More Minnesota protestors face federal investigation after disrupting a church service in St. Paul, the effects of Virginia Democrats’ election sweep begin to take shape, and the Pentagon purchases a curious new device as evidence has come to light about the so-called “Havana Syndrome.” It’s Tuesday, January 20, 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: Anti-ICE Protestors Storm Minnesota Church Federal authorities are investigating after anti-ICE activists stormed a church service in Minnesota. The protestors, accompanied by former CNN anchor Don Lemon, interrupted worship and demanded that congregants condemn ICE. The situation unfolded during the Sunday morning service at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in St. Paul. A group of anti-ICE activists entered the sanctuary mid-service and started chanting, shouting accusations, and filming the congregants. The protesters accused the church of supporting ICE because one of its staff pastors also serves as an acting field director for ICE’s St. Paul office. Several of the protestors are associated with groups that led demonstrations over the death of George Floyd. Lemon, who was with these protestors, has claimed that the disruption was simply free speech. But DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told The Daily Wire that activists “don’t have a First Amendment right to trespass and invade a house of worship.” The Justice Department is investigating the incident for potential violations of the FACE Act and other laws. Democrats’ Virginia Agenda Virginia swore in its Democratic slate of leaders over the weekend, including Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones, and they, along with their congressional counterparts, are laying out a heavily leftist agenda. One of the first actions Spanberger took as governor was to end the state government’s support for ICE, rescinding an executive order signed last year by former Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. Jones put out a legal opinion shortly after he took office backing the push for redistricting. The new congressional map could be up for a vote in a few months ahead of the November midterm elections, and it could lead to four more seats for Democrats in the currently narrow Republican-majority House. Meanwhile, Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly could bring other constitutional proposals to the ballot soon, such as placing a right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. Did The U.S. Finally Crack The Havana Syndrome? The Pentagon believes it may have solved a decade-long mystery surrounding Havana Syndrome, a mysterious ailment impacting American personnel stationed around the world. The story is equal parts terrifying and fascinating. At first, officials thought these were isolated and natural medical events. They called them “anomalous health episodes,” but over time, a clear pattern emerged. New victims were overwhelmingly coming down with the ailment while working sensitive diplomatic events in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, especially Cuba, thus the name Havana Syndrome. The Pentagon has been tight-lipped about the total number of cases, but reports say there have been at least 200 victims. Some are now permanently disabled, suffering from severe short and long-term memory loss. In the final days of the Biden administration, the Pentagon secretly purchased a device that emits high-frequency pulsed radio waves. Specific details of the purchase are sparse, but reports say it cost in the “eight-figure” range and was acquired covertly as part of an “undercover operation.”

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the anti-ICE activists who stormed a Minnesota church on Sunday were professional “troublemakers” who should be incarcerated or “thrown out of the country.”  Trump’s comments come as his Justice Department has pledged to bring charges against the leftists who entered Cities Church in St. Paul and recited chants like “Justice for Renee Good,” “Hands up, don’t shoot,” and “ICE out of Minnesota.” Former CNN host Don Lemon livestreamed the protest under the guise of being an independent journalist.   “Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social early Tuesday morning.  The protest was organized and promoted by the Racial Justice Network and Black Lives Matter Twin Cities. Cities Church was targeted because one of its pastors works for ICE. 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.  Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said Monday that charges for those involved in the protest are forthcoming. She also suggested that Lemon could face charges if he knowingly participated in a conspiracy against civil rights.  “I see various crimes that have occurred,” she told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday. “Exactly what they are I’m not going to flag, but the FACE Act has been mentioned as one of the predicates there. In other cases, the Biden DOJ used the Klan Act conspiracy charges tacked onto the FACE Act in the case of protests outside abortion clinics to bring much longer sentences.” The FACE Act protects the rights of those attending worship services to be free from disruption. Dhillon told The Daily Wire that two Justice Department prosecutors traveled to Minnesota on Monday to handle the case.  “You can have your protest in a park, you can have a march, you can get a permit for a large gathering, but you can’t just go wherever you want and tear things up and disrupt,” she said. “And that’s what these people did. And so now, people are afraid to go to church. And that is an absolute disgrace in this country.”

On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term inauguration, here are five ways he has dismantled the deep state in Washington. 1. Reinstating ‘Schedule F’ On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate Schedule F, which makes it easier for the president to fire bureaucrats. This reclassified about 50,000 career civil servants in “policy-influencing” roles as at-will employees. The executive order said that accountability was lacking in the federal bureaucracy. “In recent years, however, there have been numerous and well-documented cases of career Federal employees resisting and undermining the policies and directives of their executive leadership,” the order said.  “Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service, beginning with positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.” 2. DOGE The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly reduced federal employment by about 271,000 jobs. DOGE also provided a list of 9,474 contracts and vehicles that have been terminated by the department. In the spirit of DOGE, the Trump administration cut off the funding streams for immigration groups that moved illegal aliens across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency clawed back extravagant grants to climate alarmist groups. The State Department shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development. Congress finally cut off funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. 3. Shutdown Cuts During the recent government shutdown, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought cut $8 billion of blue state energy projects. “Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being cancelled,” Vought said. In addition, the Department of Transportation sent letters to the Chicago Transit Authority informing it that two projects receiving a total of $2.1 billion in federal funding were under administrative review, for race and sex-based contracting practices that potentially violated the Constitution. 4. Investigating ‘Deep State’ Abuses In July, a CIA report found that John Brennan, the agency’s director in the Obama administration, overrode internal concerns to claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. The agency’s current director John Ratcliffe ordered the review. It found that evidence used by Brennan to show that Russian President Vladimir Putin was aiding Trump in the 2016 election was rushed, restricted in its access, and disseminated too widely for a highly classified report.  “Central to the judgment that Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win was one highly classified CIA report,” the report said. “Brennan had tightly restricted access to this information within CIA; it had been collected in July but not disseminated in CIA serialized reporting until the week of 19 December.” The review notes that “media leaks” indicated intelligence agencies “had already reached definitive conclusions risked creating an anchoring bias” before “work on the assessment even began.” The post Four Ways Trump Has Dismantled the ‘Deep State’ Since Inauguration appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Monday, disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon joined Jennifer Welch on the I’ve Had It Podcast News to double down on his Sunday stunt with an anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) mob to storm a Twin Cities-area church, arguing he was merely “a journalist” observing a group doing what was akin to “sitting in at lunch counters” during the Civil Rights movement” or the story in the Gospels of Jesus flipping over the tables of the money changers Why? Lemon argued it was necessary to target an un-Christian, pro-“white supremacy” church refusing to embrace the “uncomfortable.” For her part, Welch celebrated the harassment, smearing the church as a “white nationalist” confab that’s “not about helping people” and “got their panties in a wad” over people reminding them they’re “root[ed] in the KKK.” And, showing her ignorance, she called Deputy Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon “some lady” who’s “breathtakingly stupid” and “dumber than a box of hot rocks.” It began with Lemon contradicting himself from statements made the day prior. Here, he insisted he had prior knowledge the mob would disrupt a church service: WATCH: Here’s the transcript of Don Lemon’s initial retelling to Jennifer Welch of what happened yesterday and his collaboration with the anti-ICE mob that stormed a church, comparing it to the Civil Rights Movement doing a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter... “So, there was… pic.twitter.com/rUiAvNiC1m — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Parroting the mob, Lemon insisted the church was worth disrupting because they believe a church shouldn’t be allowed to refer to themselves as Christians and have someone in leadership who works for ICE. Welch replied they were justified given all the “grifting” and “overt patriotism” in so much of Christianity. She also praised Lemon for questioning whether the pastor truly believes in Jesus since “this…type of Christianity” is about “recruiting, but not helping, not comforting, not providing” for the downtrodden: HUH?! Jennifer Welch says the anti-ICE mob that stormed a Minneapolis church had every right to be there because “I can certainly understand their frustration with..all of the grifting through Christianity and overt patriotism, and then these people can’t call out the Jeffrey… pic.twitter.com/lsW0gQQpYq — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Jennifer Welch on the pastor’s interaction with Don Lemon calling the shutdown of his church’s Sunday service “shameful” because it’s disrupting “the hope of the world,” which “is Jesus Christ”... “Weird to me that he’s all about — this is the type of Christianity I grew up… pic.twitter.com/sFuHRyW6Fw — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Then came the crux of Lemon’s heretic smear, wrapping himself in his book about his upbringing in Louisiana as proof he – unlike those he disrupted – know Christianity, calling it just like Jesus angrily calling out the money changers (which our friend Chuck Ross fact-checked) because the congregation, by having someone around who works for ICE, is “doing the exact opposite of what Christianity is supposed to be about.” Instead, Lemon argues, the church should have welcomed and acquiesced to the hecklers: READ AND WATCH: Here was Don Lemon’s full heresy-filled smear of the City Church pastor, openly declaring he’s not a true pastor and true follower of Jesus because, unlike him, Don wrote a book about God and Jesus and turning over the money tables... “[R]emember, as someone who… pic.twitter.com/QaHpIRBUwd — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Following a comical slew of internet connectivity issues, Welch scoffed at this church as “one of those white evangelical churches that turn out to vote for Donald Trump, 80+% of that sect of Christianity” and are thus “white nationalists” and “the KKK” in 2026 with “panties in a wad.” Notice in the second X post how she also made it about Lemon by insisting the church was threatened by the existence of “an independent, gay, black, happy, successful man”: Jennifer Welch: “[L]et me get to the nut cutting of what I think this is about. So, that is one of those white evangelical churches that turn out to vote for Donald Trump, 80+% of that sect of Christianity. These are the — don’t tread on me, folks. These are the people who feel… pic.twitter.com/QrDe2OCKbw — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Jennifer Welch: “I think that style of church, that’s the white nationalist style of church, that sect of evangelical Christianity has its rooting in the KKK because the KKK was a religious movement for white nationalists, and I think this DOJ via Pam Bondi, who wears her… pic.twitter.com/0QzIYAxxjs — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Lemon broadened out to ICE and their “detaining” of “people on the streets because of accents and the color of their skin” and, because of that the church is infected with “a certain degree of racism there and…entitlement” that, in sum, is “a supremacy, a white supremacy, and they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country[.]” The two next went full Joe Biden by hurling a racist attack on Nicki Minaj (plus the late Charlie Kirk) MELTDOWN: Jennifer Welch and Don Lemon lose their minds over @NickiMinaj’s tweet about Don Lemon crashing a Minneapolis church service, stating she’s not a Christian or real black woman because she’s from the Caribbean, “doesn’t care about black people,” and supports the late… pic.twitter.com/396cfiOWS2 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Welch illustrated actual racism and homophobia by denouncing certain Trump officials: Jennifer Welch targets @NICKIMINAJ, “old queen” and “magic homo” @RichardGrenell, and “magic Indian” @FBIDirectorKash Patel as “DEI fascists” pic.twitter.com/tZ7QWGVqjN — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Then came the series of smears against Dhillon: In which Jennifer Welch refers to @HarmeetKDhillion as "some lady" talking to @BennyJohnson about Don Lemon the KKK Act “on a black man with a cellphone and a microphone because the white — nationalists at the white mega church got their feelings hurt for being called out for… pic.twitter.com/z0NElIYGj7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 Jennifer Welch on @HarmeetKDhillon: “So, Don, it’s abundantly obvious to me that if they do charge you, you’re gonna lawyer up and they’re gonna go get humiliated in federal court yet again because these people are dumber than a box of hot rocks. They’re so breathtakingly… pic.twitter.com/3IVRfw5I0m — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 20, 2026 Lemon found a way to sink even lower in telling those upset and “traumatized” by the mob to get over it because, well, at least they were able to leave and still be alive: Don Lemon mocks those who “felt that they were traumatized” inside the Minneapolis church by the anti-ICE mob, arguing at least “they “were able to — choose to...leave and go to breakfast with their family or go home” unlike illegal immigrants stuck in “freezing” “holding cells”… pic.twitter.com/AUp5zSLORX — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 They closed out with Lemon proclaiming he will be vindicated by the masses since, in his mind, America’s tired of being a “Gestapo-like world”: Don Lemon says America is on his side against ICE and the DOJ because “they’re tired of living in this Gestapo-like world under this tyrannical government”... “[P]eople are fed up with this. That’s why you see so many people out on the streets. That’s why those protesters went… pic.twitter.com/YZIHcdnRVM — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 19, 2026 To see the relevant transcript from the January 19 episode of IHIP News, click here.

President Donald Trump got a thunderous applause from the attendees at the College Football National Championship game in Miami, Florida, during the national anthem on Monday night.The president waved and smiled at the crowd as "American Idol" winner Jamal Roberts belted out the song at Hard Rock Stadium Monday.'God bless the talented players and dedicated coaches, the families who love and support them.'Trump had released a statement about the game prior to the event."At its best, college football reflects our timeless American values of family, freedom, unity, and hard work and represents the pinnacle of our national spirit," Trump said in the statement."Melania and I congratulate the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes on making it to the College Football Playoff National Championship," he added. "God bless the talented players and dedicated coaches, the families who love and support them, and the faithful fans who cheer them on. May the best team win!”Many videos showed the loud applause for Trump when he appeared on the video screen at the stadium during the performance.Beside him stood daughter Ivanka Trump with others behind her. Deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and the president's adviser Boris Epshteyn also accompanied the president.Also in attendance was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is a fan of the Miami Hurricanes. The White House posted a short video of the applause for the president during the game. RELATED: Liberals spew hatred at NFL player for pointing at Trump after touchdown and doing his dance: 'Yousa hoe a** n***a' The Hoosiers went on to defeat the Hurricanes in a score of 27 to 21. Trump has attended the College Football National Championship game twice previously, once in 2018 and again in 2020. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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President Donald Trump called for those involved in the "Church Raid" in Minnesota to serve jail time, just hours after Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Newsmax she is seeking to prosecute the perpetrators.