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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 31st 2026
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump says he'll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May — with Trump believing that he can finally get the booming economy that he promised to voters. When Trump said that Warsh comes from "central casting," the president revealed a lot about his own views of the 55 year-old's looks and conventional pedigree. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Some 3 million pages of documents involving sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including thousands of videos and photographs, were to be released Friday by the Department of Justice. The trove of files included an FBI document, compiled by the agency's child exploitation division, that listed a number of graphic sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and other powerful ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Congress has justifiably been criticized for rolling over to the President. But how it actually uses its leverage involves genuinely difficult trade-offs. January 30, 2026 In October, Senate Democrats plunged the country into a shutdown. As I wrote at the time , the Party's leaders primarily needed their base to see them pushing back on Donald Trump's authoritarianism, especially after ducking out of a funding ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were among four people taken into custody by federal law enforcement agents on Friday, arrests that critics say represent a serious—and unconstitutional—escalation against the free press by a Justice Department under the control of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi , both of whom have repeatedly targeted reporters for doing their jobs. The ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Two Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers about why National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was at an FBI raid at a Georgia election facility. Gabbard was photographed outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operations Center, just outside of Atlanta, when the FBI executed a "a court authorized law enforcement action" on Wednesday. FBI spokesperson Jenna Sellitto told The Hill that ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
LEWISTON, Maine — The heart of the city's immigrant community expands from Lisbon Street, where ethnic food markets and other businesses usually bustle with customers. But for the past week and a half, it's been quiet, as federal immigration agents scoured the state making arrests. Many residents stayed home — and out of sight. "The community is scared," said Effrax Saciid-Cisse, who emigrated from ...
Source: wbur.org
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president's sons Eric Trump and, Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs. The filing ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Confusion reigned Friday about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine after President Donald Trump said he had personally asked him to stop attacking because of the "extraordinary cold." Speaking at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Thursday, Trump said he asked Putin not to fire on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, "and the various towns for a week and he agreed to do that." ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Home » » Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez signed into law a reform of the nation's hydrocarbons legislation, opening the country's oil industry towards privatization and allowing for more foreign investment. President Rodriguez enacted the reform bill less than a month after the capture of deposed Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro in a U.S. military operation in Venezuela's capital, ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
One of two shooting deaths of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis by federal agents is the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation. The Civil Rights Division is investigating the Saturday killing of Alex Pretti but not the shooting death earlier this month of Renee Macklin Good by federal agents in Minneapolis, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in Washington on Friday. Pretti was shot ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region , according to an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Oman and Qatar have all been in touch with leaders in Washington and Tehran to make the case that an ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that could further cripple an island plagued by a deepening energy crisis. The order would primarily put pressure on Mexico, a government that has acted as an oil lifeline for Cuba and has constantly voiced solidarity for the U.S. ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)— Steak 'n Shake announced it will give $1,000 to employees' children to match the Trump accounts. "For every child born between 2025 and 2028. By funding tax-advantaged investment accounts for our employees' children, we are ensuring that the next generation of Americans participate from birth in our free-market, wealth-building economy," Steak n' Shake said in a post on X, formerly known ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti's killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it. In the hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump and his administration appeared to directly undermine the rights granted to gun owners in the Second Amendment. Department of Homeland Security ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Judges are struggling to hold ICE accountable for dozens of violations. If they can't, who can? Federal judges are calling on their colleagues to 'draw and hold' the line while courtrooms are overwhelmed with cases with immigrants' freedoms at stake, Alex Woodward writes M ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
The United States and Iran are engaged in increasingly hostile rhetoric as US warships move into the Arabian Sea , despite regional nations seeking a diplomatic solution to prevent a military flare-up. US President Donald Trump warned this week that " time is running out " for Iran to return to talks to reach a new deal on its nuclear programme. Trump said the naval forces he was sending to Iran's neighbourhood ...
Source: aljazeera.com