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Story by Olivia Ralph

Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.

The draft appears among at least 23 documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers or names visible, others blacking out nearly all identifying information.

One draft bears a date of August 9, 2019, the day before Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death have been repeatedly scrutinized.
Story by Alexander Willis

A dinner President Donald Trump apparently attended nearly a decade ago sparked fears at the time that the president may have already been exhibiting symptoms of the memory-loss disease dementia, according to a newly unearthed email from Jeffrey Epstein.

In an email to author Michael Wolff dated Dec. 29, 2017, Epstein wrote that some attendees at the supposed dinner were startled by Trump, who was wearing “tons of makeup” and unable to recognize “old friends.”

“some at dinner wtih donald last night , were concerned about dementia,” Epstein wrote to Wolff. “tons of makeup. did not recognize old friends.”

According to former White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, Trump did attend a dinner on Dec. 28, 2018 in Palm Beach, Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort, which would match the date in Epstein’s email. The only reported guest at the dinner was Wilbur Ross, Trump’s former secretary of commerce, though other guests may have been in attendance.
National Governors Association Vice Chair Wes Moore responds to President Trump excluding him from a bipartisan White House dinner, telling Dana Bash, “It’s not lost to me that I’m the only black governor in this country… I’m never in a room because of someone’s benevolence nor kindness. I’m not in a room because of a social experiment. I’m in the room because I belong there and the room was incomplete until I got there.”
Story by Robert Davis

The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files released last week revealed a "deeply untoward" connection between President Donald Trump and a wealthy investor, one expert has said.

Russ Baker, founder and editor-in-chief of WhoWhatWhy, wrote in a new Substack essay on Sunday that Trump appears to be currying favors for Leon Black, the disgraced co-founder of Apollo Global Management, who resigned from the firm in 2021 when his ties to Epstein, a convicted sex criminal, were receiving increased scrutiny. He noted Trump's appointment of Black's son, Benjamin, to lead the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and the subsequent reactions to that move, as evidence that something other than a simple quid pro quo is at play.

"This may be the understatement of the year: Something deeply untoward appears to be hidden just beneath the surface of recently released documents as they relate to certain people," Baker wrote.
Story by Ewan Palmer

Fewer than one in seven of those arrested by ICE since Donald Trump returned to office had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s own data.

A previously undisclosed document, obtained by CBS News, shows that only a small fraction of the nearly 400,000 migrants detained by ICE since last January are violent offenders, undermining the administration’s vow to target only “the worst of the worst” immigrants as part of its hardline mass deportation campaign.

The data also shows that 42 percent of the 392,619 ICE arrests between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 31, 2026 involved people with no prior criminal charges or convictions. Nearly 40 percent were accused only of civil immigration offenses, such as living in the U.S. illegally, with around 11,000 accused of allegations such as interfering with ICE’s operations.
Story by Lex Harvey, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN

President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block the opening of a new bridge connecting the US and Canada, again lashing out at his country’s northern neighbor over a range of economic issues as the rift between Washington and Ottawa deepens.

Trump said he would “not allow” the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a 1.5-mile bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, in a post on Truth Social Monday. Major construction on the bridge is complete, and it’s expected to open this year after a period of testing.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

Rep. Dave Min (D-Calf.) said that new revelations expose some conflicts in President Donald Trump's timeline about his relationship with trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Members of Congress have been working their way through the unredacted investigation files released by the Justice Department, which one senator said mentions Trump's name at least 38,000 times.

Speaking to CNN, Min brought up recent reports from the Miami Herald that exposed conflicting stories from Trump about what he knew about Epstein and when he knew it.

The report cites a conversation the Palm Beach Police chief told investigators he had with Trump in 2006.

“Thank goodness you’re stopping him. Everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told then-Chief Michael Reiter, who told the FBI in 2019. The interview documents are included in the case files released to date.

This "tells me Donald Trump was caught lying because he said that he did not know about Epstein until like 2019," said Min. "He said he'd quit affiliations with Epstein at some point. So the fact that, as early as 2005 or 2006, Donald Trump clearly and apparently knew something about what was going on with Epstein and that he was continuing to send girls from Mar-a-Lago to Epstein's employment. That tells us a lot about what Donald Trump knew and when. And I think that's a smoking gun."
Story by Matthew Chapman

A federal judge was blindsided on Monday upon learning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been storing detainees on floors of a Manhattan facility that it hadn't disclosed to the court prior.

According to Courthouse News, "U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan slammed ICE for 'stalling' the production of discovery related to how immigrants are treated at 26 Federal Plaza, a short-term ICE jail in downtown Manhattan that has been subjected to claims of overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions and violations of detainees’ civil rights."

In particular, per the report, ICE has already been under an order to limit the number of detainees stored on the infamous 10th floor of the facility, so to get around that, they started storing people on the ninth floor as well.
Story by Robert Davis

A new lawsuit filed by a watchdog group accuses federal judge Aileen Cannon of Florida of "burying the truth" about former special counsel Jack Smith's final report of his investigation into President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit, filed by watchdog group American Oversight, asks the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate Cannon's order prohibiting the release of Volume II of Smith's report to Congress about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Cannon ruled last December that the report could not be released, and gave the Trump administration a 60-day window to challenge any disclosures.
Story by Samyarup Chowdhury

President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to acquire Greenland and punish opposing nations with tariffs have unsettled global markets, triggering another wave of so-called “Sell America” trades.

Investors moved away from U.S. stocks, bonds and the dollar after Trump said he was “100%” committed to imposing tariffs on countries rejecting the Greenland plan, deepening concerns about trade conflict, diplomatic fallout and long-term confidence in U.S. economic leadership.

Markets react
According to reports, selling pressure has intensified amid Trump’s latest Greenland push.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.8%, the S&P 500 dropped 2.1% and the Nasdaq slid 2.4%, marking the worst session for all three indices since October, according to CNBC.

Treasury prices also fell sharply, pushing yields higher, while the U.S. dollar weakened to a two-week low, The Wall Street Journal reported.

At the same time, demand increased for safe-haven assets, accelerating gains in gold and silver.
Story by David Edwards

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) forced Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to admit that his agency uses the same tactics as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

During a Tuesday House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Goldman pointed out that ICE agents were "asking people walking on the streets of America to show proof of citizenship."
Story by Pratik Sharma

Newly released Justice Department documents and FBI interview records reveal a stark contradiction in Donald Trump’s long-standing public denials about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

For years, Trump has claimed he had “no idea” about Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. Yet records show that in 2006, he privately told Palm Beach police that “everyone” knew about Epstein’s activities and described Ghislaine Maxwell as evil.

Trump’s call to Palm Beach police chief
According to an FBI interview conducted in October 2019 with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, Trump personally called him in July 2006, just as Epstein’s criminal sex charges became public. Reiter told agents that Trump said, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.”

Trump also warned Reiter about Epstein’s associate, saying Maxwell was Epstein’s “operative” and that “she is evil and to focus on her.”

Reiter further recounted that Trump said he had once been around Epstein when teenagers were present but “got the hell out of there.” Trump also claimed he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
Story by Ewan Palmer

Judges across the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration for violating or ignoring court decisions related to ICE’s efforts to detain immigrants indefinitely.

An analysis of hundreds of court documents and cases by Politico found multiple examples of judges getting angry at the administration’s flagrant noncompliance with rulings as it carries out Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

Many of the disputes stem from the administration’s repeated attempts to round up people suspected of living in the country illegally and keep them detained without the possibility of release on bond. Among the more devious tactics employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are moving detainees from state to state to prevent them from filing lawsuits seeking release, keeping individuals locked up for weeks after a judge has ordered their release, or even dumping them hundreds of miles from home without their possessions.

“There has been an undeniable move by the Government in the past month to defy court orders or at least to stretch the legal process to the breaking point in an attempt to deny noncitizens their due process rights,” U.S. District Judge Michael Davis, a Bill Clinton appointee in Minnesota, said in a ruling in late January.
Story by Atlanta Black Star News

The Ford autoworker who heckled President Donald Trump last month during a tour of a Michigan manufacturing plant is keeping his job without penalty, and on top of that, he’s cashing in on more than $800,000 raised in the weeks after the incident.

And guess what? The MAGA sphere is in meltdown mode over it. Some Trump supporters are threatening to boycott the automaker over the decision to take no action against TJ Sabula, the worker who called the President a “pedophile protector” during Trump’s tour of Ford’s Rouge River plant in Dearborn on Jan. 13.

Ford initially suspended Sabula with pay, but since he’s a member of the United Auto Workers union, the union fought to get him reinstated. The suspension is over, and he has not been penalized, according to the union and news reports.

And the union was more than clear about what it thinks of Sabula’s heckling of Trump and his Constitutional right to free speech.
Story by Sharon Lawson

A Georgia Army veteran who spent nearly five decades in the United States was deported to Jamaica following a routine traffic stop, and now he's sharing his story in hopes of sparking change for others in similar situations.

Godfrey Wade, a legal U.S. resident and Army veteran who first came to America in 1975, was detained after being pulled over for failing to use a turn signal and not carrying his driver's license. What should have been a minor infraction quickly escalated, landing Wade in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ultimately leading to his deportation — despite his honorable military service and long-standing ties to the U.S.

Speaking to CBS Atlanta over Zoom from Jamaica, Wade recounted the moment that changed everything: "On that particular Saturday morning, I didn't have a license on me, so I knew just upon being stopped, it's gonna be the officer's discretion whether he releases me with just a fine or he'll take me into jail."
Story by Erkki Forster

Panicking MAGA influencers are plotting ways to game the numbers for Kid Rock’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show, apparently terrified of a ratings rout by the real thing.

The reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny is poised to steamroll Turning Point USA’s “All American Halftime Show” on Sunday, with Google search data showing interest in the official performer running roughly three times higher in the 24 hours before the big game.

MAGA is clearly on edge about Bad Bunny’s massive draw. On Sunday morning, Turning Point USA contributor Jack Posobiec was already floating a rescue plan, coaching the base on what he called “ratings-maxxing.”

“Many people are sayin they plan to have the TPUSA Halftime Show on multiple devices at the same time,” the MAGA influencer posted on X, where he has 3.3 million followers. “It’s called we do a little ratings-maxxing.”

Even President Donald Trump’s base is apparently convinced that organic excitement for its rival halftime show won’t dent Bad Bunny’s ratings. This would amount to a failure of their culture-war boycott of the 31-year-old Puerto Rican singer, an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Story by Zachary Leeman

President Donald Trump recalled punishing a world leader with steeper tariffs after being dissatisfied with her tone during a phone conversation.

Trump joined Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow, who served as the director of the National Economic Council during Trump’s first administration, on Tuesday where he declared that “only stupid people and people who really hate Trump” could stand against his reciprocal tariff strategy.

The president recalled during a discussion on tariffs that he hit Switzerland with a steeper tariff after being unhappy with the leader’s tone during a phone call. Trump said he spoke to Switzerland’s “prime minister,” though he appeared to be referring to the country’s former president, Karin Keller-Sutter, who served through December of last year.

Trump said he spoke to her and she was not happy about a 30% trade tariff her country was being slapped with. Trump responded by raising the tariff by 9%. Trump claimed the world leader was “very aggressive” on the phone lead to a steeper punishment tariff, at least temporarily.
Opinion by Ashley Brasfield

President Donald Trump’s nominee, Jeremy Carl, is going on offense after Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused him of white supremacy.

Carl, Trump’s nominee to serve as assistant secretary of state for international organizations, was accused by Schumer in a post on X of having “a long history of racist, white supremacist, and antisemitic views,” stating that disqualifies him from serving in State Department.

“Jeremy Carl’s nomination should go no further, and he should be forced to answer during testimony for his long history of violent, racist, and antisemitic rhetoric,” Schumer wrote.
Story by Troy Matthews

The January jobs report was released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and while the monthly jobs numbers were a positive sign for the economy, a deeper dive into the report revealed a remarkable revision of the data from last year:

Total seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs numbers for the year 2025 were revised down from an initially reported +584,000 jobs added, to just +181,000 added for the entire year. Meaning 2025 was the worst year for jobs growth since 2003.

Since Donald Trump entered office, the economy has added only 359,000 jobs total, averaging an abysmal +30,000 jobs gained per month.
Story by Kathryn Palmer, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump is urging lawmakers to pass a voter ID bill that has caught heat in the past for provisions that several voting rights groups warn could lead to voter disenfranchisement, including among married women.

The SAVE America Act, which passed in the GOP-led House of Representatives last year but has since stalled in the Senate, is again at the center of discussions on Capitol Hill after it returned to the House floor. Lawmakers are expected to vote Feb. 11 on the legislation, which would require people provide proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and demand voters show a government-issued photo ID that proves their citizenship to cast their ballots.

Supporters call the efforts a security measure and say they're trying to reinforce laws that will bar noncitizens from voting. However, voting rights advocates say it's exceedingly rare for noncitizens to vote and such anomalies aren't pervasive enough to to influence election outcomes. These groups, including the Brennan Center for Justice, say the laws could make it more difficult for millions of Americans to cast a ballot, especially younger voters and voters of color.

Millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports would also face extra hurdles to register to vote and cast their ballots.
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