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Community response grows as immigration enforcement expands, while families, schools, and small businesses feel the strain and members of Congress again battled over how to see the January 6th attack.

Trump backs off tariffs and threats of invasion with a new framework for a deal on Greenland. A Report finds pros and cons in the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement and ICE's tactics draw academic interest.

Debates over National Guard policing, immigration enforcement, and ethics investigations collide as markets react to new tariff threats, raising fresh questions about executive power and democratic guardrails.

Federal prosecutors threaten protestors who disrupted a MN church service, as others rally nationwide to mark MLK Jr. Day and the first year of Trump's second term. Watchdogs raise concerns on NV's ballot initiative process and NV's vote challenges.

From exile, the son of Iran's last Shah calls for help toppling the regime of Ayotollah Khoemini. Minnesota Dems warn protestors about staying safe, as more troops could be sent there to squelch protests and Virginia swears in its first female governor.

Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act, as Minnesotans protest ICE. A Homeland Security official announced a run for Congress and federal courts move to keep the administration from getting voter data from two blue states.

House Dems back an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The Senate GOP blocks an effort to limit executive war powers in Venezuela and a federal judge rejects a Republican plan to overturn California s new congressional maps.

Political leaders sharpen housing and auto affordability arguments as midterms approach. Democrats work to engage minority voters who have been staying on the sidelines and California watchdogs have their eyes on plans for a new city backed by tech billionaires.

President Donald Trump backs claims a slain Minnesota protestor was connected to a left-wing network, Minneapolis sues to block a surge of federal agents and Chair Jerome Powell responds to an administration investigation of him and the Fed.

Anti-ICE protests sweep the nation, as the Trump administration defends the actions of the agent who shot a Minnesota woman. The SCOTUS is set to debate transgender student athletes rights and Dems wrestle with a 'diploma divide.'