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Senate Democrats and White House Reach Spending Deal

Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, as well as a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they continue negotiating guardrails to rein in immigration agents. ...

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Trump directs team to beef up his public schedule to combat questions about his stamina

Vague descriptions of presidential signing ceremonies, policy meetings and industry executive sit downs — mostly behind closed doors — began peppering President Donald Trump’s public schedule at the end of last year. The additions to the schedule, which is blasted out to the media every night, were no accident. Trump himself had given the directive to beef up the information. Despite near-daily appearances before cameras, some of them stretching for hours, Trump, 79, had become frustrated at a ...

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UK Warns of Pancreatitis, Deaths Tied to Wegovy, Mounjaro

The UK warned some patients have died of severe inflammation of the pancreas linked to obesity and diabetes drugs such as Eli Lilly & Co.'s Mounjaro and Novo Nordisk A/S's Wegovy. Though the worst cases of pancreatitis were rare, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said Thursday doctors and patients should know some incidents had been particularly severe, as it strengthened its warning over taking the drugs. The guidance applies to medicines that mimic the GLP-1 gut horm ...

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ICE ends enhanced immigration operations in Maine, Collins says

January 29, 2026 / 9:00 AM EST Washington — Federal immigration officials have brought an end to enhanced immigration enforcement operations in Maine, Sen. Susan Collins said Thursday. "While the Department of Homeland Security does not confirm law enforcement operations, I can report that Secretary Noem has informed me that ICE has ended its enhanced activities in the State of Maine," Collins, a Republican, wrote on social media. "There are currently no ongoing or planned larg ...

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Women Raise Alarm Inside America's Largest ICE Detention Center

Published Jan 29, 2026 at 05:00 AM EST updated Jan 29, 2026 at 06:42 AM EST A group of women detained in a sprawling immigration detention facility in West Texas, have told Newsweek of unsanitary, overcrowded and restrictive conditions inside a tent complex with no natural light, limited medical care, and frequent confrontations with guards. Three women detained at Camp East Montana, along with another who was recently deported from the site, gave accounts—via audio recordings and handwritte ...

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'Our cities are no longer safe': GOP mayors condemn Trump immigration enforcement

(Politico) A number of Republican mayors are condemning the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota, as they call on the president to pull back from Minneapolis and worry their cities might be next. “It’s roiling the country,” Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt told Politico. “We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”

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FBI's Search of George Election Center is "Dangerous," Experts Warn

(ProPublica) When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections and a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms, several legal experts said. At a press conference, Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts said that the ballots had been “safe” in the county’s custody and defended its handling of the election as fair and accurate. But now that the ballots had been seized, he said, the county “can no longer satisfy ... that those ballots are still secure.”

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Pam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos

(New Republic) Attorney General Pam Bondi has started sharing the names and photographs of protesters arrested in Minneapolis—in violation of Department of Justice rules. Bondi took to X Wednesday to share the names and photographs of 16 protesters who had been arrested for allegedly assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal law enforcement agents. “We expect more arrests to come,” she warned. DOJ policy expressly prohibits releasing mug shots of defendants charged with federal crimes, unless releasing their photo would serve a “legitimate law enforcement function.”

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Trump's Cyber Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files To ChatGPT

(Mediaite) President Donald Trump’s interim chief of cybersecurity uploaded sensitive documents to a public version of ChatGPT, setting off multiple security alerts and triggering an internal review at the Department of Homeland Security. ChatGPT was blocked for all DHS employees when Madhu Gottumukkala, the Acting Director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, joined the agency in May of last year. That meant that Gottumukkala had to request special access to the artificial intelligence platform from CISA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, which he did shortly after his arrival, Politico reported on Tuesday.

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Trump sues IRS and US treasury for $10bn over leak of tax returns

1 hr ago - Donald Trump on Thursday sued the US treasury department and Internal Revenue Service for $10bn over the disclosure of his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020. In a complaint filed in Miami federal court, Trump, his adult sons, and his namesake ... (The Guardian/US)

Trump threatens tariffs on any country selling oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico

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Trump, two sons, Trump Org sue IRS, Treasury for $10 billion over tax records leak

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Ninth Circuit revives challenge to Idaho library book censorship law

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FT: Europe mobilizes intelligence agencies to fill gap left by Washington's retreat

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Some Americans are carrying their passports in Minnesota: "The reality of Minneapolis right now"

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Senate Democrats and White House Reach Spending Deal

6 hrs ago - Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, as well as a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Secur ... (The New York Times)

Judge rules Bank of America must face lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein ties

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Walz says Trump compared Minneapolis surge to Venezuela mission

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Senate Democrats demand testimony from Noem after Minneapolis shootings

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