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‘We’re going to disrupt this country’: Pardoned anti-abortion activists plot mass clinic protests

Julianne McShane

A photo collage of Krisi Noem overlayed with a memorial for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and protests in Minneapolis

Sen. Jacky Rosen: Why my House colleagues should impeach Kristi Noem

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada

A crowd of federal immigration officers in helmets stand outside the Whipple Federal Building.

Inside a Minnesota immigration court, few ‘worst of the worst’

Nnamdi Egwuonwu & Dorothy Whalen

A person raises a fist as protestors confront federal agents on Jan. 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, MN.

Trump didn’t de-escalate in Minneapolis on his own. He was forced to retreat.

Zeeshan Aleem

Minnesota judges nearly shut out DOJ in a week of immigrant detention hearings

Lisa Rubin

Minnesota is demonstrating a new brand of resistance

Michele Norris

Maria Elvira Salazar gestures with her hand while speaking.

MAGA Latinos issue dire warnings about Trump’s administration — and face cold responses

Ja'han Jones

Jennifer Homendy speaks into a microphone.

Trump’s safety board chair blames FAA for ‘100% preventable’ D.C. air crash

Josh Einiger & Nora McKee

Ilhan Omar walks into a room for a town hall meeting, followed by two men who seem to be security personnel.

Asked about Ilhan Omar being accosted, Trump’s ugly response spoke volumes

Steve Benen

Jasmine Crockett; Joaquin Castro.

Castro, Crockett visit 5-year-old in ICE detention center in Texas

Rosa Flores & Erum Salam

Bill Belichick looks down during a press conference.

Bill Belichick’s exclusion from the Hall of Fame ballot is petty and disgraceful

Keith Reed

Ballots arrive at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center on Nov. 5, 2024 in Fairburn, Ga.

FBI searches elections office in Fulton County, Georgia

Julianne McShane

John Thune from below.

Republicans are showing cracks in their government shutdown strategy

Jack Fitzpatrick & Mychael Schnell

A masked agent driving a white car looks out the window of the car.

Trump’s America is a secret policeman’s paradise

Anthony L. Fisher

Donald Trump gestures behind a podium in front of an audience.

Trump’s Iowa reset undercut by economic realities on the ground

Julianne McShane

A number of weapons are on display below a U.S. flag at a gun store.

Following Pretti killing, Trump opens the door to a radical shift on gun policy

Steve Benen

Mourners visit a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 27, 2026 in Minneapolis.

Pretti killing highlights how the Trump administration has lost the legal benefit of the doubt

Jordan Rubin

Kristi Noem, left, stands behind Donald Trump, out of focus in the foreground.

Why Trump may be getting ready to throw Kristi Noem under the bus

Michael A. Cohen

Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Rubio tells senators U.S. plan for Venezuela is still in ‘infancy’

Sydney Carruth

Larry Krasner gestures with his hand.

Progressive prosecutors launch ‘FAFO’ group to push for accountability after Pretti shooting

Ja'han Jones

Victor Wembanyama, center, sits on the sidelines of a basketball court surrounded by teammates.

‘Morning Joe’ reacts after Spurs player says he’s ‘concerned’ being a foreigner in the U.S.

Allison Detzel

A female protestor shouts with her left fist raised during a protest.

The people of Minneapolis stand shoulder to shoulder to redeem the ‘soul of our country’

Chris Hayes

A collage showing protests in Minneapolis, Cam Higby and James O'Keefe

Minneapolis organized against ICE. Far-right influencers waged an information war.

Brandy Zadrozny

Texas Democrat: Latinos in state are targeted as ‘not American enough’

Ilhan Omar speaks out after town hall attack: ‘I am not one to be intimidated’

‘A partisan militia’: Adam Serwer says role of ICE is to ‘make life miserable’ in Minneapolis

‘They absolutely freakin’ hate it’: Hayes on Americans rejecting MAGA’s ICE project
Melania Trump gets in a car, wearing a jacket that reads " I don't really care. Do you?"

Poor ticket sales for ‘Melania’ film suggest public really doesn’t care

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Pam Bondi, left, and Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

    Trump has been trying to claim voter fraud for years. Pam Bondi’s Walz letter is different.

    Philip Bump

  2. Kristi Noem FEMA press conference

    Schumer’s DHS funding pivot suggests he understands this moment

    Mike Zamore

  3. A person dressed in a late 18th- or early 19th- century costume stands blurred in the foreground. In focus in the background, multicolored paper signs that read "learn ALL history" and "HISTORY IS REAL" are taped to an empty panel on a brick wall.

    The President’s House becomes the latest front in the Trump administration’s war on history

    Jarvis DeBerry

  4. People stand around a memorial created on the ground for Alex Pretti.

    Even a Trump-appointed judge saw the need to prevent feds from mishandling Pretti evidence

    Jordan Rubin

  5. Mahmoud Khalil marches with supporters after he was released from ICE detention during a rally on June 22, 2025 in New York City.

    University presidents have just been shown how to stand up to Trump

    Michael Roth

  6. Two images showing a woman being arrested; in the original the woman shows no emotion, and in the AI-altered image she is crying.

    This isn’t the first altered image from the White House. It may be the most chilling.

    Zeeshan Aleem

  7. Federal law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator during a protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.

    The real reason Trump and MAGA are so quick to blame Minneapolis shooting victims

    Philip Bump

  8. 5-year-old Liam Ramos detained by ICE on Jan. 20, 2026 outside of his home in Columbia Heights, MN.

    How the photo of a 5-year-old in a Spider-Man backpack shocked America

    Julio Ricardo Varela

  9. A close-up of Donald Trump looking stoic.

    Trump is responding to bad poll numbers the only way he knows how

    Kaivan Shroff

  10. Presidents, prime ministers, and other leaders from around the world surround Donald Trump, who holds a signed charter. Audience members in the foreground take pictures.

    Trump’s breathtakingly autocratic ‘Board of Peace’

    Imran Khalid

  11. CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp during the World Economic Forum annual meeting on Jan. 20, 2026, in Davos, Switzerland.

    One of Trump’s favorite tech CEOs just said the quiet part out loud

    Ryan Teague Beckwith

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