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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 24th 2026
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has long admired political strongmen such as Russia's Vladimir Putin , Hungary's Viktor Orban and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman. Now he's got a new invite-only international "Board of Peace" that's full of them. "Usually they say, 'he's a horrible dictator-type person, I'm a dictator,'" Trump said of himself in a speech Jan. 21 on the sidelines of the World Economic ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The detention of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy with his father outside their home in Minnesota has become the latest lightning rod for America's divisions on immigration under the Trump administration. Versions offered by government officials and the family's attorney and neighbors offer contradictory versions of whether the parents were given adequate opportunity to leave the child with ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Nico Antic was taken to hospital after jumping off rocks with friends in Vaucluse, Sydney, last Sunday. An Australian boy attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour has died in hospital, his family has announced. Nico Antic, 12, was bitten last Sunday after he and friends jumped off rocks in Vaucluse , around five miles from the city's business district. Nico was pulled from the water by friends and taken to hospital ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruin from more than two years of Israeli strikes, with its 2 million Palestinian residents largely living in tents. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner this week unveiled plans for a "New Gaza" filled with gleaming high-rise towers and tourist-packed beaches — an optimistic vision that stands in stark contrast to the reality of a territory in ruins after two years ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
More than 8,000 flights set to take off over the weekend have been cancelled as a major storm bears down across the United States, threatening widespread heavy snow and a band of catastrophic ice stretching from east Texas to North Carolina. At least 3,400 flights were delayed or cancelled on Saturday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, and more than 5,000 were called off for Sunday. Roughly 140 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to grant President Donald Trump's request to let him immediately remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. But their eventual ruling following this week's arguments in the case may not give Cook a sweeping victory. Rather, according to some legal experts, a likely outcome would be a narrow decision that could return the matter ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard , a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead , is "more ready than ever, finger on the trigger," its commander said Saturday, as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East. Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gives. And he takes away. Offended by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's increasingly assertive posture toward the U.S., Trump revoked an invitation to join his Board of Peace . Many Western allies are suspicious of the organization, which is chaired by Trump and was initially formed to focus on maintaining the ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas but has grown into ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch TikTok , owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. On Thursday, January 22, 2026, TikTok announced that approved the sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to an American investor group. Now, ByteDance will own less than 20% of the new entity, with ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's leading Republican and Democratic officials, now engaged in one of the nation's highest profile Senate races, offered starkly different comments on Friday as a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents racked up their arrest totals. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has challenged immigration officials to provide judicial warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ryan James Wedding , a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder allegedly behind one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations, was arrested Thursday night in Mexico, FBI Director Kash Patel said. Authorities believe Wedding, 44, is a member of the Sinaloa Cartel and had been hiding in Mexico for more than a decade while "running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation," Patel said ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
on Thursday filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, accusing the lawsuit , filed in Florida state court in Miami, alleges that JP Morgan "debanked" Trump and his businesses after his first term "because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so." Debanking, "once a relatively obscure issue in finance," has "become a politically charged issue in recent ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Until very recently, the conventional wisdom about the expiration of stopgap-spending authority on January 30 was that nobody in either party wanted another government shutdown . That's why House and Senate Democratic and Republican negotiators managed to put together 12 more-or-less consensus appropriations bills ...
Source: nymag.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 -
Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The city of Philadelphia has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and its secretary Doug Bergum for removing an outdoor exhibit on slavery in Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit filed Thursday also names the National Park Service and its director Jessica Bowron as defendants in the case and asks a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction to return the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
President Trump has revealed the simple explanation for a large bruise on his hand, swatting away wild conspiracies about his health. "I clipped it on [a] table," the 79-year-old said when asked about the bruise on his left hand while Davos, Switzerland. The president also blamed the high dosage of aspirin he takes for the size of the bruise, along with others he has been spotted with recently. "They say take ...
Source: nypost.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ukraine and Russia will hold joint peace talks Friday with the United States, the first trilateral meeting since the nearly four years ago. The talks in Abu Dhabi follow marathon overnight discussions at the Kremlin between President Donald Trump's envoys and Vladimir Putin. Trump met earlier Thursday with Ukraine's . The two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates signals a renewed effort to strike a deal after ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The U.S. military announced Friday it had carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on an alleged drug boat and said there was one person who survived the attack. "On Jan. 23, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations," U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X with a video that it said showed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Bank of America is weighing whether to launch a new credit card that would comply with President Trump's push to temporarily cap card interest rates at 10% , according to a person familiar with the financial giant's plans. Bank of America already offers credit cards with initial average percentage rates below 10%. For example, its no-frills BankAmericard offers consumers a 0% introductory APR for 18 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
In the first big initial public offering of 2026, the crypto platform BitGo shot out of the gate fast as initial trading jumped 25% over the offering price. Investors took a deep breath later, but the stock still rose almost 3% on the day — which means it raised about as much as it could. John Furrier covered it like a glove from the NYSE floor, including many interviews with BitGo and its partners. More IPOs ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must keep federal funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in five Democratic-controlled states — at least for now. The ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick extends by two weeks a temporary one issued earlier this month that blocked the federal government from holding back the money from ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Kevin Johnson died from "blunt head trauma and stab wounds" at a homeless encampment, according to the Los Angeles county medical examiner. The medical examiner said Johnson, 55, was pronounced dead Wednesday morning after being found unconscious. His death was ruled a homicide and is being investigated. A fourth-round draft pick by New England in 1993, Johnson spent ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Airlines are canceling thousands of U.S. flights ahead of the massive winter storm that's forecast to bring a mix of ice, snow and frigid conditions to a 2,000-mile expanse of the country this weekend. Delta Air Lines said late Thursday that flight cancellations "are necessary at select airports in North Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee to ensure the safety of our customers and people." ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing scrutiny over its assertion that federal officers can forcibly enter a home without a judicial warrant – a move constitutional scholars, immigration experts and a federal judge say is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. An internal ICE memo from May 2025 directs agents to use force to enter residences after obtaining administrative warrants, which are ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
When people hear the word cancer, their mind typically jumps to the worst-case scenario. And, while many types of cancers are on the decline — for example, the CancerNetwork says that brain cancer rates have dropped four percent as of 2025 — there are other types of cancer, like those that affect the colon, that are on the rise. It's not just the rates that are rising, either. Colon cancer is also ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Researchers have found a new method to track space junk. This methodology involves the use of seismometers. Typically, these instruments are used to detect earthquakes, but in this case, they will help spot human-made objects in orbit. Findings have been published in the journal Science . Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University, devised this methodology of using existing ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! To give users peace of mind, Ring has introduced a new content authenticity feature that allows them to verify whether a Ring video has been edited or altered. Ring Verify adds a digital security seal that breaks if the video is changed in any way. "Think of it like the ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Court told US president's son contacted woman shortly before alleged assault in London A man accused of raping a woman in London denied he was angry when she received a call from Donald Trump's son, a court has heard. Barron Trump, the youngest son of the US president, was on a video call in January last year with the woman, who cannot be named, when he allegedly witnessed her being assaulted by a man in London and ...
Source: theguardian.com