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2:25 PM ET, January 31, 2026

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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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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.”
Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Here's What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents  —  Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled that this would be the last major release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.  —  The Department of Justice on Friday released the largest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files to date …
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
Lutnick Sought Visit to Epstein's Island, DOJ Files Indicate
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
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.
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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 … In an indictment unsealed Friday, a grand jury in Minneapolis approved charges accusing Lemon and eight others of conspiring to deprive congregants at a church of their civil rights and violating the Freedom of Access …
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.
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: MPR News
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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 …
Discussion: The Japan Times
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
NBC News:
Senate passes bill to resolve shutdown clash, punting on DHS for two weeks
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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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 …
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  —  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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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 and Twin Cities
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Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Reason
Owen Gleiberman / Variety:
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner's First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia  —  There's no drama to a film that should have been called “Day of the Living Tradwife.”  —  “Melania” is a documentary that never comes to life.  It's a “portrait” …
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Frank Scheck / The Hollywood Reporter:
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner's Melania Trump Documentary Is an Unabashed, Fly-on-the-Gilded-Wall Fawn Job
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
The Midterm Elections Need You.  Here's How to Help.  —  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.  It can undermine faith in our reliable …
Discussion: Wisconsin Examiner
 
 
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David Smith / The Guardian:
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Trump's New Method of Humiliation
Discussion: Politico
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Draft Epstein Indictment Accused Him of Crimes Against More Than a Dozen Girls
Discussion: The Guardian
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