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Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
— The Senate is expected to take a third vote today on another war powers resolution to limit President Trump's ability to strike Venezuela as the U.S. leader continues to take unilateral action against the South American country. The vote, scheduled for late Thursday morning, comes days after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a nighttime raid that came not only as a ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown, with the governor calling for people to remain calm and schools canceling classes and activities as a safety precaution. State and local officials demanded ICE leave the state after 37-year-old ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
The US is receiving full cooperation from Venezuela's regime and will control the country and its vast oil reserves for years, Donald Trump has claimed. Caracas was giving Washington "everything that we feel is necessary" and the US would remain a political overlord there for an indefinite period, the US president said. "We will rebuild it in a very profitable way," Trump told the New York Times . "We're going to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's unprecedented decision to slash the number of recommended vaccines for children opens the door to changes in a program for individuals seeking compensation from drug manufacturers over immunization injuries. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that it will no longer universally recommend childhood vaccines against Covid-19, rotavirus, flu, meningococcal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration has taken a new approach to the food pyramid . The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidelines on Wednesday with an updated, inverted pyramid. The top of the pyramid, which is now the wider part of the structure, is built on meat, fats, fruits and vegetables, while whole grains are at the narrow bottom. This follows HHS ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
By Maureen Farrell and Matthew Goldstein President Donald Trump said he wanted Congress to take immediate steps to stop private equity firms and other large investors from buying more single-family homes, embracing a position with populist appeal that has long failed to gain broader traction. Trump's announcement, which he made in a social media post on Wednesday, is aimed at Wall Street-backed firms that for years ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Russia doubled down on its longstanding position of declaring Western forces in Ukraine "legitimate targets" on Thursday, days after France and the UK pledged to send troops there in the event of a peace deal. "The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units, military facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries on the territory of Ukraine will be classified as ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Archaeologists uncovered ancient hominin fossils along Morocco's Atlantic coast, and it could fill a major gap in human evolution. A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that the fossils recovered from Grotte à Hominidés, a cave site in Casablanca, included an intact adult jawbone, a half of an adult jawbone, and the jawbone of a child, as well as many vertebrae and isolated teeth. ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The US military action in Venezuela has spurred some congressional Democrats to evoke a step that haunted President Trump's first term and could become a factor in November's midterm elections: impeachment. So far, it's just a low rumbling from a handful of House Democrats. An impeachment inquiry is unlikely to get off the ground in 2026 with Republicans holding a slim majority and congressional ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Paramount's campaign to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery was dealt another blow Wednesday after Warner's board rejected a revised bid from the company. The board cited the enormous debt load that Paramount would need to finance its proposed $108-billion takeover. Warner's board this week unanimously voted against Paramount's most recent hostile offer — despite tech billionaire Larry Ellison agreeing in late ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state's near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills, saying that the laws violated the state constitution. In 2023, the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , Wyoming passed an abortion ban that included narrow exceptions for incest, sexual assault and cases where the mother's health is at risk. Later that ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Administration has alleged fraud in decision to halt grants from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York Donald Trump's administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud. The US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program, will require the states to provide ...
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 -
Weight lost on GLP-1 drugs is regained within two years of stopping The sustainability of weight-loss drugs is under scrutiny as new research shows that people who stop taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists regain the pounds at a steady rate, returning to their original size after around 1.7 years. The findings raise questions about whether this "magic cure" for obesity is actually unsustainable without a ...
Source: newatlas.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Researchers have found traces of what appears to be plant-derived poison on tiny stone arrowheads from South Africa dated to 60,000 years ago. The finding pushes back the origin of this revolutionary hunting technology by tens of thousands of years. Scientists have long been fascinated by the development of poisoned hunting weapons. For one thing, they would have seriously leveled up our ancestors' foraging game. ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
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 -
Jan. 7 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's first pick to serve as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has been ordered to explain why she is still using the title despite her appointment being ruled unlawful. U.S. District Judge David Novak ordered Lindsey Halligan to give an explanation of her continued use of the U.S. attorney title within seven days. Novak said her use of the title, including ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Former Texas star wide receiver Jordan Shipley was involved in an accident on his ranch in Texas and is in critical, but stable, condition, his family announced. "Jordan was involved in an accident this afternoon near his hometown of Burnet," Shipley's family said Tuesday in a statement released by the Longhorns. "The machine he was operating on his ranch caught fire, and although he managed to get ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said he "will not permit" defense companies to issue dividends or stock buybacks until those firms address his complaints about the industry. Trump, on Truth Social, also took aim at defense contractors' executive pay packages. Shares of General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each fell about 3% following Trump's comments. In this article President Donald Trump on Wednesday ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Lenovo's CES 2026 laptop lineup includes some ambitious proof-of-concept devices and a strong redesign of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo announced over a dozen computers today at CES, including laptops, desktops, all-in-one PCs, mini PCs, and, as expected, some wild proofs-of-concept. If you anticipated more rollable displays, you'd be right -- ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
By , and Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a special session in April to redraw Florida's congressional map ahead of the midterm elections, a priority for the president. The announcement sets the stage for a political battle with DeSantis and Senate President Ben Albritton against House Speaker Daniel Perez — and, if a new map is passed, an almost inevitable legal fight. Perez told the Herald/Times ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — An "abhorrent" violation of Latin American sovereignty. An attack committed by "enslavers." A "spectacle of death" comparable to Nazi Germany's 1937 carpet bombing of Guernica, Spain. There is perhaps no world leader criticizing the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela as strongly as left-wing President Gustavo Petro of neighboring Colombia. While other officials tread ...
Source: apnews.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 -
– 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 -
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 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 -
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 French film legend died on 28 December at the age of 91 at her home in Saint-Tropez in southern France. Brigitte Bardot's funeral has been held with a private service in Saint-Tropez. The French movie and style icon died on 28 December at the age of 91 at her home in the French Riviera resort, where she lived for more than half a century. Her husband, Bernard d'Ormale, revealed in an interview with Paris Match ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nick Reiner is set to be arraigned and enter a plea Wednesday in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. His scheduled appearance in a Los Angeles Superior Court comes 3 1/2 weeks after the beloved actor-director and his wife of 36 years were found dead with stab wounds in their home in the upscale Brentwood section of Los Angeles, authorities said. Nick Reiner, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Republicans must win the 2026 congressional midterm elections - or else he will get impeached by Democrats. "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump told Republican lawmakers at a retreat in Washington. "I'll get impeached." Read about ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool. On Tuesday, Britain's top technology official demanded that Musk's social media platform X take urgent action while a Polish lawmaker cited it as a reason to enact digital safety ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
It's the end of an era in Baltimore. The Ravens fired head coach John Harbaugh on Tuesday, just two days after a loss to the rival Pittsburgh Steelers knocked them out of postseason contention. The defeat concluded a campaign that started with Super Bowl expectations but ended out of the playoffs for the first time in Baltimore since the 2021 season. The Ravens announced Harbaugh's dismissal in a statement from ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — 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, a 31-year CIA veteran, admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for U.S. secrets from 1985 until his arrest in ...
Source: nbcnews.com