Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal ICE memo, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches

The abrupt about-face emerged hours after Trump had insisted that he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but said he would not use force to do so while deriding European allies and vowing that NATO should not try to block U.S. expansionism

Trump has spent weeks saying that the U.S. will get control of Greenland no matter what it takes — but his comments at the gathering of global elites were startling in how much further he went on just how he plans to do it

Trump’s planned to focus on domestic policy, but his speech may touch on Greenland as well as the U.S. military operation that led to the recent ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Rattled by President Donald Trump’s aggression towards Greenland, the European Union is readying counter-measures against the United States

Demonstrators protesting Tuesday at the corner of Memorial Park in downtown DeKalb had a message for President Donald Trump and his administration after one year in office, joining protesters across the nation who staged walk-outs Tuesday to oppose his policies.

President Donald Trump ’s pledge to provoke a sweeping tariff fight with Europe to get his way in taking control of Greenland has left many of America’s closest allies warning of a rupture with Washington capable of shattering the NATO alliance that had once seemed unshakable

From Capitol News Illinois: Health care providers, food pantries, and other community service organizations that rely on federal funding for social services have felt the brunt of many of Trump’s funding cuts

From Capitol News Illinois: The crisis comes from changes in federal Medicaid policy that were enacted last year as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which slashes one of the main funding tools many states have used for four decades to fund their share of the cost

The joint statement by some of America’s closest allies signaled a possible turning point in the recent tensions over sovereignty and security nearly 24 hours after Trump’s threat.

President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message released on Monday

From Capitol News Illinois: Each letter from the Trump administration cited concerns that Illinois was providing benefits to immigrants lacking permanent legal status, but none provided proof

These cuts would have affected “five critical behavioral health and suicide prevention programs, totaling over $5.94 million and affecting hundreds of people and providers,” according to a news release from the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Seven of the eight candidates in the Democratic primary for the 8th Congressional District seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi debated issues ranging from the economy to foreign policy at National India Hub in Schaumburg Thursday.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez used her first state of the union message Thursday to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign investment following the Trump administration’s pledge to seize control of Venezuelan crude sales

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a meeting with him at the White House on Thursday

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly introduced articles of impeachment against the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, regarding self-dealing for personal benefit and obstruction of Congress. Kelly said Noem used her position to guide a federal contract to a firm operated by a friend

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis

From Capitol News Illinois: Raoul has won other similar suits against the Trump administration, including over a Trump order which directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to withhold federal emergency funding from Illinois over the state’s immigration laws

A top Danish official said Wednesday that a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after holding highly anticipated White House talks with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio

More than half of U.S. adults believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according to a new AP-NORC poll

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than having the island in U.S. hands is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks

From Capitol News Illinois: Legal experts, including two attorneys who formerly worked in the Voting Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, argue DOJ has no legal authority to access sensitive personal data about individual voters

Consumer prices rose 0.3% in December from the prior month, the Labor Department said Tuesday, the same as in November

Central bankers from around the world said Tuesday they “stand in full solidarity” with U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after President Donald Trump dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Fed

The announcement comes just days after Grok — which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk — drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent

From Capitol News Illinois: Illinois and Chicago sued the Trump administration, seeking to severely limit immigration agents’ authority in the state and accusing the feds of unleashing an “organized bombardment” to coerce state and local officials to change immigration policies

More than 800 people gathered in downtown La Grange Sunday to participate in a vigil and march protesting ICE and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good

From Capitol News Illinois: The feud has allowed Pritzker to grow his national profile as he’s used his bully pulpit to knock Trump and perhaps lay the groundwork for a 2028 presidential campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544

The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers

More than 600 people came out Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, on Route 31 in McHenry for an anti-ICE protest, organized by Indivisible McHenry County. The national organization encouraged protests over the weekend in response to the death of Renee Good Wednesday in Minneapolis.

From Capitol News Illinois: Illinois and the four other Democratic-led states that were subject to the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in federal funding for child care and family services secured a restraining order on Friday in their lawsuit seeking to block it

In his most substantial critique of U.S., Russian and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Pope Leo XIV on Friday denounced how nations were using force to assert their dominion worldwide, “completely undermining” peace

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests

Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.

The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere

Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control

Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown, with the governor calling for people to remain calm

From Capitol News Illinois: The Trump administration announced late Tuesday that it was freezing distribution of about $10 billion in federal child care and family assistance funds to five Democratic-led states, including Illinois.

While Maduro is in jail in New York on drug trafficking charges, the leaders of his repressive administration remain in charge

As part of Shaw Media’s 175th anniversary celebration, we looked back at four January 7 front pages spanning more than a century, including the attack on the U.S. Capitol five years ago

CITGO is no longer is connected with the Nicolás Maduro regime, according to the its website. And in December, CITGO was sold to Amber Energy for $5.9 billion. But Venezuela is rejecting the sale.

“No war for oil.” “Resist the regime.” "Freedom over fascism." Demonstrators united in DeKalb on Tuesday holding signs with those messages to peacefully protest President Donald Trump's military operation in Venezuela

The White House said Tuesday that “U.S. military is always an option,” even as a series of European leaders rejected President Donald Trump’s comments about seeking an American takeover of the world’s largest island

President Donald Trump said Tuesday on his social media site that “Interim Authorities” in Venezuela would be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of “High Quality” oil to the U.S. at its market price

Iraq War veteran and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth slammed President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday, accusing the president of cowardice and unlawfully inciting a war with Venezuela with no clear plan for resolution while leaving Americans with rising cost of living crises.

On the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, there is no official event to memorialize what happened that day, when the mob made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue, battled police at the Capitol barricades and stormed inside, as lawmakers fled

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services