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Judge rules Trump administration must keep funding child care subsidies in Illinois, 4 other states for now

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Jan 23, 2026 6:57 pm - A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must keep federal funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in five Democratic-controlled states — at least for now.
Philadelphia sues over removal of slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and GRAHAM LEE BREWER
Jan 23, 2026 4:17 pm - Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in response to his executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation's museums, parks and landmarks.
Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and SARAH RAZA
Jan 23, 2026 4:05 pm - Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota's largest airport Friday, and thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration's crackdown.
FCC targets talk shows by revisiting ‘equal time’ rule for political candidates

By Kelly Kasulis Cho and Scott Nover
Jan 22, 2026 9:07 pm - The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that network talk shows are required to give equal airtime to all candidates intending to run for the same public office, changing course on a decades-old ruling and again raising free-speech concerns over the Trump administration’s approach to media regulation.
Trump administration halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH-funded research

Jan 22, 2026 9:01 pm - The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions issued during President Donald Trump’s first term.
TikTok finalizes deal to form new American entity

By KAITLYN HUAMANI
Jan 22, 2026 8:46 pm - TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years.
Trump administration tells agencies to compile data on money sent to Democratic states, including Illinois

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Jan 22, 2026 7:28 pm - President Donald Trump's budget office this week ordered most government agencies to compile data on the federal money that is sent to 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia in what it describes as a tool to “reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds.”
Smith defends his Trump investigations at a House hearing. ‘No one should be above the law,’ he says

By ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
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.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide

By Douglas MacMillan
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.
3 people involved in a Minnesota church protest are arrested, as judge refuses to charge Don Lemon

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and JACK BROOK
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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