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Overnight News Digest January 28, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-01-28

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time.

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Chicago Sun-Times: Tears, fears — but few details — in wake of immigration sweeps across Chicago area When Yenitza Marquina awoke to news that her 50-year-old father had been detained by federal immigration agents, she thought it had to be a joke. But reality soon set in. Her father, Andres Marquina, was detained Sunday during immigration sweeps overseen by President Donald Trump’s appointees, including “border czar” Tom Homan. They came to Chicago with agents carrying out Trump’s promised mass deportation plan. More arrests are expected this week, though at a smaller scale. “I really just started crying,” Yenitza Marquina said Monday as she grew emotional outside of her north suburban Waukegan home. “I was so heartbroken. They took my dad.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released little information about the people who were detained or why they were sought. Nationwide, ICE said 956 arrests were made Sunday. The Trump administration says it “removed” 7,300 people in its first week, “including hundreds of convicted criminals.” ICE averaged 311 daily national arrests through Sept. 30.

The New York Times: Caroline Kennedy’s Video Exposes the Fight Over a Fading Family Legacy by Adam Nagourney and Rebecca Davis-O’Brien

For decades, Caroline Kennedy kept silent. Ms. Kennedy, 67, the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy, has been a model of two of the family’s prized values: discretion and stoicism. Handed no shortage of tragedy and scandal, she has kept quiet and largely stayed on the sidelines. In recent years, that has meant that Ms. Kennedy has said little as her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spread false health information during a pandemic, challenged a Democrat for president, endorsed Donald J. Trump for the White House and then lobbied for a place in his cabinet. She was largely silent as he used his family’s name — and the likeness and memory of her father — to advance his campaign while, in the view of many of the Kennedys, defying what the family has stood for across generations. The closest the understated Ms. Kennedy came to criticism was to note, from her diplomatic post in Australia, that Mr. Kennedy’s views on vaccinations were “dangerous.” But on Tuesday, Ms. Kennedy, 67, unleashed a searing public denunciation of her cousin, delivering a moment that stood out even after the family’s 60 years of public triumphs and tragedies.

NBC News: Trump administration offers roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign by Garrett Hawke and Amanda Terkel

President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a "deferred resignation," which would mean they agree now to resign but get paid through September. A senior administration official told NBC News that they expect 5%-10% of the federal workforce to quit, which, they estimate, could lead to around $100 billion in savings. All full-time federal employees are eligible, except for members of the military, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security and other jobs excluded by agencies. "American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees, and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. "If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of 8 months."

Guardian: Dozens feared dead in India at Kumbh Mela religious festival by Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Dozens of people are feared to have died in multiple crowd crushes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, local officials at the scene have said, as vast crowds of people went to bathe at one of the holiest sites of the Hindu gathering. People were crushed at about 4am on Wednesday in three separate areas at the sacred confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers. It appears people surged forward, into groups of people who were sitting or lying on the ground on the banks of the rivers. More than 400 million people, the biggest crowd in its history, were expected to attend this year’s festivities, to be held over 45 days in Prayagraj in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Local officials counting casualties into hospital tents said at least 38 were feared dead but other officials and doctors have given death tolls ranging from 15 to 50. The government has not yet given official figures on the scale of the crush.

POLITICO Europe: 85 percent of Greenlanders don’t want Trump takeover, new poll says by Ali Walker

Greenlanders have a message for Donald Trump: We’re not interested. 85 percent of the local population are against the idea of becoming part of the United States, according to new polling conducted by research company Verian, for national newspaper Sermitsiaq in Greenland and media outlet Berlingske in Denmark. The poll was based on web interviews conducted between Jan. 22 and 27 among 497 representatively selected citizens in Greenland over the age of 18. Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede has repeatedly pushed back against speculation the island could be up for grabs, stressing his people’s agency in the debate. “We don’t want to be Danes. We don’t want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders,” he told reporters earlier this month.

DW: Italy's Meloni probed over release of alleged Libyan warlord

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation over the release of a suspected Libyan warlord, she announced on Tuesday. Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, was detained in Turin earlier this month under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity. Al-Masri ran a detention center near Tripoli and has been accused of being complicit in murder, rape and torture. Last week, he was freed on a technicality and flown home on an Italian state aircraft. The ICC said it was not consulted over the decision and has demanded an explanation from Italian authorities.

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