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Top News Stories for Thursday, January 29th 2026
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Senator says she is running 'for every Minnesotan who wants ICE and its abusive tactics out of the state we love' Amy Klobuchar , the Democratic US senator and one-time presidential candidate, announced she will run for governor of Minnesota , an expected move after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz , dropped out of the race in early January. Klobuchar's announcement comes less than 24 hours after Walz said that he ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Iranian military forces are prepared to "immediately" retaliate against any U.S. attack, Tehran's top diplomat warned on Wednesday, as more American military assets arrived in the region and U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to launch a new attack on the country. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a post to X on Wednesday that Iran's "brave Armed Forces are prepared -- with their fingers on ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The nation is facing another government shutdown starting Saturday as nearly all Senate Democrats vow to oppose a funding package unless it contains changes to how immigration officers operate in the aftermath of last weekend's fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis. Democrats and Republicans insist they don't want another shutdown — even a partial one, as this would be — ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The preliminary findings appear to contradict claims made by the Trump administration in the immediate aftermath of the Minnesota Border Patrol shooting Two federal agents fired at protester Alex Pretti during Saturday's fatal shooting in Minneapolis, according to a preliminary ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection in 2020. But for more than five years, he's been trying to convince Americans the opposite is true by falsely saying the election was marred by widespread fraud. Now that he's president again, Trump is pushing the federal government to back up those bogus claims . On Wednesday, the FBI served a search warrant at the election headquarters of Fulton County, ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Pretti appeared to have his gun on him at the time, though he was only detained briefly , the 37-year-old nurse fatally shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, appeared to confront federal agents less than two weeks before his death, newly published video ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
"Judge Patrick J. Schiltz is just another activist judge who is clearly more concerned about politics than the safety of Minnesotans." Those are the words of Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). My guess is that her statement elicited quite the snort of laughter from Schiltz, who is not normally attacked for being some sort of far-left "activist." If anything, the ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Trump loyalists are upset the administration has blamed Pretti's shooting on him exercising his right to carry a gun Gun rights groups have long been among Donald Trump's most loyal allies. But following the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis , the alliance is showing rare cracks. In the days since the shooting, the movement has forcefully defended its stance that the second amendment is a means to keep ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A judge has barred federal immigration officers from arresting and detaining legally present refugees in Minnesota, handing the Trump administration a legal defeat in its aggressive immigration crackdown. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, in Minneapolis on Wednesday, issued a temporary restraining order that bars the arrest and detention of any Minnesota resident with refugee status as litigation ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Ever since Larry Wilkewitz retired more than 20 years ago from a wood products company, he's had a commercial Medicare Advantage plan from the insurer Humana. But two years ago, he heard about Peak Health, a new Advantage plan started by the West Virginia University Health System, where his doctors practice. It was cheaper and offered more personal attention, plus extras such as an allowance for over-the-counter ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2026 -
Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy in the South American country after a federal immigration agent tried to enter its consulate in Minneapolis. Uncorroborated video of the incident shared online shows a consular employee confronting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempting to enter the facility. The employee stands in the doorway and tells the ICE ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department told a judge Tuesday that it has reviewed "several million" pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. In the four-page filing, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote that they expect to complete the review and redaction ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2026 -
against U.S. trade policy could backfire going into the formal review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade deal that protects Canada from the heaviest impacts of Carney used a high-profile speech last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to by great powers on smaller countries and since then he has as since sparred with Trump and Bessent about related trade issues. Trump on Saturday ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Jan 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in October sued the U.S. government Tuesday, accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed against the Trump administration in federal court over its military campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 27th, 2026 -
Claudia Sheinbaum denied move was response to pressure from the US, after Trump said 'zero' oil would go to Cuba Mexico has cancelled a shipment of oil to Cuba , the country's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared to confirm on Tuesday, but she insisted the decision was "sovereign" and not a response to pressure from the US. Fuel shortages are causing increasingly severe blackouts in Cuba, and Mexico has been the ...
Source: theguardian.com