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 Administration Prepares to Back Warsh for Fed Chair  —  The Trump administration is preparing for the president to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chair, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  President Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to announce …

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

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 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 …

Trump Repeats Claims Against Alex Pretti, Casting Slain Nurse as ‘Agitator’  —  After videos resurfaced showing a confrontation between Mr. Pretti and federal agents 11 days before officers fatally shot him, President Trump again sought to cast blame on him.

For Some Americans, the End of Obamacare Subsidies Means Falling Off a Financial Cliff  —  Earning just one dollar more could mean a $10,000 increase in insurance premiums.  —  Obamacare's open enrollment period is over, and Americans around the country are facing higher health insurance costs.

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 …

Minneapolis' Hotel Workers Are on Edge  —  There are two things keeping a Minneapolis hotel housekeeper scared this week: the roughly 20 federal immigration agents staying where she works and the threat of pro-immigrant protesters discovering that the agents are there.

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.”

Undaunted  —  Some weeks, I find it impossible to isolate just one heroic or even a few heroic figures in the fight for democracy, truth, and decency.  That is when I know we have reached a transformative moment that engages people from all walks of life and all parts of our constitutional system.

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 …

‘A pretext to rig the election’: Democrats scramble to block ICE crackdowns near polling sites … Senate Democrats considered a requirement banning ICE agents from polling sites as part of their demands in negotiating the Homeland Security funding bill, according to Murphy and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.).

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 …

The protection racket regime  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ❄️ Subscribe to PN ❄️  —  If Minnesotans had any hope that the execution of Alex Pretti would result in a different approach from the Trump administration ... well, they were half-right.

A Farewell Column From David Brooks  —  My grandfather Bernard Levy played a big role in my childhood.  When we weren't exploring New York City together, he was writing letters to the editor to The New York Times from his law firm's office in the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan …

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.

'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 …