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Wednesday January 21st, 2026 night edition

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Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.

“ICE is not doing what they say they’re doing,” said Kaohly Her, the St Paul mayor and a Hmong American, in a statement about Thao’s arrest.

There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.

The US Department of Homeland Security described the ICE operation at Thao’s home as a “targeted operation” seeking two convicted sex offenders.

“The US citizen lives with these two convicted sex offenders at the site of the operation,” DHS said.

Thao told the AP that only he, his son and daughter-in-law and his grandson live at the rental home.

Thao’s son, Chris Thao, said ICE agents stopped him while he was driving to work before they went to detain his father. »

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest

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One University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate apparently has found a way no one else seems to have thought of to fight back against AI-generated art.

Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, came upon some AI-generated art by MFA student Nick Dwyer and promptly ate it in protest, according to a report in the Sun Star, a student paper.

Artist Nick Dwyer with his work Shadow Searching: ChatGPT psychosis (2025) after it was partially eaten by another student. »

Nintendo Switch 2 sells 3.7m units in Japan in 2025, accounting for over half of home console sales

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The Nintendo Switch 2 continues to be the fastest-selling console in Japan's history, moving 3.78 million units in 2025.

The original Switch came in second with 1.52 million units sold, followed by PlayStation 5 (879,204 units), Xbox Series X|S (31,226 units), and PlayStation 4 (1,807 units).

Sales of the console reached the highest global figure of any Nintendo platform in the first four months of launch, surpassing 10.36 million units. »

Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline

Authored by theguardian.com

One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.

“These files are not abstract government records; they are evidence of how institutions failed children.

View image in fullscreen Protesters hold signs during a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the US Capitol on 18 November 18 2025. »