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Vance's message in Minneapolis: Local officials must cooperate with the immigration crackdown
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Insisting that he was in Minnesota to calm tensions, Vice President JD Vance blamed “far-left people” and state and local law enforcement officials for the chaos that has unfolded during the White House's aggressive deportation campaign.
The Republican vice president said, “We’re ... (full story)
The Conversation: Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment
A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The administration has sent some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota, and attorneys for the state have argued, in part, that it am ... (full story)
Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla.
Sprout's charm i ... (full story)
A Kentucky cathedral called 'America's Notre Dame' gets a rehab, gargoyles and all
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COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Gargoyles have watched over this small Kentucky city for more than a century from their lofty perches on a cathedral known as “America’s Notre Dame.” A new renovation will ensure they keep their posts for years to come on the meticulously restored facade of the towering stone sanctuary.< ... (full story)
The Conversation: A government can choose to investigate the killing of a protester − or choose to blame the victim and pin it all on ‘domestic terrorism’
The question the First Amendment keeps asking, across wars and panics and moral crusades, is whether a democracy can tolerate the possibility of persuasion.
There’s a certain school of thought that says no. Persuasion is too perilous.
I call this way of thinking “swallow-a-fly logic.” I’m referring, o ... (full story)