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1:35 PM ET, January 22, 2026

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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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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump  —  One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds.  —  When President Trump took office for his second term one year ago, he was — at least compared with his usual polling — relatively popular.
Discussion: New Republic, Mediaite and Raw Story
The Bulwark:
Old Europe.  New Backbone.  —  A lesson in standing up to bullies from across the pond.  —  The bad polls just keep coming for Your Favorite President.  The latest New York Times/Siena poll finds that only 32 percent of Americans believe the country is better off than a year ago, compared to 49 percent who believe it's worse off.
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
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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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials  —  Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas  —  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday …
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
ICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old  —  Columbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.”  A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
Kimberlee Speakman / People:
ICE Detains 5-Year-Old Boy and His Father Returning Home from Preschool, then Uses Boy ‘as Bait’ to Find Relatives
Discussion: KARE-TV
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 …
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments
NBC News:
FBI and Homeland Security arrest two protesters who disrupted Minneapolis church service  —  Several organizers of the protest were calling for the resignation of a church pastor who they said works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  Federal agents with Homeland Security and the F.B …
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Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
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 …
Associated Press:
A woman who led a protest at a Minnesota church service has been arrested, Bondi says
Orin S. Kerr / Reason:
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
CNBC:
Trump sues Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase over alleged ‘political’ debanking … President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday for closing his and related entities' accounts in early 2021 after decades of being customers of the bank, allegedly for political reasons.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
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 …
Discussion: Doomsday Scenario and Raw Story
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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.
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Trump says rare earths are part of his Greenland deal.  It's ‘completely bonkers’  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he reached a framework for a deal with NATO over the future of Greenland that will include rights to rare-earth minerals.  —  “They're going to be involved in mineral rights …
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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:
New York Times:
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 …
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.
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.
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Trump budget office orders review of funds to Democratic-controlled states  —  President Donald Trump said his administration would cut off federal resources to “sanctuary cities” on Feb. 1.  —  The Trump administration has ordered Cabinet agencies to review federal funding for a group …
Discussion: CNN
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:
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.
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Former Iowa superintendent expected to plead guilty to false citizenship claim  —  Former Des Moines, Iowa, schools Superintendent Ian Roberts is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to charges he made false citizenship claims in employment and illegally possessed firearms.
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.
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 …
Politico:
After Alina Habba's exit, more drama in New Jersey prosecutor's office … Each of the three do part of the job that Habba was doing, an unusual arrangement known as the “executive office.”  —  None have been confirmed by the Senate.  —  Defense attorneys immediately challenged the setup …
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 …
 
 
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
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Discussion: Fox News and twitchy.com
Erica Orden / Politico:
Top federal prosecutors ‘crushed’ by Epstein files workload
Discussion: The Independent
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