Don Lemon, a disgraced former CNN anchor, was arrested Thursday night in Los Angeles, according to news reports.

Lemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement released Friday morning:

Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy award. Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/01/30/nolte-disgraced-former-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-arrested-for-church-riot/

He was arrested based on a law the democrats put in 30+ years ago to protect abortion clinics. How sweet it is.....

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has determined that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, should close for about two years.

Trump, who wrote on Truth Social that the decision is “totally subject” to approval by his handpicked board, said that the center will close on July 4 and that “financing is completed, and fully in place.” Trump did not elaborate on where the funding came from. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on questions about the funding.

Trump added that the decision was made based on a review that involved “Contractors, Musical Experts, Art Institutions, and other Advisors and Consultants,” who were weighing construction with closure and re-opening or partial construction while entertainment operations continued.

A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Trump’s announcement, what the center’s board thinks of the issue or what would happen to the center’s existing programming.

Trump said that the closure will “produce a much faster and higher quality result,” that the Kennedy Center can be “the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind” and that there will be a “Grand Reopening” after the renovation.

He called the Kennedy Center — where the premiere of first lady Melania Trump's documentary was held last week — “tired, broken, and dilapidated,” adding that it “has been in bad condition, both financially and structurally for many years.”

>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-kennedy-center-will-close-two-years-renovations-rcna256982

Analysis finds most campaign promises have not been met, which helps explain the president's growing unpopularity.

The New York Times used data to look at eight sectors.

Among the findings:

- Grocery prices, on balance, have increased. Trump said they’d drop if he was elected.

- Gas prices have dropped, but not as steeply as Trump promised on the campaign trail.

- The cost of electricity has increased. Trump said he’d cut prices in half during his first year in office.

- Manufacturing jobs have declined and wage growth in that sector has slowed. The auto industry has been especially hard hit.

But wait, there’s more.

The value of the U.S. dollar has dropped, no small consideration for those of us living in a border town. And the U.S. trade deficit surged in November.

There’s one economic indicator that is way up, however. The personal wealth of the Trump family. Over the past year it has jumped by $1.4 billion. Here’s the story and, better yet, a video short that lays everything out.

A final word on Trump, courtesy of a round table discussion in The Times in which columnist David French made this observation:

"The Trump administration breaks the law, and also ruthlessly exploits all the immunities it’s granted by law. The situation is unsustainable for a constitutional republic."

It’s little wonder Trump’s standing with the public continues to worsen. The latest polling by the Pew Research Center found 61 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing vs. 37 percent who approve.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/02/the-not-so-hot-trump-economy/

https://apnews.com/article/mangione-unitedhealthcare-death-penalty-dismissed-killing-1d17a30d0297acda29fc82dbf54d2677

Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”

Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment, finding it technically flawed. She wrote that she did so to “foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment to be considered by the jury” as it weighs whether to convict Mangione.

Garnett also dismissed a gun charge but left in place stalking charges that carry a maximum punishment of life in prison. To seek the death penalty, prosecutors needed to show that Mangione killed Thompson while committing another “crime of violence.” Stalking doesn’t fit that definition, Garnett wrote in her opinion, citing case law and legal precedents.

In a win for prosecutors, Garnett ruled they can use evidence collected from his backpack during his arrest, including a 9mm handgun and a notebook in which authorities say Mangione described his intent to “wack” an insurance executive. Mangione’s lawyers had sought to exclude those items, arguing the search was illegal because police hadn’t yet obtained a warrant.

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Except to see trump and Republicans double down on stealing the 2026 midterms because of results like this.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-state-senate-democrat-taylor-rehmet-c8cb6685c49696b8a607a8f93111ae2e

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

Rehmet, a labor union leader and veteran, easily defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. With almost all votes counted, Rehmet had a comfortable lead of more than 14 percentage points.

“This win goes to everyday working people,” Rehmet told supporters.

His victory added to Democrats’ record of overperforming in special elections so far this cycle. Democrats said it was further evidence that voters under the second Trump administration are motivated to reject GOP candidates and their policies.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin called it “a warning sign to Republicans across the country.”

The seat was open because the four-term GOP incumbent, Kelly Hancock, resigned to take a statewide office. Hancock easily won election each time he ran for the office, and Republicans have held the seat for decades.

The district is redder than its home, Tarrant County. Trump won the county by 5 points in 2024, but Democratic President Joe Biden carried it in 2020 by about 1,800 votes out of more than 834,000 cast.

Trump posted about the race on his social media platform earlier Saturday, urging voters to get out to support Wambsganss. He called her a successful entrepreneur and “an incredible supporter” of his Make America Great Again movement.

But Rehmet had support from national organizations, including the DNC and VoteVets, a veterans group that said it spent $500,000 on ads. Rehmet, who served in the Air Force and works as a machinist, focused on lowering costs, supporting public education and protecting jobs.

In a move that makes sense to no one except the retarded American administration, Trump has insisted that he needs to bring US immigration and customs enforcement agents to the Olympics being held in Italy. They claim it's for diplomatic purposes, so presumably they assume not enough Italians have been shot in the face by Americans so far.

The US immigration agency whose officers have been involved in a fatal shooting in Minneapolis has said it is sending agents to help support American security operations during the Winter Olympics, which start in Italy on 6 February.

Confirmation that a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would play a role came from several US departments, after reports prompted alarm and anger in Italy.

"This is a militia that kills... of course they're not welcome in Milan," Milan Mayor Beppe Sala told Italian radio on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, in a bid to cool tensions, told reporters "it's not like the [Nazi] SS are coming".

He was speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, attended by three Jewish Italians who survived the Holocaust.

It is common for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement agencies to provide security support at major international events.

DHS stressed that "all security operations at the Olympics are directed and managed exclusively by Italian authorities".

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday that no ICE agents would appear on Italian streets, only officers from the police, the Carabinieri military police and the Guardia di Finanza financial authority.

The interior ministry said later that the US would set up an operations room at its consulate in Milan, where relevant US agencies would work during the Games.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y29xzjdzvo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/28/trump-gun-rights-nra-alex-pretti-shooting/88384361007/
For years, Republicans including President Donald Trump have advocated for broad Second Amendment rights, arguing the right to bear arms means Americans are allowed to bring guns to virtually all public places.

They've often said more good guys with guns are needed to stop people with bad intentions. Trump hailed Kyle Rittenhouse as the "poster boy" for self-defense after the then-17-year-old shot three men, two fatally, during protests in 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Yet after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal authorities in Minneapolis, Trump has dramatically changed his tune, saying the 37-year-old nurse should not have been carrying a loaded firearm to a protest.

“You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You can’t do that," Trump said on Jan. 27, even as he claimed he wants to reserve judgment on the Pretti case until federal investigations are concluded. "It's just a very unfortunate thing."

The comments have put Trump in an unlikely clash with gun rights activists who have raised alarm over the president's position. Even the nation's most powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, has pushed back ‒ though with muted criticism, declining to call Trump out by name for the type of rhetoric the NRA often blasts when it comes from Democrats.

"The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be," the NRA, a strong Trump ally, said in a statement after the president's remarks.

Gun Owners of America, another Second Amendment advocacy group, was more direct. "Peaceful protests while armed isn’t radical—it’s American," the group said in a post on X that included a clip of Trump's remarks. "The First and Second Amendments protect those rights, and they always have. GOA will hold any administration accountable."