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 …

“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.

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.

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.

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest  —  Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration  —  The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested …

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 …

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.

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.

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:

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 …

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 …

Murder Rate Drops to Lowest Level Since at Least 1900, New Report Says  —  A decline in homicides across the country was a stunning reversal after crime rose during the pandemic.  —  Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record …

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 …

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 …

Our Narcissist in Chief Has Exceeded Putin's Wildest Dreams  —  Russia could not have imagined Trump would damage the US this badly.  —  ∙ Paid  —  As someone disinclined to conspiracy theories, I've never believed Donald Trump is a Russian agent.  Vladimir Putin wouldn't issue orders this cartoonishly stupid anyway.

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 …

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.

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 …