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This 2028 Republican hopeful just got an ominous sign from a GOP focus group

Vice President JD Vance is an obvious frontrunner to succeed President Donald Trump in 2028 — but a new focus group already suggests danger signs for the GOP if he becomes the nominee.

According to Politico, a newly held focus group session with nine young male Trump supporters, by Trump-skeptical GOP strategist Sarah Longwell, revealed that only one of them had any interest in supporting Vance for president — and many had clear reservations about him.

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MAGA commentator Scott Jennings scolded into silence on CNN

CNN commentators Scott Jennings and Kate Bedingfield clashed Friday during a live broadcast, stunning the controversial pundit into silence.

Bedingfield, former Biden White House communications director, and Jennings were part of a panel discussing the aggressive tactics employed by ICE agents in Minnesota when Jennings tried to defend the Trump administration's actions — saying people were not understanding President Donald Trump's messaging — when Bedingfield questioned his response. Both tried to comment on the scrutiny the administration has faced in a fiery back-and-forth.

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Pam Bondi vows to block Jack Smith's unreleased report forever 'in the dustbin of history'

The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi intends to leave the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith's report in "the dustbin of history."

On the second day of President Donald Trump's second term, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ordered that the DOJ could not release the report concerning the alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

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Supreme Court's 'beyond stupid' ruling poised to get exposed by blue state: expert

A gun law passed by Hawaii is testing the Supreme Court’s position in a ruling critics say relied on "beyond stupid" logic to gut modern firearms regulations.

In his latest column, legal commentator Elie Mystal, a columnist for The Nation, tore into the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle Association v. Bruen, a ruling that he told readers on Friday “eviscerated gun regulations in this country” by demanding they resemble regulations from the 18th century.

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'Doesn't look good': MAGA lawmaker dressed down as TV host rattles off ICE horror stories

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) got a hard grilling on MS NOW's "Katy Tur Reports" on Friday after he backed a Homeland Security funding bill that boosts funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by another $10 billion despite mounting controversy over their tactics and abuses of basic constitutional rights.

"Why does ICE need more money?" asked Tur.

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FEMA told to ban the word 'ice' during massive winter storm to avoid memes: report

Homeland Security authorities were reportedly telling the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday not to use the word "ice" in its public messaging as a monster storm was expected to hit the United States.

Two people who were familiar with the command told CNN that federal officials were worried that using the word while states brace for the frigid weather could create confusion or even mockery online — specifically memes — amid the federal agency's aggressive tactics that have come under public scrutiny.

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'Monster behavior': ICE ambushes family at hospital as 7-year-old denied emergency care

Advocates sounded the alarm Friday over federal agents’ arrest last week of a family of legal asylum-seekers apprehended just outside a Portland, Oregon, hospital where they had rushed their 7-year-old daughter for emergency medical treatment.

Yohendry De Jesus Crespo and his wife Darianny Liseth González de Crespo—Venezuelans with pending asylum claims living in Gresham, Oregon—were rushing their daughter Diana to Adventist Hospital in Portland on Jan. 16 as the child suffered an unstoppable nosebleed.

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US citizen dragged in underwear out into freezing cold mistaken by ICE for man in prison

A U.S. citizen who immigration agents dragged outside in his underwear during the freezing cold in Minnesota was mistaken for a man who has already been in prison since 2024, according to reports Friday.

ChongLy Scott Thao, 56, said that ICE agents forced themselves inside his home without a warrant and held him at gunpoint, CBS reported. Thao said the agents then drove him to the "middle of nowhere," where they realized they had mistaken his identity and took him back home.

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Anti-ICE protesters ordered released despite Trump DOJ's fierce push to keep them jailed

U.S. District Court Judge Laura M. Provinzino ordered two people released after the Department of Justice argued they should be held in jail over an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church.

In a nine-page order on Friday, Provinzino asserted that the government did not meet its burden to deny the release of defendants Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen under the Bail Reform Act. Levy-Armstrong and Allen were charged with interfering with the "free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States."

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Enraged Trump warns key ally will now be 'eaten up' by China after rebuffing him

President Donald Trump fired off a scathing post Friday on Truth Social, lambasting Canada for rejecting a proposed "Golden Dome" project over Greenland and cozying up to China instead.

In the bombastic message, Trump claimed the dome would actually benefit America's northern neighbor, yet Canadian officials chose to align with Beijing instead.

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Joe Rogan claims Trump using brutal ICE tactics to bury Epstein files 'on purpose'

Mega podcaster Joe Rogan speculated that President Donald Trump was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics to drown out the coverage of the Department of Justice's refusal to comply with a law requiring the release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During an interview with comedian Ehsan Ahmad this week, Rogan asked whether the DOJ had recently released more Epstein materials after the December deadline.

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Judge shuts down Trump DOJ's bid to snatch swing state voter data in courtroom showdown

A federal judge has rejected the Trump Justice Department's move to demand the state of Georgia hand over sensitive voter data from its election office.

Senior U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal, a George W. Bush appointee in the Middle District of Georgia, concluded that the DOJ filed its motion in the wrong court, and he lacks jurisdiction to even rule on the merits of the request in the first place.

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ICE agents out themselves on LinkedIn as Kristi Noem threatens prosecutions for doxing

ICE agents have reportedly doxed themselves on social media despite claims from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that other people are targeting them online.

ICE employees have apparently posted on social media, including LinkedIn, outing their roles with the agency. At the same time, Noem has threatened that sharing the agent's identities is a crime and has said it's a main reason they wear masks, according to a report this week from Wired.

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