Olathe council members voted unanimously to commit some sales and hotel guest taxes revenues as part of the Chiefs deal that will bring a new training facility and HQ to the city. (@johnsoncountypost.bsky.social)

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

"We’re witnessing a murder," writes @ashleyrparker.bsky.social. "Jeff Bezos ... and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Mayor Cara Spencer hired Gregg Favre, a former captain with the St. Louis Fire Department and deputy director of public safety for the State of Missouri, to lead the city’s Emergency Management Agency, which came under scrutiny after the May 16 tornado.

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

St. Louis County approved a jail budget that is $1.2 million less than what officials requested for the Buzz Westfall Justice Center. County leaders cited broader budget constraints despite ongoing staffing shortages and failed inspections.

Also, the problem is CBP writ large. “The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested since 2005 would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier. 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Update: The Department of Justice on Friday released more than 3 million pages, more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in its files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Wrote something, got to say some stuff on the radio. It’s not enough. It don’t begin. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

And with that, the Senate is gone. Reconvenes tomorrow at 11a. Government funding deal hangs in the balance. Shutdown hits tomorrow at midnight.

NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.

“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.

He wants housing to be ... less affordable?

🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.

The company announced it was ending production of its higher-end Model S and Model Y, and turning that production space over to making humanoid robots.

ALERT: Justice Dept has filed federal criminal charge against man accused of confronting and spraying liquid at Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

The press continues to report how the economy is doing. Hint: it’s not “amazingly well.”

As the CDC removes vaccines from its childhood schedule, vaccination rates decline and measles spreads, parents are trying to figure out how to keep their children safe — including, in some cases, by limiting their activities or seeking vaccinations early. I talked to a number of them. Gift link:

Sen. Ossoff Statement on FBI Raid of Fulton County Elections Office

Below is the buyout offer all CBS Evening News staff received today. "We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

New low for Trump approval today, at 39% of U.S. adults on average across dozens of pollsters. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

The central bank cut rates at its three previous meetings in an effort to support the job market. But with inflation still elevated, the Fed is cautious about additional rate cuts. n.pr/4qNONms

Trump’s FBI, DOJ officials stay mum on attack on Omar www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms 1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities. 2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct. 3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.

CBO: Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

"Separate analyses by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CBS News and other organizations all concluded that the videos contradict the Trump administration’s description of the killing." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

“Permit to carry holders, they’re allowed to carry in public," said Rob Doar, president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center. "There’s nothing inherently criminal about that activity. You also don’t have to choose between exercising your First Amendment rights or your Second Amendment rights.”

Danish veterans say the rhetoric from the Trump administration has been painful. They describe feeling betrayed and abandoned by an ally after standing shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers.

Twice since the start of the year, federal officers have gunned down protesters in Minneapolis with cellphone cameras rolling and twice Trump and his lieutenants have essentially told the American people: Don’t believe what you see with your own eyes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

Videos analyzed by @nytimes appear to contradict DHS accounts that the man approached agents with a handgun and the intent to “massacre” them. Footage shows the man holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when agents take him to the ground. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

State and local officials have urged a federal judge to issue an immediate order that would temporarily halt the massive deportation operation in Minnesota. The matter is scheduled for a hearing at 9 a.m. Monday.

This is Alex Pretti.

Compare what Noem said to the video.

Vigils were held across the state to remember Alex Pretti after he was fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday in Minneapolis. Many also gathered to protest increased federal immigration enforcement happening in Minnesota. For our latest coverage visit www.mprnews.org/live-updates.

“The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back.”

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.