Trump News for Monday, January 26, 2026

If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist’s home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to prevent exactly this kin…

Above, Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher explain how everyday Americans can push back against government overreach—by focusing on the economic decisions they make each day. “Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets,” says Galloway. Ergo, it’s t…

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Minnesota’s secretary of state said over the weekend t…

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited President Donald Trump at the White House over the weekend to attend the premier of "Melania," a documentary that's set to be released in the near future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, several tech CEOs attended the sc…

When has that ever stopped us?

Anti-ICE protesters took to the snowy streets of Chicago on Sunday, one day after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Thousands of American TikTok users have reported having issues with the app this past weekend.

Federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday has strengthened Senate Democrats’ resolve to force changes to Trump’s immigration forces — even at the risk of shutting down the government.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a st…

With Amazon as distributors, MELANIA is expected to stream on Prime Video. For now, you can buy tickets online to watch the documentary in theaters.

Dean Cain is swooping in to defend the federal immigration agents who killed Alex Pretti ... like Superman coming to rescue Lois Lane. The 'Lois & Clark' star joined us on "TMZ Live" Monday, and we asked him about Saturday's fatal interaction…

Republican lawmakers pushed back on Trump administration and DHS claims justifying the killing of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by ICE.

I’ve completely stopped using Twitter (now called X) and I wanted to post something explaining why. I stopped posting or reading the feeds quite a while ago, but despite most people I know agreeing it’s a terrible place, friends persist in sharing X posts an…

Nicki Minaj will appear alongside Donald Trump at a Treasury Department summit this week tied to the launch of a new kind of savings account for kids.

Carney has been under pressure from the opposition to lower prices of food and other essentials for lower income people.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania about his memoir, Where We Keep the Light, immigration raids and the upcoming elections in 2026 and 2028.

Increasingly, the Trump administration’s defense of Alex Pretti’s killing has come to center on the fact that he had a gun. “We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct and impede law enforce…

The return of all remaining hostages in Gaza was agreed to under the first phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza Strip ceasefire deal that began in October 2025.

The White House has shifted how it talks about Alex Pretti's killing as more Republicans express concern over the deadly encounter.

ABC News' Mary Bruce asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt if President Donald Trump agrees with administration officials who labeled Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist."

OpenAI's co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn't just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC - together, he and his wife Anna's September 2025 donations equaled the largest of them all, totaling $25 million to "MAGA I…

Big tech helped get us into this situation. Workers want it to help get us out, starting with canceling ICE contracts.

Since early January, a massive surge of federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis has provoked national outrage. There have been two fatal shootings by federal immigration agents since the year began. On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen,…

Israelis held captive in Gaza and Palestinians swept into Israel detention centres have been focus of ceasefire talks.

GPT-5.2 is "learning" from Musk’s AI-generated version of Wikipedia.

Lula criticises US actions in Venezuela, calling the capture of Maduro an unacceptable line against regional stability.

The Conservatives have raised further concerns after Donald Trump described the agreement as a "great act of stupidity".

It's understandable that CEOs and other leaders are wary of wading into the latest shooting in Minneapolis. But that's not an excuse for silence.

First, there’s the lies: the immediate, reflexive flurry of posts meant to portray anyone federal immigration officers kill as a threat to public safety. When an officer murdered Renee Good, the administration claimed she was a terrorist who was trying to run…

There has been a second fatal shooting in the US state of Minnesota this month.

A Framework for Understanding the Erosion of Democratic Immigration Enforcement

What’s happening in Minneapolis is potentially delegitimizing for law enforcement.

Apple CEO Tim Cook spent his weekend attending the premier of Melania, the new Amazon-backed film that follows Melania Trump in the lead up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration. more…

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota is bringing a new level of scrutiny to the Trump administration’s tactics – and its social media. CNN’s Chief Media...

Samara, the factory-built ADU company co-founded by US chief design officer Joe Gebbia, has installed the first of a series of units in Los Angeles on the site of a home that burned down in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Last Thursday, Samara lowered a facto…

Melania Trump grew up in the small town of Sevnica, Slovenia. The country's tourism soared after she became first lady.

Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it’s only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showe…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to growing co…

For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk's Grok started undressing children on X. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children…

TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson Jamie Favazza pointed to a statement posted to the joint venture's newly-created X account, which …

Iranian authorities are keeping the population offline for a third week amid lingering threats of another war.

Marc Lamont Hill sits down with The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel to unpack the first year of Trump’s second term.

Cutting out the middle man?

The transcript from this week’s MiB: Zach Buchwald, Russell Investments CEO and Chairman, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcast…

See, Republicans: calling out your party for supporting the murder of American citizens isn’t that hard!

From urban rebel to senator facing death threats, what drives Petro, 65, the country’s first progressive president?

Donald Trump says he is sending his border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota amid protests against the killing of Alex Pretti.

Just days ago, the Trump administration used AI to doctor an image of a suspect. How can we trust body cam footage in their possession?

Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” is generous; it was just a lazy marketing rebrand of another, half-assed, MAGA-focused, mobile virtual network …

In 2023, most of the family’s wealth, about 79% of it, was tied to real estate. These days, a growing portion belongs to cryptocurrency endeavors. For Bloomberg, Annie Massa and Tom Maloney r…

US President Donald Trump refers to a ‘sonic weapon’ he describes as a ‘discombobulator’, but what is he talking about?

A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.

Deans and administrators keep confronting the same dilemma.

Minneapolis strikes and protests continue after ICE's fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. And, states work to recover from a massive winter storm that has left widespread power outages and flight chaos.

President Trump is chiming in again on the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal Border Patrol agent in Minnesota, saying his administration is looking into the matter while also criticizing Pretti for carrying a "very powerful, fully loaded" gun.

Hours after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, Erika Kirk, Tim Cook, Queen Rania of Jordan, and Tony Robbins joined Melania at the White House to watch her new documentary. Fun!

Security failures rarely arrive loudly. They slip in through trusted tools, half-fixed problems, and habits people stop questioning. This week’s recap shows that pattern clearly. Attackers are moving faster than defenses, mixing old tricks with new paths. “Pa…

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Meme Stocks Turn 5. Will There Ever Be Another GameStop? Five years after GameStop shareholders launched a revolt, Wall Street has adapted and may have won the war. (Barron’s) • UK Telegraph: Trump has crossed all li…

Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).

Following the shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, Donald Trump refused Sunday to say whether he supported the Border Patrol shooter.

Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests, Charles Duhigg writes.

Bill McKibben on the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney’s Davos speech on how middle powers like Canada may navigate a world shaped by Trumpism and declining American leadership.

A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence, E. Tammy Kim writes.

Abu Hussein al‑Hamidawi, leader of Iraqi armed group, says war against Iran will not be a 'walk in the park'.

Spot gold price touches an all-time high of $5,110.50 for an ounce in the first hours of the day.

TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing the sale of its US arm, though some issues appear to have spread globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day after troubles began, making it difficult to surmise the ex…

On India's Republic Day, President Xi Jinping says Beijing and New Delhi are 'good neighbours, friends and partners'.

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran on Monday as it worried about an...

Marco Rubio's call with PM Shia al-Sudani comes as Iraq is expected to see a new government amid US-Iran tensions.

The US interest has long lied in a unified Syria.

Kyiv is ready to send an agreement to Parliament and US Congress but Ukrainians say their safety is far from guaranteed.

Video footage of fatal shooting contradicts narrative spun by officials and right-wing influencers.

The 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelection.

The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire's second phase.

Chinese foreign policy is shaped by a paradox: it wants to project power and yet it seeks to avoid conflict.

Second fatal shooting an 'inflection point' says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday's shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Two people have been shot dead by federal agents in the city in recent weeks, leaving many angry and frustrated.

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

For the first time, the new wind farms will be connected to more than one country through undersea cables.

Minneapolis is in mourning again – but still fighting back.

Sundance: Will Poulter and Noah Centineo star as brothers struggling with opiates in a sensitively observed, occasionally myopic addiction docudrama set in rural Ohio.