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Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
provoked outrage and distress among many in the United Kingdom on Friday with his suggestion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan. In an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Trump said he was not sure NATO would be there to support the United States if and when requested. "I've always said, will they ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Former United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended his prosecution of President Donald Trump, rejecting Republican claims that the cases were politically motivated. Testifying before lawmakers at the House Judiciary Committee, Smith said the two federal cases, one over Trump's handling of classified documents and the other over efforts to overturn the 2020 election , were based on evidence, not politics. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Majority US-owned venture includes Larry Ellison's Oracle, private-equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX TikTok announced on Thursday it had closed a deal to establish a new US entity, allowing it to sidestep a ban and ending a long legal battle. The deal finalized by ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, sets up a majority American-owned venture, with investors including Larry Ellison's Oracle, the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Since coming to the United States 30 years ago from Mexico, Fernando Perez said U.S. immigration officers have stopped by his home numerous times, but he has never once answered the door. "There are rules and I know them," said Perez, speaking in a mix of English and Spanish in a Home Depot parking lot where he has routinely sought work as a day laborer from contractors and people renovating ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts Water-related violence has almost doubled since 2022 and little is being done to understand and address the trend and prevent new and escalating risks, experts have said. There were 419 incidents of water-related violence recorded in 2024, up from 235 in 2022, according to the Pacific Institute, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The US president insisted that using large doses of aspirin had left him prone to such marks, which have repeatedly been seen on both his left and right hands. Donald Trump has claimed a large purple bruise on his left hand was caused by "clipping it" on a table while he was in Switzerland. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, he said using high doses of aspirin had left him prone to bruising. The US president ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Moscow says prior talks with Washington 'useful in every respect' and repeats call for Ukraine to exit Donbas Ukraine, Russia and the US are to hold three-way talks in Abu Dhabi, the first time the three countries have sat down together since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 – but with Russia maintaining its demands for Ukrainian territory its military does not control. The meeting was confirmed in the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Prime minister joins MPs, veterans and relatives in condemning US president's claim that troops avoided frontlines Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of "diminishing" the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers by claiming that those who fought in Afghanistan avoided the frontlines, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from all sides of the UK political spectrum as well as the families of veterans. Trump's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
– Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of , after hundreds of Kurdish fighters evacuated from the area as part of a recent deal. Syria's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the government's prisons authority is now in charge of al-Aqtan prison north of the northern city of Raqqa, and the files of the detainees are being ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its list of nominees for the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday morning. Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated star Danielle Brooks ("The Color Purple," "Peacemaker" ) joined Emmy-nominated actor Lewis Pullman ("Lessons in Chemistry," "Thunderbolts*") to announce the 2026 nominations across all 24 Oscar categories, including the newly minted achievement in casting ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Seven Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted with nearly all Republicans on Thursday to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill despite growing calls from across the country for Congress to rein in the Trump administration's deadly immigration operations, which are led by DHS agents. Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar ( Texas ), Don Davis (NC), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared Golden ( Maine ), Vicente ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
US president alleges JP Morgan stopped offering him banking services in wake of January 6 attack Donald Trump has sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5bn after accusing America's largest bank of "debanking" him. The US president alleged that the bank stopped offering him banking services in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6. Earlier this month, he claimed it had "incorrectly and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained four children from the same Minnesota school district this month, including a 5-year-old boy. Preschooler Liam Ramos was detained in the driveway of his home along with his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, on Tuesday. The father and son were then transported to a detention center in Texas. Ramos is a student in the Columbia Heights Public ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Bank of America is considering whether to offer a credit card with interest capped at 10% for a year, a person familiar with the bank's thinking told NBC News on Thursday. President Donald Trump recently called for a universal credit card interest rate cap of 10% for one year, a prospect that has raised alarm among credit card issuers. Bank of America is also talking with other financial institutions about best ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Youngest son of US president raised alarm after woman was allegedly attacked during video call last January Barron Trump, the youngest son of the US president, alerted police in London after witnessing a woman allegedly being attacked by a former boyfriend, possibly saving her life, a court has heard. Trump was on a video call a year ago with the woman, who cannot be named, when he saw Matvei Rumiantsev, a Russian ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Blue Origin is targeting late February for the third launch of its mega-rocket, New Glenn. But it won't be heading to the moon, as the company had previously suggested . The rocket will instead carry a satellite to low-Earth orbit for AST SpaceMobile, marking the second time that Jeff Bezos' space company has flown a commercial payload with New Glenn. The company didn't immediately ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
With every brand accessing the same models and tools, differentiation now comes from judgment, relevance, and how AI is applied — not whether it's deployed. Winning brands embed AI deeply across the customer journey so experiences feel cohesive, trustworthy, and intentional, rather than fragmented or experimental. As agentic AI and AI-led shopping rise, brands that balance automation with transparency, human ...
Source: cmswire.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
A former school police officer was found not guilty of abandoning or endangering elementary school students during the 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 kids and two teachers were killed. The jury's unanimous verdict came after seven hours of deliberations, capping a two-week trial that focused on whether Adrian Gonzales failed in his duty to act as a police officer and abandoned or endangered ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, its operator said, but the reactor remains "stable". Operations to relaunch a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province, closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, began late Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator despite divided public ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The Supreme Court appeared likely to reject President Donald Trump's bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook during oral arguments on Wednesday, finally marking an outer limit of what the court's conservative members would stomach from Trump's authoritarian second term. There did not appear to be five votes among the justices to embrace Trump's radical assertion of executive power over the nation's central ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.09% says Freddie Mac Mortgage rates ticked higher this week but remain the lowest in three years, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.09% from last week's reading of 6.06%. The average rate on a ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch AI Mode, Google's conversational Search feature for complex questions, is getting more personalized. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it's bringing "Personal Intelligence" to AI Mode, enabling it to tap into your Gmail and Google Photos to provide more individualized responses. last week in the Gemini app to allow the AI assistant to tailor its responses by connecting across ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Lawmakers have proposed a bill to curb chip exports as Trump backs Nvidia sales to China. Lawmakers are split between security risks and the preservation of U.S. tech dominance. Chinese regulators are still blocking Nvidia chips despite U.S. approval. In this article U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to grant Nvidia licenses to ship some of its more powerful artificial intelligence chips to China is ruffling the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
AI models looks, at first glance, like an admission of failure. After years of promising breakthroughs, Apple is reportedly paying Google roughly $1 billion a year to keep its digital assistant relevant. Top tech reporter Mark Gurman wrote this week that Apple's revamped Siri, codenamed Campos, will launch later this year as a full-fledged chatbot embedded across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The underlying ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! Federal agents say they are target the 'worst of the worst' criminals, but some local officials are questioning their aggressive tactics and noting that several detainees appear ...
Source: pressherald.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Vice President JD Vance conceded Thursday that federal law enforcement officers have not been perfect in their handling of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. But in his visit to the city, Vance's main message was that the best way to reduce clashes around ICE operations would be for Democrats to just cooperate with the Trump administration's agenda. "Look, I don't need Tim Walz or Jacob Frey or anybody else to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a healthy pace. Consumer prices rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday , up from a 2.7% annual pace in October. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices also increased 2.8% in ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
( NewsNation ) — President Donald Trump wants to make it harder for large institutional investors to buy single-family homes, but the effort may not deliver the affordability relief many are hoping for. Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to issue guidance aimed at stopping Wall Street from competing with Main Street for homes. But key details — including how "large ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
One year ago this week, a case of measles was recorded in Gaines County, Texas. It was the start of an outbreak that killed two children and sickened at least 760 people. Thousands more in the U.S. have contracted measles since. In April, the Pan American Health Organization, an offshoot of the World Health Organization, will determine whether the same virus strain first recorded in west Texas on Jan. 20, 2025, has ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
In a not all that surprising development for those who monitor Chairman Carr's pronouncements, the FCC's Media Bureau today released a " Guidance on Political Equal Opportunities Requirement for Broadcast Television Stations " narrowing the programs found exempt from the Equal Opportunities requirement. The clear target is appearances by candidates on the TV broadcast networks' morning and late night ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls withdrawal 'a lose for the United States, and it's a lose for the rest of the world' The U.S. is set to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, one year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the withdrawal. Trump announced on the first day of his new presidency that the U.S. would be leaving the United Nations health ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Fetal tissue has been used to advance research into diabetes, Alzheimer's, infertility and vaccines The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer fund research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from "elective" abortions , the world's biggest public funder of biomedical research announced on Thursday. The ban marks the latest, and most dramatic, effort by the Trump administration to end research that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
This moment demands a press that cannot be bullied, bought, or silenced. It demands journalism backed by people who believe the truth is worth defending. Join HuffPost and support our mission of holding power to account. Already a member? At least four times, President Donald Trump referred to Greenland — the semiautonomous Danish territory that he wants to bring under United States control — as the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
A federal judge has barred the FBI from examining the electronic devices its agents seized last week from the Virginia home of a Washington Post reporter until he can review the controversial case. "The government must preserve but must not review any of the materials that law enforcement seized pursuant to search warrants the Court issued," U.S. Magistrate Judge William B. Porter wrote in a two-page ruling filed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
A New York state judge ruled that New York City's only Republican-held congressional district was drawn unconstitutionally, ordering a new map. Judge Jeffrey Pearlman concluded that the Staten Island-based 11th District, which is represented by GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, diluted Black and Latino voting power. Pearlman said New York's independent redistricting commission must redraw the state's congressional map ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Governor's office says US pavilion bowed to pressure and pulled scheduled 'fireside chat' with Fortune magazine The office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, said his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos was canceled under pressure from the Trump administration . Newsom had been scheduled to sit down with Fortune at an event sponsored by USA House, the country's official headquarters at the annual ...
Source: theguardian.com