Trump's ICE Goons Detained a 5-Year-Old.  Then JD Vance Made It Worse. … In an administration that sometimes seems to lack a well-defined institutional role for JD Vance, he appears to be taking on a new function: Putting a softer, more reasonable face on Stephen Miller's authoritarian police state.

Fury over Trump's slur against British troops: Kemi Badenoch leads attack on president for ‘flat-out nonsense’ claim that NATO allies ‘stayed off the front line’ in Afghanistan  —  Politicians and military veterans have reacted with outrage after Donald Trump claimed NATO troops …

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students' Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests  —  Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio …

Trump Owned Davos … European leaders worked themselves up into full-blown hysteria before President Trump spoke to the World Economic Forum this week with wild claims that Trump planned a U.S. invasion of Greenland that would destroy the NATO alliance and the rules-based international order.

Minnesota judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests  —  Sources say federal agents aren't providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they're accused.  —  Federal judges in Minnesota have several times in recent weeks rejected arrest warrants …

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’  —  Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations  —  A “no work, no school, no shopping” blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders …

Trump 0, Europe 1  —  Ignorance and contempt lose a round  —  As I wrote yesterday, Donald Trump and his team clearly went to Davos determined to demean and insult their hosts.  It was, one might say, a novel approach to diplomacy: “You're pathetic, your societies and economies are falling apart, now give us Greenland.”

Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE  —  MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department …

Patel ousts senior FBI agents linked to Trump probes, say sources  —  As many as six agents in Miami were forced out over their connection to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.  Special agents in charge in Atlanta and New Orleans were removed, as well as the acting assistant director in charge of the New York field office.

White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying  —  Got a Tip?  The Times offers several ways to send important information confidentially ›  —  Face to Face With History's Most Dangerous Painter  —  Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution …

What if we just stopped paying taxes?  —  In solidarity with the anti-ICE general strike in Minnesota, I am donating all proceeds from today's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, and Every Meal.  If you're not already a paid subscriber but would like to do so and support …

The Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data  —  For much of the last year, staffers who were initially part of the Department of Government Efficiency effort improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data on millions of Americans.

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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional  —  Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person's right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

The People vs. ICE … For limited durations, in isolated contexts, it's a party.  On a Thursday morning the number of protesters outside the brutalist building from which ICE conducts its menace in Minneapolis swells from 25 to at least 100 by early afternoon.  Spirits are high.

These Gen-Z Trump voters don't want JD Vance in 2028 … When the 18- to 24-year-olds were asked who else they would like to see as potential candidates in 2028, they named Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tom Cotton …

First Draft: Elder Abuse of Power  —  Donald Trump decays before our very eyes, Jared Kushner unveils his plan for ‘New Gaza,’ and Democrats vote to fund the president's junta of 4Chan fascists. … Good morning!  Peter here, back in your inboxes with some good news amid all the horrid headlines.

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education  —  It's not just about cuts to research.  It's about power.  —  Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick.  Then the Trump administration canceled her lab's funding.

Breaking the Fourth Amendment  —  Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people's homes without a judicial warrant.  Instead, they believe that an administrative warrant suffices.

Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran  —  Two of the deportees are gay and terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says.  —  The Trump administration plans to deport at least 40 Iranian nationals …

Canadian ex-Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin arrested, NBC News reports  —  Ryan Wedding, a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder suspected of becoming a cocaine smuggling kingpin, has been arrested, NBC News reported on Friday, citing two law enforcement officials familiar with the U.S. investigation.

Fox keeps repeating misleading talking point about ICE arrestees' criminal records  —  Around 7% of ICE arrestees have been convicted of a violent crime, but Fox's coverage falsely suggests the number is much higher  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HARRISON RAY & ISABELLA CORRAO

1/23/26 ☀️ AM: … The race would start at the Supreme Court and cover a full lap around the National Mall, including the Lincoln Memorial.  “Pit Row” would be by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.  Organizers are targeting Aug. 21 for the event.

White House Doctored Photo With Google AI to Make It Look Like an Activist Was Sobbing During Perp Walk  —  The White House used a photo that was digitally altered with Google AI tools in its PR campaign against resistance to the federal agents' assault on Minnesota, according …

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw  —  The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders.  But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn't possible.

Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’  —  Conservative communities accept president's arguments for why the US needs the Arctic island as genuine  —  Owen Strickland's life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics.

Project 2025 director Paul Dans: ‘We are in a full-on scrimmage for the future of America First’  —  Behind its trim green shutters and colonial-style facade, the Monocle Restaurant has for decades played host to the Washington DC elite.  Signed pictures of presidents and senators who have lunched there adorn its walls.

Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds  —  While roughly half of voters support President Trump's handling of the border between the United States and Mexico, a sizable majority says that ICE's tactics have “gone too far.”  —  Roughly half of voters support …

Lewandowski back for another year as DHS's part-time power broker  —  The most powerful man in the Department of Homeland Security, Corey Lewandowski, was supposed to work just 130 days last year because he was classified as a temporary government employee.  — But thanks to creative timekeeping, he was there throughout the year.

India's Sales of Treasuries Deepen Pivot Away From Dollar Assets  —  Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing.  Sign up here.  —  India's holdings of US Treasuries have fallen to a five-year low …

Principle No. 1: “We Work for You.” … That means you come first.  Not our advertisers.  Not politicians.  Not corporate interests, including the corporate owners of CBS News." … Great.  Noble.  Important.  Kinda punk rock! … In the legal, financial, moral, and literal senses?

Consumer sentiment hits highest level in months in sign deep gloom is receding  —  Consumer sentiment increased this month to its highest level since August as households show signs of shaking off the economic dissatisfaction and even outright despair that have gripped the United States in recent months.

How California's political bottleneck is scrambling Democratic careers … “I can't recall this kind of political musical chairs since I started working with Jerry Brown, which was in the fall of 1974,” said former California Gov. Gray Davis, who was chief of staff in Brown's first gubernatorial administration.