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5:45 PM ET, January 31, 2026

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Washington Post:
Judge denies Minnesota's request for immediate end to immigration crackdown  —  Minnesota officials had said the immigration crackdown was endangering public safety in their state.  —  A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge …
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Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:
Judge says she won't halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota as a lawsuit proceeds  —  A federal judge says she won't halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as a lawsuit over it proceeds.  —  Judge Katherine M. Menendez on Saturday denied …
MPR News:
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident  —  {"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"parag raph", “content”:[{"text":"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take  —  Liam Ramos, 5, isn't the only Minneapolis child sitting in a Texas detention center.  Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.  —  COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. - The hallways at Valley View Elementary School used …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos.  His Classmates Have Something to Say.  —  “You are scaring schools, people and the world,” one student at Valley View Elementary, just outside Minneapolis, wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  Exactly a year after President Trump's second inauguration …
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
A Minnesota School District Guards Against ICE, From Dawn to Dusk  —  In Fridley, a Minneapolis suburb, school officials are driving nervous teachers and buying families groceries.  At dismissal, the superintendent patrols for federal agents.  —  In the predawn darkness …
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‘This Is a New Dimension’ … On Friday morning, hours after Don Lemon was apprehended in a Beverly Hills hotel lobby by a team of federal officers, two dozen agents arrived at the Minnesota home of independent journalist Georgia Fort, with a warrant for her arrest.
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Politico:
Don Lemon vows to fight charges in First Amendment showdown with Trump
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Epstein files latest: photos appear to show former prince Andrew crouching over female  —  Elon Musk and former UK ambassador to US Peter Mandelson among those named in newly released documents  —  Epstein wanted Ferguson to release a statement saying he was ‘not a pedo’, documents show
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk expressed interest in visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island, newly released emails show
New York Times:
Release of Three Million Epstein Pages Falls Short, Survivors Say  —  Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, told reporters on Friday that “there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.”
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Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Here's What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents
Associated Press:
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital  —  Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
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Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
Discussion: NPR, NewsMax.com and Reason
Washington Post:
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial  —  The president is eying a plot of land near Memorial Bridge.  The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.  —  The White House stands about 70 feet tall.
Associated Press:
Judge orders US to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota crackdown  —  A judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. to release a 5-year-old boy and his father from a Texas detention center where they were taken after being detained in a Minneapolis suburb last month.
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New York Times:
Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Whose Detention Drew Outrage  —  The treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, pictured wearing a blue winter hat and Spider-Man backpack while in the custody of immigration agents, drew outrage across the country.  —  A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release …
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
New York Times:
Trump Could Interfere With the Midterm Elections.  You Can Help Defend Them.  —  Election integrity in the United States can be a fraught subject.  Merely raising the prospect that a future election might be compromised makes many democracy experts uncomfortable.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans relearn the lesson that shutdowns go poorly for them  —  After last year's 43-day shutdown, GOP senators sought to eliminate as much risk as possible for federal funding.  —  Just two-and-a-half months removed from a painful government shutdown, Republicans have learned a lesson …
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Washington Post:
Democrats want to ‘reimagine’ immigration enforcement. Just don't say ‘abolish ICE.’
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Autocracy in America  —  A year in, the pattern of democratic backsliding under Trump is undeniable.  The rise of authoritarianism feels more like a sprint than a creep.  Whereas other authoritarians eroded institutions and asserted control over the course of years, trying to maintain a sense of normalcy …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:   How steep is Trump's democratic backsliding?
Austin Campbell / The Intercept:
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting.  Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti's Killing  —  Less than 40 minutes after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis, Clayton Kelly was thrown face-first onto the sidewalk …
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
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ProPublica:   What We Saw in Minneapolis  —  Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti's killing in Minneapolis.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker:
Trump's Profiteering Hits $4 Billion  —  In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position.  After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.  —  At the start of Donald Trump's first term, he promised that he and his family …
Wired:
How to Film ICE  —  Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn't guaranteed.  Here's how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.  —  In January 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration …
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE  —  ICE agents can stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented.  Now, residents are weighing their rights and their pride against their own safety.  —  María Pabón Gautier has a new routine when she sends …
 
 
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A US federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work

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