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Opinion

DOJ subpoenas Walz, others in immigration investigation

Local columns

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a person familiar with the matter ...

Almanac for Jan. 21, 2026

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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2026. There are 344 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the ...

Week emphasizes being ‘ready before the call’

Editorial

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed Monday through Sunday as Community Risk Reduction Week in Michigan. The week coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is recognized as a National Day of Service. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is highlighting the week as ...

ICE is law-breaking ‘law enforcement’

Local columns

We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American citizen ...

Europe aims to end reliance on American for security

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BRUSSELS (AP) — "Intimidation," "threats" and "blackmail" are just some of the terms being used by European Union leaders to describe U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he will slap new tariffs on nations opposing American control of Greenland. European language has hardened since ...