Bad Bunny is getting ready to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl — arguably one of the country’s most American events — but the Puerto Rican singer doesn’t seem too fond of his roots. Bad Bunny notably didn’t stand for “God Bless the USA” at a Yankees game last fall and refused to tour in the United States this year after he said he didn’t want ICE raiding his concert venues. The global superstar has been critical of President Donald Trump, while the Trump administration has made it clear there is a lack of excitement from their end for Bad Bunny’s performance. Despite that, it seems there will be enough patriotism to go around at Super Bowl LX as both teams honor America’s 250th anniversary. The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots will face off with red, white, and blue patches that read “USA 250” on the front of their jerseys when the teams take the field on February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The NFL unveiled the uniforms on Thursday. The USA 250 patch will be on the right side of the Patriots jersey with the Super Bowl LX logo on the left. The Super Bowl LX uni

With just days to go before the launch of one of the largest school choice programs in the country, Texas officials are fighting to ensure that no taxpayer funds go to institutions tied to the Chinese Communist Party or radical Islam. On Saturday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion confirming the ability of acting state Comptroller Kelly Hancock to deny participation to schools tied to America’s adversaries in the Texas Education Freedom Account program. Hancock, who is overseeing the school choice program, told The Daily Wire that his office has identified “more than a handful” of schools with problematic ties. “There were several schools in Texas that are connected to the Chinese Communist Party, and those that hosted events [with] or are potentially connected to [the Council on American Islamic Relations],” Hancock said. CAIR, a self-described civil rights organization with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, was designated as a terrorist organization in November by Governor Greg Abbott. Hancock said that his office’s “priority was protecting taxpayer dollars to make sure that they didn’t end up in the hands of groups that support terrorist activity” or were “hostile” to the United States. The Republican official is overseeing the rollout of Texas’ school choice program, which will allocate $1 billion in funding for parents to use for approved education expenses, including tuition at private schools. His office is responsible for approving schools that participate in the program and has greenlit 1,457 schools across the state. As part of this approval process, Hancock said his office wanted to make sure that no schools with ties to CAIR or the CCP would benefit from state dollars. “We saw some stories breaking in other states that have school choice,” Hancock told The Daily Wire. “I never lost sleep because we were ahead of the game and protecting those taxpayer dollars.” Many of the schools flagged with problematic ties were accredited through Cognia, an accreditation nonprofit that vets many charter and private schools across the country. Hancock initially paused all approvals for schools accredited by Cognia, including some private Christian schools. But, with the legal opinion from Paxton, many Cognia-accredited schools are now being registered with the state, assuming they have no ties to foreign adversaries. “We do want to make sure that we run it like a business, and try to protect taxpayer dollars on both sides of it,” Hancock said, asking people to be patient while his office vetted participants. Hancock told The Daily Wire that the vetting and investigation of schools was still ongoing. Some examples flagged by his office included the accrediting of potential providers by an agency that had hosted events alongside CAIR and another school that appeared to be owned by a group with an adviser linked to the CCP. CAIR Texas suggested that it might sue Hancock if he scrutinizes schools that “once hosted an educational lecture from a civil rights organization that Greg Abbott happens to dislike.” “Comptroller Hancock cannot bar private schools from this program because of their real or imagined interactions with CAIR-Texas, especially since Attorney General Paxton has sworn to a federal court that the governor’s unconstitutional proclamation targeting CAIR does not apply to any of its CAIR-Texas chapters,” the organization said. “Comptroller Hancock must permit private Muslim schools to participate in the program without facing any discrimination, heightened scrutiny or further delays in the application process.” Abbott praised Paxton’s opinion, saying it would ensure that taxpayer “dollars will not be used for schools connected to groups like CAIR or countries like China that I have designated as foreign terrorist organizations.” Parents can start applying for education scholarships on February 4, and the application period runs until March 17.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was nominating economist Kevin Warsh to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.  Warsh, a critic of the current chair Jerome Powell, will need to be confirmed by the Senate. Trump has battled with Powell over interest rates and has even floated firing him.  “I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down. Congratulations Kevin!” Warsh is currently an economist at the Hoover Institution, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a partner at the Duquesne Family Office investment firm. He was previously an economic policy advisor to President George W. Bush. He became the youngest Fed governor ever at 35 when he was nominated to the board of governors in 2006, a role he served in until 2011. The Wall Street Journal reported that Warsh played a “crucial behind-the-scenes roles in Washington’s rescue of Wall Street during the financial crisis” of 2008. If confirmed, Warsh would take over from Powell when his term as chair ends in May. Trump again ripped into Powell on Thursday for not cutting interest rates, accusing him of damaging the economy and undermining national security.  Trump on Friday commented on speculation that he would nominate National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.  “There was great speculation that highly respected Kevin Hassett was going to be named Chairman of the Fed, and a great Chairman he would have been but, quite honestly, he is doing such an outstanding job working with me and my team at the White House, that I just didn’t want to let him go,” Trump wrote soon after announcing the Warsh pick. “Kevin is indescribably good so, as the expression goes, ‘if you can’t do better, don’t try to fix it!’ Thank you Kevin for doing such a great job!” Trump has battled with the Federal Reserve throughout much of his second term. Earlier this month, the Justice Department launched a criminal probe into Powell over statements he made to the Senate about a costly renovation of the Federal Reserve. The Supreme Court is also considering whether Trump has the authority to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook.

President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats agree to a deal as Friday’s midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown approaches, border czar Tom Homan puts anti-ICE activists on notice, and a federal minority contracting program bans more than a thousand companies after they refuse to prove they did any work. It’s Friday, January 30, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below: Government Shutdown Averted? The White House and Senate Democrats say they’ve reached a deal to avert a government shutdown as the Friday deadline inches closer. The deal would fund most government departments through September 30 and, in the short term, fund the Department of Homeland Security through a continuing resolution that expires after two weeks. In those two weeks, lawmakers are expected to negotiate over reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. President Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday evening, saying, “I am working hard with Congress to ensure that we are able to fully fund the Government, without delay.” He went on to say that he hopes “both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ Vote.” The deal hit a snag on Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly blocked a vote over “a House-passed provision undoing a law that allows senators to receive cash payouts if they had their phone records seized by former special counsel Jack Smith,” according to POLITICO. Homan Vows Activist Crackdown Border czar Tom Homan is putting anti-ICE activists on notice that they will be held accountable for obstructing law enforcement. Homan took the podium on Thursday for his first significant public remarks since being sent to clean up the mess in Minnesota. And he seemed to have a two-fold message. First, to make it clear that law and order are going to be restored. He pledged to remain on the ground “until the problem’s gone.” Then Homan also made it clear that despite the bad press coming from the shooting deaths of anti-ICE activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti, he’s not going to be deterred from investigating activist networks. Meanwhile, Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is entering the race for governor. She first filed papers a week ago, but the incredibly bad optics of the chaos on the ground in Minneapolis again – the city was ground zero for Black Lives Matter unrest in 2020 – gives Klobuchar a chance to showcase herself as a moderate who will restore order. Government Contracting Fraud Exposed One thousand companies were banned from the federal minority contracting program on Wednesday after they declined to provide records showing whether they were actually performing the work or simply keeping a cut while passing the contract to a larger company. The program is known as 8(a). Last month, Kelly Loeffler, the head of the Small Business Administration, which issues 8(a) status, demanded that all firms provide bank statements and payroll records. It would have been a lot of work for the SBA to go through all those records. But the agency didn’t need to look at many at all, because a lot of fraudsters may have self-identified by choosing not to turn over records that would incriminate them. A quarter of all 8(a) firms, collectively receiving $5 billion over the last four years, didn’t turn anything in.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday for allegedly violating the law for his role in an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church earlier this month, his attorneys say. A statement from Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said he was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday night while covering the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. “Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” Lowell’s statement read. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work.” Lemon joined a group of leftist rioters for a January 18 protest organized and promoted by the Racial Justice Network and Black Lives Matter Minnesota. The mob targeted Cities Church in St. Paul because one of its pastors allegedly worked with ICE. Rioters have descended on the Twin Cities since the January killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. The group’s leader, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, told Lemon that the protest was a “clandestine operation” to “disrupt business as usual.” “Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case,” Lowell, best known for defending Hunter Biden, wrote in his statement. “This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand.” President Donald Trump said that the “troublemakers” behind the protest “should be thrown in jail,” and his administration roundly rejected Lemon’s claim that his activities were protected under the First Amendment. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said that Lemon was “not out of legal jeopardy” and vowed that the Justice Department would “pursue” Lemon to the ends of the Earth.” A federal appeals court earlier this month found probable cause to charge Lemon. The Justice Department will likely seek to charge Lemon under the FACE Act, a law that prohibits the disruption of worship services, which the Biden administration infamously used to prosecute peaceful anti-abortion protesters. Lemon claims the Trump administration is going to prosecute him as punishment, suggesting that the Justice Department would even violate the law to see him locked up. “If there’s no law to fit, they will try to fit or retrofit something or go around a judge and just do it themselves,” Lemon told fellow former CNN personality Alisyn Camerota earlier this month. “If one doesn’t work, then they try something else and that fails, and they try something else and then they just don’t give up.” Three of the anti-ICE agitators who organized the church storming, including Armstrong, have been arrested by the FBI. William Kelly, a prominent professional protester who has demonstrated outside the church of War Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington, D.C., was among those who entered the sanctuary during the Sunday morning service. The Justice Department is expected to hold a press conference on Lemon’s arrest later Friday. This is a developing story. Please refresh this page for updates.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order declaring a national emergency over the Cuban regime, authorizing new tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba. The administration cited threats to national security and foreign policy. The order establishes a tariff system allowing the United States to impose additional duties on imports from any country that directly or indirectly supplies oil to the communist government in Havana. The measures are intended to counter Cuba’s “malign actions and policies” and hold the regime accountable for supporting hostile actors and fueling regional instability. Under the order, the Secretaries of State and Commerce are authorized to take all necessary actions, including issuing rules and guidance, to implement the tariff system and related measures. The president may modify the order if Cuba or affected countries take significant steps to address U.S. security concerns or align with American foreign policy objectives. The White House said the Cuban regime poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States, citing Havana’s alignment with hostile nations and its role in hosting foreign military and intelligence operations. According to the administration, Cuba hosts Russia’s largest overseas signals intelligence facility, which is focused on collecting sensitive U.S. national security information. The order also cites Cuba’s support for transnational terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and accuses the regime of undermining U.S. sanctions and destabilizing the Western Hemisphere. The administration further accused Havana of persecuting political opponents, suppressing free speech and press freedoms, and profiting from corruption while exporting communist ideology throughout the region. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reinforced the administration’s stance on Wednesday, saying the United States would welcome political change in Cuba. “I think we would love to see the regime change,” Rubio said. “That doesn’t mean that we’re going to make a change, but we would love to see a change. There’s no doubt about the fact that it would be of great benefit to the United States if Cuba was no longer governed by an autocratic regime.” Trump echoed that assessment a day earlier, suggesting the Cuban government is nearing collapse. “Cuba will be failing pretty soon,” the president said Tuesday. The move continues Trump’s broader effort to confront regimes the administration says threaten American security and interests, following earlier actions aimed at Iran and Venezuela, while signaling renewed pressure on Havana and support for the Cuban people.  

An expected Senate vote on a package to avert a government shutdown was scrapped on Thursday night after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) objected to the removal of a provision allowing senators to sue if their phone records were snooped on.  Graham’s opposition came after the White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal to separate out funding for the Department of Homeland Security from five appropriation bills previously approved by the House. As senators prepared to vote, Graham met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to discuss the agreement.  “We’re not voting tonight,” Graham said Thursday night after leaving Thune’s office, The Hill reported.  Part of Graham’s objection stemmed from the House vote to repeal a provision tucked into the continuing resolution passed in November that allowed senators to sue for damages if the government accessed their records without their knowledge. That provision was added after it was revealed that the FBI had analyzed the metadata of phone calls from several congressional Republicans as part of the investigation into President Donald Trump following the January 6 attack.  “What senator wouldn’t want notification that they’re looking at your phone?” Graham said.  “I fixed the problem that people had. I’m not going to ignore what happened. If you were abused, you think you were abused, your phone records were illegally seized — you should have your day in court,” he added. “Every senator should want to make sure this never happens again.” After the passage of the continuing resolution in November, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) promised a vote on repealing the provision, saying that it should apply to all Americans, not just senators. The House followed through earlier this month, repealing the measure as part of the appropriations package it passed.  Graham also said he opposed separating out funding for DHS. “The cops need us right now,” he said. “They’re being demonized. They’re being spat upon. They can’t sleep at night.“ Thune said Thursday that he was hopeful that the Senate would be able to vote on the White House-backed deal. The government will shut down at midnight on Friday without any further funding.  “Hopefully by sometime tomorrow we’ll be in a better spot,” Thune said on Thursday. “Tomorrow’s another day, and hopefully people will be in a spirit to try and get this done.” Trump urged lawmakers on Thursday to support the deal with Democrats to pass the appropriations bill and a two-week extension of Homeland Security funds to allow time for negotiations. “Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to the Department of Homeland Security (including the very important Coast Guard, which we are expanding and rebuilding like never before),” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Hopefully, both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ Vote.”

President Donald Trump said on Friday that video of Alex Pretti’s altercation with federal agents 11 days before he was shot and killed proves that the Minneapolis man was an “agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist.” Trump argued that Pretti’s “stock has gone way down” after the video shows the man confronting federal agents in Minneapolis and kicking out the taillight of a federal vehicle. The video was released by The News Movement earlier this week and published by numerous news outlets. “Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces,” Trump wrote in an early morning Truth Social post. “It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!” The footage shows a man yelling and spitting at federal immigration agents on January 13 before he damaged a federal vehicle as it began to drive away. Federal agents then got out of the vehicle and tackled the man to the ground. Pretti’s family confirmed that it was him in the video. The Minnesota Star Tribune confirmed with Alex Pretti’s family that the man in this video is indeed Alex Pretti. Filmed by @thenewsmovement on January 13, two weeks before Pretti was shot by ICE: pic.twitter.com/1yLKLApXvB — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 28, 2026 The Pretti family’s attorney, Steve Schleicher, said the video shows Pretti getting “violently assaulted by a group of ICE agents.” Before the video was released, CNN reported that Pretti broke a rib during an altercation with ICE agents a week before his death. One source who spoke to Pretti after the altercation told CNN, “That day, he thought he was going to die.” Pretti was reportedly released at the scene after the confrontation. A little over a week later, Pretti was shot and killed in the street by Border Patrol agents after confronting authorities who were conducting an immigration operation. Pretti, who was armed with a 9 mm handgun, got into an altercation with agents as they were pushing demonstrators off the road. Video shows Pretti getting pepper-sprayed before he’s taken to the ground. Pretti then resists as officers attempt to detain him. The video appears to show one agent taking Pretti’s gun while he’s on the ground before two other agents fire around 10 shots in five seconds, killing Pretti. After the deadly shooting, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Pretti a “domestic terrorist,” a response that sparked criticism from within Noem’s department, The Daily Wire previously reported. Earlier this week, Trump said he did not believe Pretti was “acting as an assassin,” as was suggested by top officials in his administration. “With that being said, you can’t have guns,” Trump added. “You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t. You can’t walk in with guns, you can’t do that. But it’s a very unfortunate incident.” After another Minneapolis resident, Renee Good, was shot and killed by an ICE officer earlier this month, the Trump administration also labeled her a domestic terrorist. The president, however, later said that “under normal circumstances,” Good was likely a “very, solid wonderful person,” adding, “But, you know, her actions were pretty tough.”

Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Dr. Mariano Barbacid, have achieved a significant breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common and deadly form of pancreatic cancer. In a study published in the journal PNAS, the team demonstrated that a new triple-drug combination therapy can completely and permanently eliminate pancreatic tumors in experimental mouse models. Pancreatic cancer has long been considered one of the most difficult “incurable” diseases, characterized by a five-year survival rate of less than 11%. Its resilience is largely due to the KRAS oncogene, a mutation present in approximately 90% of cases. Although KRAS was historically considered “undruggable,” recent advances have enabled the development of RAS inhibitors. However, these single-target drugs often fail in the long term because tumors quickly develop resistance by utilizing alternative survival pathways. The CNIO team’s innovation lies in a “triple-threat” approach that blocks three independent signaling nodes simultaneously: downstream (RAF1), upstream (EGFR), and orthogonal (STAT3) pathways. By targeting these three routes, the therapy effectively “traps” the cancer cells, preventing them from outmaneuvering the treatment. The researchers tested this across various models, including mice with human pancreatic tissue and mice genetically engineered to model the disease. In all cases, the combination — consisting of the drugs daraxonrasib (KRAS inhibitor), afatinib (EGFR inhibitor), and SD36 (STAT3 degrader) — resulted in complete tumor regression without the appearance of resistance for over 200 days post-treatment. Crucially, the therapy was well-tolerated with no significant toxicities. The implications of this study are profound. Currently, patients rely on decades-old cytotoxic drugs like gemcitabine or highly toxic combinations like FOLFIRINOX, which offer limited benefits. This new research provides a roadmap for human clinical trials, suggesting that the key to curing pancreatic cancer lies in combination therapies rather than monotherapy. While the results are promising, experts note limitations: the success was observed in healthy laboratory mice, and human physiology may present different challenges. Nevertheless, the Spanish government and the international scientific community have hailed the discovery as a potential turning point. If these results can be replicated in humans, it could transform the prognosis for a disease that currently kills more than half of its victims within three months of diagnosis.

A Manhattan judge ruled on Friday that federal prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, a major twist ahead of the highly anticipated trial. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty last year after Mangione was arrested and hit with federal charges for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett, however, said the parts of the case that made the death penalty a possibility had “legal infirmities,” The New York Post reported. The federal charge against Mangione that made him eligible for the death penalty accused him of “using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a crime of violence.” Garnett said that she was dismissing that part of the indictment “solely to preclude the death penalty as an available punishment when the jury determines if the Defendant caused Brian Thompson’s death.” Garnett agreed with Mangione’s defense team and said that stalking does not constitute “a crime of violence.” The judge acknowledged that her decision was “strange,” but argued that violence is defined by using force, and stalking could technically be committed without using force, ABC News reported. Thompson was gunned down from behind in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, 2024, as he was walking to a hotel during his company’s annual investor conference. Thompson, a Minnesota resident, left behind a wife and two small children. Shell casings retrieved from the scene had the words “delay,” “deny,” and “depose” written on them, according to the New York Police Department. The words found on the shell casings have been connected to a 2010 book that was critical of the health insurance industry. Mangione’s fingerprints allegedly matched fingerprints found on shell casings at the murder scene. Garnett’s ruling means that Mangione now faces a maximum of life in prison without parole. Prosecutors plan on appealing the decision, NBC 4 New York reported. In another decision on Friday, Garnett sided against Mangione’s defense team and said that the prosecution could use evidence that was seized from Mangione’s backpack when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania. While the suspected assassin’s backpack was searched by police without a warrant, Garnett said there are exceptions to the requirement for obtaining a warrant, such as the discovery of a weapon. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona following a five-day manhunt, and police found a firearm, silencer, and what appeared to be a manifesto in the man’s backpack. In one section of a notebook found in Mangione’s possession, the author planned to “whack” the health care CEO “at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention.” Mangione pleaded not guilty to the federal and state murder charges. With the death penalty thrown out, opening arguments for the trial are set to begin in October, with jury selection scheduled for September 8. The case has already gripped the nation, and Mangione has gained a following, with some of his supporters defending the murder of Thompson and calling for more health care executives to be killed. Attorney General Bondi said last year that the murder of Thompson was “a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”