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Top News Stories for Wednesday, January 21st 2026
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
European Commission president also appears to call US president's trustworthiness into question The European Commission president has called Donald Trump's planned new tariffs an error and questioned how far he can be trusted, as the US president said there was "no going back" on his goal to control Greenland. Ursula von der Leyen said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that Trump's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over Hawaii's so-called vampire rule gun law that requires people to ask permission before bringing firearms onto private property. The Supreme Court will mull whether the "vampire rule" gun law violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The law was enacted as part of a larger package of gun reforms, including a ban on concealed firearms in ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Erbil, Iraq — CBS News found empty cells and abandoned orange jumpsuits on Monday inside a prison in northeast Syria that, until days ago, held suspected ISIS militants. The incident has highlighted lingering security concerns for Washington in the wake of Syria's brutal civil war. Syria's Interior Ministry accused the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of allowing about 120 ISIS ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
of his second presidency, Donald Trump wielded a wrecking ball — literal and metaphorical — to the ways of Washington and the traditional role of the U.S. in the world. Associated Press photographers documented it all. indoors and gave the titans of the tech world prime seats in the Capitol Rotunda, which had been only four years earlier. The Republican president empowered Elon Musk to fire thousands of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
2026 Blueprint for Growth , outlining its top policy priorities for the year ahead. Developed by ABA's Government Relations Council, the Blueprint will shape the association's ongoing engagement with Congress and the administration on the most important issues facing banks of all sizes, charters and business models. "Our new Blueprint for Growth is guided by input from banks of all sizes and business models, ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court Wednesday in a high-stakes case examining whether President Donald Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook , marking an unusual public show of support from the Fed chair, who has been the target of personal attacks and pressure from Trump and others in his administration. This Supreme Court hearing is the latest chapter in an ...
Source: rismedia.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
US president says on social media that Britain's decision to cede islands to Mauritius is 'act of total weakness' Donald Trump has suggested Britain's decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take over Greenland. The US president, who is travelling to Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, made the claim as he ramped up his rhetoric on acquiring the Arctic ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
A federal court in Virginia is requesting applicants to serve as the district's top interim prosecutor just as a federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump's pick, Lindsey Halligan, is barred from using the US attorney title before the court. US District Judge David Novak ordered Halligan to stop "representing herself as the United States Attorney in any pleading or otherwise before this Court until ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, announced Tuesday that they're expecting their fourth child. They revealed the news in a joint post on Instagram. "We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July," the post read. "During this exciting ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey among officials who received subpoenas The justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal immigration efforts there. A copy of a subpoena to the office of the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, obtained by the Guardian, requests ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
The United States on Tuesday morning seized another oil tanker linked to Venezuela, U.S. Southern Command said, its seventh such seizure. U.S. forces "apprehended Motor Vessel Sagitta without incident," U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in Latin America, said in a social media post. It said the tanker was "operating in defiance of President Trump's established ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON ― Democrats touted modest constraints on President Donald Trump 's immigration enforcement in a bipartisan spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, warning that shutting down the agency as some progressives have called for would do little to restrain Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown. "ICE must be reined in, and unfortunately, neither a [continuing resolution] nor a ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting kicked off in the Swiss resort city of Davos on Monday, with global figures from politics, business, academia and civil society attending the five-day event. The annual forum that attempts to shape global agendas comes at a time of massive global upheaval. United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual event along with other global leaders. His attendance ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli crews on Tuesday started bulldozing the Jerusalem headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, pushing forward with its crackdown against an organization that delivers humanitarian services to millions of people across the region. Israel has long accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of collaborating with Hamas — a charge it denies — and last year ...
Source: bostonglobe.com