Tells Court It Cannot Be Forced to Release Epstein Files  —  The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
DOJ sues Virginia for access to voter rolls, as courts reject effort in other states
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
It's Trump's Economy, and Voters Are Unhappy With it, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Poll offers warning signs for the president and Republicans as they prepare for a pivotal midterm election  —  It's President Trump's economy now, and voters are increasingly unhappy with how he's handling it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Cohen:
“When Politics Blind Justice”  —  There are moments when silence becomes complicity.  When letting the record stand without context feels less like restraint and more like consent.  This is one of those moments. … A federal appeals court has just revived President Donald Trump's effort …
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Michael Sinkewicz / Fox News:
Michael Cohen says NY prosecutors ‘pressured and coerced’ him into anti-Trump testimony
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Newsweek
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Trump officials extend National Guard's D.C. mission through 2026  —  The domestic military mission, which is the subject of an ongoing court challenge, was due to expire at the end of February.  —  The Trump administration has extended the deployment of about 2,500 National Guard troops …
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Steven Beynon / ABC News:   National Guard to remain in nation's capital through 2026
Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News:
Some Trump administration social media posts mirror extremist rhetoric  —  While the posts are a small part of the administration's overall social media presence, experts say they are clear references to white supremacist messaging.  —  A series of recent social media posts …
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NBC News:
How Republicans criticize Trump without criticizing him: From the Politics Desk
Discussion: HuffPost
Richard Haass / Financial Times:
To transform Iran, the west needs patience not over-reach  —  Playing a long game paid off with the Soviet Union and a similar trajectory of regime collapse could come in Tehran  —  The writer is senior counsellor at Centerview Partners, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former US diplomat
Discussion: Townhall
NBC News:
Multiple Labor Department staffers are on leave amid IG investigation into Secretary Chavez-DeRemer  —  At least one additional staffer has been temporarily relieved of their duties after two longtime aides were placed on administrative leave earlier this week in connection with the probe.
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’  —  Two decades after its founding, the department has become what its critics feared.  —  “We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” Tom Ridge, the nation's first DHS secretary, liked to say whenever reporters would ask how he handled pressure from the White House.
New York Times:
How the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025  —  Despite holding a governing trifecta, Republicans labored to steer the tightly divided House, with fewer votes and fewer bills that became law than almost any session in the last two decades.
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Dispatch from the occupation  —  What life is like in Minneapolis now … I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul ─ one of America's 20 largest metro areas.  I have kids in the public schools, own a house, go to work every day, pay taxes, volunteer in my community …
Discussion: MPR News and New York Times
Nicole Bedera / MS NOW:
I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence.  Here's how ICE observers are helping.  —  Scientific research has shown that their tactics can undermine the conditions that lead to violence.  —  Since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7 …
Discussion: Fox News
Reuters:
Uganda police deny opposition leader's arrest  —  Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he had escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looked set to secure an overwhelming official victory margin in a presidential election.
Arlyssa D. Becenti / Arizona Republic:
ICE agents detain Navajo man in Arizona, ignoring US, tribal IDs … Peter Yazzie told ICE agents where they could locate his Certificate of Indian Blood, birth certificate and other documents proving that he was both a U.S. citizen and Native American.  It made no difference.
Discussion: Raw Story
Nobel Peace Prize:
The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable  —  The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  The prize itself - the honour and recognition - remains inseparably linked to the person …
Pablo Manríquez / Migrant Insider:
Patty Murray to White House: No Funding Increase for ICE  —  The top Democratic appropriator draws a clear red line over funding increases for the rogue federal agency terrorizing communities across America.  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats have drawn a definitive red line …
 
 
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Benjamin Siegel / Associated Press:
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Kevin Bohn / The Hill:
Threat level for Al Udeid US Air Force Base lowered
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Discussion: Advocate
Ella Lee / The Hill:
DOJ seeks life sentence for convicted would-be Trump assassin
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
‘Staring over the edge’: South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week
Discussion: STAT
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
DHS turns on border chief over $2 million office renovation plan
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump's DHS has shot 11 people during immigration enforcement operations since September
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Media Matters for America:
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