• Authority: ICE agents have authority to enforce federal laws related to immigration and customs, whereas traditional police officers have authority to enforce state and local laws.

• Training: ICE agents receive specialized training on immigration and customs laws, whereas traditional police officers receive training on a broader range of topics, including state and local laws.

• Responsibilities: ICE agents are responsible for enforcing federal laws related to immigration and customs, whereas traditional police officers are responsible for enforcing state and local laws and maintaining public safety.

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Mike Johnson still refuses to hang January 6 plaque, "breaking the law" and infuriating Democrats

The plaque that House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to hang in the Capitol, as required by law, does not characterize January 6, 2021 as a “day of love,” which is what President Donald Trump has repeatedly called a day most Americans still associate with a lawless insurrection and invasion of the U.S. Capitol by rioters.

But neither does the plaque go into detail about those rioters — nearly 1,500 of whom Trump pardoned on his first day back in office — or their actions on that day, the plaque’s text instead merely calling attention to “the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended” the Capitol.

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DOJ says it has reviewed less than 1% of Epstein files so far

The Justice Department said late Monday it is still poring through millions of documents that may be related to Jeffrey Epstein, as the Trump administration grapples with a congressional mandate to release all of its files on the late sex offender.

The legal deadline to make the records public was Dec. 12. But the department has argued the sheer volume of documents that need to be found, uploaded, reviewed, redacted and published has forced it to instead release the files online on a rolling basis, with a series of enormous document dumps over the course of several days in mid-December.

In a legal filing Monday, the Justice Department told a judge it has released about 12,285 documents so far, totaling some 125,575 pages. More than 2 million documents that may need to be released under the law are still "in various phases of review."

That means the department has reviewed less than 1% of its total possible records on Epstein, though it noted that it believes a "meaningful portion" of the still-unreviewed documents are duplicates. It also said the documents' page counts vary widely.

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