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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
is set to testify publicly next week about his investigations into President Donald Trump that resulted in two indictments. of Ohio, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Fox News Channel interview on Monday night that Smith would appear before the panel on Jan. 22, and a spokesman for Smith on Tuesday confirmed the committee hearing. "He'll be a tough witness, but we're going to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
A court case next week will likely be the next big development for the central bank in its quest to maintain political independence. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 21 related to President Donald Trump's efforts to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Should the White House win the case, it could set an important precedent for the president's ongoing quest to oust Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The ...
Source: cnbc.com
Denmark, Greenland leaders stand united against Trump's Greenland takeover call ahead of key meeting
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — The leaders of Denmark and the country's territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump's calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island on the eve of critical meetings in Washington on the matter. In perhaps their sharpest pushback to date, Denmark and Greenland's prime ministers underscored that the territory is part of ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Up until this week, Wall Street has generally benefited from the Trump administration's policies and has been supportive of the president. That relationship has suddenly soured. When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law in July, it pushed another significant round of tax cuts and also cut the budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at times the banking ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
A ruling against two athletes in West Virginia and Idaho could have far-reaching implications for civil rights The US supreme court is considering the rights of transgender youth athletes on Tuesday in a major hearing on state laws banning trans girls from girls sports teams. Oral arguments center on two cases of trans students who sued over the Republican-backed laws in Idaho and West Virginia prohibiting them ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
President demands Fed chair lower rates after December inflation held steady at 2.7% President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted the release of fresh inflation data from December that showed price growth has held steady, saying that trend supports his calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the consumer price index (CPI) for December, which showed that ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Bill and Hillary Clinton on Tuesday refused to testify in a Republican-led congressional investigation of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying it was a partisan exercise. "Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences," the Clintons wrote in a letter to ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
LONDON — The chief executive of a beleaguered Danish wind farm developer said Tuesday that the company would move quickly to complete a $6.2 billion wind farm off Rhode Island, a day after a judge struck down President Trump's effort to halt the project. "We have seven turbines left to install" on the project, called Revolution Wind, Rasmus Errboe, the head of the energy company Orsted, said in an interview. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
, according to newly filed court documents. programme broadcast in 2024, which faced criticism for allegedly giving the impression that Mr Trump had encouraged his supporters to storm the US Capitol building in 2021. The episode featured a clip from Mr Trump's speech on 6 January, 2021, and was edited to show him stating: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol … and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Nearly 15,000 nurses are now on strike at three New York City private sector hospitals, in the largest nurses' strike the city has ever seen. Nurses say they are striking to end understaffing that burns out nurses and endangers patients. Yesterday nearly 15,000 nurses launched a strike at three private sector hospital systems in New York City. Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) have ...
Source: jacobinmag.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Elon Musk's X is under fire globally after users started exploiting its AI chatbot to make sexual images of real people. Social media platform X is under pressure after reports that its AI chatbot Grok has allowed users to create sexual images of women and children. Images are being generated by X's AI tool Grok, which manipulates photos of real people, often removing their clothes or making them pose in suggestive ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
For 38-year-old Joe Montana, it was a 27-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins. For 38-year-old Dan Marino, it was a 62-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. For 45-year-old Tom Brady, it was a 31-14 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Those are only three examples of legendary quarterbacks whose careers ended in disappointing playoff defeats. Will 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers be joining them? That's the biggest question after Rodgers ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Mike Tomlin has stepped down as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers after 19 seasons, according to a report from ESPN's Adam Schefter and Jeremy Fowler. This comes a day after their AFC wild-card blowout loss to the Houston Texans, marking it a seven-game playoff losing streak. Tomlin released a statement via X on his stepping down: " After much thought and reflection, I have decided ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
New language criticizes "uncertainties" in longstanding EPA practice. If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving in this same direction—removing the benefit—when it comes to air pollution regulations. According to a New York Times report based ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Donald Trump's administration said Tuesday it will end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Somalia, the latest move in the president's mass deportation agenda. The move affects hundreds of people who are a small subset of immigrants living in the United States with TPS protections. It comes during Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where and where since a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, especially in communities where data centers pop up. (TNS) — Who's going to pay for the artificial intelligence boom? As tech titans invest billions into data centers and high-tech computer chips to fuel their AI ambitions, concerns are building over energy costs, ...
Source: govtech.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Actor denies allegations of abuse centering on two preteen boys in video statement: 'I'm going to confront these lies' The actor and director Timothy Busfield surrendered on Tuesday to New Mexico authorities, four days after they obtained a warrant to arrest him on child sexual abuse allegations, according to officials. The Albuquerque police department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos confirmed Busfield turned ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes All those Apple-made creative apps you used in college, like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, will soon be housed under the same roof with a price that makes Adobe's Creative Cloud look like a monstrous expense. The new Creator Studio takes in Final Cut Pro ( yes, it's on iPad ), Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, and more and promises all those features for $13 a month. Sure, you may hate the idea of ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Minnesota and Illinois are suing the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown, asking the courts to halt the surge of immigration law enforcement into the Democratic-led states. Both lawsuits were filed Monday amid growing criticism of the Trump administration's deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
On Tuesday the American Cancer Society (ACS) released its annual report on cancer statistics in the U.S., and it offered a rare bit of good news: the proportion of people who were alive at least five years after a cancer diagnosis hit a record high. The report found that, among all cancer patients diagnosed between 2015 and 2021 in the U.S., the survival rate at the five-year mark relative to those who didn't have ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department blasted a federal judge Tuesday for ordering it to explain why Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan continues to refer to herself as a U.S. attorney despite a court ruling that said she was unlawfully serving in the role . The Justice Department, in a written response to an order from U.S. District Judge David Novak, accused Novak, a Trump appointee, of initiating an ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Vascular surgeon Michael David McKee, 39 and from Chicago, now faces upgraded charges of premeditated aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, in Columbus, Ohio. A man accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband in Ohio is now facing upgraded murder charges as authorities prepare to transfer him from Illinois to face prosecution. Michael David McKee, 39, has ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
It's the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, a thriving religious center that has served Jackson's small but vibrant Jewish community for more than half a century. Now, the Beth Israel synagogue is indefinitely closed, its historic interiors blackened with ash, after authorities say a man set a fire in the building's library in the early hours of Saturday morning. The FBI says the suspect confessed to attacking the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Apple has partnered with Google to power AI features including Siri, using Google's Gemini models and cloud technology for future Apple Foundation Models. Apple and Google issued a joint statement: "After careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we're excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users." The ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Anker's new whole-home backup system frees you from power outage woes Anker says the latest offering from its power solutions division is the first-ever smart hybrid backup system for your entire house. The company claims its sophisticated equipment and installation program make it simple for homeowners to finally stop worrying about blackouts and outages. The kit can also scale up to keep every room powered for ...
Source: newatlas.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed two new members to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee who have challenged broad medical consensus on vaccines and antidepressants in pregnancy. Kennedy on Tuesday announced he is adding two obstetrician-gynecologists to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the body that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Scott Adams, the "Dilbert" creator whose cartoon was dropped by hundreds of newspapers after he made racist remarks, died months after he revealed his diagnosis with prostate cancer , his family said Tuesday. Adams told fans in May that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones. He'd recently been in hospice care in Northern California. "Unfortunately, this isn't good news," his ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona has filed a federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration, alleging retaliation for protected speech and an unconstitutional effort to silence criticism, according to court filings. Kelly, a retired Navy captain, alleges that the War Department issued a formal censure and threatened a review of his military retirement grade in response to his ...
Source: bnonews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Washington — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and President Trump don't agree on much, but Warren suggests they might be able to work together on capping credit card interest rates and potentially addressing other cost-of-living issues. Mr. Trump has expressed a desire to cap credit card rates, something that Warren, a progressive Democrat from Massachusetts, has long supported. Late Friday, Mr. Trump for one year. ...
Source: aol.com