CHICAGO — With frigid temperatures sweeping into the region, Chicagoans are being asked to take precautions and make alternate plans as the brutal cold closes area schools and sinks plans for a weekend polar plunge.

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme cold warning from 3 a.m. Friday until noon for central Cook County, including...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The head of Minnesota’s prison system accused U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, officials of spreading “misinformation” by falsely saying the state releases “criminal illegal aliens” to the public rather than turning them over to immigration officials.

At a news conference Thursday, Corrections Commissioner...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Immigrant rights advocates and nonprofits in Northern California have been responding to the mass U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids happening throughout the country.

Within the last three weeks ICE has made arrests at Immigration Courts in Sacramento and Los Angeles protests over immigration raids continue.

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A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday officially dismissed a lawsuit that led to her landmark injunction limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

Though U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis agreed to dismiss the case “without prejudice,” which leaves open the possibility that the claims could be reinstated, ...Read more

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier. But it was a rather different collection of characters who showed up.

Among those summoned were the iconoclastic Javier Milei, the ever-smiling Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. wants to rewrite its defense agreement with Denmark to remove any limits on its military presence in Greenland, people familiar with the matter said, in what’s become a focal point for negotiators looking to meet President Donald Trump’s demand for control over the territory.

The original agreement, signed in 1951 ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers rejected draft legislation Thursday to eliminate the Idaho Commission of Hispanic Affairs, which serves as a bridge between the government and the state’s growing Latino population.

The move comes after the Legislature’s Elon Musk-emulating DOGE committee looked into the commission. DOGE refers to the ...Read more

NORKOLK, Va. — Virginians could vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow the Democrat-controlled General Assembly to redraw congressional maps April 21. Del. Luke Torian, a Democrat, introduced legislation that would schedule the ballot referendum accordingly.

According to the bill, voters would be asked this question:

“Should ...Read more

Gov. Hochul Thursday sought to gather support for a slate of proposals to reduce the cost of automobile insurance in the Empire State.

“We’re here to continue our journey to drive down costs for New Yorkers,” Hochul told reporters on Wards Island Thursday. “When new Yorkers are paying their bills, there’s yet another bill that keeps ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen in connection with the disruption of a church service on Jan. 18.

A third arrest of a protester involved was announced later on Jan. 22.

Attorney General Pam Bondi in a post on X ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have been racing against the clock to fund the government and avoid another shutdown by the month’s end, but they are now facing an irregular opponent: Mother Nature herself.

Weather forecasters are predicting that the Washington, D.C., area might become the bullseye of a winter storm that could blanket the area in ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Corrections contacted all county jails in the state Monday to ask how many people in custody had immigration detention holds. The number totaled 94, Corrections Commissioners Paul Schnell said Thursday.

Combined with the 207 people with immigration holds in Minnesota prisons, the number is about 1...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has finished interviewing candidates to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair and reiterated that he has someone in mind for the job.

“I’ll be telling you soon. I have somebody that I think will be very good but I’m not going to reveal it,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

“It’s someone...Read more

LARGO, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced a $164.6 million investment to combat an epidemic of respiratory illness in Maryland. Since September, 41 adults have died from influenza, and over 4,200 individuals have been hospitalized, according to data from the Maryland Department of Health.

The number of individuals receiving COVID-19 ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will take aim at a contracting program that’s become a critical part of the business portfolios for many Alaska Native corporations.

“We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media on Jan. 16, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance acknowledged chaos in Minneapolis during the federal government’s immigration enforcement surge but said the operation would be smoother with better cooperation from local officials.

Speaking to reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday, Jan. 22, Vance said he doesn’t think the president needs to invoke ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said at a news conference.

Asked whether agents had a targeted end date or arrest quota for Operation Metro Surge, the name given to the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota, Bovino said the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was being deliberately provocative when he released a memo on Martin Luther King Jr. Day stating he wouldn’t enforce or defend dozens of laws that mention race, the Florida House minority leader said Thursday.

“I think he did it, basically, to flaunt that he has the power and to do it ...Read more

Cops arrested a pair of teen vandals Thursday and charged them with desecrating a Brooklyn playground in a Jewish neighborhood with more than 50 swastikas during a two-day attack, police and city officials said.

The swastikas were drawn with red, yellow and blue paint on slides, playground equipment and the handball court at Gravesend Park at ...Read more