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This page is an archive of main headlines from the US for 31.01.2026.
It displays 166 headlines from many sources chronologically, as they appeared throughout the day, accompanied by AI overviews that were written in real time.
31.01.2026 ⇢ The Day of the Liam Ramos Release
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Morning coverage focused on the onset of a partial government shutdown as a Senate-passed funding deal stalled in the House. Concurrently, editors across the political spectrum prioritized the Justice Department’s release of three million pages of Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, with outlets mining the cache for links to high-profile political and social figures. By afternoon, editorial attention shifted to a federal judge’s refusal to block 'Operation Metro Surge' in Minnesota, affirming federal authority over state sovereignty claims. This judicial victory for the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement was quickly complicated by another ruling later in the evening. In a high-priority development, a federal judge ordered the immediate release of five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from ICE detention, prompting sharp headlines regarding judicial rebukes of federal tactics. The day concluded with President Trump announcing that federal authorities would cease responding to protests in Democrat-led cities unless specifically requested by local leadership, framing the move as a retreat from urban unrest.
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The Senate passed a deal on a package of spending bills late Friday, sending it to the House, though funding for dozens of government agencies has still lapsed.
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Despite the Senate’s passage of a bill to fund the government on Jan. 30, the House won’t return to vote on the measure until Monday.
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The Washington Post
The House is expected to take up a measure Monday to reopen agencies. Congress still has a fight ahead over new restrictions on immigration enforcement.
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The House plans to vote when it returns Monday, leaving the government closed, but with little expected impact if it remains brief.
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The Justice Department has released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures about what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
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One America News
Left-wing independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon was reportedly arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, California, following his involvement in a disruptive church service protest in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to his lawyer.
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Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security.
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The New York Times
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.
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The New York Times
Since President Trump made threats about Greenland, the continent’s leaders have debated the rapid deterioration of U.S. ties in policy papers and at dinner.
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01:47⇢The Midnight Silence of Government
⌨Mainstream editors are fixated on the partial federal shutdown that began at midnight, noting the House's refusal to vote on the Senate's funding package until Monday (ABC News, CBS, MSNBC, Washington Post, Fox News, NBC News). Simultaneously, outlets are digging through three million pages of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, highlighting links to President Trump, Prince Andrew, and former Obama officials (AP News, NY Post, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, CNN).
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New York Post
Casey Wasserman, the 51-year-old CEO of Wasserman Media Group, traded a flurry of risqué messages with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003 — just two years into his marriage with then-wife Laura Ziffren
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Associated Press
The Justice Department has released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures about what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with rich and powerful people such as Donald Trump and Bill Cl
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The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.
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As U.S. allies tilt towards China, they may get less than they hope for and strain ties with Trump even further.
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The Washington Post
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.
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The Epoch Times
The May 2025 order directed officials to enforce policies on voting and voter registration. The judge said the president lacks the authority to do that.
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The more than 40 millions recipients of the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S. will be subject to stricter requirements come Feb. 1.
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The majority of the federal government will shut down at midnight after the Senate insisted on amending a House-passed spending bil painstakingly negotiated over months with Democrats.
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The DOJ on Friday published a massive cache of millions of documents related to the late convicted sex offender.
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In no particular order, here are 10 great Justice Alito quotes to commemorate his 20 years on the Supreme Court.
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A MAGA diehard on ICE in Minneapolis, the Epstein files, and what Trump must do before the midterms.
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Spanish political leaders know that the economy relies on undocumented migrants and their labor. Rather than step up expulsions, Pedro Sánchez’s government has announced plans to regularize over 500,000 migrants’ status.
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The new footage of Pretti clashing with ICE is real — and irrelevant.
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09:04⇢Three Million Paper Ghosts
⌨The editorial landscape is split between the legal and personal fallout of the massive Epstein document release and the immediate consequences of the federal government shutdown. Mainstream and left-leaning outlets examine the three million pages for ties to the Trump administration and Casey Wasserman (AP News, NY Post, Newsmax, The Daily Beast, Newsweek). Simultaneously, editors track the legislative paralysis in D.C. as the Senate’s partial funding deal awaits House action (ABC News, CBS, MSNBC, Breitbart, The Hill).
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Trump's Tariff War Is Crushing American Alcohol Makers
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Much below normal temperatures should persist across the eastern U.S. into early February before moderating slightly.
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“The Invisible Coup” author Peter Schweizer is stepping into the ring of the Breitbart Fight Club for an exclusive online members-only interactive roundtable event on February 5.
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The Washington Post
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The Atlantic
The president doesn’t seem to fire people anymore, but he marginalizes them in other ways.
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The May 2025 order directed officials to enforce policies on voting and voter registration. The judge said the president lacks the authority to do that.
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An explosion rocked Iran Saturday, although the cause of the blast has not been announced, state media reported.
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Associated Press
A huge new tranche of files on millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is revealing details of his communications with the wealthy and powerful, some not long before he died by suicide in 2019.
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The Daily Beast
Trump, ever a maximalist, chose the largest mockup of his arch to build for America’s 250th birthday.
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A recent history of guns and empire argues that early modern Europe marked the origins of a uniquely murderous era. But the world it describes is not so different from our own and making sense of its horrors requires judgment, not just arithmetic.
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A huge new tranche of files on millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is revealing details of his communications with the wealthy and powerful, some not long before he died by suicide in 2019.
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Associated Press
President Donald Trump acted quickly to negotiate with Democratic senators on a deal to avert a government shutdown.
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One America News
Border Czar Tom Homan announced that 145,000 unaccompanied, undocumented children have been located out of more than 300,000 that were allowed into the United States by the Biden administration.
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Funding for many federal agencies expired on Saturday after Congress failed to pass half a dozen spending bills before the deadline, prompting a partial government shutdown.
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Democratic socialist David Orkin is running for New York State Assembly in Queens, aiming to further bolster the left-wing stronghold and unseat a key ally of former mayor Eric Adams. Jacobin spoke to Orkin about his campaign.
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"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.
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11:10⇢Fiscal Truce and the Immigrant Hunt
⌨Editorial priorities have shifted toward the federal government's fiscal stability as editors highlight President Trump's rapid funding deal with Senate Democrats to avert a shutdown (AP News, Daily Caller, Washington Times). Simultaneously, the aggressive expansion of immigration enforcement remains a flashpoint, with reports on ICE's search for minors and leaked memos detailing warrantless arrest powers (HuffPost, Common Dreams, One America News Network, The Daily Wire).
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Khamenei had gone into hiding last week over fears US airstrikes were imminent, after President Trump boasted the US Navy was sending a massive “armada.”
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Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge are planned in Florida, Vermont, Kentucky and other states this weekend.
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Khamenei had gone into hiding last week over fears US airstrikes were imminent, after President Trump boasted the US Navy was sending a massive “armada.”
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The Daily Beast
Trump, ever a maximalist, chose the largest mockup of his arch to build for America’s 250th birthday.
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The New York Times
Local officials had argued that the decision to send some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota amounted to a violation of state sovereignty.
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The coastal cyclone is expected to bring moderate to heavy snow, along with high winds and possible blizzard conditions for the Carolinas on Jan. 31.
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One America News
Multiple violent protesters were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department after officers were forced to issue dispersal orders amid heated protests that erupted throughout the city.
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Plaintiffs argued that the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge violates Minnesota’s state sovereignty and the 10th Amendment of the Constitution.
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The Daily Beast
The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”
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A woman claimed she was sexually assaulted by disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein in Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion – while Jay-Z allegedly looked on, according to a chilling document released by the US Department of Justice.
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Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge are planned in Florida, Vermont, Kentucky and other states this weekend.
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12:59⇢Minnesota’s Sovereignty Plea Denied
⌨US editors are highlighting a federal judge's refusal to block the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, rejecting state arguments regarding sovereignty (The Epoch Times, NYTimes, Fox News, USA Today, Washington Times). Meanwhile, coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein document release has shifted toward specific allegations against high-profile figures and survivor protests over privacy violations by the DOJ (MSNBC, NY Post, The Daily Beast).
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One America News
Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra, convicted of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in 2024, has sought a new trial, prompting a hearing to determine if there were errors during the original proceedings.
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Associated Press
Newly disclosed government files on Jeffrey Epstein are offering more details about his interactions with the rich and famous after he served time for sex crimes in Florida, and on how much investigators knew about his abuse of underage girls when they decided not to indict him on federal charges ne
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On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” “Charlie Kirk Show” Producer Andrew Kolvet talked about Kirk’s lessons. Kolvet said, “The first thing that comes to mind is do not doom and gloom … Charlie would always think about what he can do
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The Daily Beast
Brett Ratner, who was accused of sexual misconduct by six women in 2017, was photographed with the late sex trafficker.
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The Washington Post
House Judiciary Committee Democrats are requesting an “urgent” review of the unredacted Epstein files from the Justice Department to evaluate compliance with federal law — a day after the department released a trove of documents and said it had fully satisfied its obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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The Washington Post
She rejected pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.
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The Washington Post
A federal judge ruled against Minnesota’s emergency request to end the surge of federal immigration enforcement officers into the state, saying the national government has the right to enforce the law.
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Eight inmates escaped from the rural Riverbend Detention Center in Lake Providence, Louisiana, early on Friday morning. A manhunt was immediately launched, led by the Louisiana State Police, labeling all escapees as violent offenders. All eight escapees have been apprehended by police.
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The Washington Post
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Breitbart News
The legacy media are eating crow once more now that Melania has scored the best box office opening for a documentary in a decade.
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15:21⇢Minnesota Sovereignty Plea Fails
⌨US editors are highlighting a federal judge's refusal to block 'Operation Metro Surge' in Minnesota, affirming the executive's right to enforce immigration law despite state sovereignty claims (Washington Post, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, NYTimes, USA Today). Meanwhile, focus has intensified on newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents, with headlines noting links to high-profile figures and protests regarding privacy violations (AP News, NY Post, The Daily Beast, MSNBC).
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An ICE unit from the US Department of Homeland Security is playing a role providing security at the Winter Games. At past Olympics, their involvement would have been unremarkable. But after the violence in Minneapolis, many Italians protesting in Milan say ICE agents are no longer welcome.
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New York Post
The music superstar can be heard discussing his innermost feelings on infatuation with kids – even controlling his mental welfare.
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PLUS: COURT LETS FEDERAL SURGE CONTINUE
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order to increase oversight of federal immigration enforcement and potentially prosecute agents who break the law while conducting operations in the city.
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The Daily Caller
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The Washington Post
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the government to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Ramos, from ICE custody, saying their detention offended the principles of America enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
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Officials have urged residents to treat the outages, intended to prevent attacks by Ukrainian drones, as an opportunity for a “digital detox.”
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the first-ever professional motor race, called the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, to start in Washington, D.C., as part of celebrations marking America’s 250th birthday.
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President Donald Trump said he has directed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to keep the federal government from intervening in protests or riots in Democrat-led cities unless local officials request help, while ordering a strong federal response to protect federal property. In a post to TruthSocial, Trump said the administration “under no circumstances” would participate in handling unrest in “poorly run Democrat Cities” unless state or local governments ask for assistance.
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A federal judge ordered that Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old detained at his home in Minnesota, and his father be released from a Texas ICE facility.
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The Daily Beast
Dozens of emails between Attia and Epstein outline the pair’s friendship.
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The Epoch Times
This intense winter weather comes as communities along the East Coast are still digging out from under a layer of snow and ice from the week prior.
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One America News
A federal Minnesota judge denied a request from state and local authorities to temporarily halt the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation, Operation Metro Surge, allowing it to continue.
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Associated Press
Newly disclosed government files on Jeffrey Epstein show authorities thought they were close to indicting the wealthy financier on sex crimes nearly two decades ago, before that investigation was suddenly scrapped.
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The Daily Beast
Dozens of emails between Attia and Epstein outline the pair’s friendship.
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17:48⇢Young Liam Ramos Walks Free
⌨U.S. editors are prioritizing the court-ordered release of five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from ICE custody, with several outlets highlighting the judge's sharp criticism of federal detention (ABC News, MSNBC, HuffPost, CNN, Mother Jones, Washington Times). Concurrently, judicial rulings have upheld the federal immigration surge in Minnesota despite state opposition, intensifying a jurisdictional standoff (One America News Network, NYTimes, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Hill).
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The federal government is shutting down for the second time in six months after Congress failed to pass certain funding bills by the January 30th deadline — but only partially, this time.
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Federal immigration agents used Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, “as bait” during an arrest in a Minneapolis-area suburb on January 22.
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One America News
President Donald Trump stated that he directed the Department of Homeland Security not to send federal support to “poorly run” liberal cities struggling with rampant riots and protests, unless they specifically ask for help.
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One America News
President Donald Trump stated that he directed the Department of Homeland Security not to send federal support to “poorly run” liberal cities struggling with rampant riots and protests, unless they specifically ask for help.
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Associated Press
Newly released files on Jeffrey Epstein have prompted the resignation of a top official in Slovakia and revived calls in Britain for a former prince to cooperate with authorities.
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The Daily Caller
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Trump says cities must say “please” for federal help with protests as nationwide strikes oppose immigration enforcement.
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The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.
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The New York Times
Local officials had sought a preliminary injunction to stop the federal deployment of some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota.
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The "coastal cyclone" will intensify overnight, the NWS said, with moderate to heavy snow and high winds expected in the Carolinas.
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New York Post
A crack-smoking, sexual predator migrant wanted by ICE was allowed to flee through a back door of a Manhattan courthouse — infuriating federal agents who said the incident was one of at least three recent cases of obstruction, The Post has learned.
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The Epoch Times
The president’s instruction comes after federal authorities shot and killed two protesters during recent immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
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The Washington Post
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21:28⇢Trump Demands Liberal Cities Plead
⌨Editors are currently focused on the precarious negotiations to end the government shutdown, as President Trump engages in a high-stakes dialogue with Senator Schumer while liberal House Democrats threaten to block the deal (NYTimes, Fox News, ABC News). Simultaneously, Trump is marginalizing 'liberal cities' by demanding they formally request federal assistance to manage immigration-related protests and riots (One America News Network, Newsweek, Newsmax, Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times).
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The Daily Beast
Dramatic footage captured the moment a driver was boxed in by armed ICE agents.
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The memo suggests the rules are designed to give ICE greater flexibility to quickly arrest unauthorized immigrants who are not the original targets of an operation.
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Trump said "under no circumstances" should Homeland Security get involved unless federal help is sought or federal property is threatened.
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The president's dip in popularity is coming almost exclusively from discontent among Republicans, where there is a noticeable decline in support
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Costco's Kirkland Nike SB Dunks are reselling on several third-party websites following a quiet Jan. 30 release. Here's how much they're going for.
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A federal judge denied Minnesota's bid to temporarily block the immigration crackdown while acknowledging evidence of widespread disruption to daily life.
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The New York Times
The president and Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, agreed to try to keep the government open and start talks on limits for ICE.
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The Epoch Times
The president’s instruction comes after federal authorities shot and killed two protesters during recent immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.
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The New York Times
Materials released by the Justice Department revealed that leading business and political figures had enduring relationships with Jeffrey Epstein.
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