Magistrate judge rejects charges against Don Lemon over anti-ICE protest in Minnesota church  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday …

ICE has detained four children from Minnesota school district, officials say  —  U.S. immigration authorities detained at least four children including a 5-year-old from a Minneapolis-area school district this month as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, school district and city officials said on Thursday.

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga … TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, concluding a six-year legal saga that saw the app banned by Congress …

Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr.  Gregory Bovino: live updates  —  The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.

Few Voters Say Trump's Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds  —  A majority of voters said that Mr. Trump had focused on the wrong priorities and that they disapproved of his handling of top issues, but the president still enjoys strong support from Republicans.

A small group of Dems looks to break from their party on ICE funding  —  A handful of House Democrats are readying to break with their party's leadership and vote for a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and, consequently, ICE. … - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries …

“Go f*ck yourself”: Jack Smith hearing rocked by angry altercation  —  A House hearing with former Trump special counsel Jack Smith was disrupted Thursday when a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 confronted a vocal 2020 election conspiracy theorist.

A Year Inside Kash Patel's F.B.I.  —  Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.  —  When he returned to office last year, President Trump called the F.B.I. a “corrupt” agency in need of overhaul.

Trump administration orders review of federal funding in more than a dozen Democratic states  —  The Trump administration has ordered a review of federal funding sent to more than a dozen Democratic-led states, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Trump sues Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase over debanking the suit calls ‘political’ … President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday for closing accounts belonging to Trump and related entities in early 2021, in what the lawsuit calls political actions.

Target of Viral Botched ICE Raid Was Already in Prison  —  WHEN ICE AGENTS DETAINED U.S. citizen ChongLy Thao in Minneapolis this weekend—breaking down his door and escorting him half-naked into the snow—administration officials claimed they'd been looking for a pair of sex-criminal migrants at the address.

Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations  —  Chair of federal panel stresses need to protect individual rights over public health  —  The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday …

A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights.  She Lost Her Job Because of It  —  The revocation of Emily Suski's offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors who take positions that Republican culture warriors do not like.

Musk's Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show  —  Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok …

Trump's Weird Bruise Looks Worse Than Ever  —  The U.S. president appeared with yet another strange mark on his hands at the World Economic Forum in Davos, once again raising concerns that his health is not what he has claimed it to be.  —  Donald Trump—the oldest person to ever be elected president …

FCC Cracks Down on Talk Shows Hosting Partisan Candidates  —  The Federal Communications Commission told broadcasters on Wednesday that talk shows and late-night programs hosting political candidates must offer their opponents equal time, an effort aimed at balancing TV airwaves seen as hyper-partisan.

Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?  —  The Associated Press reports: … The memo is here.  The specific subject is what are known as Form I-205 Warrants, which are signed by immigration officials and not regular judges.

The state attorneys general are as mad as you are … The sun was already beginning to set as Portlanders in weatherproof jackets and fleeces lined up around Revolution Hall.  It wasn't yet 5PM on a Wednesday but the crowd was gathering well before the town hall was scheduled to begin.

Greenland Prime Minister left in dark on Trump's “ultimate” deal  —  Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said he doesn't know what's “concrete” in the deal President Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed yesterday, stressing that nothing could move forward without Greenlandic support.

The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal  —  Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government's Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.”  Advocates fear these works could be at risk.

Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia  —  Park staff dismantled an exhibit about George Washington's slave ownership amid a wider push to remove information on racism, sexism and climate change.  —  National Park Service staff on Thursday took down an exhibit …

The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II  —  He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors … “If you import the Third World, you become the Third World,” Stephen Miller declared …

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower  —  With Donald Trump's actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.  —  Imagine you were Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke …