“When Trump comes on board we get the art of the deal. And while he is playing golf on various holes, he is threatening Colombia with tariffs and not backing down. And by the end of his golf game, in just about an hour, the Colombian president backs down, agrees to accept all migrants. It’s called the art of the …

The New Jersey Advance reports: The phone at Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails has been ringing off the hook for days. Its email inbox has been flooded with hundreds of passionate messages. The restaurant has been a popular fixture of the Toms River scene for the past 13 years. But attention like this? Never. “It’s a nightmare,” owner Cathy Varriale …

Jacksonville’s Fox affiliate reports: The Vice Chair of the Clay Soil and Water Conservation Board, and son of Clay County School Board Member Beth Clark, was arrested Sunday, January 19th in a child sex sting operation conducted by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. According to the arrest report, Harrison “Ted” Clark is accused of traveling to meet a child for …

Playbook reports: The House GOP will descend upon Miami later today for a policy retreat which will have seismic implications for Trump’s second term. Republican representatives are this morning boarding flights to Florida for a 48-hour retreat at — where else? — the Trump National Doral Miami. The guest of honor will be Trump himself, who is due to address …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: For as long as he can remember, Gunner Joseph Fisher, 18, has thought about mass murder. “When I was a f**king child, before I even got into school, I saw crowds of people and (fantasized) about someone mowing them down.” Driven by a hatred of Jews, African Americans and Muslims, Fisher believed he was “bound to …

CBS News reports: An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts today was centered in York Harbor, Maine according to the United States Geological Survey. It was also felt in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, a USGS map showed. The depth of the earthquake was more than 8 miles underground, according to the USGS. There was no tsunami threat to New England, …

ProPublica reports: Moments before 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow opened fire inside her Madison, Wisconsin, school, killing two people and herself last month, a social media account believed to be hers posted a photograph on X showing someone sitting in a bathroom stall and flashing a hand gesture that has become a symbol for white supremacy. As news about the shooting broke, …

The Arizona Mirror reports: As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensifies its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants throughout the country, concern is rising among Indigenous communities residing in urban areas about reports of Indigenous people being detained in the Valley. Navajo tribal leaders reported that they have received calls and text messages from Navajo people living in urban …

Florida Politics reports: Consistent with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for legislation aligning with what President Donald Trump seeks from state efforts to fight illegal immigration, Spring Hill Republican Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed legislation on Sunday that satisfies a robust range of crackdown targets. Senate Bill 2A offers a version of the “rebuttable presumption” DeSantis wanted, one that assumes detained illegal …

CNN reports: While it is a common safety practice for agents conducting arrests to wear insignias clearly identifying themselves as law enforcement, even agents on the perimeter of operations conducted across the nation have been specifically instructed by their leadership to wear raid jackets to generate possible media attention, sources said. On Sunday, federal agencies released numerous photos on social …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are suggesting violated federal oversight laws. Congress was not given the legally required 30-day notices about the removals — something that even a top Republican is decrying. “There …

The Texas Tribune reports: Republicans are filing bills which aim to claw back vaccine requirements. There is even a House joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution that would preserve Texans’ right to refuse a vaccination. The proposal is among more than 20 bills endorsed by Texans For Vaccine Choice that have been filed, most of them before …

Business Insider reports: Bill Gates doesn’t like how Elon Musk has involved himself in the politics of foreign countries such as the UK and Germany. “It’s really insane that he can destabilize the political situations in countries,” Gates said in an interview with the UK newspaper The Times published Saturday. Musk has become increasingly vocal about his views on UK …

Agence France-Presse reports: Brazil’s government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The foreign ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the “degrading treatment of passengers on the flight”. The spat comes as Latin America grapples with US …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Most troubling is his long record of anti-vaccine advocacy. In the past he has claimed that the measles vaccine causes autism despite reams of studies that have found no causative link, and that the polio vaccine might have killed many more than the actual virus. Deadly infectious diseases disappeared because of better hygiene, …

Reuters reports: The TV host known as “Dr. Phil” embedded with U.S. immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago on Sunday, defending President Donald Trump’s deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end of its first week. Phil McGraw, known as “Dr. Phil” for the eponymous American television series focused on mental health, followed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

The Washington Post reports: The United States and Colombia averted a trade war, for now, after the White House said late Sunday that Bogotá agreed to accept deportation flights from the United States. The two nations had spent much of the day in a tense standoff, with President Donald Trump threatening to impose steep tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia …

Fort Worth’s NBC affiliate reports: Fort Worth Independent School District said it’s investigating a social media post allegedly made by a substitute teacher that encouraged Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, to come to North Side High School. The alleged post by the substitute stated: “Y’all should come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School. I have many students who …

CBS News reports: A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a video shared on social media. Laura Smith resigned from the Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors after a video in which she mimicked a gesture made by Elon Musk. In a statement announcing her resignation, she said the video she posted “has …

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports: An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States. “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history,” Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee on Tuesday. As of Jan. 17, …