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Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Jan. 22 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump late Thursday announced he withdrew Canada's invitation to join the U.S.-led Board of Peace, as relations between the longtime allies continue to deteriorate during his second term. "Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada's joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever ...
Source: upi.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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. President Trump said he hoped he would be 'remembered by those who use and love TikTok' for 'saving' the popular video app The parent company of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Donald Trump has previously bragged about taking over four times the recommended dose of aspirin Donald Trump says the huge, dark bruise on his left hand seen at Davos was caused by "the big aspirin" as he continues to defy medical advice. The president is often seen with ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
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 -
Timothée Chalamet and 'Marty Supreme' net 9 Oscar nominations for Jewish sports fable "The Voice of Hind Rajab" also picked up a surprise nomination ( JTA ) — It was a "Supreme" Oscar-nominations morning for Timothée Chalamet and the heavily Jewish period sports comedy he stars in. "Marty Supreme" picked up nine Academy Award nominations Thursday, including best picture and best actor for the ...
Source: forward.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 -
United States President Donald Trump has sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5bn, accusing JPMorgan of debanking him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Miami-Dade County court in Florida. It alleges that JPMorgan abruptly closed multiple accounts in February 2021 with just 60 days' notice and no explanation. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Federal immigration agents have detained at least four children from Minnesota public schools over the past two weeks, including a 5-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were both sent to Texas detention centers that have come under fire for grotesque conditions . Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, held a press conference on Wednesday to provide details of the targeting of ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
695,628 8,802 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + Article Summary Mortgage professionals say that President Donald Trump's proposed 10% credit card interest cap could reduce credit limits, raise utilization ratios and make it harder for homebuyers to qualify for mortgages. AI Summary In the mortgage industry, the initial reaction to President Donald ...
Source: housingwire.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's son Barron called London police last year to urge them to respond to a woman who he said he had witnessed "getting beat up," according to a call transcript released during a trial. "I'm calling from the U.S., I just got a call from a girl, you know, she's getting beat up," Trump said last January, the transcript released by prosecutors said. "This was happening about eight minutes ago," he ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Deployment of the 5,408-satellite constellation begins in late 2027 using the heavy-lift New Glenn reusable rocket system. Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a satellite internet network offering data speeds up to 6 Tbps, targeting enterprise, data center, and government sectors. The TeraWave constellation will comprise 5,280 satellites in low-Earth orbit and 128 in medium-Earth orbit. Blue Origin plans to deploy the ...
Source: techbriefly.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With the acquittal in the first Texas trial over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting , prosecutors must now decide how to try their case against the only other officer who was charged. Adrian Gonzales' trial was a rare prosecution of an officer accused ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
TOKYO — A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after the unit's resumption, its operator said. The No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in north-central Japan reactivated Wednesday night for the first time in 14 years, as plant workers started removing ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
With the spring homebuying season approaching, lower mortgage rates are a welcome development for households looking to buy a home. That's the sentiment of some industry mortgage watchers as rates have hit recent record lows and applications for home purchases have seen solid increases over the past two weeks. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie Mac Thursday, shows ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
A week after adding a new Personal Intelligence feature to its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini , Google has expanded the feature to AI Mode in Google Search. Google announced the initial launch of Personal Intelligence in a Jan. 14 blog post , saying that when added to Gemini, it personalizes the AI assistant by connecting to Google apps and drawing information ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
Maine's Democratic governor challenged federal immigration officials Thursday to provide arrest warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in her state, saying residents have been left largely in the dark as fear spreads through immigrant communities. "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Vice-president says 'number one thing' that would lower the temperature would be for officials to help facilitate 'reasonable enforcement of law' JD Vance on Thursday put the onus on local officials to "turn down the temperature" in Minneapolis , where federal immigration agents in recent days have detained a five-year-old child with his father and gassed protesters throughout the city. Flanked by federal law ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Commerce Department releases closely watched inflation data The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge showed that consumer prices remained elevated in November, ahead of the central bank's policy meeting next week. The Commerce Department on Thursday reported that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index rose 0.2% in November on a monthly basis and is up 2.8% from last year. While the ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
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Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it's hardly a clean break. The U.S. owes more than $130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven't finished working out ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay Bhattacharya said in a statement on Thursday that the decision was motivated both by a need to cut costs and the "increasing availability of validated alternative technologies." The NIH currently has a nearly $48-billion budget, and in 2025 it spent $53 million on 77 projects that involved human fetal ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
has drawn a lot of criticism for comments he's made about acquiring the country of Greenland , either by purchasing the island or taking it by force, which has set America's international partners on edge. The chatter about the mineral-rich slice of land , which also stands as a gateway to international waters that are very important to military and trade routes, has become so intense that it appeared to be all ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Hannah Natanson said seizure of her devices has upended her work and potentially exposed personal information not connected to her reporting The Washington Post is demanding the immediate return of computers, phones and other devices seized by federal agents during a search of a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Ruling presents Democrats with opportunity to pick up another US House seat in November elections New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday , handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat before this fall's midterm elections. The ruling from Jeffrey Pearlman, a New York state supreme court justice, comes after a Democratic-aligned law firm challenged ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration of pressuring the official US pavilion at the World Economic Forum to block his entry to a scheduled speaking event, according to posts from his office. Newsom had been invited by Fortune, the event's official media partner, to speak to the press at the US pavilion on Wednesday afternoon, in addition to planned remarks at the World Economic Forum ...
Source: insider.com