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Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force. The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark's foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House that a " fundamental disagreement " remains with Trump over the island. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a majority of Americans saying Trump is focused on the wrong priorities and doing too little to address cost of living. A majority, 58%, calls the first year of Trump's term a failure. There's hardly any good news in the poll for Trump or the Republican Party ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The protest movement in Iran has subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors said Friday, one week after the start of the biggest protests in years challenging the Islamic republic's theocratic system. The threat of new military action by the United States against Iran has also appeared to have receded for the time being, with a Saudi official saying Gulf allies have ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Through the first two weeks of 2026, President Donald Trump and his administration have been very busy. The midterm elections are in November, and concerns about affordability remain top of mind for consumers. One such initiative recently proposed by Trump is a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates, which would be significantly lower than the national average. It's understandable why consumers are ...
Source: fool.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
, the mother of without her consent. St. Clair, 27, filed the lawsuit in the state of New York on Thursday, January 15, reported CNN NBC News People In the filing, the right-wing political commentator alleged that "xAI's product Grok, a generative artificial intelligence ('AI') chatbot, uses AI to undress, humiliate, and sexually exploit victims." St. Clair claimed that X users were able to use Grok to generate ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
News / Pixabay US suspends immigrant visa applications in 75 countries The US State Department announced on Wednesday that it will suspend the ability for citizens of 75 countries to obtain immigrant visas beginning on January 21. The affected countries include Latin American countries like Brazil and Colombia, South Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, and multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons FBI searches home of Washington Post reporter On Wednesday, the FBI searched the home and electronic devices of a Washington Post reporter and seized her phone, Garmin watch, and two laptops, one of which belongs to the newspaper. According to the Post , the warrant said the search of reporter Hannah Natanson's home was connected to the investigation of Aurelio ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Canada, traditionally a staunch US ally, has been hit especially hard by Trump's steep tariffs on steel, aluminium, vehicles and lumber. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a "new strategic partnership" with Beijing as he held talks President Xi Jinping on Friday, the first visit by a Canadian leader to China in eight years. The two countries had been locked in years of diplomatic spats after the retaliatory ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! AI is being integrated into core enterprise systems faster than many organizations can secure and govern it. A new global study from NTT shows companies expanding AI deployment while gaps in infrastructure readiness, data integrity controls, and governance frameworks continue to ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump has issued a new demand, accompanied by threatening language, that Hamas disarm, as the second phase of the United States-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel gets underway. Trump pledged on social media late on Thursday to achieve a "comprehensive" demilitarisation Hamas, threatening the Palestinian group if it fails to do so, and demanded the return the remains of the last Israeli ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's massive immigration crackdown. The threat comes a day after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Abena Binfaah, an undergraduate nursing student at Boston College, is excited to join the workforce after she graduates in May. "I like to help people, to care for others," Binfaah said. "With nursing, there's a variety of things you can do. There's room to grow." Binfaah had already been plotting how to advance her nascent career: She plans to move back in with her family to save money, work for a few years, then ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court grants standing to congressman challenging Illinois election law The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Republican congressman may bring suit to challenge an Illinois mail-in ballot law. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 7-2 majority decision, which confirmed that Congressman Michael Bost had standing to continue his lawsuit in federal court, writing: Candidates ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Actor Timothy Busfield has made his first court appearance after turning himself in on criminal charges that he allegedly sexually abused two boys on the set of a TV series filmed in New Mexico, prosecutors say. The Emmy-winning actor, who starred in Thirtysomething and The West Wing, was taken into custody in Albuquerque on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse that police ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons. Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than a month after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week. The early homecoming culminated in an ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Verizon Wireless said it will offer credits to customers and that workers were addressing the causes of a widespread outage that disrupted mobile communications. Verizon officials said Wednesday night they were working to fully restore all services. "Today, we let many of our customers down, and for that, we are sorry," Verizon News posted on X . Verizon officials said their wireless customers ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction and mental health programs nationwide that it was immediately terminating almost $2 billion of their funding, the administration reversed course and reinstated the money. An administration official confirmed Wednesday night that the money was being restored, but declined to say why. The decision followed furious lobbying by ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded an immigrant in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, prompting officials to reiterate their demand that federal immigration law enforcement leave the city. Thousands of heavily armed and masked ICE and Department of Homeland Security agents have been deployed to the city for Operation Metro Surge, which began in December, to conduct ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to fix basketball games stretched from the Chinese Basketball Association to the NCAA and has ensnared 26 people, including current and former college players, prosecutors revealed Thursday. The charges filed in federal court in Philadelphia include bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy. How did the scheme work? A group of fixers, ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a judge had no jurisdiction to order Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention last summer, a decision that could lead to his re-arrest. Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, was released from ICE custody last June following his arrest by ICE agents in New York City in ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
A US judge ruled Equinor ASA can resume building its multibillion-dollar wind project near New York, marking the second time this week a federal court has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a halt on offshore developments. Equinor's Empire Wind project would likely suffer "imminent irreparable harm" from further delays while its legal fight over the government's stop-work order plays out in court, US ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats across the country are proposing state law changes to rein in of a protester in Minneapolis and the wounding of two people in Portland, Oregon. , but their momentum is growing as legislatures return to work amid President Donald Trump's following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. Republicans are pushing back, Democratic ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
US seizes sixth sanctioned tanker it says has ties to Venezuela in Trump's effort to control its oil
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country's oil . The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the tanker, named Veronica, early Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media. The ship had previously passed through ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday advised against selling, eating or serving Super Greens dietary supplement by Live It Up due to salmonella concerns. All Live It Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder, including original and wild berry varieties, with lot markings that start with the letter "A" and all stick pack products with expiration dates ranging from 08/2026 to 01/2028, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators from opposite parties are joining forces in a renewed push to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, an effort that has broad public support but has repeatedly stalled on Capitol Hill. Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Republican Sen. Ashley Moody of Florida on Thursday plan to introduce legislation, first shared with The Associated Press, that would bar ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Judges uphold redrawing to offset Texas gerrymandering as Newsom attacks lawsuit as 'weak attempt to silence voters' A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld the California ballot initiative that allows temporary changes to congressional district maps designed to benefit Democrats in upcoming elections. The measure, known as Proposition 50 , emerged in response to actions taken in Texas, where Republican leaders ...
Source: theguardian.com