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A person inspects a giant banner with the image of President Donald Trump hanging on the outside of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Europe has new reasons to think Trump isn’t just pretending to be a ‘madman’

Zeeshan Aleem

A person holds a sign reading "Good Rest in Power" during a vigil on Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Why the White House shifted its tone on Renee Good and the deadly ICE shooting

Steve Benen

Federal law enforcement agents confront anti-ICE protesters during a demonstration on Jan. 15, 2026 in Minneapolis.

Democrats scored the smallest of wins with ICE’s 2026 budget

Hayes Brown

Donald Trump holds up a stack of papers entitled "The White House Accomplishments."

Why does Trump want Greenland? The same reason he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize.

Philip Bump

President Donald Trump delivers a special address during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on Jan. 21, 2026 in Davos.

Trump repeats Greenland demand in Davos speech while seeming to rule out using force to get it

Clarissa-Jan Lim

US Border Patrol agents stand guard on Jan. 8, 2026 in Minneapolis.
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Pentagon orders more active-duty soldiers to ready for possible Minneapolis deployment

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Lisa Cook, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, during the Federal Reserve Board open meeting on June 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

In Federal Reserve case, Trump meets a power that SCOTUS might not give him

Jordan Rubin

A photo of a young Latino man holding a photo of himself and his father, a view of the young man in the hospital wearing a neck brace, and a view of the man being detained by immigration officers.

How a drive to school became a violent chase and a snapshot of immigration agents’ tactics

Antonia Hylton, Kay Guerrero & Kyla Guilfoil

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

With pardons in hand, many Jan. 6 rioters are demanding taxpayer-funded compensation

Steve Benen

Karim Diane as Jay-Den Kraag in "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy."

Why Stephen Miller is suddenly very upset about ‘Star Trek’

John DeVore

Lindsey Halligan on Aug. 20, 2025, outside the White House.

Lindsey Halligan quits hours after judge says she can no longer identify as a U.S. attorney

Fallon Gallagher, Sydney Carruth & Ken Dilanian

Brad Raffensperger speaks at the bottom of a staircase while gesturing with his hand.

Georgia secretary of state to fellow Republicans seeking voter data: ‘Hell no’

Ja'han Jones

Jonas Gahr Store, left, is shaking Donald Trump's hand with Trump's face behind Store's.

Trump’s weird text to Norway’s prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk

Steve Benen

As DOJ lags Epstein files deadline, Joe Scarborough asks, ‘Who are they protecting?’

Allison Detzel

Bottles of wine are displayed on April 25, 2025 at a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego.

By threatening France with a tariff on wine, Trump gives away the game

Steve Benen

American actor Montgomery Clift reading a copy of 'The Stars and Stripes' in Berlin circa 1950.

On multiple fronts, Team Trump tries to exert greater control over media outlets

Steve Benen

Former ambassador: Trump’s Greenland bid is ‘worst idea’ in all U.S. foreign policy

Allison Detzel

Minneapolis Mayor Frey stands in the middle of a big crowd. He is seen from the left side.

DOJ subpoenas top Minnesota Democrats in federal probe amid ICE crackdown

Clarissa-Jan Lim

People make their way to the entrance of the Monrovia Home Depot on Aug. 15, 2025 in Monrovia, CA.

Home Depot investors fret over the company’s ties to ICE

Ja'han Jones

Warner Bros. Studios on Nov. 26, 2025 in Burbank, CA.

Warner Bros. and Netflix strike new all-cash deal

Sydney Carruth

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing on March 23, 2022 on Capitol Hill.

Justice Jackson lambastes ‘intolerable’ practice of penalizing indigent prisoners

Jordan Rubin

The silhouette of an oil tanker at sunrise.

U.S. seizes another oil tanker in the Caribbean with alleged ties to Venezuela

Julianne McShane

‘He’s not going to be president forever’: Pritzker vows accountability for Trump officials

‘We are in the midst of a rupture’: NATO allies warn against Trump Greenland aggression

Doesn’t advance the investigation: House Democrat on why he’s a no on contempt vote against Clintons

Europe mulls retaliation as Trump intensifies tariff threat over Greenland

Lawrence: Trump publicly threatens Greenland to hide from questions about Epstein

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  1. A crowd of people, many carrying Trump flags and American flags.

    Trump’s ‘big lie’ doesn’t seem to have gone far enough for him

    Eric Lutz

  2. A United States map in blue shows President Trump through the blue state holes that voted for Biden in 2020.

    Trump’s plot to tear the country in two

    Paul Waldman

  3. A photo illustration of a person holding an iPhone while filming an ICE agent

    There’s a reason the DOJ wants to stop Minneapolis citizens from filming ICE

    Scott Hechinger

  4. A photo collage of menacing-looking ICE agents with Trump pointing overlayed

    Something darker is taking shape inside Trump’s ICE

    Zeeshan Aleem

  5. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in United Nations Plaza at the culmination of the April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam War march that went from Central Park to the UN.

    MLK Jr.’s anti-war warning feels impossible to ignore now

    Hayes Brown

  6. A photo illustration of a whistle in front of Renee Good's vehicle after being involved in a shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations.

    Trump’s latest smear of Renee Good

    Jarvis DeBerry

  7. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Washington, D.C.

    How ICE could sink a deal to fund the government

    Hayes Brown

  8. President Trumps walks out of the White House at night, holding a large black umbrella.

    Trump’s Minnesota threats suggest he may be close to unleashing what he’s always wanted

    Philip Bump

  9. Federal law enforcement officers during confrontations with residents in Minneapolis.

    I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping.

    Nicole Bedera

  10. An ICE agent signals "stop" with his left hand up while holding a spray bottle as other agents follow him.

    ICE funding jumped $75 billion. Here’s my plan to redirect the windfall.

    U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

  11. Emissions rise from the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Norco Refinery in Norco, La.

    Trump’s EPA is giving companies a license to make Americans sick

    Hayes Brown

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