White House doubles down on Tulsi Gabbard’s presence at FBI raid of election center – as it happened

We’re wrapping up our live coverage of US politics for the day. Here are the latest developments:

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  The US military said it conducted a kinetic strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing two people.

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  Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said she will not sit down for an interview with Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, and US attorney Jeanine Pirro regarding a video that she and other Democrats made urging troops to refuse illegal orders. “I’m not going to legitimize their actions,” she said.

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  Donald Trump reportedly wants to see New York’s Penn Station and Dulles airport in Washington renamed in his honor. The president is said to have told Senator Chuck Schumer that he would release billions of dollars in federal funding set aside for a New York infrastructure project if the minority leader agreed to back the renaming, according to reports from Punchbowl and CNN.

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  Trump introduced TrumpRX.gov, which the White House says aims to help Americans get discounted prescription drugs. Under the new initiative, sixteen of the world’s largest drug manufacturers agreed to cut prices for Americans in exchange for exemptions from US tariffs.

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  Governor Tina Kotek and more than 30 Oregon mayors have demanded the Trump administration halt all federal immigration enforcement actions in the state until recent “use-of-force” incidents are thoroughly investigated. “The actions of your officers are not making our communities safer,” the letter states.

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  Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said his office has been assured there will be no immigration enforcement operations at the Super Bowl.

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Governor Tina Kotek and more than 30 Oregon mayors have demanded the Trump administration halt all federal immigration enforcement actions in the state.

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On Thursday, Kotek and the mayors sent a letter to DHS secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan urging the federal government suspend such operations in Oregon until recent “use-of-force” incidents are thoroughly investigated.

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“The actions of your officers are not making our communities safer. Parents are afraid to take their children to school. Families are avoiding healthcare.” the letter states. “The actions of your officers, especially the use of lethal force, are damaging local economies and hurting the people we are responsible for protecting and serving.”

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Over the weekend, federal agents used teargas on a crowd that included children during a protest outside a Portland ICE facility over the weekend. The demonstrators present “made no threat and posed no danger”, the city’s mayor said in recent days. The protest was part of a wave of demonstrations in the US in response to Trump’s immigration crackdown and the killings of two US citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents in Minneapolis.

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“Things need to change,” Kotek said in a video announcing the letter. “The federal government needs to rebuild trust with Americans. What they’re doing is making all of us less safe.”

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  Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Donald Trump’s earlier defense of Tulsi Gabbard’s role in an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia. Earlier today, Trump said that Gabbard – the director of national intelligence – went at the urging of attorney general Pam Bondi. At today’s White House briefing, Leavitt said that it is a part of Gabbard’s role “to make sure that American elections are free of foreign interference, and that American elections are safe and secure”.

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  The White house also said today that the administration is willing to discuss “some” of the items on the list of demands by congressional Democrats as negotiations on a full year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continue. Leavitt said that some of the demands “don’t seem like they are grounded in any common sense, and they are non starters for this administration,” without elaborating on specifics.

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  The Trump administration moved Thursday to issue a rule that would make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said it was reclassifying certain career civil service roles so agencies can “quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or obstruct the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives”. The reclassification could also allow the administration to remove employees it views as disloyal.

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  The Pima county sheriff said that local authorities believe Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, is “still out there”. “We just want her home and find a way to get to the bottom of this,” sheriff Chris Nanos said, after the 84-year-old went missing almost five days ago.

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  Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said that further US sanctions against Russia depend on talks aimed at ending its nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. Bessent, who participated in talks with Russian officials and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in Miami on 31 January, said he would consider sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet.

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  Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia concluded a second day of US-led talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday without a breakthrough towards ending Europe’s most deadly conflict since the second world war. The two sides agreed to a reciprocal exchange of 157 prisoners of war each, offering a rare concrete outcome from the discussions. But Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy involved in the talks, cautioned that “significant work remains” in the weeks ahead.

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Brat summer faded long ago. But on Thursday, Kamala Harris relaunched her @KamalaHQ account on social media as “Headquarters”. She kept the green aesthetic that had saturated the strange, disorienting months after Harris stepped into the race to take on Donald Trump.

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The rebranded “Headquarters” is a partnership between the former vice president and the liberal advocacy group, People for the American Way, that aims to be an organizing hub for Gen Z.

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“Conservatives build permanent organizing infrastructure,” the press release states. “Progressives have historically built machines that dismantle after Election Day. Headquarters is the end of that cycle.”

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In a video launched on the account, Harris describes Headquarters as a place “where you can go online to get the latest of what’s going on, and also to meet and revisit with some of our great and courageous leaders – be they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders”.

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Taking on her first official role since leaving the White House last year, Harris will serve as the chair emerita of Headquarters, and will be joined by many of her former campaign staff.

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Encouraging young people to stay engaged in politics despite their disillusionment with the state of the world and the status quo has been a major focus of Harri’s post-vice presidency. In her public remarks, she has encouraged young people to “stay in the fight”.

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Last summer, Harris declined to run for governor, but has left the door open to another presidential run.

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Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Trump’s earlier defense of Tulsi Gabbard’s role in an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia. Earlier today, Trump said that Gabbard – the director of national intelligence – went at the urging of attorney general Pam Bondi.

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At today’s briefing, Leavitt said that it is a part of Gabbard’s role “to make sure that American elections are free of foreign interference, and that American elections are safe and secure”.

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As the Guardian reported, Trump’s remarks earlier marked a departure from remarks in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday. “I don’t know,” Trump said when asked why Gabbard was present. The Guardian has also reported that Gabbard is conducting her own review of the 2020 election through her office with Trump’s approval – working separately from the justice department investigation – and that she was sent to observe the raid as part of that effort.

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Leavitt did not clarify whether the president directed Gabbard to go to Fulton County for the seizure of almost 700 boxes of 2020 election documentation.

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“It’s the media who has said that there’s Russian interference in American elections. You guys have been saying that for many saying that for many, many years,” the press secretary said. “I don’t understand why anyone in this room, considering you’re all American citizens I believe, and like to vote in our nation’s elections, should have any problem with that whatsoever.”

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Leavitt said today that the administration is willing to discuss “some” of the items on the list of demands sent by the Senate’s top Democrat Chuck Schumer and the House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. “Others don’t seem like they are grounded in any common sense, and they are non starters for this administration,” Leavitt said.

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She didn’t elaborate on which aspects are off the table, but many Republican remembers of Congress have said that some of the key demands from Democrats, like asking federal immigration agents to not wear masks and the need for judicial warrants to conduct raids, are untenable.

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Karoline Leavitt kicked off today’s White House press briefing noting that she and Donald Trump were watching the press conference about the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Leavitt described the situation as “heartbreaking” and noted that she spoke with the FBI directly about the ongoing investigation today.

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My colleagues Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon have collated the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, and report that there are more than 26,000 people with no criminal record in ICE detention. For context, this is up from 2,760 when Donald Trump returned to office last year.

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You can read the full report here:

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Chris Nanos, the Pima county sheriff, said today that local authorities believe 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, is “still out there” following her disappearance almost five days ago. “We just want her home and find a way to get to the bottom of this,” Nanos said.

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The FBI is now supporting Pima county authorities on the investigation, and Nanos added that officials did not yet have a suspect, when he addressed the press on Thursday. “We’re not there yet,” he said.

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On the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried their few belongings in plastic bags.

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Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump.

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Dezer is also a Trump donor, friend of Donald Trump Jr and member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

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His sleek Gulfstream jet – which he has called “my little rocket ship” – was used to transport the men from an airport near a notorious removal centre in Arizona to Tel Aviv. The jet made three refuelling stops en route: in New Jersey, Ireland and Bulgaria.

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A Guardian investigation has established the flight was part of a secretive and politically sensitive US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by ICE to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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One of those deported on the January flight was Maher Awad, a 24-year-old originally from the West Bank, who had lived in the US for nearly a decade. Speaking to the Guardian in the town of Rammun, Maher shared photos of his girlfriend and newborn son in Michigan.

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“They dropped us off like animals on the side of the road,” Awad said. “We went to a local house, we knocked on the door, we were like: ‘Please help us out.’”

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You can read the full investigation here:

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US job openings dropped to the lowest level in more than five years in December and data for the prior month was revised lower amid a softening in labor market conditions at the end of 2025.

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Job openings, a measure of labor demand, decreased by 386,000 to 6.542m by the last day of December, the lowest level since September 2020, the labor department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, today.

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Data for November was revised down to show 6.928m job openings instead of the previously reported 7.146m. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 7.20m unfilled jobs. Hiring increased by 172,000 positions to a still-low 5.293m in December.

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The data came as other numbers showed a larger-than-expected increase in Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits last week, but the underlying trend remained consistent with a stable labor market.

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Here’s the full story:

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Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said that further US sanctions against Russia depend on talks aimed at ending its nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.

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Bessent, who participated in talks with Russian officials and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in Miami on 31 January, said he would consider sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet.

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“We will see where the peace talks go,” Bessent said, noting that the Trump administration’s sanctions against Russian oil majors Rosneft and Lukoil had helped bring Russia to the negotiating table in the peace talks.

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The Trump administration moved Thursday to issue a rule that would make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said it was reclassifying certain career civil service roles so agencies can “quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or obstruct the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives”.

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Traditionally, only political appointees – roughly 4,000 positions – can be dismissed “at will”.

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Under the new rule, many nonpartisan roles would be shifted into a category called “Schedule Policy/Career,” effectively treating them as political appointees. That reclassification could allow the administration to remove employees it views as disloyal. The rule – set to be published in the Federal Register on Friday – also states that “personal or political loyalty tests as a condition of employment” are prohibited.

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Critics argue the change would open the door to politically motivated purges. “We have successfully fought this kind of power grab before, and we will fight this again. We will return to court to stop this unlawful rule and will use every legal tool available to hold this administration accountable to the people,” said Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward.

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The largest union representing federal workers called the rule “a direct assault on a professional, nonpartisan, merit-based civil service.” In a statement, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) president Everett Kelley said OPM is “rebranding career public servants as ‘policy’ employees, silencing whistleblowers, and replacing competent professionals with political flunkies without any neutral, independent protections against politicization and arbitrary abuse of power.”

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Trump briefly enacted a similar change at the end of his first term through an executive order known as “Schedule F,” which Joe Biden rescinded upon taking office in 2021. Stripping civil service protections has also been a central plank of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint.

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In a statement Thursday, anticipating the rule’s release, OPM director Scott Kupor said the reclassification would bring “much-needed accountability to career policy-influencing positions in the Federal government.”

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During his speech today, Trump praised Tulsi Gabbard – the director of national intelligence – for her role in the FBI’s search of the Fulton county election offices in Georgia last week. Here agents seized almost 700 boxes of 2020 election documentation.

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“She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam’s insistence,” the president said. “They say, ‘why is she doing it’… because Pam [the attorney general] wanted her to do it. And you know why? Because she’s smart.”

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Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that Gabbard is running her own review into the 2020 election with Donald Trump’s approval, working separately from the justice department investigation.

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“Her position has to do with international,” Trump added today.

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They’ve been saying ‘Russia, Russia, Russia has been screwing our elections’. OK, so let’s assume Russia had something to do with it. They said, ‘no, no, Russia didn’t’… so now they’re saying Russia had nothing to do with it. Because if I say Russia, that it’s perfectly fine. But you could add China and about five other countries.

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President Donald Trump is set to attend and deliver remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast later today, a spokesperson from the White House confirmed.

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The event is held annually in Washington DC on the first Thursday of every February. It aims to bring together leaders in political, social and business sectors from around the country to an event that merges prayer and networking.

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“Today, President Trump will unite our country through the power of prayer at the 74th National Prayer Breakfast,” a White House spokesperson said.

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“President Trump has made unprecedented strides to protect our God-given rights and has delivered on his promise to reverse Joe Biden’s divisive policies that weaponized the federal government against men and women of faith. President Trump has secured major victories for religious freedom – from defending innocent life to restoring biological truth and protecting parents’ fundamental rights.”

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Fox News reports that the president first attended the National Prayer Breakfast in 2017 and returned last year, using his remarks to pledge action against what he called anti-Christian bias tied to the Biden administration.

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“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares, and we will bring our country back together as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all,” he said during last year’s event.

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According to the outlet, other notable attenders set to appear at the 2026 event include house speaker Mike Johnson and attorney general Pam Bondi.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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Donald Trump said the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were both sad incidents that “should not have happened,” but nobody feels worse about both shootings than ICE agents.

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“He was not an angel, and she was not an angel,” Trump said of Pretti and Good in a new interview with NBC News. “Still, I’m not happy with what happened there. Nobody can be happy, and ICE wasn’t happy either.

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“But I’m always going to be with our great people of law enforcement,” he continued. “We have to back them. If we don’t back them, we don’t have a country.”

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This comes as the White House border czar, Tom Homan, says 700 federal agents will leave Minnesota. In the interview, Trump suggested using a “softer touch” in carrying out his aggressive immigration crackdown.

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However, Chuck Schumer, the US Senate minority leader, said the reduction of 700 agents wasn’t enough. “ICE’s abuses go beyond the headlines. Residents are afraid to go to schools, to grocery stores, to even step outside. Agents are patrolling the streets like a military operation,” he said. “All of ICE needs to leave Minneapolis now.”

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In other developments:

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  The second day of US-brokered talks between negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv have been taking place in Abu Dhabi. The discussions come amid increased Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and a continuing war of attrition.

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  The Trump administration says it wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies and partners in order to counter China’s stronghold. This would use tariffs to shore up supplies of critical minerals needed for electric vehicles, missiles and other hi-tech products.

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  The British prime minister Keir Starmer has apologised to Epstein victims for giving Peter Mandelson the US ambassador job. Starmer says Mandelson portrayed Epstein as someone he barely knew. He expressed regret for believing Mandelson’s lies and appointing him.

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  The US Justice Department is under fire for revealing information about Epstein’s victims, and hiding the identities of alleged perpetrators, CNN reports. Survivors have accused the DoJ for “botching” the release of the three million documents which came out last week.

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