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At least two major American cities are on edge following a pair of high-profile incidents involving federal agents. Protests have not stopped in Minneapolis since Wednesday's deadly shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent. The feds have claimed the victim was attempting to harm the agent with her vehicle while video from the scene appears to many to contradict that version of events. Meanwhile in Portland, Oregon, Homeland Security says agents were attempting a traffic stop on an alleged Venezuelan gang member yesterday when the driver tried to run over an agent and shots were fired, sending two people to the hospital.        President Trump says he will meet with Venezuela's opposition leader next week and will accept her Nobel Peace Prize if she makes the offer. Trump gave an interview to Fox News on Thursday, and said María Corina Machado will be in the U.S. "next week sometime," and added, "I look forward to saying hello to her." It will be their first meeting since the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power and saw him brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges.        The monthly jobs report is set for release this morning. Most analysts expect around 73-thousand new jobs were added in December, an increase of nearly ten-thousand from the prior month. Today's report, or Employment Situation Summary, is expected to be the first that's largely free of data distortions caused by last year's federal government shutdown.        CES 2026 ends today. The tech expo, formerly called the Consumer Electronics Show, is held each year in Las Vegas to showcase the latest in tech. This year, center stage was shared by a host of gadgets, including folding phones, housekeeping robots, plant-based batteries, self-driving cars you can own and many more.        A Pennsylvania man is facing hundreds of charges related to the theft of bodies from a cemetery. Police say 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach stole more than 100 full or partial sets of human remains from underground vaults and mausoleums at the Mount Moriah Cemetery. He was arrested at the cemetery earlier this week.        The IRS has announced that it will start accepting tax returns this year on January 26th. Federal returns for 2025 will need to be filed by April 15th in order to avoid penalties and interest.       

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