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As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme - Trump and a world in turmoil' - to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studios

Martin Rowson has been drawing for the Guardian since the 1980s; Ella Baron since 2022. In paint and pixels, each is tasked with capturing the chaos and absurdity of our political momentPhotographs and video by David Levene

This live blog is now closed.Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States have begun in Abu Dhabi, according to the United Arab Emirates' ministry of foreign affairs.The UAE is hosting a rare set of trilateral talks, bringing together negotiators from Russia, Ukraine, and the US. The talks have started today, and are scheduled to continue over the next two days. Continue reading...

Starmer suggested Trump should apologise for claiming Nato troops stayed a little off the frontlines' - key US politics stories from 23 January at a glanceThe UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of diminishing" the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from UK political leaders and families of veterans over his comments about Nato troops.In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump said: [Nato will] say they sent some troops to Afghanistan ... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines." Continue reading...

DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge's orderFederal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday and transported them to Texas, according to court records and the family's lawyers.The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center. Continue reading...

Release of third activist, William Kelly, also involved in the demonstrations was also ordered by a judgeNekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen, who were arrested and charged for their role in an anti-ICE demonstration that disrupted Sunday church services in St Paul, Minnesota, have been released.Video of the two women posted online showed them emerging from detention on Friday, raising their fists and embracing their loved ones. Thank you all for being here," Levy Armstrong said. Glory to God!" Continue reading...

The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years agoThis week, ICE's detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image of the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement. Furious critics, including many local politicians, seized on Liam Ramos's ordeal as glaring evidence that Trump's mass deportation campaign has little to do with crime and a lot to do with terrorizing children and their families.A homeland security spokesperson said ICE officers took the boy into custody only after his father fled during an attempted arrest. The superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied. Continue reading...

Since September, military has carried out more than 30 strikes against boats that it alleges smuggle drugsThe US military said on Friday that it carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people.Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the US Southern Command said in a statement. Continue reading...

Snow, sleet and freezing temperatures are forecast for the south, midwest and east coast over the weekendThe dangerous monster storm threatening half of the US was on Friday bearing down, with 16 states and Washington DC already declaring emergencies and areas typically unused to prolonged Arctic temperatures bracing for power failures and supply shortages.At least 230 million people are likely to be affected by the huge winter weather system as it forms in parts of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and surges across southern and midwestern areas from Friday, blowing up the east coast on Saturday and as far north as Maine by Sunday. Continue reading...

Review of case found problems with statements from police officer who claimed victim had identified her attackerNearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent of the killing of a white woman in Dallas.Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker. Continue reading...

Autopsy report concluded Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died from asphyxia due to neck and torso compression'The death of a Cuban migrant inside a Texas immigration detention facility has been officially classified as a homicide, according to an El Paso county autopsy report.Wednesday's autopsy report from the El Paso county medical examiner's office concluded that Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died from asphyxia due to neck and torso compression", according to Adam Gonzalez, a deputy medical examiner. Continue reading...

Gregory Bovino's outwear choice prompts German commentators to compare it to fascist aestheticA greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic.Bovino has been an increasingly recognisable figure during the raids in Minneapolis for the brass-buttoned, calf-length olive green coat, which is unlike the fatigues and body armor worn by many of the federal agents. Continue reading...

Sea lion named Confetti was rescued early January and has really great chance' of being released, marine biologist saysA rescued sea lion is recovering in Los Angeles after a marine care center discovered he had two bullets in his head.The sea lion, named Confetti, was rescued from Ballona creek, a watershed connected to the Santa Monica bay, on 5 January, the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles announced on Thursday. Continue reading...

As a lightning government offensive leaves the Kurdish-dominated SDF reeling, the political horizon needs attention as well as securityIn little more than a fortnight, a dramatic Syrian government offensive appears to have undone over a decade of Kurdish self-rule in the north-east and extended President Ahmed al-Sharaa's control. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) held around a quarter of the country and many critical resources - but were forced out of much of it within days. Though the SDF has effectively agreed to dissolution in principle, it has not shown it will do so in practice: a worrying sign for a fragile truce. A peaceful resolution is in everyone's interests. Forcible integration by Damascus would risk breeding insurgency.The US relied upon the SDF in the battle against Islamic State. But Donald Trump has embraced attractive, tough" Mr Sharaa - a former jihadist who had a $10m US bounty on his head until late 2024. The US administration became increasingly frustrated at the SDF's failure to implement last spring's agreement to integration into the new army, apparently due to internal divisions. Tom Barrack, the US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey, wrote this week that the rationale for partnership with the SDF had largely expired" because Damascus was ready to take over security responsibilities. Continue reading...

Outside Atlanta, the Godfreys are caught in a cycle of job loss and eviction. That stress has implications for the kidsAt the end of a long day at school, 14-year-old Na'Kaya Godfrey, and her 12-year-old brother, Junior, returned home to a dark, empty house in Stone Mountain, Georgia, outside Atlanta.On this dreary winter afternoon, she turned on the space heaters that provide the only warmth in the unheated house, the latest in a long succession of homes the family has occupied during her short life. An inspirational sign on her dresser read Home, Sweet Home". But it doesn't mean much to her. Asked how many places her family has lived, Na'Kaya guessed: At least 25." Continue reading...

From derailing meetings by telling fictional stories about serial killers to Davos, the president has left people confused and concernedDonald Trump vowed to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars" during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to otherworldly achievements.But during the first year of his second term, it is on the planet Earth where Trump has sought to plant the US flag. He has deployed troops to US cities, as waves of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorize communities. Trump has ordered the invasion of Venezuela and the capture of its leader, is engaged in ongoing saber-rattling over Greenland, and has threatened historic US allies should they oppose his efforts to seize the autonomous territory of the Danish kingdom. He has amplified online claims that Nato is a bigger threat to the US than historical adversaries China and Russia. Continue reading...

The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the goodThe temptation is strong to hope that the storm has passed. To believe that a week that began with a US threat to seize a European territory, whether by force or extortion, has ended with the promise of negotiation and therefore a return to normality. But that is a dangerous delusion. There can be no return to normality. The world we thought we knew has gone. The only question now is what takes its place - a question that will affect us all, that is full of danger and that, perhaps unexpectedly, also carries a whisper of hope.Forget that Donald Trump eventually backed down from his threats to conquer Greenland, re-holstering the economic gun he had put to the head of all those countries who stood in his way, the UK among them. The fact that he made the threat at all confirmed what should have been obvious since he returned to office a year ago: that, under him, the US has become an unreliable ally, if not an actual foe of its one-time friends.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Worker illegally provided classified information related to national defense' to journalist, justice department saysA federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an outrageous" FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter's home.According to the justice department, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones illegally provided sensitive and secret information related to national defense" to a reporter who it says then wrote and published at least five articles using it. Continue reading...

Dissenting voices were few and far between as the US president brought his smash-and-grab politics to the WEFIf we're not at the table, we're on the menu." The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was the darling of Davos this week as he rallied resistance to Donald Trump's smash and grab politics and his voracious appetite for other countries' wealth and land.Call it what it is," he told delegates. A system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion". He urged middle powers" to band together or be crushed, and was rewarded with a standing ovation. Continue reading...

More than $1m has been raised by Elon Musk and others to commission sterile' street art of Iryna Zarutska - whose death has become a rightwing flashpointLike most blocks in Bushwick, New York, Evergreen Street is blanketed in street art and graffiti. But this month, an incongruous new mural appeared, towering over the street corner. Painted on the side of Formosa, a popular Taiwanese dumpling joint, the image of a blond woman stretches across two stories and an entire apartment block, her right eyebrow fractured by bedroom windows.The mural is one of a number that have been painted across the US depicting Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was killed last year while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. Zarutska was traveling home from her job at a local pizzeria when she was stabbed from behind three times. Continue reading...

Does a society truly become safer when part of its population learns to live in constant fear?On 15 June 2025, the Trump administration issued an official statement directing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to begin what it described as the largest mass deportation operation in American history". Major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York were identified as primary targets. The stated goal was to keep communities safe and free from illegal alien crime, conflict, and chaos". Federal agents rapidly became a part of many residents' everyday lives.No stable state can protect its borders, public order and the legitimate interests of its citizens without immigration law and effective enforcement mechanisms.Abdul Wahid Gulrani is a political sociologist from Afghanistan, whose work focuses on migration, gender and national security. He is currently engaged in teaching and research at Georgetown University and The George Washington University Continue reading...

Conservative communities accept president's arguments for why the US needs the Arctic island as genuineOwen Strickland's life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics. But this particular moment has been giving his political science degree - with a concentration in national security policy and international relations - a workout.Donald Trump's call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president's supporters in conservative communities - to the degree that this issue has their attention at all - are apt to accept his political argument as genuine. Continue reading...

British hopes in the singles ended with Cameron Norrie's four-set defeat by Alexander Zverev, on a night when Alex De Minaur and Mirra Andreeva won in straight setsNorrie and Zverev are going through the pre-match formalities. The umpire tells the players to smile big for the cameras. Not sure how easy that is for Norrie, given the British No 2, the last Brit standing in the singles, has lost to Zverev in all six of their previous meetings. The last time they played at the Australian Open was in 2024, when Norrie was denied 7-6 in the fifth set. But Norrie will at least take something from the fact he was able to push Zverev all the way then, and the fact that this is a night match, with slightly slower conditions, may help Norrie, because the rallies will be longer and more attritional and that's what he loves.

Elizabeth Warren and others call for inquiry into Trump for diverting tax evasion resources to immigration crackdownSenator Elizabeth Warren and fellow Democrats have accused Donald Trump of letting white collar criminals off the hook" by diverting crucial resources to his sweeping immigration crackdown.In a letter to federal watchdogs, the Democrats demand an investigation into the US president for shifting more than 25,000 personnel away from investigating fraud, tax evasion and money laundering in favour of his immigration enforcement agenda. Continue reading...

I have joined the Guardian today as an assistant sports editor in the United States. This is why I do what I doWhen I was a kid, I was drawn to stories that involved a good treasure hunt.Favorite movie: National Treasure, the 2004 Nicolas Cage classic. Favorite book series: The 39 Clues. Favorite puzzle: a word search. Dream book project: a hunt for a treasure hidden across Olympic host cities - and naturally, a companion series involving World Cup stadiums. (There's still time!)Ella joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. She arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondents Pablo Iglesias Maurer and Jeff Rueter. She is based in Washington DC. Continue reading...

I have joined the Guardian today as a soccer correspondent in the United States. This is why I cover the sportAs the shootout loomed to close the 1999 Women's World Cup, millions of US women's national team fans fought their nerves. But at our family's watch party in central Minnesota, nobody doubted the USWNT's chances.My relatives - all soccer fans - were fixated upon the action as each second passed, as is the nature of a soccer family like mine. As extra time progressed, they reassured me, aged five, that our team was in control. I wasn't exactly locked in to the match - it was summer in Minnesota, and my brother and sister had our own ball to kick around - but I clearly remember my family's confidence in that moment.Jeff joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. He arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondent Pablo Iglesias Maurer and assistant sports editor Ella Brockway. He is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Continue reading...

I have joined the Guardian today as a soccer correspondent in the United States. This is why I cover the sportThere's an old pennant hanging on the wall of my office here in Washington DC, tucked between a poster of indoor soccer legend Steve Zungul and a photo of Pele riding a horse. Soccer," it reads, the sport of the 80s."For a century or so, soccer was always the sport of the next decade. Clear-thinking businesspeople tried everything to sell it to Americans, but soccer was always considered too foreign and exotic, an activity best practiced and consumed by outsiders. Even in the mid-80s, when I started playing, it was still very much othered. It's what drew me to the sport in the first place.Pablo joins the Guardian as part of our ongoing expansion covering soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 World Cup. He arrives alongside two other new hires: soccer correspondent Jeff Rueter and assistant sports editor Ella Brockway. He is based in Washington DC. Continue reading...

In New Haven, where one in six residents is foreign born, children's education suffers as they are afraid to step outThey took her, they took her, they took her."Those were some of the words Cora Munoz, the Wilbur Cross high school assistant principal, could discern while on the phone with the guardian of one of her students. As the caller sobbed and struggled to speak, Munoz realized that immigration enforcement agents had detained a kid from Wilbur Cross, the high school she helps lead. Continue reading...

New York mayor was joined by Senator Bernie Sanders at a Tuesday rally with nurses as strike entered second weekNew York City may be experiencing some of its coldest weather of the winter, with sub-zero temperatures biting fingers and nipping cheeks, but that hasn't prevented thousands of nurses from taking to the picket line for what is the largest nurses strike in the city's history.Almost 15,000 nurses who work for three separate hospital systems have been on strike since 12 January, holding out for increased staffing, better safety in hospitals, and improved healthcare benefits. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has pointed to the giant pay packages that hospital CEOs have received, at a time when nurses say there are too few of them to adequately care for patients. Continue reading...

US president's $5bn lawsuit against JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon follows a steady rise in tensions between the two menWeeks after Donald Trump's first shock election win, bosses from across corporate America were scrambling to enter the president's orbit.Business leaders ranging from the General Motors boss, Mary Barra, to Disney's chief, Bob Iger, quickly signed up to a new advisory council in 2016 to help shape the aggressively pro-growth policies of this new populist politician. Among them was the head of America's largest bank: Jamie Dimon, the chair and chief executive of JP Morgan. Continue reading...

As some medical groups cave to the Trump administration, the American College of OB-GYNs is taking a standWhen Steven Fleischman took over as president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in 2025, he knew that controversy was practically part of the job description. But the Connecticut-based physician at Yale University School of Medicine never predicted that things would get this dire.As the premier membership group for US-based OB-GYNs, ACOG provides its more than 62,000 members with clinical guidance, educational opportunities and career help. It also advocates for abortion rights - a stance that has long made the organization far more politically active than many other major medical societies. And in the last year, the nonpartisan organization has become a leading voice in the fight against Donald Trump's anti-science crusade and the US government's embrace of medical misinformation, especially on the topic of pregnancy and childbirth. Continue reading...

Blues' record signing on adapting to English football culture, the challenge of leaving family behind and being well taught by Sonia BompastorAlyssa Thompson is no stranger to the limelight. Despite being only 21, her undeniable natural talent and eyecatching career have propelled her into the headlines ever since her hometown club, Angel City, made her the first pick in the 2023 National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) draft.The past few months, however, have provided the USA international with a different challenge altogether. A high-profile deadline day move to the English champions, Chelsea, in September meant leaving her family and the comforts of Los Angeles and testing herself overseas. Continue reading...

Once a nearly man of US sprinting, Marvin Bracy-Williams' ban has exposed a sport gripped by doping, distrust and whispered betrayalsMarvin Bracy-Williams dreamed of ranking in the pantheon of elite male US sprinters alongside Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene. He's quick - 9.85sec for 100m - but his problem was he could only ever finish second: silver at the world indoors in 2014, silver at the world championships in 2022.When he didn't even make the USA team for the 2023 world championships he realized that, at 29, he was losing the most important contest of all, the race against time. Continue reading...

The Super Bowl match-up will be set this weekend as a weakened Denver take on New England and two NFC West rivals clash in SeattleWhat New England need to do to win: Clean up their act. Last week against the Houston Texans, Drake Maye was blindsided too often by edge rushers Will Anderson and Danielle Hunter. The pair wreaked havoc, sacking Maye five times and forcing him into three of his four fumbles. The Los Angeles Chargers also forced two from him in the wildcard round. Denver led the league in sacks (68) in the regular season, and will be intent on causing similar damage on Sunday. But Maye can mitigate that threat if he sharpens his awareness in the pocket and takes the sack rather than rushing into impossible passes. New England's left tackle Will Campbell is very likely to lose a couple of duels with edge defender Nick Bonitto, so Maye needs to be ready for a helmet sandwich while holding on to the ball for dear life. Simply punting and giving Denver's second-string quarterback, Jarrett Stidham, tough field position may be all it takes to reach the Super Bowl. Continue reading...

As long as you want to work and have wisdom to offer, you should continue to do so. Although some on the world stage outstay their welcomeSo Prue Leith is standing down from The Great British Bake Off. She has done nine years and feels it to be the right time to step back" and spend summers enjoying my garden". Her fans and her friends will be sorry to see her go and will wish her well. The only thing they might question is her throwaway justification, I'm 86, for goodness sake."What has that to do with it? Ever since the Equality Act of 2010, various discriminations in employment have been illegal. They included those based on ethnicity, gender, faith and age.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist and the author of A Short History of America: From Tea Party to TrumpDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Since the end of the second world war, all eyes have been on Russia. Yet Trump's increasingly erratic, hostile presidency is shattering old assumptionsOne of the things that the depleted, often denigrated British state is still pretty good at is persuading the public that another country is a threat. As a small, warlike island next to a much larger land mass, Britain has had centuries of practice at cultivating its own sense of foreboding. Arguably, preparing for conflict with some part of the outside world is our natural mindset.Warnings about potential enemy countries are spread by our prime ministers and major political parties, intelligence services and civil servants, serving and retired military officers, defence and foreign affairs thinktanks, and journalists from the right and the left. Sometimes, the process is relatively subtle and covert: reporters or MPs are given off-the-record briefings about our national security" - a potently imprecise term - facing a new threat.Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Keep Calm and Carry On: that's not how people felt as the second world war loomed. But maybe, as Trump stalks, that old slogan is finally making senseIt has become known as the war of nerves". An apt name for a jittery, jangling time in British history, consumed with fear of what may be coming, in which the sheer unpredictability of life became - as the historian Prof Julie Gottlieb writes - a form of psychological warfare. Contemporary reports describe threats of mysterious weapons, gigantic bluff, and a cat-and-mouse game intended to stampede the civilian population of this island into terror".It all sounds uncannily like life under Donald Trump, who this week marched the world uphill to war, only to amble just as inexplicably back down again. But Gottlieb is actually describing the period between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the blitz beginning in earnest in September 1940. Her fascinating study of letters, diaries and newspapers from the period focuses not on the big geopolitical picture but on small domestic details, and what they reveal about the emotional impact of living suspended between peace and war: companies advertising nerve tonics" for the anxious, reports of women buying hats to lift their spirits and darker accounts of nervous breakdowns. We did not, contrary to popular myth, all Keep Calm and Carry On. Suicide rates, she notes, rose slightly.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.orgGaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz defeats Corentin Moutet of France in three sets after women's No 1 Aryna Sabalenka also progressedSabalenka (1) 5-6 7-6 (7-4) Potapova* Potapova moves ahead. Wowee.Hawkeye shows us that the barest of margins has seen her go long to give up the first point but she brings it back level on the next after an unforced error from Sabalenka. A big forearm winner then gets the Austrian ahead, which is followed by a backhand driven beyond Sabalenka and a big serve that cannot be returned to tee up the hold. Continue reading...

So much for the Trump trade' - investors are moving money out of US assets amid tariff disputes, attacks on the Federal Reserve and concerns over government debt levels

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Some international leaders worry Trump's new organization may attempt to supplant the United Nations - key US politics stories from 22 January at a glanceDonald Trump has claimed the world is richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago" as he hosted a launch event for his board of peace" initiative at the World Economic Forum in Davos.At a signing ceremony for the new organisation, the US president said it would be one of the most consequential bodies ever created in the history of the world". Continue reading...

While leaders of many liberal democracies declined to sign on, Mark Carney had, before Davos, accepted in principleDonald Trump withdrew on Thursday an invitation for Canada to join his board of peace" initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post directed at the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney. Continue reading...

CEO of UnitedHealth Group said his company will return profits earned from Affordable Care Act plans to customersExecutives from five of the country's largest health insurance companies appeared before Congress on Thursday as lawmakers examined why healthcare has become increasingly harder for Americans to afford.In one effort to address the affordability crisis, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, Stephen Hemsley, announced that the nation's largest insurance company will rebate profits made this year from its Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans to customers, while adding it was a relatively small participant in the ACA individual market. Continue reading...

Acquittal of Juan Espinoza Martinez in Chicago marks latest major federal prosecution to fall apart in courtA man accused of a murder-for-hire plot targeting a top US border patrol leader was found not guilty on Thursday in Chicago, the latest high-profile prosecution by the Department of Justice to fall apart in court.The government alleged that Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, had offered a $10,000 bounty over Snapchat in October for the killing of Gregory Bovino, the border patrol official who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations in cities across the country. Defense lawyers argued Espinoza Martinez was sharing an innocuous social media message that did not constitute a threat. Continue reading...

Outrage mounts over ICE violence but seven Democrats vote with Republicans as funding bill passes 220-207House Republicans overcame widespread Democratic opposition on Thursday to approve a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency spearheading Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.The 220-207 vote, with seven Democrats joining nearly all Republicans, came amid mounting outrage over its heavy-handed and violent tactics in Minnesota and elsewhere. Continue reading...