It’s truly incredible, and yes, I mean lacks credibility, that the president of the united States will rightly call out a foreigner named Ilhan Omar who married her brother, engaged in all sorts of immigration fraud, and now has been attacking the American people while grifting with her third husband.  Yet, we see zero prosecution …

Venezuela's acting president has announced a proposed amnesty law that could lead to the release of hundreds of political prisoners, as well as the closure of a notorious detention center, in her latest concessions since the US capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Delcy Rodríguez said Friday that the amnesty would apply to cases from 1999 to the present, but would exclude those prosecuted for homicide, drug trafficking, corruption and human rights violations.

The federal government is shutting down for the second time in six months after Congress failed to reach an agreement on the yearly budget in time. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to notify federal agencies to begin shutdown preparations as early as just after midnight on Jan. 31 Unlike last time, however, the government is only entering a partial shutdown this weekend. That's because Congress was able to pass legislation fully funding some areas — the Department of Agriculture, the legislative branch, and the Department of Justice, for instance — while a majority of federal spending is still not set.

While the public focus of today's mass release of more Epstein files has been on the likes of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, one of the more random, extracted revelations was a notice sent from Microsoft to Epstein's account in 2013. No, it's not about Bill Gates. It's an email that reveals that Jeffrey Epstein, or his account at least, was banned from Xbox Live in 2013. This is back in the Xbox 360/Xbox One era. What happened? Here's what the email said:

Newly disclosed U.S. government files on Jeffrey Epstein have prompted the resignation of a top official in Slovakia and revived calls in Britain for a former prince to share what he knows with authorities about Epstein's links to powerful individuals around the world. The fallout comes just a day after the Justice Department began releasing a massive trove of files that offers more details about Epstein's interactions with the rich and famous after he served time for sex crimes in Florida.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that if the U.S. attacked Iran it would become a regional conflict, state media reported on Sunday, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. has built up its naval presence in the Middle East after President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened Iran with intervention if it did not agree to a nuclear deal or failed to stop killing protesters.

Ye, the US rapper and record producer known as Kanye West, has taken out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, expressing regret for years of antisemitic behavior. In the ad, he wrote that he "lost touch with reality" and blamed his actions on an undiagnosed brain injury from a 2002 car crash and untreated bipolar disorder. "I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did, though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people," he added.

Podcaster Tim Dillon opened his latest show with a drag impersonation of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss discussing her huge salary and staging an anything-but-challenging interview with ex-Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, played by actor and comedian Mario Bosco. Dillon has long been a critic of Weiss and the mega-deal she made to sell what he called her "glorified blog," The Free Press, to billionaire David Ellison for $150 million in cash and stock. The deal with Ellison also elevated Weiss to editor-in-chief of CBS News, despite the fact she worked at The New York Times as an opinion editor before being fired, but never in the news division.

A jury on Jan. 30 found a psychologist and surgeon liable for malpractice after they supported and performed breast removal surgery on a 16-year-old girl who at the time identified as transgender. Fox Varian, now 22 and no longer identifying as transgender, was awarded $2 million in damages, with $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses.