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3:50 PM ET, January 28, 2026

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Frightened  —  The media verdict is in: President Trump has “softened” his stance on his paramilitary war on Minneapolis.  He struck a “cooperative tone” in a call with Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz.  The administration hopes to “shift its strategy” on its ICE raids.
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New York Times:
Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis  —  President Trump often blusters his way through a crisis, refusing to back down.  Minneapolis tested the limits of that strategy.  —  The crisis in Minneapolis was not dying down.
Discussion: BusinessDay, The Hill and DCReport.org
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
ICE's No. 1 Ally  —  The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.  —  On Saturday, the same day that federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street …
Discussion: The Indian Express
Popular Information:
How legacy media fell for Trump's fake “pivot” in Minnesota
New York Times:   Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents …
Discussion: MPR News
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Why, for Too Many, Alex Pretti's Murder Counted More
American Prospect:   Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE
Martin Holmes / Yahoo Entertainment:
‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom  —  After CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she and her team would put a “huge emphasis on scoops,” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil responded by... interviewing his own mother.
Jana Winter / Reuters:
FBI executing search warrant at Georgia election office related to 2020 vote, law enforcement official says  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Fox News:
FBI agents search election hub in Fulton County, Georgia  —  FIRST ON FOX: FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020.
Politico:
European leader spoke of shock at Trump's state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting  —  BRUSSELS ― Slovakia's prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president's state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
Discussion: Daily Mail and New Republic
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ally Shocked at President's ‘Psychological State’ in Private Meeting
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump's Response to Ilhan Omar Attack Is as Ugly as It Gets  —  President Trump used the Tuesday night spray attack against Representative Ilhan Omar to further berate the congresswoman—accusing her of spraying herself, although video of the incident clearly shows the contrary.  —  “No. I don't think about her.
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New York Post:
Alleged Ilhan Omar attacker hinted at town hall plans in cryptic texts to neighbor: ‘I might get arrested’  —  The maniac who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a mystery liquid at a Minnesota town hall meeting had hinted in a cryptic text to a neighbor that he “might get arrested” at the event.
Associated Press:
Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis town hall
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy.  It's Not the One You Think.  —  Whether or not money is the root of all evil, the root of our current American oligarchy is a single Supreme Court case.  That Supreme Court decision, Buckley v. Valeo, happens to turn 50 years old this week.
Discussion: Reason
Max Kim / New York Times:
Miller Suggests Federal Agents May Have Diverted From ‘Protocol’ Before Pretti Shooting  —  The comments by Mr. Miller, the influential White House deputy chief of staff, came after days of blaming Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by federal agents.  —  Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
The investigation is the coverup  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️
Discussion: The Guardian
NBC News:
Questions swirl around federal government's plan to investigate DHS shootings
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed holds key interest rate steady as economic view improves  —  The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to take a break from a recent run of interest rate cuts, as the central bank navigates questions about its independence and awaits a new leader.  —  Meeting market expectations …
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Next ‘No Kings’ march on the horizon with flagship event in the Twin Cities  —  The liberal grassroots group Indivisible simultaneously announced nationwide “Eye on ICE” trainings in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
Discussion: Mother Jones and Fox News
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Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Threatens Iran Invasion In Post, Says Armada Is On Its Way  —  Trump demanded Iran make a deal to halt nuclear weapons development or face imminent attack  —  Donald Trump once again threatened Iran in a post on Truth Social Wednesday morning, stating that the carrier group for the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was on its way to Iran.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: 2 Federal Agents Who Shot Minneapolis Man Are Placed on Leave  —  The move was disclosed by an administration official as more Republican leaders broke with the White House's handling of the shooting.  U.S. Capitol Police were also investigating an attack on Representative Ilhan Omar.
Reuters:
Ecuador says ICE agent was blocked from entering its Minneapolis consulate  —  The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said it had issued “a note of protest” to the U.S. embassy in Ecuador.  —  Listen to this article with a free account  —  Ecuador's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says an Immigration …
Adam Wren / Politico:
New polling memo urges Senate Dems to ‘play hardball’ on ICE … The memo was written by Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) and top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), for his organization the Searchlight Institute …
Discussion: Townhall
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Body cameras, warrants top list of Democrats' ICE demands  —  Senate Democrats are demanding that federal agents be barred from donning masks and that they wear body cameras as part of sweeping changes to DHS that also include a ban on roving patrols and tighter use of warrants.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dems Can Tame ICE
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
US state lawmakers push to allow lawsuits against ICE agents  —  Several Democratic-led states are pursuing laws trying to enable people to sue federal agents deployed to their communities for civil rights abuses, a push that has gained steam amid protests over tactics used …
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:   Five Constitutional Amendments Trump Is Ignoring in Minnesota
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL  —  In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and extremist inputs and measured how each responded. … Across six top large language models …
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
In Minneapolis, far-right influencers frame ICE resistance as terrorism  —  Over the weekend on X, conservative influencer Cameron Higby began posting screen recordings from the encrypted messaging app Signal showing a list of hundreds of usernames in one massive group chat in Minnesota.
Washington Post:
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’  —  The editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.  —  Bari Weiss has two jobs.
Kent Nishimura / The Times:
Trump hangs picture of himself with Putin in White House  —  After months of tension the Russian leader has taken pride of place above a photo of the US president and his granddaughter  —  President Trump's on-off relationship with President Putin is so volatile that he has veered from describing …
Discussion: The Hill and The Independent
John Sexton / HotAir:
2030 Census Predictions Look Good for GOP  —  At this point we've all heard about the battle for midterm redistricting taking place in Texas, California and several other states.  The outcome of that battle won't be known until November but already some experts are looking ahead at the next census …
NOTUS:
Kristi Noem Is Holding Up More Than $1 Billion in Hazard Mitigation Funds  —  Somewhere in the pile of projects awaiting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's personal signature sits a plan to protect the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, from devastating wildfire.
Discussion: Raw Story
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules  —  The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR.
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Inside the Washington Post's existential meltdown.  —  It's been another terrible week for the Washington Post.  The newsroom is bracing for a devastating round of layoffs with rumors flying that some desks may be shuttered entirely.  Sportswriters were stunned to learn they would no longer …
 
 
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