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New York Times:
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor's Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers — Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.
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 …
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Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Won't Stop Federal Immigration Enforcement Surge in Minnesota
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CNBC, The Hill, BusinessDay, Scripps News and masslive.com
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Times and The Japan Times
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
A Minnesota School District Guards Against ICE, From Dawn to Dusk
A Minnesota School District Guards Against ICE, From Dawn to Dusk
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The Portland Press Herald, Chalkbeat, KUSA-TV and ProPublica
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 …
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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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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents …
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents …
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The Hill, HuffPost, Associated Press, The Forward and The American Conservative
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
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Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Epstein file photos appear to show Andrew crouched over female on floor
Epstein file photos appear to show Andrew crouched over female on floor
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Metro.co.uk, Vanity Fair, Daily Mail, The Independent and New York Times
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
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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.
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The Guardian, RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Independent, Raw Story and Althouse
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 …
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.
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Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
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NPR, NewsMax.com and Reason
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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Bloomberg, Fox News, Business Insider and 77 WABC
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Senate Passes Government Funding As Talks Over ICE Continue
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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 …
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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
How steep is Trump's democratic backsliding?
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.
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Raw Story
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Zeteo:
Trump's Plot to Rig the Midterms Has Kicked Off in Georgia
Trump's Plot to Rig the Midterms Has Kicked Off in Georgia
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The Independent, UPI, The Hill, MS NOW and Grabien
Austin Campbell / The Intercept:
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti's Killing — A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti's death. — LESS THAN 40 MINUTES after federal immigration agents shot …
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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 …
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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 …
