Trump News for Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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A flood of GOP statements sent an unmistakable message to Trump: Enough.

Just a year into his second term, Donald Trump’s new, militarized immigration force is on full display. Agents in masks and plate carriers are seemingly everywhere, first in Chicago last year and now in Minneapolis, where they have killed two US citizens and …

You might recall how Republicans (with help from Democrats) suffered a three year embolism over the national security, privacy, and propaganda problems inherent with TikTok — only to turn around and let Trump sell the platform to his technofascist billionaire…

After Trump-connected investors took a controlling stake in the U.S. version of the app, users have claimed that it's suppressing political topics

Two Trinidadian nationals were said to be among six people killed by a US strike. The lawsuit characterized the strike as 'unlawful.'

Two weeks ago, I wrote “It’s Tariff Week! *.” The asterisk added the word “Hopefully…” “This is likely the week the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the IEEPA tariffs in place since April 2025.” I wrote, getting it totally wrong. It turned out to be (mostly) …

Trump told ABC News' Mary Bruce that the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis is a "very sad situation."

Unexpected, but in the most delightful sense of the word — the sort of thing we’ve rarely seen since January 2025. Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, …

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met with President Trump on Monday, sources told ABC News, amid fallout the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Vehicles were stuck for days on a stretch of Interstate 20 in Louisiana in the aftermath of the weekend winter storm, with local officials blaming the “lingering accumulations of snow/ice.”

The NYC Ferry was temporarily skipping certain route landings on Tuesday morning due to ice buildup on the Hudson and East rivers.

Yuri Lowenthal asked others to speak out against injustice The post PlayStation’s Spider-Man Calls For Blocking ICE Funding After Brutal Minnesota Killing appeared first on Kotaku.

Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.

Silicon Valley’s top CEOs have been noticeably silent after the Minneapolis shooting.

Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable order commanding the head of ICE to appear personally before him to explain why he should not be held in contemp…

The singer hopes the offer “will ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government”

*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime cal…

The Trump regime's abuse of AI has opened up new legal questions.

Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later Salesforce is getting cosier with the US Army via a deal worth up to $5.6 billion, selling cloud analytics as the groundwork for a future agentic AI push across the service and the wider DoD.…

Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office.

The former FBI director is sharing his concerns after no longer being restrained by a government badge.

The thing with an invasion is that it makes enemies of everyone being invaded, even those who may nominally support the end goal. Law enforcement officers and officials are no exception, especially when they see the invading force creating problems they shoul…

The Canadian prime minister confirmed that he and the US president spoke by phone after Trump threatened 100% tariffs on Canada.

A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has called off a scheduled world premiere at the Kennedy Center of a symphony about Abraham Lincoln, the latest in a wave...

The American Academy of Pediatrics and 12 other medical groups are recommending the same childhood shots once endorsed by the CDC.

Dangerous cold is hampering cleanup after a deadly snowstorm that continues to disrupt air travel and power grids across the Midwest and Northeast.

Despite strong relations between India and EU, trade talks were stuck for two decades. So what changed now?

The president’s retreat in Minneapolis is a stinging defeat for the national conservatives.

In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining thousands of people, from preschoolers to, occasionally, US citizens. Minnesotans on the ground have responded in tu…

The families of Trinidadian fishermen killed by the U.S. military in an October boat strike are demanding justice.

The case filed in Massachusetts is the first lawsuit over the strikes to land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela.

The president believes this one project will hurt the Democrat's floated presidential chances.

The judge ordered the acting head of ICE to appear in his courtroom on Friday and explain why he should not be held in contempt of court.

One human rights expert told Jezebel that the expanded rule pushes Trump’s agenda “of conditioning previously apolitical funding to control people’s bodies and decimate human rights internationally.”

Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to assist US security operations at the Winter Olympics next month.

For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has accused academia, journalism or science of having a “liberal bias” if it reveals absolutely anything the right wing doesn’t like. It’s an easy way to quickly discredit any critics of your worldview without hav…

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Border czar Tom Homan heads to Minnesota to replace Greg Bovino amid the immigration crackdown backlash. And a trial starts today to decide whether social media firms knowingly harm young users.

Senate Dems have vowed to block ICE funding—an act of courage that somehow required dead U.S. citizens.

All it took was Gregory Bovino dressing like a Gestapo commander and fighting random citizens online to finally get him removed from sight.

Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel now challenging Republican Ashley Moody, testified before Congress about Trump’s call with Ukrainian President...

Leaders voicing alarm over ICE's actions risk backlash from a president known to target execs who cross him.

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

President Trump's rally in Iowa on Tuesday brings his message to a state disproportionately affected by his economic policies and whose voters could help determine control of Congress.

More Republicans are calling for an investigation after a second U.S. citizen was shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

Federal immigration enforcement authorities are facing scrutiny and criticism over their tactics, including the lack of body-worn cameras, following the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

The Federal Reserve will likely hold rates steady at its January meeting, even as Jerome Powell faces mounting pressure from Trump amid the DOJ probe.

"Interim" President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez is walking a delicate line, pretending to oppose Trump while giving him everything he wants.

Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis.

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Customs and Border Protection commander-at-large Greg Bovino is returning to El Centro, California, to resume his duties as chief of that sector, sources told ABC News.

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both.  Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers w…

Major investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX signed agreements to form the new joint venture

More than 275 employees signed a letter to Target leadership that outlined four steps they say the company should take in response to ICE.

Donald Trump still wants to impose tariffs on movies made outside the United States, while he’s talking about establishing low interest bonds for the...