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I will say that, it should be no surprise to many in this room, that or anybody watching that election integrity is extraordinarily important to this administration always has been and always will be. Blanche continued, And so, the fact that President Trump and this administration are investigating to make sure that well, are investigating issues around elections to make sure that we do have completely fair and appropriate elections should not be surprising, but I can't comment on any criminal investigations.

In a column for National Review, McCarthy reminded readers of a point he has previously made: Assuming there is an indictment, whether now or in the near future, if Lemon is going to have to try to get the case thrown out on a pretrial motion to dismiss; the First Amendment does not protect a journalist from being charged with a crime; it may protect him from being convicted.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted the new video of Alex Pretti kicking an ICE vehicle will not change the way his death is being investigated. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot and killed by federal agents last Saturday. At the time of the altercation, Pretti was legally carrying a handgun in his holster. When agents wrestled him to the ground, one of them appeared to remove the firearm from Pretti's holster. Moments later, at least one agent opened fire on the presumably-unarmed Pretti.

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents. "This is a city where there's a police force of about six hundred officers [compared] to three thousand federal agents," Witt points out. Cramer shares her interview with Mayor Jacob Frey, who talks about how Minneapolis was just beginning to recover from the trauma of George Floyd's murder and its aftermath,

President Trump's firing of IGs and removal of acting IGs, and then the subsequent appointment of some very political folks as IGs ... does raise the specter of a politicized inspector general community," one of those fired watchdogs, Mark Lee Greenblatt, told Nextgov/FCW.

What I observed was not simply a difficult fire under extreme conditions, Butler said. It was the predictable outcome of a breakdown in leadership, preparedness and command discipline. Firefighters were forced to improvise without adequate resources, unified command or consistent safety oversight. This was not a failure of effort by firefighters. It was a failure of leadership above them.

Donald Trump is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.' He's loco! He is insane or senile and has a very weird fixation even though the courts proved he lost in 2020, even though it was thoroughly investigated, this guy wants to rewrite history, He is now surrounded by all these sycophants who are incapable of pushing back and telling him he is crazy. He is like the emperor with no clothes!

Last month, a 20-year-old Guatemalan man who came to the United States when he was 2 years old was detained at a gas station by heavily armed men in black military-style uniforms, sent to Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, and eventually ended up on a deportation flight back to Guatemala, according to a sworn declaration filed this week in San Diego federal court.

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: In the cabinet room today, the president, whose policies and decisions led to the murder in the streets of Minneapolis, hallucinated about phone conversations that never happened with leaders of foreign countries in which he told them that they will have to increase the price of prescription drugs in their countries so that the price of prescription drugs in the United States can come down. That formulation is obviously insane on its face.

Donald Trump talks with reporters as he attends a screening of the documentary film Melania at the Kennedy Center on January 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum / Getty Images President Donald Trump has sued the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns during his first term in the White House, when the president broke with decades of tradition by refusing to voluntarily divulge the records.

Whaddya think about Newscum? It's pretty good, isn't it? the California governor recalled Trump asking him, referring to the nickname the president had coined. Newsom said he replied: Well, it's not really original. There was literally a guy in seventh grade on Baltimore Street who used to call me that. The tete-a-tete offers a window into the idiosyncratic relationship between Newsom and Trump.

Shares of Canadian aeroplane maker Bombardier have plunged after United States President Donald Trump threatened to decertify the private jet maker's large-cabin planes and all Aircraft made in Canada, and slap 50 percent import tariffs on new planes until Canada certified the latest aircraft produced by US rival Gulfstream. The aeroplane maker's stock was down 9 percent Friday morning on the heels of Trump's late Thursday threats.

[translated] In this law is President Nicolás Maduro's vision for the future, because there are those who think we pulled this law out of nowhere. No, we had already studied this law, its reform, together with President Maduro. I feel moved to be able to tell him from Caracas, his birthplace: President Maduro, we are delivering for you. We are delivering for the first combatant Cilia Flores. And we are delivering for the people of Venezuela.

"She was such a force of nature in her enthusiasm for making our city, county and the whole Bay Area a better place." One of many comments shared about Roma Dawson, a dynamic activist who succumbed to cancer last December. Many knew Roma as a longtime dedicated League of Women Voters and community member for San Jose and the Bay Area.