Defense attorneys are seeking access to investigative files related to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, after learning that the ICE officer who shot her was the same officer who was also injured in a June 2025 incident. The attorneys, representing Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who was convicted in December of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross, filed a motion requesting training records and investigative files related to the Good shooting, which occurred on January 7 during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, according to Wired.
The request stems from the fact that Ross, the ICE agent involved in the Good shooting, was also the officer Muñoz-Guatemala was convicted of assaulting in June 2025. A separate post-trial motion by the defense was filed in the US District.
In other news, scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released on January 29, revealing a concerning trend in educational outcomes. The results, described as "disheartening" and a "new low" by some, showed a drop in average performance in reading and minimal improvement in math, according to Hacker News. The publication noted that the education depression continues, with a surge in students with very low performance levels. From 1990 to 2013, significant progress was made in this area, but by 2022, most of it had disappeared.
Meanwhile, newly released documents from the Department of Justice revealed that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein cultivated ties with the emerging crypto industry before his 2019 suicide. According to Fortune, Epstein made early investments in U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase and Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream. The investment in Coinbase represented less than 1% of the company's equity, and Epstein's stake in Blockstream through another fund was not disclosed.
In the realm of artificial intelligence, Anthropic's newest model, Claude Opus 4.6, is excelling at finding security vulnerabilities, but this also raises cybersecurity risks. Fortune reported that the model identified over 500 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across open-source software libraries during testing. The model was not explicitly told to search for the security flaws, but rather it detected and flagged the issues on its own.
Finally, the U.S. and Iran held indirect talks in Oman, as the U.S. builds up military forces in the region, according to NPR Politics. The details of the talks and their outcomes were not immediately available.
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