Bondi confirmed Friday in an initial social media post that Lemon was arrested at her “direction” alongside independent journalist Georgia Fort, Black Lives Matter Minnesota co-founder Trahern Jeen Crews and Hennepin County Attorney’s Office staffer Jamael Lydell Lundy. Lemon was in Los Angeles to cover the Grammys on Sunday when he was arrested. Evan Agostini/Invision/Associated PressThe vocal Trump critic was in Los Angeles preparing to cover the Grammys on Sunday when he was arrested. AdvertisementHis attorney, Abbe Lowell, noted in a statement that Lemon has been a journalist for 30 years and called the arrest an attack on the First Amendment. Lowell explained further that Lemon’s “constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWith the U.S. poised to attack Iran, diplomatic attempts to broker a deal appear to have withered. Israeli and Arab officials successfully united earlier this month to convince President Donald Trump to refrain from attacking Tehran, fearing a regional bloodbath. But earlier this week, a Gulf official who is familiar with discussions among U.S. officials told HuffPost the chances of avoiding a strike stood only at 50%. While governments close to Trump, including Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, lobby against a possible strike, Trump is being encouraged to strike by influential hawks at home, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and pro-Israel donors who have long sought regime change in Tehran. Since then, after the protests and alarm among Iranian officials about their possible overthrow, Tehran is unlikely to be more confident in such discussions.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThree top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration failed to show up at the annual conference of state election officials after making a splashy announcement that they would confront a crowd of top state election officials. The entire Trump administration appearance was canceled just as it was supposed to start. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard failed to appear at a conference for state elections officials after making a splashy promise to speak. After he lost that election, Trump lied that he won the state of Georgia and tried to pressure GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find “11,780” votes. Oddly, Gabbard was captured in a photograph of the raid, raising questions about what exactly the nation’s top counterintelligence official was doing investigating domestic elections.

Trump takes aim at Cuba, Iran President Donald Trump signed an executive order that imposes tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba.

‘National Shutdown’ brings protests across the nation calling for the end of ICE violence

People partake in a "National Shutdown" protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, on Friday, January 30. Here’s what you need to know:Journalists arrested: Federal agents arrested independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in connection to a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mixed signaling: President Donald Trump said Thursday evening there were no plans to pull immigration enforcement agents out of Minneapolis. At the same time, Border Czar Tom Homan announced earlier in the day he had ordered federal immigration authorities to work on a drawdown plan. Homan on Friday reiterated cooperation from jails is essential for an eventual drawdown of immigration enforcement activity in the state.

However, White House deputy chief of staff James Blair said Friday that the journalist was indicted by a federal grand jury. “The Post was assured that the reporter herself was not a target of the investigation, it was one of her sources, but that was seen as a real crackdown on the freedom of press,” he said. Advertisement“Don Lemon has been an enemy of the MAGA movement for quite some time. He’s disliked by the Trump administration,” Lemire continued. I mean, this kind of thing, it’s a shot across the bow, right, towards the free press, and it’s, it’s scary.”

Nicki Minaj joins President Donald Trump on stage during the Treasury Department's Trump Accounts Summit on Jan. 28, in Washington, D.C. “We live in a country where we can freely worship God,” she wrote in an X post. All of these antics are only recent signs of Minaj’s conservative transformation, but the shift itself goes back much further, by at least a decade. His testicles became swollen,” she claimed in an X post, which several experts debunked. The rapper hurled a homophobic slur at the independent journalist before later defending it in an X post that reads: “LOL!!!

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“The Senate reached an agreement to pass a package funding huge chunks of the federal government through September but setting a two-week stopwatch on the expiration of Homeland Security funding,” Semafor reports. “After a day of haggling with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., over his priorities, Senate Majority Leader John Thune locked in a deal to vote on five spending bills as well as the stopgap DHS bill.”Politico: “As part of that agreement struck among all 100 senators, the chamber will vote on seven amendments to a sweeping appropriations package.”

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AILSA CHANG, HOST:President Trump has announced he plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. So what might Kevin Warsh look like as the chair of the Fed? CHANG: So I know this search has been going on for months, but just tell us what you know about Kevin Warsh. SPERLING: Well, I know Kevin Warsh. CHANG: But before Kevin Warsh can even get the job, he has to first be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, of course.

Under the current policy, all footage collected by the department is retained indefinitely. Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said. Several members of the civilian oversight panel, which sets LAPD policies, expressed concern that the proposed policy wasn’t clear enough. Gerges Shields also called for LAPD officials to work with body-cam manufacturer Axon to develop a “click box” that would ensure that a video couldn’t be deleted without proper approval. Most of the videos gathered by officers go unwatched, with LAPD officials saying there’s not enough manpower to review all of the clips recorded on any given shift.

But Big Music has become afraid of politics, for fear of alienating someone, for fear of blowback, as the power of music becomes marginalized and the ratings of the Grammys have declined. But you will remember that Springsteen opened the show with this anti-ICE song. This is why the Grammys were completely irrelevant at the height of the music explosion. Springsteen may be old…then again, so is CBS’s audience. This is a moment of triumph wholly within reach of the Grammys and their telecast.