‘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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.”

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 …

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 …

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:

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Why Democrats Abandoned the Clintons Over Jeffrey Epstein  —  Democratic lawmakers don't want Republicans to turn Epstein files into political weapon against them  —  Democrats attempted to turn the page on the Clinton era Wednesday, delivering a stunning rebuke of the power couple that dominated their party for more than two decades.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.