Plus: Details On An Attempt To Break Luigi Mangione Out Of Jail

Good evening,

American life expectancy rose to 79 in 2024, higher than ever before. 📈

The CDC attributes the shift to the end of the pandemic and declining death rates from the nation’s leading causes — including heart disease, cancer, and unintentional injuries such as drug overdoses.

OVER THE YEARS 📆: Life expectancy has been rising incrementally in the U.S. in recent decades, but dropped during the pandemic when COVID-19 killed more than 1.2 million Americans.
- Life expectancy for women is a few years longer than for men, but CDC data shows that gap is becoming narrower.
THE GLOBAL PICTURE 🌍: U.S life expectancy still trails behind other developed countries. People born in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK all have life expectancies over 80 years, according to CIA data.
- The country with the highest life expectancy: Monaco, with an average of 89.8 years.

The full data set is not out yet for 2025, but preliminary information shows the trend of longer lives continuing. L’Chaim, l’chaim, to life! 🥂

Mo News Team

🚨 ONE IMPORTANT THING

Trump’s Border Czar Plans To Scale Back ICE Presence In Minnesota — If Local Cooperation Increases

President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, is working to “regain law and order” in Minnesota by reducing the number of federal immigration enforcement officers there (under certain conditions) and boosting cooperation with local officials.

“President Trump wants this fixed,” Homan said Thursday morning in Minneapolis. “And I’m going to fix it.”
- Trump sent Homan to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents on January 24 — two weeks after the killing of Renee Good, also 37.

The negotiation: Homan, and other Trump officials, have said they are willing to remove federal agents from Minnesota if Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey specifically give them “access to undocumented immigrants who are in state prisons and county jails.” But, the Minnesota Department of Corrections claims they already do that.

“I do not want to hear that everything that’s been done here has been perfect,” Homan said. “Nothing’s perfect, anything can be improved on, and what we’ve been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book. The mission is going to improve because of the changes we’re making internally.”

COUNTIES VS. STATE
Homan argues that the state needs to transfer undocumented immigrants to ICE while they are still in local jails — arguing it would be safer and would require fewer agents on the streets. At the heart of the issue is county-by-county ordinances — not an unwillingness to keep undocumented criminals off streets.

PRISONS: Minnesota law requires the state to notify ICE when a felony-convicted immigrant is set to be released. Last year prison officials handed 84 inmates over to ICE after they finished their sentences.
- An MPR News review found that most of the “worst of the worst” criminals highlighted by DHS were already transferred from Minnesota prisons to ICE custody before the current surge began.
JAILS: While prisons are state or federally run, jails are locally operated.
- Some jails work with ICE on deportations, or alert the agency before releases. Some don’t. The state’s largest county, Hennepin County, does not share information with ICE as a matter of policy.
- And jails cannot hold a person beyond a certain point, Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell says: “That’s the fundamental issue. There is not a lack of cooperation. There is just some legal boundaries.”

As for local police, Minneapolis officers can manage crowd control at immigration raids, but city law bars them from enforcing federal immigration actions.

NEW POLLING FINDS ICE SUPPORT FALLING
A new Fox News poll taken from Jan 23-26 (Pretti was fatally killed January 24) shows a clear uptick in dissatisfaction with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement: nearly 60% of U.S. voters now say ICE’s deportation efforts are "too aggressive," up from about 50% last summer.

The shift is especially sharp among independents (71% in January; 49% in July), moderates (70% in January; 51% in July), and non-MAGA Republicans (49% in January; 26% in July). Among Trump voters, the share calling ICE “too aggressive” rose from 17% to 26%.

Mo News asked our audience for their reaction to the new polling, and for comment on the state of the U.S. We received thousands of DMs, broken down by self-identified political groups. Here’s a look at some of those messages:

🚨 ONE STORY GETTING TRACTION

Man Attempts To Break Luigi Mangione From Jail By Impersonating FBI Agent

A Minnesota man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York.

Details: Mark Anderson, 36, was charged Thursday with impersonating a federal agent after authorities said he showed up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn claiming to be an FBI agent with a court order to release Mangione. The Minnesota native was carrying a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter.

Mangione is being held at the Brooklyn facility while he awaits federal and state trials for the assassination-style killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. Jury selection for his federal court case is set to begin in two months.

⏳ THE SPEED READ

🚨NATION

Senate strikes deal to avert partial shutdown (THE HILL)
Trump moves to reopen Venezuelan airspace as US seeks reset with acting government (FOX)
Severe cold persists as forecasters track another potential East Coast storm (CBS)
Former Illinois sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 20 years for murder of Sonya Massey (NBC)
NYPD opens hate crime investigation after car rams into Chabad headquarters building (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

IDF believes 70,000 Gazans killed in war, as claimed by Hamas; civilian-combatant ratio unclear (TIMES OF ISRAEL)
No survivors found after Colombian plane crashes with 15 people on board, including lawmaker (CNN)
Russia strikes passenger train in Ukraine, killing five (EURO NEWS)
Starmer and Xi call for deeper UK-China ties as Trump shakes up global relations (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up (AXIOS)
Layoffs are piling up in major corporations, heightening worker anxiety (AP)
Night owls may face higher risk of heart disease, according to new study (CNN)
Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say (BBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Philadelphia, Clueless, and The Karate Kid among new films added to the National Film Registry (NPR)
Odessa A’zion drops out of Latina role in A24’s Deep Cuts following backlash (LOS ANGELES TIMES)
Kid Rock slams ticketing industry for unfair practices during senate testimony (VARIETY)
Patrick Reed to return to PGA Tour from LIV Golf in late ‘26 (ESPN)

ICYMI FROM THE 📲

In case you missed it… Bluey was the most-streamed TV show in the U.S. in 2025, according to recently released Nielsen ratings. 🐾💙

The Australian children’s TV series follows a loving family of anthropomorphized blue heeler dogs. Parents have praised the show for encouraging children’s imagination and for portraying parents who actively play with their children.

Americans watched 45 billion minutes of Bluey in 2025. Other top shows streamed last year were Grey’s Anatomy and Stranger Things.