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A framed picture of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs in the White House, a photo taken by Bloomberg photographer Kent Nishimura in the Palm Room on Tuesday shows.

The Palm Room connects the West Wing to the White House residence and primarily serves as a lobby, according to the New York Times.

The Palm Room connects the West Wing to the White House residence and primarily serves as a lobby, according to the New York Times.

The eyebrow-raising framed photograph in question hangs above a photo of Trump and one of his grandchildren.

Given Trump’s obsession with photos of leaders, it’s almost certainly not an oversight.

According to HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte, Trump hung up a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the West Wing in his first term. When he vacated the residence, Trump found a new home for the photo: the bar at Trump Tower in New York.

Last year, Trump had staffers move former President Barack Obama’s official portrait to a corner where most people wouldn’t be able to see it. He did the same with the portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush.

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The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud.

The search at Fulton County’s main election facility in Union City sought records related to the 2020 election, county spokesperson Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez said. It appeared to be the most public step by law enforcement to pursue Trump’s claims of a stolen election, grievances rejected time and again by courts and state and federal officials, who found no evidence of fraud that would have altered the outcome.

It also unfolds against the backdrop of FBI and Justice Department efforts to investigate perceived political enemies of Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Trump has for years focused on Fulton, Georgia’s most populous county and a Democratic stronghold, as a key example of what he claims went wrong in the 2020 election. His pressure campaign there culminated in a sweeping state indictment accusing him and 18 others of illegally trying to overturn the vote.

An FBI spokesperson said agents were “executing a court authorized law enforcement action” at the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta. The spokesperson declined to provide any further information, citing an ongoing matter.

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The Justice Department said in a Jan. 27 court filing that it expects to complete processing millions of files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "in the near term," but did not provide a timeline to release the information to the public as required by law.

More than a month has passed since the deadline set by Congress for the Department of Justice to publish all its Epstein files and upwards of millions of documents and photographs have not been released.

In the filing, DOJ said it has made "substantial progress" in identifying documents and redacting victim-identifying information from emails, text messages and video and audio recordings.

"Hundreds of Department employees are working diligently to complete this review as expeditiously as possible without compromising victims’ privacy so that its production can be complete," the filing states.

In November 2025, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which ordered the Justice Department to release all its documents on Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019.

President Donald Trump signed the act into law on Nov. 19, 2025, giving the Justice Department 30 days to release all its files with the exception of those that could violate victims' privacy or jeopardize federal investigations.

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Minnesota officials are rebuffing a series of demands from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, as the state continues its clash with the Trump administration over the surge of federal immigration enforcement in the North Star state.

In a letter to Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Bondi wrote: "You and your office must restore the rule of law, support ICE officers, and bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota."

The letter was dated Saturday, the same day Alex Pretti, a nurse and U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by immigration officers — the second fatal shooting by federal agents this month.

Bondi urged Walz to embrace what she called "common sense solutions," including repealing what the Trump administration terms "sanctuary policies" and cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Minnesota state officials say the Trump administration is making false claims about its cooperation with ICE.

Walz, who's called on the Trump administration to end its operation in Minnesota, dismissed the letter in a news conference Sunday.

The letter also calls on the state to "share all of Minnesota's records" relating to Medicaid and food assistance programs, including SNAP, with the federal government.

The Trump administration has cited allegations of fraud, especially relating to immigrants of Somali descent, in its immigration crackdown.

Minnesota is one of more than 20 states that has so far refused to comply with a demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to turn over personal information about people who have applied for or received SNAP benefits over the last six years. The states have argued the demand is unlawful and a federal judge in California issued a preliminary ruling indicating they were likely to prevail in that claim.

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A top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race, sharply criticizing what he called a “federal retribution on the citizens of our state” amid the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement operations – which sparked public outrage after US agents’ killings ofAlex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

On Monday, the Minneapolis-based attorney Chris Madel made his announcement, saying in a video online: “I cannot support the … stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

Donald Trump, like Madel, is a Republican. Madel expressed support for federal immigration agents’ purported original aim of deporting undocumented immigrants involved in major criminal activity.

But he said Operation Metro Surge had “expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats”.

“United States citizens, particularly those of color, live in fear,” Madel said, referring to the immigration enforcement operation, in which roughly 3,000 federal agents have been deployed in and around Minneapolis since December, reportedly carrying out thousands of arrests.

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Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol’s commander of at-large operations, has been demoted from his post overseeing embeds with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following an agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis over the weekend, according to six federal sources.

Bovino was notified that he would be headed back to his job overseeing Border Patrol operations in El Centro, California, effective Tuesday.

The move comes two days after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot protester Alex Pretti while carrying out immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump sent White House border czar Tom Homan and other senior advisers across the Department of Homeland Security to Minneapolis on Monday and spoke by phone with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in an effort to find an off-ramp to the tense situation.

Bovino was tapped last June to oversee a temporary surge of agents into Los Angeles.

Five people previously told the Washington Examiner that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made that decision and had told Bovino he would report directly to her, an unprecedented move to have Bovino go around U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and Border Patrol’s national chief, Mike Banks.

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