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US applications for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, tick down to 209,000 last week.

By MATT OTT
Jan 29, 2026 8:16 am - U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched down modestly last week, remaining at historically healthy levels despite recent high-profile layoff announcements.
Democrats, White House strike spending deal that would avert government shutdown

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Jan 29, 2026 8:13 am - Democrats and White House struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday as they consider new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement
Omar criticizes Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’ after attack; suspect had made pro-Trump posts online

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, FARNOUSH AMIRI, MATT BROWN and JACK BROOK
Jan 28, 2026 7:55 pm - Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for threats to her safety on Wednesday, one day after she was accosted and squirted with liquid at an event in Minneapolis. The man arrested for Tuesday's attack has posted online in support of the Republican president.
Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Jan 28, 2026 7:48 pm - With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement that officers show identification as the country reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis.
ICE agents blocked from entering Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, ministry says

By Annie Gowen and María Luisa Paúl
Jan 28, 2026 7:42 pm - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tried to enter the Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday but were turned away by consulate staff, Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said — prompting the South American nation to file a formal diplomatic protest.
Judge slams ICE while backing off contempt threat for agency’s director

By Jeremy Roebuck
Jan 28, 2026 7:38 pm - Minnesota’s chief federal judge on Wednesday called off his threat to potentially hold the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in contempt for repeated defiance of court orders but delivered a withering assessment of the agency’s conduct as it has surged thousands of agents into the state.
Worries deepen in US South after days of grappling with snow, ice and widespread outages

By SOPHIE BATES, JEFF MARTIN and RUSS BYNUM
Jan 28, 2026 7:28 pm - Conditions were growing more dire in parts of the South still reeling from subfreezing temperatures and widespread power outages as vehicles got stranded for hours on major highways and officials warned Wednesday that people stuck at home were running out of food, medicine and other essentials.
It’s one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one’s path is uncertain

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Jan 28, 2026 6:21 pm - Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast.Deep cold is forecast to stick around at least into the first week of February. Meteorologists are also watching what could become a “bomb cyclone” — a quickly intensifying storm that’s a winter version of a hurricane — forming off the Carolinas Friday night into Saturday.
ICE at Olympics angers Milan mayor, who says agency’s image is ‘terrible’

By Anthony Faiola, Tobi Raji and Rick Maese
Jan 28, 2026 4:59 pm - A routine deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Italy to assist with security around next month’s Winter Olympics has raised the ire of locals, including the mayor of Milan, a key host city.
Rubio defends Trump on Venezuela while trying to allay fears about Greenland and NATO

By MATTHEW LEE, STEPHEN GROVES and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Jan 28, 2026 4:15 pm - Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Donald Trump's military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, while explaining to U.S. lawmakers the administration’s approach to Greenland, NATO, Iran and China.

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