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10:50 AM ET, January 22, 2026

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Politico:
‘Our American Dream is dead’  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Makayla Gray  —  Good Thursday morning.  This is Jack Blanchard, nervously eyeing the weather forecast and ordering bottled water, canned beans and plastic sleds for the kids.  Send me your best snow storm tips.
Discussion: New York Times
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Discussion: Liberal Currents and Raw Story
Mark John / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pact with Trump calls for allies to step up fast on Arctic security, says NATO's Rutte
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Vance Heads to Minnesota, Where Things Are Only Getting Worse
Discussion: CBS News and New York Post
Washington Post:
Trump's dramatic Davos day
BBC:
Trump drops threat of tariffs over Greenland after Nato talks in Davos
Associated Press:
Stock market cuts through to Trump on Greenland in a way allies' messages failed to resonate
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Trump's Head-Spinning Greenland U-Turn
Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says  —  Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained …
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Orin S. Kerr / Reason:   Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?
New York Times:
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.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Ahead of midterms, independents disapprove of Trump in New York Times poll
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Nate Cohn / New York Times:   The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump
Elizabeth Shockman / MPR News:
Federal ICE agents detain 5-year-old Minnesota boy  —  The Columbia Heights Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks.  One child is a 5-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as …
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Reg Chapman / CBS News:
ICE has arrested four children in same Minnesota school district  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  School district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, say their sense of security is shaken and their hearts shattered after four students from the district have recently been taken by officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Discussion: KARE-TV, Sahan Journal and Mediaite
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments  —  Former special counsel Jack Smith will tell the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that President Trump was charged because evidence showed he “willfully broke the very laws he swore to uphold.”
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Associated Press:
Jack Smith is set to testify at a public hearing about his Trump investigations  —  Republican lawmakers are poised to grill former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday at a congressional hearing that's expected to focus fresh attention on two criminal investigations …
WLS / ABC7:
Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good were released Wednesday evening.  —  It has been two weeks since Good was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Discussion: TMZ.com
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Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds  —  Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.  —  An autopsy commissioned by the family of Renee Good …
Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee's death as a homicide  —  The report comes the same day a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two fellow detainees who said 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos was killed.  —  The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp …
Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year  —  After ousting Venezuela's leader, the Trump administration is searching for Havana insiders who could cut a deal to end Communist rule … Emboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport  —  San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.  —  Boras said it was a paper work issue …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is ‘probably’ a bubble, expects correction in coming years … Bret Taylor, co-founder of the artificial intelligence startup Sierra, said Thursday that AI “probably” is a bubble that is causing both “smart money” and “dumb money” to fund competitors at every layer of the tech stack.
Popular Information:
DOGE staffer signed deal to share Social Security data with election deniers  —  After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that staffers affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) misused Social Security Administration (SSA) data.
Kelsey Ables / Washington Post:
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.
Paul Krugman:
Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald  —  On Tuesday Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister, gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  In effect he announced, calmly and lucidly, that Canada is filing for divorce from the Pax Americana:
Associated Press:
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says  —  A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday.  Bondi announced the arrest …
Meera Navlakha / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Proof Trump, 79, Has Reached ‘Dementia Con 5’  —  ‘BUCKLE IN, FOLKS!’  —  The president's confusion between Greenland and Iceland is another sign that his cognitive abilities are declining, says the late-night host.  —  Jimmy Kimmel says Donald Trump has reached …
Wall Street Journal:
Qatari-Donated Air Force One Is Expected to Begin Flying Trump This Summer  —  Delivery means plane could be part of nation's 250th birthday festivities planned for July  —  The Qatari-donated plane being overhauled to become a new Air Force One jet is on track to be delivered to President Trump …
ProPublica:
How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Reporting Highlights  — No Prison: Billionaire fugitive Roger …
Emily Peck / Axios:
The rich are powering spending, with the U.S. economy in a danger zone  —  The health of the economy increasingly depends on rich people spending money, a new analysis of government data finds. … It's a divergence that maps out like the two prongs of the letter K.
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
Washington Post:
White House fences off park as Trump begins new building project  —  The work at Lafayette Square is expected to stretch through May, a White House official said.  —  President Donald Trump's quest to remake the nation's capital has found its next target: Lafayette Square …
Ann Coulter / The American Conservative:
Relive The Civil Rights Era.  Send in The Troops  —  Relive The Civil Rights Era.  Send in The Troops  —  Tim Walz and other Democratic governors don't have the right to ignore federal immigration law.  —  In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day this week, every liberal made the totally original point …
 
 
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Top federal prosecutors ‘crushed’ by Epstein files workload
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Punchbowl News:
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Discussion: Fox News
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Kelly Hooper / Politico:
Insurers point to providers, drugmakers for driving up health costs
Discussion: Axios
Yonat Shimron / RNS:
US rabbis head to Minneapolis to join protests to counter ICE raids
Sam Corbishley / Metro.co.uk:
Barron Trump 'saved woman's life by calling UK cops when she Facetimed him mid-attack'
Steven Rosenbaum / CBS News:
Former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales acquitted of all charges over his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Government From Reviewing Seized Washington Post Devices
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Jeffries Won't Whip Vote Against ICE Funding
 

 
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