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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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:

Klobuchar files paperwork needed to run for governor in Minnesota … Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar filed paperwork with the state's campaign finance board on Thursday, ahead of a potential gubernatorial bid.  —  A person close to the Democratic senator, granted anonymity to describe private conversations …

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.

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 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 …

Newsom, Wiener and POLITICO's new firepower in LA  —  PERSONNEL NEWS — Daniel Miller is joining POLITICO as our first reporter dedicated to covering the intersection of Hollywood, technology, sports, media and politics in California.  —  Daniel is uniquely suited for this role.

Tennis star shuts down reporter for political question: 'I don't think that's relevant'  —  Tennis player Amanda Anisimova dismissed a question about “how it feels to play under the American flag right now,” saying it was irrelevant.  —  Anisimova, 24, took questions from reporters …

ICE Agents Are ‘Doxing’ Themselves  —  The alleged risks of being publicly identified have not stopped DHS and ICE employees from creating profiles on LinkedIn, even as Kristi Noem threatens to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime.  —  Last week, a website called ICE List went viral …