Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud  —  The director of national intelligence is leading an administration-wide effort to hunt for proof of tampering in the election that Trump lost  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating …

Trump nominates Kevin Warsh for Federal Reserve chair to succeed Jerome Powell  —  President Donald Trump on Friday named Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair, ending a five-month odyssey that has seen unprecedented turmoil around the central bank.

Trump says he and Democrats are ‘getting close’ to a deal to resolve shutdown fight  —  The agreement includes advancing five spending bills and funding the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks as lawmakers negotiate changes to DHS and ICE.  — Add NBC News to Google

Trump Sues IRS, Treasury for $10 Billion for Tax-Return Leak  —  President Donald Trump sued the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service for at least $10 billion over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office, potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are  —  Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.  —  On the morning of Jan. 10 …

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest  —  The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.  —  The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night …

Trump Weighs New Military Options Against Iran  —  The plans being weighed by the president go beyond those he considered weeks ago amid widespread protests against Iran's government.  —  President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options …

Pizza Cutter and a Fork: A Bizarre Bid to Break Mangione Out of Jail  —  Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail complex in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione was being held.  —  A man was arrested on Wednesday evening …

Scoop: Trump expects Panama Canal court win for “Donroe Doctrine”  —  The White House expects Panama's Supreme Court on Thursday to cancel a crucial Panama Canal ports contract operated by a firm with ties to China's government, two sources tell Axios.

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler  —  Just before being put on board her deportation flight, Melissa Tran's wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist.  It had been more than 10 hours since she'd been given any food or water; for the last seven she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac.

'I don't have words': 2 more kids from Liam Ramos' Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody  —  {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"Two more Minnesota children — a second grader and a fifth grader — were taken into custody with their mother on Thursday …

Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving  —  A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee was charged with drunken driving in St. Paul after a state trooper found him passed out in a car Tuesday morning “covered in vomit.”

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth  —  The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved.  —  The College approached a student to promote Evergreen.AI — the College's wellness artificial intelligence project …

Did Trump Really Give Nicki Minaj a $1 Million ‘Gold Card’ Visa?  —  “Gold Trump card free of charge,” the rapper wrote on social media.  But the White House says it's not what it seems.  —  After a joint appearance with President Trump this week, the rapper Nicki Minaj flaunted what appeared …

Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans  —  Rising share of Democrats want their party's congressional leaders to stand up to Trump  —  This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about Trump's job performance …

Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom  —  The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.  —  Fewer reporters are being sent to the Super Bowl.  Foreign correspondents are being asked to hold off on trips to conflict zones.

Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America.  Does that break the law?  —  Kari Lake, who oversees the parent agency of the Voice of America, has hit legal and political roadblocks in her drive to dismantle the government-funded broadcaster.  —  She has instead accelerated her use …

Trump Is Making America Stupider  —  “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED,” Donald Trump once declared.  That was back in 2016, during his first presidential campaign.  —  Now, a decade later, he and the rest of the MAGA movement have manifested that love into policy, with a series of changes …

Janet Mills' first TV ad hits ICE … The six-figure buy goes up statewide on Friday and is running across broadcast and digital for the next two weeks. … An ICE surge in Maine, dubbed Operation Catch of the Day by Homeland Security officials, received widespread backlash from Democrats and local leaders …

Ukraine is bracing for brutal weather as Trump says Putin agreed to halt power grid attacks  —  Ukraine awaited signs Friday that Russia is abiding by a commitment that U.S. President Donald Trump said it made to temporarily halt attacks on Ukraine's power grid, as Kyiv and other regions …