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#1 US Attorney General Pam Bondi Announces 2 More Arrests in the St. Paul Church Protest - Steve Karnowski Associated Press/ABC News, Don Lemon, AAGHarmeetDhillon, American AF, Rapid Response 47, and Elissa4Real on X
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday announced two more arrests following a protest at a Minnesota church against the immigration crackdown, bringing the number of people arrested to nine. The nine were named in a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday. Independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were among four people arrested Friday. Three others were arrested earlier in the week, including prominent local activist Nekima Levy Armstrong. A grand jury in Minnesota indicted all nine on federal civil rights charges of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshippers during the Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul. A pastor at the church is also a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official. The protest generated strong objections from the Trump administration. In a social media post on Monday, Bondi named the latest two arrestees as Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson. She gave no details of their arrests...
#2 Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files: 10 Key Takeaways So Far - Anna Betts for The Guardian, Headlines Hub, Lissa4Maga aka Cowboy Killa, Resist the Mainstream, Owen Gregorian, Crypto Aman, and Americaforever on X
A new trove of about 3m files related to the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released on Friday, offering new details about his network and interactions with wealthy and powerful figures and the federal investigations into his crimes. The release follows legislation passed in November by US lawmakers that mandated the disclosure of all Epstein-related documents...
#3 Clintons Agree to Testify on Epstein as Vote Looms to Hold Them in Contempt of Congress - Siobhan Hughes for Wall Street Journal, Virgin Media News, The Jakarta Post, Bitcap, ABC12WJRT, and Puurtrick Mahomes on X
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a new offer Monday to give depositions for a House committee’s investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, just days ahead of an expected vote on contempt of Congress for the Democratic power couple. The Clintons’ attorneys said their clients would “appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates” and asked that the House “not move forward with contempt proceedings,” in a message sent to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.)...
#4 Rep. Pressley’s Surging Net Worth and Assets Exposed in New Report - Fox News, Eric Daugherty, MAGA Storm, 𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕣, and Town Crier/Catturd ™ on X
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley entered Congress in 2019 with an estimated net worth of -$12,500, per her 2018 filing. Her May 2025 disclosure for 2024 shows her husband, Conan Harris, holding assets up to $8 million, mainly four rental properties in Massachusetts generating up to $165,000 yearly, and his consulting firm earning $100,001-$1 million annually. A Fox News segment highlighted this wealth increase on her $174,000 salary, prompting questions about her spouse's businesses and real estate gains in Boston's rising markets, though filings show no violations...#5 Republicans Push Senate Vote on SAVE Act for Voter Citizenship Proof - John Cornyn/X, @amuse, Ann Vandersteel, Proud Elephant, Derrick Evans, and Tony Shaffer/Chuck Schumer (community note) on X
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) joined Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) in introducing the SAVE America Act, which would require individuals to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote as well as photo identification before voting in a federal election. The legislation would also ensure states appropriately maintain voter rolls by removing non-citizens from existing voter rolls. “It is ridiculous that we need to pass a bill to ensure that Americans alone are the ones voting in our federal elections, but thanks to Joe Biden’s reckless open-border policies and Democrat-run sanctuary cities, this is the reality we live in,” said Sen. Cornyn. “This commonsense legislation requires an individual to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote as well as a photo ID before casting a ballot to ensure our elections are secure and solely determined by American citizens, and I’m proud to support it.”
#6 House Eyes Tuesday Vote to Reopen the Government and End Brief Shutdown - Sahil Kapur and Kyle Stewart for NBC News, Eric Daugherty, Diane America First,
Abby ⧉, Reshad Hudson and Washington Journal on X
House Republican leaders plan to vote Tuesday to pass a government funding package approved by the Senate, three days after a shutdown began. Funding lapsed Saturday amid divisions in Congress over changes to the Department of Homeland Security after agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pushed the vote back by one day after, he said, Democrats conveyed to him that they won’t provide enough votes to skip the procedural hurdles...
#7 Mamdani Takes Friendly Fire From DSA Allies as Blizzard of Life-Or-Death Issues From NYC Winter Storm Pile Up - New York Post, Vince Langman, Magajunkie1776, David J Harris Jr (community note), Carl Higbie, New York Post Metro, Sean Hannity, and Rudy W. Giuliani on X
Zoh’s taking friendly fire over the cold. A blizzard of lingering life-or-death failures after Winter Storm Fern had even Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s lefty allies blasting his fledgling administration Monday. City Councilwoman Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn) begged her fellow Democratic Socialists of America member Mamdani for help as a Con Edison outage that left nearly 2,000 without power in crunchy granola Park Slope stretched into its second day. The outage left locals without heat and the busy roads near Barclays Center without traffic lights, Hanif wrote in a spate of desperate X posts, pleading for “urgent coordination and clear communication” from Mamdani and City Hall, as well as ConEd...
#8 Noem Says Body Cameras Are Going to All DHS Field Officers in Minneapolis - Phil Helsel and Julia Ainsley for NBC News, Orlando Sentinel, WGN TV News, WISH-TV News, Good Morning America, and Filtered News on X
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that body cameras would go to immigration agents in Minneapolis, where there have been calls for accountability after two deadly shootings.Body cameras will go to agents nationwide when funding is available, she said on X. Noem said the move was in the interest of transparency. Noem and federal immigration enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have come under scrutiny for the actions of agents in Minneapolis during an enforcement “surge,” including the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens. “Effective immediately, we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis,” Noem wrote. “As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” she wrote...
#9 Defense Seeks to Block Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Killing in Murder Case, Claims Bias -Matthew Brown and Hannah Schoenbaum for Associated Press /ABC News, ABC7 Chicago, Paul Gamblin, Derek Petersen, Amar Ujala, and The Independent on X
Graphic videos showing the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk while he spoke to a crowd on a Utah college campus quickly went viral, drawing millions of views. Now, attorneys for the man charged in Kirk’s killing want a state judge to block such videos from being shown during a hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Defense attorneys also want to oust TV and still cameras from the courtroom, arguing that “highly biased" news outlets risk tainting the case. Prosecutors and attorneys for news organizations urged state District Judge Tony Graf to keep the proceedings open. But legal experts say the defense team's worries are real: Media coverage in high-profile cases such as Tyler Robinson's can have a direct “biasing effect” on potential jurors, said Cornell Law School Professor Valerie Hans...
#10 Native American Tribe That Owns Land Under Billie Eilish’s la Mansion Has Message for Virtue-Signaling Singer - Anthony Blair for New York Post, Jared Hudson, The ArchCast/BrooklynDad_Defiant!, Drew Pavlou, End Wokeness, Scott Jennings, and Tim Young on X
The Native American tribe that owns the land under Billie Eilish’s multi-million dollar Los Angeles mansion said celebrities should “explicitly” reference the tribes if want use them to virtue signal. The Tongva tribe confirmed the “Bad Guy” singer’s $3 million home does sit on its “ancestral land,” after the 24-year-old used her Grammys acceptance speech to rail against ICE and insist that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” The indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, known as the “First Angelenos,” said they appreciate Eilish’s sentiment; however, they noted that the performer hasn’t contacted them directly — and insisted that next time she explicitly reference them...
