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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...
After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right
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January 19, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders
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January 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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‘Make no mistake, this is an occupation’: ICE’s deadly presence casts long shadow over Minneapolis
Classrooms have emptied, shops have shut, and the mood is tense – but as the federal operation has ramped up, so has residents’ response
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January 17, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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‘It’s whiplash’: reversed cuts ‘incredibly disruptive’ for US mental health and substance abuse programs
Grantees outline risks to vulnerable populations over uncertainty of funds creating gaps in care
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January 17, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
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January 17, 2026 at 11:19 AM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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January 16, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Texts among officials show confusion about missing campers during July 4 floods
Hundreds of newly published text messages add more detail to the devastating timeline of the deadly July 4 Texas floods.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their families
A yearlong investigation by The Insider, in collaboration with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel, has uncovered evidence suggesting that unexplained anomalous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome,...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Do ICE Officers Have ‘Immunity’?
States don’t often prosecute federal officers, but they can.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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A part that broke on a UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky failed 4 times on other planes years ago
The National Transportation Safety Board says Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a flaw in the part that failed and contributed to the engine flying off a UPS plane before it crashed and killed ...
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January 15, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Explosive Epstein Witness Testimony Implicates Trump, Clarence Thomas, and More in Horrific Abuse - NOTICE News
A decorated Iraq war veteran named Sascha Riley is publicly claiming to have been trafficked as a child in a Trump/Epstein criminal enterprise—and their detailed testimony names some of the most power...
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January 14, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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Washington and 11 other states’ attorneys general have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for what the multistate coalition argues is unlawful discrimination against transgender people via new strictures placed on federal grant funding. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/14/r...
Multistate lawsuit challenges ‘gender conditions’ on HHS funding • Washington State Standard
Twelve state attorneys general, co-led by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court in Providence Tuesday over n...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Texas Sends Plato Back to His Cave
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’
Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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“If a mostly white community can push back on this project and get it stopped, it’s unacceptable that the next move is to fly under the radar in a rural Black community with even less transparency,” Black added.

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After a white town rejected a data center, developers eyed a Black…
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Supreme Court 'power grab' now so advanced legal expert warns of 'end' of democracy
Over the past several decades, the Supreme Court has slowly whittled down the power of Congress and, in large part thanks to President Donald Trump’s chaotic second term in office, has already managed...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
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January 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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The Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants
Whren v. United States needs to go.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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How the Supreme Court Broke Congress
In the name of protecting the balance of powers, the Court is radically refashioning that balance.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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No Amazon, No Gmail: Trump Sanctions Upend the Lives of I.C.C. Judges
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January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Opinion: Remembering Renee Good
Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and faith. Good was shot to death by an ICE agent this week in Minneapolis.
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January 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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The Messiness of Friendship
The complexities of sharing feelings is what relationships require.
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January 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM