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• 'Agree to disagree': Envoys reject U.S. vow to seize Greenland, but plan further talks - Trump posted on social media that the U.S. 'needs Greenland' for national security purposes — and that 'anything less than' acquiring it would be 'unacceptable.'
• House Democrats challenge new Homeland Security order limiting lawmaker visits to immigration facilities - Twelve House Democrats, including five from California, sued the Trump administration over a policy placing restrictions on visits of immigrant detention facilities by members of Congress.
• Defiant independence from the Federal Reserve catches Trump off guard - Powell was responding to grand jury subpoenas delivered to the Federal Reserve related to his congressional testimony regarding construction work at the Fed headquarters.
• Thousands gather statewide in anti-ICE protests, including hundreds in Huntington Beach - Anti-ICE protests in some 60 cities of California were largely peaceful statewide, although marked by moments of tension, anger and sporadic vandalism.
• 'West Wing' actor Timothy Busfield accused of child sex abuse in New Mexico - Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, known for series 'The West Wing' and 'Thirtysomething,' has been accused of child sex abuse, according to New Mexico authorities.
• Trump's first-year actions sparked a fiery legal war, and stunning rebukes from judges - The Trump administration in its first year has claimed sweeping executive power and tested U.S. laws. Federal judges warn that American jurisprudence and democracy are under threat.
• Trump casts Maduro as 'narco-terrorist' driving American deaths. Experts have questions - Experts on the international and U.S. drug trade questioned President Trump's claim that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is responsible for hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths.
• GOP senators break with Trump to rein in use of military without Congress' approval - The Senate will vote next week on a measure that would block Trump from using military force "within or against Venezuela" without approval from Congress.
• A deadly Minneapolis shooting puts the White House on defense - Despite the public outcry, Trump's team vowed Thursday to send even more agents to Minnesota.
• CIA advised Trump against supporting Venezuela's democratic opposition - Trump dismissed the leadership of Venezuela's democratic opposition in favor of Maduro's handpicked vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, now the interim president.