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Almanac for Jan. 30, 2026

Today is Friday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2026. There are 335 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Also on this date: In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason. In 1835, in the first-known attempt to assassinate a U.S. president, an unemployed house painter tried to kill President Andrew Jackson, but both of the attacker's pistols misfired and he was tackled as Jackson was safely hustled away. In 1933, Adolf ...

Minnesota’s campaign for interposition and nullification

Thomas Jefferson doesn't have much in common with Tim Walz, but in his more radical moments, the Sage of Monticello might have appreciated the spirit of the Minnesota governor's campaign to resist federal immigration enforcement. In 1798, Jefferson authored a first draft of the Kentucky ...

Partial federal shutdown seems increasingly likely

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a partial government shutdown looms at week's end, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has laid out a list of demands for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement ...

The wrong narrative about Minneapolis

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who, according to DHS and ICE officials, was used as “bait” to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be arrested. Some claimed the child had ...

Minneapolis shooting scrambles 2nd Amendment politics for Trump

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration's characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he ...

Almanac for Jan. 28, 2026

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2026. There are 337 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven crew members including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Also on this date: In 1547, England's King Henry VIII died at age 55; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI. In 1813, the novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen was first published, anonymously, in London. In 1922, 98 people were killed when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in ...