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California’s Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing Trump criticism

By Kanishka Singh
January 27, 2026 4:17 AM UTC Updated 5 hours ago

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• Newsom’s office reviews TikTok content moderation practices
• Newsom asks for checks whether state law is being violated
• TikTok recently struck new deal to avoid US ban
• Company blames cascading systems failure

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump as he launched a review to decide if its content moderation practices violated state law, while the platform cited a systems failure.

Newsom’s statement came after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, last week finalized a deal to set up a majority U.S.-owned joint venture that will secure U.S. data, to avert a ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans.

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ByteDance said TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC would secure U.S. user data, apps and algorithms through data privacy and cybersecurity measures, in a deal praised by Trump.

“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump,” Newsom’s office said on X, without elaborating.

“Gavin Newsom is launching a review of this conduct and is calling on the California Department of Justice to determine whether it violates California law,” it added.

In response, a TikTok representative pointed to a prior statement that blamed a data center power outage, adding, “It would be inaccurate to report that this is anything but the technical issues we’ve transparently confirmed.”

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Users may notice bugs, slower load times or timed-out requests when posting new content due to the impact of the outage, the joint venture added.

“While the network has been recovered, the outage caused a cascading systems failure that we’ve been working to resolve,” it said in the statement on X posted before Newsom’s remarks.

Last week’s deal was a milestone for TikTok after years of battles with the U.S. government over Washington’s concerns about risks to national security and privacy under Trump and former President Joe Biden.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Newsom, a Democrat, and Trump, a Republican, have long been critical of each other.

With more than 16 million followers on his personal TikTok account, Trump credited the app with helping him win the 2024 election.

The deal provides for American and global investors to hold 80.1% of the venture while ByteDance will own 19.9%.

Each of the joint venture’s three managing investors, cloud computing giant Oracle ORCL.N, opens new tab, private equity group Silver Lake SILAK.UL and Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX, will hold a stake of 15%.

The U.S. and Chinese governments had signed off on the deal, a White House official said.

Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Christian Martinez and Clarence Fernandez

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White House shows first signs of retreat as backlash grows over Minnesota killing

Published Jan 26, 2026, 8:15 PM ET / Source: CNN

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, Priscilla Alvarez

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[President Donald Trump] on Monday showed his first signs of retreat since surging federal immigration agents in Minnesota late last year — replacing the leader of the crackdown on the ground and signaling new willingness to cooperate with the state’s Democratic elected officials.

But the moves — which came amid an effort to contain the backlash over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Trump officials’ early efforts to falsely brand the ICU nurse as a “domestic terrorist” — didn’t stop the administration from continuing to try to shift blame, sparking questions about how much would change on the ground.

The first test could come Tuesday. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are now expected to leave the city as soon as then, three sources familiar with the discussions told CNN, after Trump dispatched border czar Tom Homan to run the on-the-ground enforcement operation that has roiled Minneapolis. Sidelining Bovino could herald a move away from the heavy-handed approach that he had encouraged.

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The leadership change came as a relief to some at the Department of Homeland Security, who view Homan as a more experienced hand given his years in federal law enforcement. It also won praise from GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.

Some White House officials, including Trump, had grown dissatisfied with the public narrative surrounding the administration’s immigration efforts even before Pretti’s killing on Saturday sparked a scramble to contain the widening fallout, a person familiar with the conversations said.

On Monday, Trump spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, setting aside his long-running feud with the Democrat to push for greater coordination and weigh potentially pulling at least some federal agents out of the state.

“It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post about the governor he had derided in recent months as “corrupt” and “grossly incompetent.”

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Later in the day, he also spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in what he called a “very good” conversation, writing afterward that “lots of progress is being made!”

Taken together, the moves represented the first time the White House publicly reckoned with an operation that has resulted in daily confrontations with protesters and violent scenes that have unsettled even some administration officials and close Trump allies.

“You’re going to have mistakes, you’re going to have messiness, but I think [Homeland Security] probably hasn’t handled it as well as it could have,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for limited immigration, criticizing the rush in particular to cast Pretti as the aggressor. “That’s the kind of thing you say when you have the actual evidence.”

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In the wake of Pretti’s killing, Republican lawmakers and allies raised objections to the administration in both public and private, people familiar with the conversations said, warning the deepening crisis threatened to undermine the White House’s broader immigration efforts and cause irreparable damage to the party.

Even beyond the intensifying fears of more violence on the ground, the people familiar said, Republicans vented that continuing such enforcement would backfire politically — overshadowing their efforts to amplify the fraud scandal that prompted the administration to surge federal agents into Minnesota in the first place, and further complicating the rest of Trump’s agenda. Indeed, Senate Democrats have now threatened to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, raising the prospect of another unpredictable government shutdown in a matter of days.

Several GOP lawmakers, including ardent Trump allies, have since called for investigations into the shooting, with some pushing for congressional hearings as well.

“Politicians, protesters, and law enforcement all have an obligation to deescalate the situation in Minnesota,” Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota wrote on X. “As with any officer-involved shooting, this demands a thorough investigation.”

Administration officials on Monday also shifted notably away from their initial portrayal of Pretti as an attacker who brandished a gun at federal agents — though they maintained that he had invited the fatal encounter.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump had not characterized Pretti as a domestic terrorist, even as she declined to explain why other administration officials — including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — had claimed he fit the definition. She emphasized that various federal agencies have since begun investigations into the shooting.

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But Leavitt still faulted Democrats and local protesters for creating the combustible environment that led to federal agents shooting Renee Good earlier this month, and now Pretti.

“This tragedy occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota,” Leavitt said, specifically naming Walz and Frey.

The attempt to moderate the administration’s rhetoric while still avoiding direct culpability underscored the challenge it faces in managing a volatile situation that threatens to consume Trump’s immigration agenda and further dent his standing on an issue that had once been his greatest strength.

Polling in recent months has found growing disapproval of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its tactics on the ground, even among those who supported the administration’s initial efforts to secure the southern border.

Those numbers have only worsened since the fatal shooting of Good, which garnered widespread attention among Americans — relatively few of whom sided with the administration’s contention it was a proper use of force. A CNN poll published earlier this month showed 56% of those surveyed saw it instead as “inappropriate,” while just 26% viewed it as “appropriate.”

Within Trump’s circle and on Capitol Hill, some Republicans viewed Homan’s appointment as an effort to stabilize an operation that had spiraled out of control and grown counterproductive under Noem and Bovino, the people familiar with the conversations said.

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“This is a positive development — one that I hope leads to turning down the temperature and restoring order in Minnesota,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune wrote on X.

A veteran ICE official, Homan has advocated a strident approach to illegal immigration. But rather than the broad sweeps overseen by Bovino that have led to clashes with protesters, Homan has generally favored a greater focus on more targeted operations.

Homan is set to meet with both Walz and Frey once he arrives in Minnesota, though it’s unclear what might change on the ground. The White House has indicated that it wants greater cooperation from state and local officials in deporting undocumented immigrants. Walz and Frey have insisted they’re already working with the federal government.

The most immediate task facing Homan, though, allies said, will be easing tensions on the ground that have accumulated for weeks — and have now drawn the scrutiny of a nation increasingly turning against Trump and his deportation campaign.

“Every day is Election Day in a sense — you can’t just say we won on this platform and now we can do whatever we want for the next two years,” Krikorian said. “If people don’t like it, you’ve got to keep persuading them.”

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Trump says he’s raising tariffs on South Korea to 25%

Updated on: January 26, 2026 / 6:34 PM EST / CBS News

President Trump on Monday said he is raising tariffs on South Korea because the nation has not yet approved a trade deal with the U.S. that the two countries agreed to last year.

Mr. Trump said in a social media post that the U.S. will increase its tariff on imports from South Korea from 15% to 25% and also hike levies on the country’s automobiles, lumber and pharmaceutical goods.

“South Korea’s Legislature is not living up to its Deal with the United States. President Lee and I reached a Great Deal for both Countries on July 30, 2025, and we reaffirmed these terms while I was in Korea on October 29, 2025. Why hasn’t the Korean Legislature approved it?” Mr. Trump said in announcing the stepped-up duties.

The two countries reached a deal on trade and security issues after Mr. Trump met his South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in Seoul last year. Under the agreement, the U.S. cut its tariffs on South Korean vehicles, car parts, pharmaceuticals and other products from 25% to 15%.

The pact also called for South Korea to invest $350 billion in several key U.S. sectors, including semiconductors, shipbuiling and biotech.

As of late 2025, South Korea was the U.S.’ eighth-largest trading partner, with total trade between the nations of $162 billion, according to Census Bureau data. The auto industry accounts for 27% of South Korea’s exports to the U.S., which takes in nearly half of the country’s car exports.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the legality of the Trump administration’s country-specific tariffs, which the White House has imposed on dozens of nations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.

If they are struck down, White House officials have said they can turn to other powers that effectively replace the sweeping levies.

Edited by Alain Sherter

AFP contributed to this report.

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Handling of evidence related to Alex Pretti’s death raises concerns about probe’s integrity

2026-01-26T20:33:05-0500 / CBS News

Federal investigators are reviewing body-camera footage from multiple angles in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, as new revelations about evidence handling — including a lack of documented chain of custody for his registered firearm — raise concerns about the integrity and credibility of the investigation.

Pretti, who worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol officer around 9 a.m. Saturday in south Minneapolis.

Two law enforcement officials told CBS News that body-camera footage from multiple federal agents exists and is currently under review. But it remains unclear if the footage will be released to the public.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked at a briefing Saturday about the FBI’s role in the investigation and whether body-camera footage would be released. She did not commit to making the video public and deflected other questions, saying she would not “speak to the investigation and the details” while it continues.

The investigation is being led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations under Special Agents in Charge Mark Zito and Jason Todd Stevens, with assistance from the FBI, according to multiple officials briefed on the case.

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News on Sunday, “All the pieces of the investigation are being led by DHS in HSI.” But HSI lacks the ability to process certain kinds of material — like scientific and forensic evidence including fingerprints, DNA, ballistic data and firearm-related physical evidence — so FBI investigators will be focusing on these aspects of the probe.

Chain of custody for Pretti’s handgun in question

Multiple officials briefed on the investigation said there is no documented chain of custody for Pretti’s handgun, a failure that could complicate forensic reliability and undermine any future criminal or civil rights prosecution.

According to those officials, the firearm was placed on the seat of a vehicle, instead of being secured in a required plastic evidence bag and labeled with standard identifying details, including the date, the item, and the name of the last person who handled it.

The Department of Homeland Security later released a photograph of the weapon, which officials familiar with the evidence said appears to be a custom Sig Sauer P320 chambered in 9mm.

Proper chain of custody typically ensures ballistics, fingerprint and DNA findings remain admissible. Deviations from protocol can become focal points in criminal defense challenges, civil rights litigation and internal discipline reviews.

Sources briefed on the investigation add that the weapons of CBP agents at the scene of the officer-involved shooting have not been transferred to the FBI for analysis, raising questions about investigative practices, and it remains unclear exactly how many officers fired their weapons.

Emerging questions about agents who fired shots and what took place

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino at a briefing Sunday declined to say how many agents fired, how many shots were discharged, or whether Pretti had brandished a weapon. He said investigators would determine those facts.

Investigators have begun interviewing the agents who were on the scene, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

At this point, the agents involved in the shooting remain on duty but have been reassigned outside Minneapolis, for “their safety,” Bovino said.

“All agents that were involved in that scene are working, not in Minneapolis, but in other locations,” Bovino told reporters. “That’s for their safety. There’s this thing called doxxing, and the safety of our employees is very important to us. We’re going to keep those employees safe.”

Bovino charged that Pretti had interfered with a federal operation to arrest Jose Huerta Chuma, whom he described as an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record. He framed the shooting around “choices,” suggesting that Pretti had made “the choice to come into an active law enforcement scene, interfere, obstruct, delay or assault (a) law enforcement officer and they bring a weapon to do that. That is a choice that that individual made.”

How these investigations typically work

Former senior DHS, ICE and HSI officials have told CBS News that officer-involved shooting investigations usually follow strict protocols, including immediate scene control, independent investigative agency leadership and secure evidence collection with documented chain of custody.

Investigations into officer-involved shootings are often coordinated with state and local authorities.

But Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara has said local authorities have received virtually no official information from the federal agencies probing the shooting.

“There were attempts yesterday to begin the investigation,” O’Hara said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “More than once, [local investigators] were not permitted to enter before the scene then was contaminated.”

Normally, there would be a “robust partnership” between federal agencies, the FBI and local law enforcement in an investigation of this kind, a former DHS official said, adding this does not appear to be happening in the Pretti case.

Another former HSI official called the crime scene “compromised,” warning the spoiling of evidence could impact any future civil rights investigation.

Noem, like Patel, said Saturday that DHS is “conducting this investigation” and that it is being handled “just like we do all other officer-involved shootings.”

She repeatedly said DHS is “following the exact same protocols that we always have,” including those used “under the entire Trump administration and previous administrations,” and emphasized that “nothing has changed” in how the department investigates such incidents.

What video of Pretti’s shooting shows

A CBS News visual investigation shows Pretti holding a cellphone in his right hand and nothing in his left before being pushed by an officer. Later footage shows multiple federal agents wrestling him to the ground.

In one sequence, an officer is seen reaching into the struggle empty-handed and stepping away holding a gun, which appears to have been removed from Pretti’s waistband. The first shot is fired approximately one second later. In total, roughly 10 shots can be heard.

Noem said Pretti had approached officers with a handgun and reacted violently when agents attempted to disarm him, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense.

But O’Hara said he’s seen no evidence that Pretti brandished a weapon, describing him as someone who appeared to be lawfully recording law enforcement activity while legally carrying a firearm.

Court intervention

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison said the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — the state agency that investigates use-of-force cases — was denied access to the crime scene, even after obtaining a judicial warrant.

Ellison said Minnesota sought and obtained a temporary restraining order to prevent the federal government from destroying or altering evidence, including items federal agents removed from the scene.

“We’ve never had to do anything like this before,” Ellison said, calling the situation “uncharted territory.”

The BCA later returned to the scene to continue collecting evidence and canvassing the neighborhood, according to state officials.

Some federal agents expected to leave Minneapolis area soon

Bovino and some Border Patrol agents are expected to leave the Minneapolis area soon, three sources familiar with the move tell CBS News. Two DHS officials told CBS News that the department would begin to withdraw some of the 1,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protections agents and officers currently deployed on the ground in the Twin Cities, this week.

One source said Bovino has been relieved of his command in Minneapolis and is expected to return to California’s El Centro sector, where he served as the chief agent before the Trump administration deployed him to major American cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago.

The development follows intense backlash over how top federal officials, including Bovino, responded to Pretti’s fatal shooting, which came less than a month after another person in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good, was fatally shot by an immigration agent. Bovino suggested over the weekend Pretti had intended to “massacre” federal agents. Some of the claims by Bovino and other officials were contradicted by witnesses and video from the scene.

Walz has called for the withdrawal of roughly 3,000 federal immigration agents from Minnesota, calling the surge unsafe and destabilizing.

Minnesota has filed lawsuits over Operation Metro Surge, calling it unprecedented and in violation of the Constitution, with the state seeking judicial intervention to protect investigative integrity.

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Confusion and questions: Where investigations stand in the killing of Alex Pretti

By Holmes Lybrand, 9 hr ago, PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2026, 7:48 PM ET

Two days after Department of Homeland Security officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a confused investigation is unfurling. The Justice Department has not opened a civil rights investigation, a crisis coordination center was erected in Minneapolis to investigate protesters and senior administration officials won’t definitively say whether Pretti had been disarmed before the shooting.

The Department of Homeland Security’s investigation agency (HSI) is leading the federal investigation into the shooting, officials say, with the FBI acting in a supportive role – including by processing physical evidence.

“We’re in possession of the firearm,” FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday of Pretti’s gun, adding that the FBI would analyze it at their own laboratory.

Although HSI hasn’t historically conducted criminal investigations into use of force incidents by federal authorities, HSI has assisted, coordinated with and supported such investigations when appropriate, according to former DHS officials. It is unusual for them to co-lead with FBI.

The investigation, one of several being conducted into the shooting, was preempted by public officials in the hours after the shooting airing competing narratives and firm conclusions in the absence of evidence — raising the likelihood that any conclusion it reaches will be scrutinized by a skeptical public.

As of Monday afternoon, a small group of investigators were reviewing public footage of the incident and video taken from as many as 30 body worn cameras that officers —– including several involved in the incident —– were wearing that day.

[Related article Federal agents gather amid tear gas during scuffles at the scene of a shooting involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026. Tim Evans/Reuters Videos and witness statements shed new light on moments leading up to Alex Pretti shooting 6 min read]

In the moments before his death, Pretti can be seen in video from the scene moving between a DHS agent and a woman the agent pushed to the ground. The agent sprays Pretti with a chemical irritant and drags him to his knees before several others quickly move on top of Pretti with officers standing over him and pushing him to the ground as he appears to resist.

[A CNN video analysis appears to show a federal immigration officer removing a gun from Alex Pretti just prior to officers fatally shooting him.]

In the confusion and struggle with Pretti, one of the agents, who was part of the melee, can be heard asking “who had a gun” after shots were fired, according to a source familiar. Videos collected from the scene are under review internally.

Investigators have also conducted interviews with the officers and are still in the very early stages of the investigation.

Other investigations into the shooting

Under previous Democratic and Republican administrations, the Justice Department has investigated whether law enforcement officials used excessive force in officer-involved shootings.

In those instances, local law enforcement requests the assistance of the FBI and their expansive investigative resources, and the two work together to meticulously gather evidence, conduct interviews and share information.

Federal officials keep their investigative eye towards violations of civil rights laws, while local law enforcement focus on potential murder or assault charges.

The Justice Department has not launched a civil rights investigation, a department official told CNN, but said it will “if the evidence presents itself.”

The information sharing practice was not followed in the wake of Rene Good’s shooting by an ICE official just a few weeks ago — the FBI quickly cut out local Minnesota investigators, essentially ending their investigation. And the FBI then shifted the focus of its probe to whether Good and those around her committed a crime against the officer, as opposed to his conduct in the shooting, [CNN has reported.]

The FBI can also immediately begin their own independent investigation if there is a continuing concern for public safety, or wait for a referral from the agency whose officer was involved in the shooting.

Four days after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in May of 2020, Donald Trump’s attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, announced a federal civil rights investigation into Floyd’s death.

The Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility — which investigates potential criminal conduct by CBP officers — is running its own internal investigation into Pretti’s death. A preliminary review of the incident is being drafted by that office and officials are required to officially notify Congress and the public about the status of the investigation, one source familiar with the process told CNN.

The expected initial report could include a basic summary of what took place, such as how many people fired a weapon and how many shots were fired as well as details around body worn cameras filming the incident.

In cases involving use of force, Gil Kerlikowske, a former CBP commissioner who served under President Barack Obama, told CNN that CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility — which he helped to establish — would investigate whether that force was justified under the agency’s guidelines.

The primary purpose of that office is not to bring or refer criminal charges, though findings of criminal wrongdoing can be referred to the Justice Department.

[Related live story People gather at a makeshift memorial at the site where a man identified as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agents trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 25, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans Tim Evans/Reuters Top Border Patrol official expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state]

Timelines for the completion of these internal probes could vary widely, Kerlikowske said. He added that as Trump has exerted unprecedented control over the DOJ and the FBI, skepticism about the completeness or independence of any federal criminal probe is warranted.

After local officials said Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) was prevented from accessing the scene of Pretti’s shooting to collect evidence in its own investigation, Gov. Tim Walz wrote in a statement Monday that Trump had agreed to allow the state’s investigation to continue.

“The President agreed that he would talk to his Department of Homeland Security about ensuring the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is able to conduct an independent investigation, as would ordinarily be the case,” Walz said in his statement following a call with Trump.

The BCA sued the Trump administration over the weekend and was granted an order from a federal judge prohibiting DHS from destroying or altering any evidence gathered around the shooting.

In court filings, DHS said no evidence has been destroyed.

Minnesota officials have said in court filings they weren’t sure if the federal law enforcement were handling evidence properly — including a gun used in the shooting.

“I have also seen images circulating on social media of the alleged gun that it was used in today’s shooting. It does not appear that the gun was protected according to normal law enforcement processes, and I am concerned about other evidence not being protected,” Drew Evans, the Superintendent of Minnesota’s investigative bureau, wrote to a judge this weekend.

The BCA has also said it was unable to fully process the scene of the shooting after FBI officials left the area on Saturday because it was quickly overrun by protesters who local police were not able to keep back.

BCA agents were on site Sunday, collecting evidence and canvassing neighborhoods as part of the agency’s investigation.

According to court proceedings, HSI also has possession of Pretti’s phone.

Administration officials quickly accused Pretti of breaking the law

Despite continued calls from officials to wait for investigations to conclude before public judgement of the shooting, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Patel and others [have made false claims around the shooting] and accused Pretti of breaking the law.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller referred to Pretti as “an assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents” and Noem claimed Saturday that Pretti wished “to inflict harm on these officers” and brandished his firearm.

Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino — who has had a very public presence while on the ground in Minnesota — initially claimed Pretti intended to “massacre” federal agents.

Officials have not provided any evidence supporting these claims, and there is currently no evidence suggesting Pretti wielded his firearm during the incident.

“I don’t have any evidence that I’ve seen that suggests that the weapon was brandished,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara [said] in a Sunday interview on CBS.

Bovino is now expected to leave the state as Trump announced he was dispatching White House border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis in the wake of Saturday’s fatal shooting.

Administration officials were left deeply frustrated this weekend over how Bovino and Noem handled the fallout from Pretti’s fatal shooting, sources said. According to one official, Trump spent several hours on Sunday and Monday watching the coverage and was personally unhappy by how his administration was coming across.

Bovino, specifically, only made the deteriorating situation in Minnesota worse with his comment that Pretti intended to “massacre,” officials felt, including some inside the CBP, who believe his presence in the state has contributed to the growing anger from protestors on the ground.

Patel, whose agency is assisting in HSI’s investigation, claimed falsely during a Sunday interview on Fox News that “you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.”

Pretti, according to officials, had a legal permit to carry his firearm.

“You don’t have that right to break the law and incite violence,” Patel added.

When pressed by Fox anchor Maria Bartiromo on how Pretti was threatening Border Patrol officers, Patel punted, saying that the Department of Homeland Security was leading the investigation.

“That’s something that I want DHS and the prosecutors — because they are the ones investigating that case,” Patel said.

CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, Priscilla Alvarez, Evan Perez, Kaitlin Collins, Shimon Prokupecz, Michael Williams and Kristen Holmes contributed to this report.

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“Narco sub” sinks with drugs on board after record amount of cocaine seized from vessel off the Azores

January 26, 2026 / 12:58 PM EST / CBS/AFP

Portuguese authorities on Monday said they had seized a record haul of cocaine from a semi-submersible craft intercepted off the Azores archipelago before the vessel sank in the open seas.

The nearly 9-ton cargo of drugs is “the biggest seizure of cocaine ever in Portugal,” a police spokeswoman told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

Police said officers intercepted the so-called “narco sub” in recent days some 230 nautical miles from the islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

They were assisted by the navy and air force, as well as the U.K. and U.S. authorities, in difficult weather conditions.

The submersible eventually sank with 35 of the 300 packages of drugs it was carrying, the police said.

Police released a short video on social media showing officers carrying out the operation at sea and suspects being handcuffed.

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Portuguese authorities on Monday said they had seized a record haul of cocaine from a semi-submersible craft intercepted off the Azores archipelago. Portugal’s judicial police

It originated in Latin America and had three Colombians and a Venezuelan on board, it added.

Last March, police said officers had confiscated nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel off the Azores while bound for the Iberian peninsula. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the British National Crime Agency and the Spanish Guardia Civil also assisted in that bust, authorities said at the time.

Narco subs, which cannot go fully underwater, are popular among international drug traffickers as they can sometimes elude detection by law enforcement.

Manned semisubmersibles built in clandestine[jungle shipyards]have been used for decades to ferry cocaine north from Colombia, the world’s biggest cocaine producer, to Central America or [Mexico].

But in recent years, they have been sailing much farther afield, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The journey can be deadly. In 2023, a[narco sub with two dead bodies]and nearly 3 tons of cocaine aboard was seized off the coast of Colombia.

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Mysterious dark matter seen in new high-resolution map of distant galaxies

January 26, 2026 / 2:26 PM EST / CBS/AP

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together.

The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets and people — makes up just 5% of the universe. For decades, researchers have hoped to demystify what’s known as dark matter, a material that comprises just over a quarter of our universe. Another equally mysterious force called dark energy makes up the rest.

Dark matter doesn’t absorb or give off light so scientists can’t study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity warps and bends the star stuff around it — for example, the light from distant galaxies. By studying these distortions across large swathes of the universe, scientists can get closer to unmasking dark matter and its various hiding places.

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This NASA image shows two massive galaxy clusters previously captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, with areas of possible dark matter in blue. Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach / AP

The latest map, created with images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is the most detailed yet over such a large patch of sky. The Webb telescope identified nearly 800,000 galaxies, some of which were detected for the first time, NASA said.

The map has twice the resolution of previous attempts using the Hubble Space Telescope and captures hundreds of thousands of galaxies over the past 10 billion years.

“Now, we can see everything more clearly,” said study author Diana Scognamiglio with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The latest map, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, includes information on new galaxy clusters and the strands of dark matter that connect them. Piece by piece, these structures help form the skeleton of the universe. Scientists can study this map to see how dark matter has clumped up over billions of years.

Dark matter doesn’t have much of an impact on your midday lunch order or your nightly bedtime ritual. But it silently passes through your body all the time and has shaped the universe.

“Wherever we see a big cluster of thousands of galaxies, we also see an equally massive amount of dark matter in the same place. And when we see a thin string of regular matter connecting two of those clusters, we see a string of dark matter as well,” said astrophysicist Richard Massey, a coauthor of the study.

As humans, we’re naturally curious to know more about where we come from and that story can’t be told without dark matter, said astrophysicist Rutuparna Das with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

“Our home is the universe and we want to understand what the nature of it is,” said Das, who was not involved with the new study.

Earlier this month, a team of researchers discovered a new type of astronomical object dubbed “Cloud-9” that NASA described as a “starless, gas-rich dark-matter” hydrogen cloud and remnant of the universe’s early formation about 14 million light-years from Earth.

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, apologizes for antisemitic remarks and cites brain injury

January 26, 2026 / 2:00 PM EST / CBS News

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, apologized for antisemitic remarks he made in the past and said a brain injury he suffered in a car accident 25 years ago led to his bipolar disorder diagnosis.

In a full-page ad in the print edition of Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Ye said the right frontal lobe of his brain was injured in the accident and he wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023.

He also said that in early 2025 he experienced a four-month-long manic episode that “destroyed my life.”

“As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn’t want to be here anymore,” he says in the ad.

He goes on to say that having bipolar disorder made him feel like he didn’t need help.

“I lost touch with reality,” Ye says in the ad. “Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst.”

He says he gravitated toward “the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika.”

Last year, he sold T-shirts on his website that bore the Nazi Party symbol. In 2022, he posted the symbol to Twitter, which led to his suspension, and, in a separate incident, said he was going to go “death con 3” on Jewish people.

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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, attends the Grammy Awards on Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

That same year, he also made headlines for having dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and President Trump (who was out of office at the time) at Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump said after the dinner that Fuentes had arrived with Ye and that Mr. Trump didn’t know who Fuentes was.

In Monday’s ad, Ye says he experienced “disconnected moments” that resulted in poor judgment and reckless behavior that he regretted.

“It does not excuse what I did, though,” the ad says. “I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”

He has apologized for his behavior before. In an Instagram post in 2023, he issued an apology to the Jewish community that was written in Hebrew.

In the ad, he also apologized to the Black community, which he says “held me down through all of the highs and lows and the darkest of times.”

“The black community is, unquestionably, the foundation of who I am,” Ye says. “I am so sorry to have let you down. I love us.”

If you or someone you know is seeking mental health resources, you can call the National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine at 800-950-6264 or in a crisis text NAMI to 62640.