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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. |
| 0:09.2 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, January 16th. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:21.2 | Federal agents have flooded the streets of Minneapolis in recent days. |
| 0:26.6 | They have detained people, pulled them from their vehicles, stopped U.S. citizens, and shot two |
| 0:32.5 | people. |
| 0:33.5 | One of them, Renee Good, was killed. |
| 0:36.4 | Residents have responded with protests. |
| 0:39.5 | But in a post on Truth Social yesterday, President Trump said that if what he called |
| 0:44.3 | attacks on federal officers were not stopped by state authorities, he would invoke the |
| 0:50.0 | Insurrection Act. |
| 0:52.0 | The Insurrection Act enables a president to deploy the military domestically |
| 0:56.6 | in extraordinary circumstances, invoking it empowers the military to make arrests and perform |
| 1:03.4 | searches on U.S. soil. The act was last invoked in 1992 during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. |
| 1:12.6 | It has not been used without the consent of a state's governor for 60 years. |
| 1:24.1 | Number two is a post-exclusive. |
| 1:27.2 | A medical examiner may classify the death of a man in ICE custody |
| 1:31.8 | as a homicide. On January 3rd, ICE announced the death of detainee Geraldo Lunis Campos at a Texas |
| 1:39.9 | detention camp. In a statement, the agency said staff observed him in distress and gave no cause of |
| 1:47.0 | death. An employee of El Paso County's office of the medical examiner gave more details this week |
| 1:53.4 | in a conversation with Luna's campus's daughter. She shared a recording of their conversation with |
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