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A woman holds up a sign as federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

5 questions about anti-ICE activism and violence in Minnesota

An activist group called @Iceoutoftwinports posted a December message on Instagram calling for protesters to physically attack ICE agents during arrests "with fists and legs and bats and rocks" until agents give up or a riot breaks out.

January 16, 2026
Verizon storefront logo, October 28, 2025 (Image provided by Verizon)

‘Beyond angry’: What people are saying about the Verizon outage

Verizon customers across the United States lost cellular service for hours Wednesday afternoon, with more than 175,000 users affected shortly after 12:30 Eastern Time. The disruption knocked out voice, text, and data services and continued into the evening, affecting major cities from New York to Houston to San Francisco.

January 14, 2026
FILE - Jonathan Dumke, a senior forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration, holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

U.S. overdose deaths drop 27% as fentanyl crisis shows signs of easing

U.S. overdose deaths have declined for more than two years in the longest sustained drop in decades, with deaths falling 27% in 2024 and continuing downward through August 2025, though experts cite multiple possible explanations and express concerns about future policy impacts.

January 14, 2026
A television on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, display a news conference with Fed chairman Jerome Powell, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Powell subpoena raises independence concerns

Lawmakers and former Federal Reserve officials are defending Fed Chair Jerome Powell following a Justice Department grand jury subpoena related to his testimony about Federal Reserve building renovations in Washington.

January 12, 2026