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Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Today, Propublica has identified the two CBP agents that murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez; the DOJ released their final and incomplete production of the Epstein Files; every single Senate Democrat and two Republicans voted to defund ICE but Republicans blocked the amendment; ICE has expanded their power to arrest people without warrants; four Black independent journalists were arrested for covering a church protest; Bovino mocked a prosecutor's Jewish faith during a call with lawyers; ICE shattered someone’s skull and then told the hospital they did it to themselves; massive peaceful protests erupted across the country against ICE and Customs and Border Protection; the top FBI agent in Atlanta has been sacked after refusing to go along with the Fulton County election office raid; a Texas Democrat who was outspent 20 to 1 has flipped the District 9 State Senate seat with a 30 point swing in a stunning upset; five year old Liam Ramos and his father have been released from the Dilley concentration camp and are back home in Minneapolis; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Files Tipster Tells Me About Her Friend Being Trafficked to Epstein Through Trump Modeling Agency
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting | ProPublica
Here’s What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents | The New York Times
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants | The New York Times
Don Lemon arrested after covering protest at Minnesota church | NBC News
Takeaways from AP report on ICE claims that immigrant shattered his skull running into wall | AP News
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers | The New York Times
Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe | MSNOW
Partial government shutdown begins as funding lapses despite Senate deal |CBS News
Protesters take to streets in U.S. to decry ICE tactics in Minneapolis | The Washington Post
Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset | Texas Tribune
Preschooler Liam Ramos and father land in Minneapolis after being released from immigration detention | CNN
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Allison is in contact with one of the complainants from the Epstein tips documents released this week, and shares what she told the FBI; so where is the 302? 
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative leave; federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government wide email for privacy concerns; Republican state attorneys general are pressuring Costco to drop their DEI programs; Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN; Trump has moved to fire Dem members of the EEOC and NLRB; six transgender service members are suing Trump and Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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Stories:
Republican attorneys general call out Costco for maintaining DEI policies - Kate Gibson | CBS News
More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave - Abigail Williams, Vaughn Hillyard and Raquel Coronell Uribe | NBC News
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal - MIKE STOBBE | AP News
Trump administration will offer the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign - Garrett Haake and Amanda Terkel | NBC News
Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns - Tierney Sneed | CNN Politics
D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending - Daniel Barnes | NBC News
Dem AGs set to challenge Trump’s ‘clearly unlawful’ federal aid freeze - KYLE CHENEY | POLITICO
Six active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's transgender troop ban - TARA COPP | AP News

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
In the Hot Notes: the Manhattan DA has impaneled a special grand jury to return indictments on Donald Trump himself; a Mark Meadows ally is set to plead guilty to campaign finance charges; House Republicans are rebuffed again by the DoJ this time in the Biden documents investigation; a bi-partisan House panel has voted unanimously to intervene in the DoJ’s efforts to get access to Rep. Scott Perry’s phone; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Friday, January 30th, 2026
Today, Democrats in the Senate have blocked the government funding package over ICE/CBP; Pam Bondi has appointed a special attorney to oversee Trump's probe into fake 2020 election fraud claims; the Justice Department has filed federal charges against the man who attacked Ilhan Omar; a former deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonya Massey; the 9th Circuit says DHS illegally ended the Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status program; and the Federal Reserve says it won’t cut interest rates this month; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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UPDATED:Democrats Reach Spending Deal With Trump, Seeking to Rein in ICE - The New York Times
DHS Illegally Ended Venezuelan Migrant Status, 9th Cir. Says (1) | Bloomberg Law
Bondi Hands St. Louis Prosecutor Nationwide Election Fraud Remit | Bloomberg Law
Former Illinois sheriff's deputy sentenced to 20 years for murder of Sonya Massey | NBC News
 
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