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The Daily Wrap Up 26 Jan, 2026 Jan 27 [Transcript edited for clarity, length and flow] Watch on Youtube   HERE It’s been a week in America, has it not? On Saturday, a federal immigration officer fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, sparking hundreds of protesters to take to the frigid streets of a city already shaken by a second deadly shooting in just weeks. Mr. Pretti was a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who worked at a VA hospital. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the National Guard as protests have grown, deploying troops to the shooting site and to a nearby federal building. The killing occurred just over a mile from where 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE Agent Jonathan Ross on January 7. Since Ms. Good’s shooting, protests have continued across Minneapolis. On Saturday evening, Mr. Pretti’s family released a heartbreaking statement saying they were devastated, but also furious. They described their son as a kindhearted person who wanted to...

We Can't Trust the Government The Trump Administration has completely eroded any confidence that Americans once held in our institutions. Ally Sammarco Jan 12   Photo by  Tim Mossholder  on  Unsplash Living in a democracy depends on one basic assumption: that government institutions will tell the truth and act in the public interest. When that assumption collapses, citizens are thrust into a climate of uncertainty and distrust. Today, Americans are witnessing this erosion in real time. One of the most recent examples of this erosion is the Trump administration’s attempt to influence the   Federal Reserve ’s independence. President Trump has publicly and repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates aggressively and has even taken the extraordinary step of having the Department of Justice subpoena the Fed and threaten Powell with criminal indictment over routine testimony about renovation projects—an unprecedented esc...