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Omar criticizes Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’ after attack; suspect had made pro-Trump posts onlineJan 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.
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changesJan 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.
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ICE agents blocked from entering Ecuadorian Consulate in Minneapolis, ministry saysJan 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.
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Judge slams ICE while backing off contempt threat for agency’s directorJan 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.
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Worries deepen in US South after days of grappling with snow, ice and widespread outagesJan 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.
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It’s one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one’s path is uncertainJan 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.
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Sorry, moms: Blackhawks left with mixed feelings after Wild erases 3-goal deficitJan 28, 2026 6:20 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. — It would almost be easier if they had just fallen apart — collapsed, choked, gagged, whatever your favorite synonym might be. Had they taken foolish pen...
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ICE at Olympics angers Milan mayor, who says agency’s image is ‘terrible’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.
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Rubio defends Trump on Venezuela while trying to allay fears about Greenland and NATOJan 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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40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disasterJan 28, 2026 3:46 pm - As high school teacher Christa McAuliffe prepared to be strapped into the space shuttle Challenger, Brian Russell, an official at the company that built the craft’s solid rocket boosters, had just participated in a fateful teleconference from his Utah headquarters.Like every other engineer in the conference room at Morton Thiokol on that day four decades ago, the 31-year-old Russell opposed launching because the bitterly cold temperature at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center threatened the O-rings that sealed the rocket boosters.