Nation and World Politics
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Trump's border czar says 700 immigration officers to leave Minnesota immediately
Feb 04, 2026 9:18 am - The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
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Georgia's Fulton County seeks the return of 2020 election documents seized by the FBI
Feb 04, 2026 9:11 am - Officials in Georgia's Fulton County said Wednesday they have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, escalating a voting battle as President Donald Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November midterms on the horizon.
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Feb 03, 2026 8:33 pm - He had decided that the America he believed in would not make it if people like him didn’t speak up, so on a cool, rainy morning in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Jon, 67 and recently retired, marched up to his study and began to type.He had just read about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s case against an Afghan it was trying to deport. The immigrant, identified in The Washington Post’s Oct. 30 investigation as H, had begged federal officials to reconsider, telling them the Taliban would kill him if he was returned to Afghanistan.
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Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
Feb 03, 2026 7:43 pm - American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months, experiences that left them fearing for their lives.
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Epstein invested alongside top Silicon Valley names in crypto firm Coinbase
Feb 03, 2026 6:25 pm - Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested $3 million into the cryptocurrency startup Coinbase in 2014, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Friday, giving him a small role in the rise of what is now a $51 billion public company and the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange.
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Measles cases identified at ICE’s largest detention facility for children
Feb 03, 2026 3:58 pm - Two detainees at the nation’s main immigrant family detention center, in Dilley, Texas, have tested positive for measles, authorities said, alarming lawmakers and attorneys who fear the virus could spread in the crowded facility.
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Clintons finalize agreement to testify in House Epstein probe, bowing to threat of contempt vote
Feb 03, 2026 2:52 pm - Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finalized an agreement with House Republicans Tuesday to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein this month, bowing to the threat of a contempt of Congress vote against them.
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Trump administration's tongue-in-cheek names for immigration operations praised and slammed
Feb 03, 2026 2:40 pm - The Department of Homeland Security's approach to naming immigrant enforcement operations, accompanied by a punchy, at times mocking tone in its official statements, elicits polarizing opinions: Are the names funny or offensive?
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Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis
Feb 03, 2026 2:37 pm - Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, a sign that tensions have not eased since the departure last week of a high-profile commander.
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Trump signs bill to end partial government shutdown, setting stage for next fight
Feb 03, 2026 1:23 pm - The House on Tuesday passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding.