Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up

16 Jan 2026, 11:00 by https://www.nytimes.com/by/tracy-mumford, https://www.nytimes.com/by/will-jarvis, https://www.nytimes.com/by/ian-stewart · NY Times

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President Trump in the Oval Office. He threatened on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act, which could allow him to deploy troops to Minneapolis to stop the clashes between protesters and federal agents.
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