• The FBI provided the DOJ with a list of about 4,000 employees involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations, including their roles and office locations. Nine FBI agents filed a lawsuit to protect their identities, fearing retaliation from Trump supporters.
• The FBI Agents Association also sought legal protection for its members.
• Trump has criticized the FBI, calling it “corrupt.”

The FBI handed over a list of agents who worked on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday, Feb. 4. Instead of names, the FBI provided employee ID numbers, titles, roles, activities and office locations for roughly 4,000 employees.

Over the years, the DOJ has launched several investigations into Donald Trump. From 2017 to 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller looked into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. The Mueller report found Russian interference but no evidence to charge Trump’s campaign with conspiracy or coordination.

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Later, federal prosecutors investigated whether Trump’s involvement in hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal violated campaign finance laws. No federal charges were filed against Trump, but his lawyer, Michael Cohen, was convicted for related violations.

After Trump left office in 2021, the FBI began investigating his possession of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. In August 2022, the FBI executed a search warrant and seized numerous documents.

Following the Jan. 6 riot, the DOJ began probing Trump’s role in the events, with ongoing scrutiny over his actions before and during the riot.

Last week, the Trump DOJ ordered the FBI to identify all employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases. In response, nine anonymous FBI agents filed a lawsuit to block their identities from being made public, arguing it could expose them to retaliation from Trump supporters. They fear Trump’s allies might publish the list, putting them and their families in danger.

Trump has criticized the FBI, calling it “corrupt,” and when asked about potential firings, he did not offer specifics.

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The FBI Agents Association, representing more than 14,000 current and former agents, also filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to protect the agents’ identities.

The DOJ has not commented on the lawsuits.

• The Lakers introduced superstar Luka Doncic Tuesday. Doncic says he was shocked by the weekend trade that sent him from Dallas to Los Angeles.
• Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka called the trade “a seismic event in NBA history.”
• The Mavericks, meanwhile, welcomed center Anthony Davis, who could make his debut this weekend.

The Los Angeles Lakers introduced their newest superstar, Luka Doncic, on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka opened the press conference by calling the trade that brought Doncic to Los Angeles “a seismic event in NBA history.”

Pelinka and Doncic answered questions about the blockbuster trade for roughly 25 minutes –– shock being the prevailing feeling when Doncic discussed the move. He said he was nearly asleep when he got a call Saturday, Feb. 1, saying he had been traded after six and a half seasons with the Dallas Mavericks.

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“Honestly, it was hard at first –– that first day was really hard. I felt like these last 48 hours was one month,” Doncic said. “Emotionally, it was really hard, but today was much better. This is the Lakers. It’s one of the best clubs in history, so I’m excited to be here.”

Doncic thought he would spend his entire career in Dallas and was eligible to sign a five-year, $345 million supermax extension with the franchise next offseason. That deal will not be available with the Lakers, but the Slovenian star will now pair up with LeBron James, a player the 25-year-old has idolized.

“It’s just like a dream comes true, you know. I always look up to him,” Doncic said. “There’s so many things I can learn from him, and I’m just excited, you know, just to learn everything, and now I get to play with him, so it’s an amazing feeling.”

As for the other side of the deal, Anthony Davis got the same type of call Doncic received on Saturday as he was settling in to watch a movie with his wife. Davis also said the trade was a shock, but after working out in Dallas Tuesday, Feb. 4, he’s ready to get to know his new teammates and make a playoff run.

“I think for the most part, just knowing these guys and knowing how hard they play, knowing how great they are defensively, you know, what I can bring to the defensive end and what I can bring to the offensive end as well,” Davis said.

Mavericks fans are not taking the deal nearly as well as Davis. A mock funeral was held in front of the American Airlines Center over the weekend. The team has also had to dispel rampant online rumors that the organization is dismantling the roster to prepare the franchise to move to Las Vegas. The team is owned by Miriam Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands corporation is based there.

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Neither Doncic nor Davis are quite healthy enough to make an on-court debut for their new teams yet. For Davis, who has a mild abdominal strain, that could happen before their weekend matchup in New York. Doncic hasn’t played since Christmas because of a calf strain, but he is close to a return. He will participate in 5-on-5 workout practice Wednesday, Feb. 5, while the Lakers plan for his debut afterward.

• Researchers are working to find and archive government data that’s been removed from the web following Trump’s executive order restricting “gender ideology.” Some of the data was tied to the CDC and U.S. Census Bureau.
• The CDC reportedly received a list of terms that must be removed from existing or upcoming CDC work, including “gender,” “LGBT,” “pregnant person” or “pregnant people,” and “nonbinary.”
• The list of unacceptable terms comes as Trump signed an executive order banning government employees or taxpayer dollars from being used to censor or limit the free speech of American citizens. 

As agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump’s order restricting “gender ideology” from public federal documents, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pulled down a lot of its publicly available data. One researcher told the Associated Press it was a “mad scramble” to find and archive government data sets from agencies, including the CDC and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Web pages for data, including the CDC’s tracking of HIV rates and other sexually transmitted diseases, came down last week, as did 35 years of data from its health survey of high-school-aged children. That data showed trends in nutrition, drug and tobacco use, sexual behavior and physical activity levels.

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Some sets, including the youth data, have since been restored, albeit without details regarding gender. Many web pages note that the agencies are working to comply with Trump’s order. 

However, the data in question has already been funded and created.

Both the Washington Post and the Inside Medicine Substack newsletter by Harvard Medical School instructor Dr. Jeremy Faust have reported that CDC officials received a list of terms that must be removed from their existing or upcoming work. Those terms include “gender,” “LGBT,” “pregnant person” or “pregnant people” and “nonbinary.”

It comes as the White House is reviewing policies around speech and censorship. President Trump signed an executive order banning government employees or taxpayer dollars from being used to censor or limit the free speech of American citizens. 

Agencies say the removal is temporary. However, it’s unclear whether the changes the CDC is making to comply with the gender-related order could violate the anti-censorship order.

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Many old documents are available through the nonprofit Internet Archive. Users can access them by copying a website’s dead link or the link to any altered data and pasting it into the search box at web.archive.org to see an earlier version.

• President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to have “long-term ownership” of the Gaza Strip. It comes as Israel and Hamas are working to hold a ceasefire after more than a year of war.
• It’s the latest of several pushes the president has made to incorporate international land into the U.S.
• Trump did not rule out a U.S. military presence in Gaza and did not offer an option for Palestinians who wished to stay. Trump said instead that they “have no alternative” but to leave.

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. should have a presence in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas War. He made the comments Tuesday, Feb. 4, while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump called for the U.S. to own the land. He also said the two million Palestinians who live there “have no alternative” but to leave Gaza. Trump did not lay out an option allowing Palestinians who wish to stay to do so.

“I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East,” Trump said. “And everybody I have spoken to –– this was not a decision made lightly –– everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land.”

Leaders in Egypt and Jordan have rejected Trump’s calls to resettle Palestinians.

It’s the latest of several pushes President Trump has made to expand U.S. control of land. Since taking office, he has suggested incorporating Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone into the United States. All of those proposals have received pushback from local leaders.

The president said he may send U.S. troops to the region if he believes it is necessary. That would be a reversal of promises during his first term and on the campaign trail to wind down U.S. military presence outside the U.S. and end what he called “forever wars.”

In his first term in office, President Trump tried unsuccessfully to significantly draw down the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He also sought to ensure NATO members paid more of the alliance’s defense spending as part of an effort to limit how much the U.S. spent on defending areas outside its borders.

Trump’s calls for U.S. expansion have sparked fears of war, including in Panama, where the president has threatened “powerful” action.

In Gaza, the president’s suggestion could complicate the current ceasefire that’s holding between Israel and Hamas, as Hamas and the Palestinian people seek to govern themselves. Meanwhile, Israeli government officials would like to incorporate more Palestinian land into Israel.