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Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The American public may still have the opportunity to hear former special counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump. Smith developed two cases against Trump: one into the MAGA leader's alleged retention of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021, and another into Trump's involvement in the January 6 riots. But both were dismissed after Trump won the 2024 election, on the basis of a ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil, which will be sold at market prices. But those 50 million barrels are only the first tranche and shipments will continue indefinitely, sources close to the White House told CNBC. U.S. sanctions will be selectively rolled back as part of the agreement, the sources said. Venezuela will ship sanctioned oil to the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump blamed "the Radical Left" and defended the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agent who , arguing the officer acted in self-defense. Trump, in his first public statement on the shooting, said he viewed a clip of the Jan. 7 incident, which shows an ICE agent confronting a woman in a vehicle blocking a street. As the woman drives off, another ICE agent approaching the ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death. Just three of the six immunizations the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend - against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus - have prevented ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Donald Trump spoke at a sort of pep rally for House Republicans on Tuesday as part of an effort to get the lawmakers locked and loaded for a year focused on an uphill effort to maintain GOP control of that chamber in the November midterms. He knows, and they know, that history and his own chronically underwater ...
Source: nymag.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The Justice Department is sending a team of federal prosecutors to Minnesota to help investigate allegations of widespread fraud within the state's social services programs, U.S. officials told CBS News Wednesday. The department emailed federal prosecutors who work in other U.S. attorney's offices on Tuesday to seek volunteers for the surge, according to a person briefed on the request. Attorney General Pam Bondi ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The Trump administration announced a major overhaul of American nutrition guidelines Wednesday, replacing the old, carbohydrate-heavy food pyramid with one that prioritizes protein, healthy fats and whole grains. "Our government declares war on added sugar," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a White House news conference announcing the changes. "We are ending the war on saturated ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Warner Bros. Discovery's board of directors on Wednesday rejected Paramount Skydance's revised hostile bid, saying that its terms are inferior to Warner's $82.7 billion merger agreement with Netflix. "Our binding agreement with Netflix will offer superior value at greater levels of certainty, without the significant risks and costs Paramount's offer would impose on our shareholders," Warner Bros. Discovery's board ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
News / Pixabay Wyoming Supreme Court rejects state abortion bans as unconstitutional The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court decision holding that a state law totally banning abortion and a separate law that prohibited the use of abortion pills were unconstitutional. Wyoming passed the abortion bans in 2022, which included one total ban unless a situation of rape or incest occurred and one ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Median sale price was at $410,800 last year, according to the Census Bureau, even as Trump campaigned on affordability Donald Trump said his administration was moving to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes in a bid to reduce home prices. In a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, the US president said he will be asking Congress to codify the measure and will be discussing ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
A day after Ashley Tisdale French addressed rumors about the subjects of her "toxic mom group" essay, Hilary Duff's husband has entered the chat. On Jan. 6, Matthew Koma appeared to react to the viral essay, sharing a photo that seemingly criticized French on his Instagram Story. In a since-deleted Story, Koma posted an edited version of an image that accompanied French's essay for The Cut, photoshopping himself ...
Source: bustle.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
In a legal filing made on Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has only released 12,285 documents relating to its investigation into alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, representing less than 1 percent of the total files on the case in its possession. According to the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act , which was passed into law in November, "all unclassified records, ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic thriller and Apple's comedy series lead nominations for the renamed Sag awards with an impressive showing for Sinners and Adolescence One Battle After Another and The Studio lead the nominations for this year's Actor awards. The Actor awards were previously known as the Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards but were renamed last year. The name change was to provide "clearer recognition in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
An enormous cloud of gas and dark matter shows what happens when galaxies fail. Astronomers think they may have identified a new class of astronomical object — something that looks like a galaxy in every way except the one that usually matters most. This object has gas. It has gravity. It sits inside a massive halo of dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes galaxies across the universe. But what it ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The Trump administration ratcheted up its rhetoric for a more expansive and lengthy intervention in Venezuela and in other nations as well, while leaders from South America to Europe on Tuesday condemned the US words and actions in increasingly strident terms. Three days after a US forces captured Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a daring raid, the Trump administration suggested the United ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying plant-based poisons on their weapons, a practice that has continued into modern times in some traditional cultures Traces of plant toxins have been found on 60,000-year-old arrow tips in South Africa, showing that ancient hunters made use of poisons much earlier than previously known. Until recently, ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Former Texas star and NFL receiver Jordan Shipley is being treated in hospital after suffering severe burns in an accident on his ranch near his home town of Burnet, Texas. According to a statement from his family, Shipley was operating a machine when it caught fire. Although the 40-year-old was able to free himself from the machine "it was not before sustaining severe burns on his body in the process," read the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
By Nancy Lapid Jan 7 (Reuters) - When patients stop taking weight-loss medications, the beneficial effects of the drugs on weight and other health issues disappear within two years, a large analysis of earlier research has found. Reviewing data on 9,341 obese or overweight patients treated in 37 studies with any of 18 different weight-loss medications, researchers found they regained on average ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Gamers like big screens (generally), but laptops can't match the 21.5-inch or 24-inch screens of dedicated gaming monitors. Or can they? Lenovo is showing off a concept gaming laptop, the Legion Pro Rollable, that packs an extendable screen. Lenovo's pitching the concept as ideal for "esports athletes who need to train for high-level competitions around the world." It's just a concept for show, so don't get overly ...
Source: vice.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
CDTO Mike Adams discusses the engineering, construction, and consulting company's cohort-driven approach to AI adoption, balancing innovation with data security, and turning 110 years of engineering documentation into a competitive advantage. Black & Veatch's AI strategy demonstrates how thoughtful implementation can drive rapid, meaningful adoption across a large organization. Rather than deploying AI tools ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans Fossils nearly three-quarters of a million years old, discovered in North Africa, may belong to a common ancestor of Neanderthals , Denisovans and modern humans that lived shortly before the three hominin lineages split. It is thought ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
PARIS — The United States for the first time on Tuesday backed a broad coalition of Ukraine 's allies in vowing to provide security guarantees that leaders said would include binding commitments to support the country if Russia attacks again . The pledge came at a summit in Paris of the "coalition of the willing" of mainly European nations to firm up guarantees to reassure Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
– Speaker Mike Johnson has invited President Donald Trump to give the first State of the Union address of his second term on Feb. 24. The invitation sent on Wednesday notes that the nation is marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. The invitation touted the work of Trump and a Republican-led Congress in 2025 and pointed to the year ahead. "We look forward to advancing the important work ahead ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
President says he wants to raise military budget to $1.5tn and accuses US defense companies of delivery failures Donald Trump has claimed he plans to crack down on executive compensation and shareholder payouts at military defense contractors, as his administration looks to dramatically ramp up spending on the armed forces. In a series of posts on social media, the US president said he wants to increase the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Home » » Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a special legislative session on congressional redistricting will run from April 20th to April 24th during a press conference at Sea Hag Marina in Steinhatchee this week. The governor foreshadowed his intention to call for a special session on redistricting in an exclusive interview with The Floridian in December. "I am going to issue a proclamation to convene a ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Betelgeuse is a massive red star that's easy to spot in the night sky. Located on Orion's shoulder, it glows red and oversized compared with most stars. For as long as astronomers have observed it, Betelgeuse has shown noticeable changes rather than steady, predictable behavior. The star's brightness rises and falls, its surface looks lumpy, and its atmosphere stretches far out into space and ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Companies added 41,000 hires for the month, a reversal from the loss of 29,000 in November, providing a positive sign for a labor market that otherwise struggled as 2025 came to a close. The final tally was slightly less than the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 48,000. Payroll growth came entirely in services industries as education and health-related fields and from companies that employ fewer than 500 workers. A ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Brigitte Bardot's funeral was being held on Wednesday with a private service in Saint-Tropez and a public homage at the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century after retiring from movie stardom at the height of her fame. The animal rights activist and far-right supporter died Dec. 28 at age 91 at her home in southern France. She died from cancer after undergoing two operations, her ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Motorola's Razr Fold comes with a 8.1-inch inner display, a robust set of cameras, and AI-powered features. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways During Lenovo's Tech World showcase at CES 2026, Motorola took the stage to unveil its first foldable smartphone, the aptly named Razr Fold. You may be wondering, "Doesn't Motorola already have that?" Well, not exactly. ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The high-profile lawyer representing Nick Reiner, who allegedly killed his father, director Rob Reiner, and mother Michele Singer Reiner in December, has resigned. The announcement that lawyer Alan Jackson would step down from the case means that the younger Reiner will, at least for the time being, be represented by a public defender provided by the state. During a news conference on Wednesday, Jackson did not ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article District Judge David Novak gives prosecutor seven days to justify her continued identification with role after another justice found in November that her appointment was unlawful A federal judge has demanded an explanation from prosecutor Lindsey Halligan for continuing to use the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Liz Kendall calls on X to 'deal with this urgently' while expert criticises 'worryingly slow' government response The UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk's Grok AI "appalling and unacceptable in decent society". After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall said X, Musk's social media platform, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Starmer and Macron commit to military guarantee of any peace deal with Russia Britain and France have signed a historic agreement committing to boots on the ground in Ukraine as soon as any ceasefire with Russia comes into place. The document, signed at a summit in Paris by French ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Hilton Worldwide Holdings has removed from its system a Minneapolis hotel that has refused to accept the bookings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the hotel operator said on Tuesday. A Hampton Inn hotel, a Hilton brand, outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, refused to accommodate ICE agents, the Department of Homeland Security said in a post on ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Justice department translated recordings made in Portuguese by man believed to be behind killings The man accused of killing an MIT professor and two students at Brown University left behind video recordings in which he says he had planned the attack for years, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The shooter in the 13 and 15 December attacks was a former Brown student and Portuguese national, whom law ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Smartphones usually get blamed for ruining your sleep, and honestly, that's usually true. Between the "one last scroll" and all your 2:00 a.m. notifications, your phone is basically a sleep-deprivation machine. But what if your iPhone actually worked for you instead of against you? If you use the right tools, it can go from being a distraction to being your best sleep ally. Your device is packed with built-in ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
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Source: texastribune.org
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday. Ames admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for U.S. secrets from 1985 ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
The Baltimore Ravens have fired head coach John Harbaugh after 18 seasons with the franchise, the team announced Tuesday. "This was an incredibly difficult decision, given the tremendous 18 years we have spent together and the profound respect I have for John as a coach and, most importantly, as a great man of integrity," Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said in a statement . "Throughout what I firmly believe is a Hall ...
Source: nbcnews.com