Nation and World Politics
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Smith defends his Trump investigations at a House hearing. ‘No one should be above the law,’ he says
Jan 22, 2026 5:33 pm - Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations of President Donald Trump at a congressional hearing Thursday in which he insisted that he had acted without regard to politics and had no second thoughts about the criminal charges he brought.
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Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
Jan 22, 2026 5:26 pm - The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
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3 people involved in a Minnesota church protest are arrested, as judge refuses to charge Don Lemon
Jan 22, 2026 5:24 pm - A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday, even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon.
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House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding
Jan 22, 2026 5:12 pm - The House passed this year's final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers, still smarting from last fall's record 43-day shutdown, worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.
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Vance’s message in Minneapolis: Local officials must cooperate with the immigration crackdown
Jan 22, 2026 5:07 pm - Insisting that he was in Minnesota to help “lower the temperature,” Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed “far-left people” and state and local law enforcement officials for the chaos that has convulsed the state during the White House's aggressive deportation campaign.
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White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
Jan 22, 2026 4:51 pm - The White House on Thursday posted an altered photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest, edited to make it look like she was crying, sparking concern among some forensic-image experts about the administration’s distortion of real-world imagery.
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Workplace rights agency scraps anti-harassment guidance, citing Trump's orders
Jan 22, 2026 4:31 pm - The federal agency in charge of enforcing workplace anti-discrimination laws on Thursday voted to rescind its own guidance on how to guard against harassment at work, marking another major shift in U.S. civil rights enforcement under President Donald Trump's second administration.
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Illinois faces federal defunding for state law requiring abortion referrals
Jan 22, 2026 4:07 pm - The Trump administration is threatening to strip Illinois of federal health dollars over a state law requiring medical providers to refer patients for abortion services, even if the providers oppose abortion.
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Trump hails ‘framework’ of Greenland deal, reversing tariff threats
Jan 21, 2026 6:49 pm - DAVOS, Switzerland- — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the “framework” of a deal on Greenland, backing away from his earlier demands to acquire t...
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Trump's Board of Peace is dividing countries in Europe and the Middle East
Jan 21, 2026 3:12 pm - JERUSALEM — Divisions emerged Wednesday over U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace as its ambitions have grown beyond Gaza, with some Western European countries de...