Trump's Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw  —  Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?  —  Let me begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre.

There's a reason Trump Is Targeting Minneapolis  —  Late last Wednesday night, I was standing on a street corner in the Hawthorne neighborhood in North Minneapolis, when I witnessed an extraordinary confrontation.  A federal agent marched up a narrow residential sidewalk, flanked by modest bungalows …

‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files … “I don't give a rip about Epstein,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said last week when she was asked to take stock of the month since the Dec. 19 deadline.  —  “Like, there's so many other things we need to be working on,” she added.

Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy … The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America's “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades.

Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race  —  Elon Musk has cut a massive $10 million check to bolster Nate Morris, an outsider, pro-Trump candidate running to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Axios has learned. … - Musk, the world's richest person …

Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees  —  Detainees are being held at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.  —  Federal officers stand outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis.

China's Birthrate Sinks to Record Low  —  Population shrinks for fourth consecutive year  —  China's population shrank for a fourth consecutive year as its birthrate fell to a record low, underscoring the demographic challenges facing the world's second-largest economy.  —  The details

AP Source: Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case  —  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

Inside Bari Weiss's Hostile Takeover of CBS News  —  The network's new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.  —  On Halloween, a production team from “60 Minutes,” …

ICE's Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman.  Twice  —  When authorities used Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) facial recognition app on a detained woman in an attempt to learn her identity and immigration status, it returned two different and incorrect names …

Author of 'Don't Say Abolish ICE' Memo Is a Corporate Consultant  —  Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  The author of a controversial memo telling Democrats …

Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent  —  In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris's team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.

Putin invited to join Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Kremlin says  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump's “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.

Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump  —  When Donald Trump returned to power, America's billionaires and the leaders of its biggest corporations rushed to prostrate themselves at his feet.  Some of them, especially but not only among the tech bros, did so because they themselves wanted …

Welfare Fraud Is a Problem—For Democrats  —  Safeguarding the social safety net is essential for keeping it.  —  the massive scandal around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in The Sun Also Rises describes going bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.”