By Joseph Ataman, CNN

(CNN) — The Swiss bar hit by deadly fire had not been inspected in 5 years, local authorities said Tuesday.

Le Constellation bar, where dozens died in a New Year’s Eve inferno, had not had a fire inspection since 2020, the president of the Crans-Montana council said.

Nicolas Féraud told journalists at a press conference that the council “bitterly regrets” the discovery of the lack of inspections at the establishment. “We will shoulder all the responsibility that the justice system attributes to us,” he added.

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By Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen, CNN

(CNN) — Five years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the fundamental facts of that day continue to fuel deep divisions that have created dueling political realities.

On Tuesday, members of the former January 6 select committee – whose final report concluded that President Donald Trump incited the violence at the Capitol that day – will convene a hearing to reexamine their findings.

As that hearing is underway, members of the far-right Proud Boys – including its former leader Enrique Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term for seditious conspiracy before getting pardoned by Trump last year – are expected to hold a march to the Capitol that they say will be “patriotic and peaceful.”

The day’s split-screen highlights how the January 6 attack has left a political schism in its wake. Many Democrats insist the day is a painful reminder of Trump’s past and ongoing threat to democracy and fair elections, while the president and most Republicans either ignore it or recast the day’s events and diminish the level of violence.

The lawmakers who dedicated 18 months of their careers to the comprehensive House investigation are grappling with how the truth about Trump’s role in January 6 can break through in this current political moment – where Trump continues to claim that he won the 2020 election and has taken significant steps to reward rioters and deflect blame for the attack.

“He has people who support him – they have a right to vote for whoever they want,” Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who served on the committee, told CNN. “I can’t change that reality. What I can do, is release the actual reality. And this is an occasion for us to reissue some of the documentation, especially the video documentation.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson has still not hung a plaque honoring the heroism of the Capitol Police officers who defended the complex on January 6, even though federal law required it to be installed by 2023. Instead, many Democrats have poster copies hanging outside their congressional offices.

The speaker’s office told CNN that the law authorizing the January 6 commemorative plaque “is not implementable,” but did not elaborate on what they view as the shortfalls of the statute in a statement.

“If Democrats are serious about commemorating the work of USCP officers, they are free to work with the appropriate committees of jurisdiction to develop a framework for proper vetting and consideration,” a spokesperson for the speaker said.

Trump isn’t expected to hold any official commemorations for the anniversary on Tuesday.

Some of the pardoned rioters and their supporters say their march, down the same streets some of them walked five years ago, will honor Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran and QAnon supporter who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer during the riot as she tried to breach an area near the House floor while lawmakers were evacuating.

“This will be my fourth year laying flowers,” said Suzzanne Monk, who wasn’t at the Capitol in January 2021 but is a leading advocate for the

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, CNN

(CNN) — George Conway says he never expected to run for Congress. And if you’d asked, he says, “I would have laughed.”

But Conway, a former Republican once married to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, says his decision to run as a Democrat in New York is no laughing matter. One of President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, the 62-year-old lawyer told CNN he has one goal: To take on the president.

“I have the skills that are needed right now, at this moment, at this unique time,” Conway said. “We have basically a criminal president, a convicted criminal, a man who is committing high crimes and misdemeanors in violation of his oath each and every day.”

It is not an accident that Conway is officially announcing his bid to run for Congress with this video on January 6, the fifth anniversary of the violent attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters.

But it’s unclear how a former Republican will fare in one of the bluest districts in the country. And Conway is joining a crowded field.

The Democratic primary is wide open, and the list of candidates to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th congressional district includes former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, who has a large social media following, as well as New York state Rep. Micah Lasher, who represents the West side of Manhattan, and New York state Rep. Alex Bores, whose district is on the East side of Manhattan.

War of the Roses

Conway’s congressional campaign is a long way from 2016 when he voted for Trump, and his then-wife, Kellyanne Conway, steered the 45th president to victory as his campaign manager.

“I was crying in joy for her,” said Conway. “I didn’t really realize how bad, how horrible this guy would be.”

At the time, Conway was a partner at Wachtell Lipton, a prominent law firm in New York, where he worked on commercial litigation.

When Trump won, the Conways moved to Washington, where Kellyanne became a senior White House advisor, and George was the administration’s pick to be head of the Civil Division at the Justice Department.

But privately, he started having reservations about Trump, and withdrew himself from consideration for the DOJ post in June 2017.

The next year, he went public attacking Trump and gained millions of followers on social media. He also left the Republican Party and co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and the Society for the Rule of Law.

“I was a Republican until 2018 when I realized it had become a personality cult, and it no longer stood for things that I had stood for for many years,” Conway said.

Along the way, he also spent more than $1.5 million attacking Trump with tv ads and billboards, as well as donating to Democratic candidates.

In response, Trump hit back on social media, making fun of Conway calling him “Mr. Kellyanne Conway” and “a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.”

“He said much worse,” Conway added, noting, for instance, that Trump also called him “Moonface” in 2020, which Conway believes was mocking his Filipino heritage.

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By Danya Gainor, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

(CNN) — Around 2,000 federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis as part of the Trump administration’s latest effort to crack down on immigration, two law enforcement officials told CNN, while the city and its officials are reeling from a welfare fraud scandal that’s reaching a fever pitch this week.

In the days since a conservative content creator raised allegations of fraud in a YouTube video – with little evidence – about Somali-run day care centers in Minneapolis, the Trump administration has frozen federal child care funds and unleashed more biting rhetoric against the Somali community, whom President Donald Trump has previously called “garbage.”

Now, the president is stepping up immigration enforcement. Federal agents have already been on the ground in Minneapolis, and both Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and US Border Patrol agents are deploying to Minnesota. US Customs and Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino, whose controversial tactics have come under increased scrutiny in multiple cities, is also expected to deploy there.

Uncertainty is sweeping Minnesota’s largest city as the fraud allegations prompt shakeups in local leadership, and a new, ambiguous immigration enforcement effort intimidating Somali residents has emerged. Here’s what we know.

Deployment comes as Walz drops reelection bid

The mobilization of more agents to Minneapolis comes as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has been staunchly opposed to Trump’s deployment of troops to US cities, dropped out of the race for reelection on Monday.

The welfare-fraud scandal in his state has intensified into a political flashpoint seized upon by Trump, and its deepening federal probe complicated Walz’s bid for an unprecedented third term. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but Republicans have sought to blame Walz and Democrats for the massive abuse of taxpayer dollars.

It was the recent criticism from the Trump administration and right-wing allies that Walz said contributed to his decision not to seek reelection.

“For the last several years, an organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of this state’s generosity,” Walz said. “And even as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of a crisis.”

Walz had been criticized for his administration’s oversight of the welfare programs. Several Democrats in the state privately cautioned Walz against seeking reelection as outrage intensified in Minnesota and beyond over the misuse of funds.

In his brief appearance on Monday, Walz said he welcomed the federal investigation. He said it was imperative Minnesotans had c

Análisis por Matthew Chance, Corresponsal jefe de asuntos globales de CNN

En medio de crecientes preocupaciones de que Groenlandia, un vasto territorio ártico gobernado por Dinamarca, todavía despierta la codicia de la administración Trump, la primera ministra del país nórdico ha decidido lanzar una dura advertencia a la Casa Blanca.

En declaraciones televisadas a nivel nacional, Mette Frederiksen recordó a los daneses que ya había “dejado muy claro cuál es la postura del Reino de Dinamarca y que Groenlandia ha dicho repetidamente que no quiere ser parte de Estados Unidos”.

Pero también advirtió sobre las consecuencias de una acción militar estadounidense para apoderarse de Groenlandia, algo que el presidente Donald Trump se ha negado rotundamente a descartar.

“En primer lugar, creo que hay que tomar en serio al presidente de Estados Unidos cuando dice que quiere Groenlandia”, declaró Frederiksen, reflejando una mayor ansiedad sobre las intenciones de Trump tras su extraordinaria acción militar en Venezuela.

“Pero también quiero dejar claro que si Estados Unidos decide atacar militarmente a otro país de la OTAN, todo se detiene, incluida la OTAN y, por tanto, la seguridad que se ha proporcionado desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial”, añadió.

Es una preocupación seria y ampliamente compartida entre los aliados de la OTAN que la cuestión de Groenlandia tiene el potencial no sólo de enfadar y humillar a un antiguo socio de Estados Unidos, sino también de fracturar la alianza militar occidental a medida que aumenta la presión de Washington.

Trump repitió el domingo que Estados Unidos necesita Groenlandia “desde el punto de vista de la seguridad nacional”.

“Necesitamos Groenlandia… Es un lugar estratégico en estos momentos. Groenlandia está repleta de barcos rusos y chinos”, declaró Trump a los periodistas a bordo del Air Force One. “Necesitamos Groenlandia desde el punto de vista de la seguridad nacional, y Dinamarca no va a poder hacerlo”.

El lunes por la noche, el subsecretario de la Casa Blanca, Stephen Miller, reiteró las afirmaciones de que “Groenlandia debería ser parte de Estados Unidos”, pero rechazó que fuera necesaria la fuerza militar para adquirirla.

“Nadie va a luchar militarmente contra Estados Unidos por el futuro de Groenlandia”, afirmó Miller en el programa “The Lead with Jake Tapper” de CNN.

Cuando se le preguntó si una intervención militar estaba descartada, Miller cuestionó en cambio el reclamo de Dinamarca sobre el territorio del Ártico.

Sus comentarios se produjeron después de que la esposa de Miller y aliada de Trump, Katie Miller, publicara en X una imagen del mapa de Groenlandia con la bandera estadounidense superpuesta y el la palabra: “PRONTO”.

Es el último recordatorio de una ambición reiteradamente declarada de la administración Trump que ha puesto nerviosos a los aliados europeos tradicionales de Washington, sobre todo a Dinamarca.

CNN visitó Groenlandia en octubre, cuando el ejército danés realizó una demostración de fuerza militar sin precedentes destinada oficialmente a disuadir lo que se dice son crecientes amenazas militares rusas y chinas.

Puede que Moscú esté estancado en la lucha en Ucrania en este momento, pero una vez que ese brutal conflicto finalmente termine, funcionarios militares daneses -según manifestaron a CNN- esperan plenamente que Rusia desvíe recursos y use su experiencia en combate para representar una amenaza mucho mayor en la región del Ártico.

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