During a call between Gov. Tim Walz and President Donald Trump Monday morning, Trump said he will look into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota and talk to Homeland Security about independent Minnesota investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, according to a statement from Walz’s office.

With roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026, Bolts reviews the map and early hotspots that will shape criminal punishment and law enforcement practices.

A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health.

Grammy-winning producer and drummer Sly Dunbar — one half of the Jamaican duo Sly and Robbie — has died aged 73, DancehallMag has confirmed. Alongside bassist Robbie Shakespeare, who died in 2021, Dunbar formed the most influential rhythm section in Jamaican music history, helping to define the sound of reggae, dub, and dancehall across five decades.

The power is out. TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing a transaction that changed the ownership of its US arm. According to Downdetector, the issues initially spiked in the early hours of Sunday morning, but many users, including editors here at The Verge, are still reporting errors. On Monday morning, TikTok USDS head of communications Jamie Favazza responded to our inquiries, pointing to a post on a newly-created X account for the US joint venture that said its current issues are the result of a data center power outage.

Eight men linked to a violent racist skinhead group are in jail in the U.S. South on felony conspiracy charges or awaiting extradition for hate crimes against Jewish and LGBTQ+ targets, Raw Story has learned. Five North Carolina men, ranging in age from 18 to 22 and described in court filings as “supporters of the Vinlanders Social Club/Firm 22 and members of the Southern Sons, all known white supremacist/nazi groups,” were arrested on Jan. 21 and booked into the Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Charlotte, N.C. Court documents suggest charges may follow for three others detained outside North Carolina.

The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

Workers can no longer count on the Department of Labor.

Senior White House aide Stephen Miller is claiming, without evidence, that the US citizen shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday was a “domestic terrorist” who “tried to assassinate federal law endorsement.” Miller’s claim came just hours after the shooting of the 37-year-old man. An investigation has not played out, and the circumstances of the shooting are still unclear. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the suspect, who the agency said was armed, “violently resisted” attempts by federal law enforcement officers to disarm and “an agent fired defensive shots.”

Tommy Lee Walker was declared "innocent" by a Dallas court 70 years after he was executed for the rape and murder of Venice Parker.

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral. Less than a month after demanding the release of a North Texas father detained by ICE, the disabled son of that man has died, the family confirmed. According to a press release, Wael Tarabishi was pronounced dead at about 1:55 p.m. Friday in the ICU at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center. He was 30. "Today, he passed without his beloved father, primary caretaker and constant life companion, Maher, by his side," the Tarabishi family said in a press release. "Now, Wael’s family calls on ICE — and all other agencies and officials with applicable power — to release Maher Tarabishi so that he may attend his son’s funeral." Wael Tarabishi was a U.S. citizen living with Pompe disease, his family says. At the end of last year, after his father's arrest, his family said he had been rushed to the hospital twice.

The chair of a U.S. government vaccine advisory panel questioned broad vaccine recommendations for polio and other childhood diseases and said promoting individual choice, not public health, is the key aim of the panel, drawing a rebuke on Friday from the nation's top doctors group. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who was named chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in December, made the comments in a Thursday interview on the podcast, "Why Should I Trust You?" Vaccination against some diseases, like polio, could be reconsidered given advances in medical care, said Milhoan, who joined the committee after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, fired all previous members in June.

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Trump’s goons thought they could push around a blue city. They came in for a nasty shock.

The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges.

Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.

Tony Dokoupil and Bari Weiss’s new broadcast has been one debacle after another. Let's try to make sense of it all, with or without whiskey.

Film writer Will Sloan argues that he'd take "the worst film by Ed Wood over every film by Ron Howard." He makes the case for an infamously "bad" director.

On the ground in Minneapolis, watching out for ICE at every corner, crosswalk, church, and school.

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Perhaps it was for the best.