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Top News Stories for Thursday, January 22nd 2026
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump made his pitch to acquire Greenland to international leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, saying for the first time he did not plan for the U.S. to take the land by force. Trump, who talked up his tariff-based negotiation strategy, cited Greenland's strategic position between the U.S., Russia and China as the main reason he wants to acquire the territory. Retelling United ...
Source: politifact.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Supreme Court Will Consider Whether Trump Can Fire Lisa Cook Today The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether President Donald Trump can legally fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a landmark debate over the Fed's independence that comes as the Trump administration has launched new attacks against its chair The court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Lisa Cook, a dispute over whether ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
ABA Banking Journal annually wraps the year completed and looks ahead across a range of challenges, trends and potential changes for banks and bankers: Off the map: Top bank risks for 2026 New risks, uncertain territory make risk management a perilous journey in the new year. Podcast: The 2026 outlook for bank M&A The bank consolidation logjam broke in 2025, with several banks, including large regionals, inking ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Lindsey Halligan, a former senior White House aide with no prior experience as a prosecutor, is now out of the post that President Trump appointed her to in eastern Virginia. Her embattled status as an interim federal prosecutor led to the dismissal of controversial Justice Department cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump named Halligan to the Virginia post ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
The United States has begun transferring detainees linked to ISIL (ISIS) from northeastern Syria to Iraq, as Syria's army continues to take control of more territory previously held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The US military said in a statement on Wednesday that it transferred 150 detainees who were being held in a detention facility in Hasakah, Syria, to a secure location in Iraq. The ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Home » » Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took into consideration a Hawaii law that limits individuals with concealed-carry permits from carrying firearms on private property open to the public unless granted consent from the property owner, with the majority deeming the legislation as an infringement on the U.S Constitution's Second Amendment. The case revolves around a Hawaiian law and similar ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he has agreed to join U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace in a departure from an earlier stance when his office criticized the makeup of the board's committee tasked with overseeing Gaza. Norway and Sweden, meanwhile, said they would not be joining the board at this stage, following in the footsteps of France, which has ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Fearing primaries for abetting Trump's crackdown, top Democrats are turning away from a deal they crafted to avoid another government shutdown. Congress are turning against a deal that some of their caucuses' most powerful members reached with Republicans over the weekend to maintain steady funding for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Only a day after Senate and House Democratic appropriations leaders ...
Source: theintercept.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Sir Keir Starmer has said he "will not yield" to pressure from Donald Trump over the future of Greenland, after the US president attacked the UK's Chagos Islands deal. Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said the US president had criticised the Chagos deal after previously saying he supported it "for the express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has seized a seventh tanker transporting oil from Venezuela, as the Trump administration seeks to control the nation's oil exports and revenue. The tanker, identified as motor vessel Sagitta, was captured by U.S. military forces Tuesday morning, U.S. Southern Command said in a statement, saying the operation was conducted "without incident." The Sagitta is a U.S. sanctioned ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Former television sports reporter Michele Tafoya is jumping into the U.S. Senate in Minnesota as a Republican. She submitted , as Republicans target a pickup opportunity in a state the GOP has not won statewide since 2006, when then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty was reelected. A Republican has not been elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota since Norm Coleman in 2002. "I think Minnesota is in a crisis," Tafoya told CBS ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
– The Washington Post asked a federal court on Wednesday for an order requiring federal authorities to return electronic devices that they seized from a Post reporter's Virginia home last week, accusing the government of trampling on the reporter's free speech rights and legal safeguards for journalists. A magistrate judge in Alexandria, Virginia, temporarily barred the government from reviewing any material ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a "sovereign decision" by her government. Sheinbaum said that although the transfers were made at the request of the U.S. government, the decision was taken by the National Security Council after analyzing what was "convenient for Mexico" and in terms of its "national security." "Mexico is put first above ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Washington — The House Oversight Committee is set to vote Wednesday on holding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt after the pair refused to appear before the Republican-led panel, which is investigating the Justice Department's handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The committee is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. to consider the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! A day after residents across the state reported a noticeable increase in activity by immigration agents, federal officials confirmed a Maine-specific enforcement effort that ...
Source: pressherald.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
The bill would offer a 100% sales and use tax exemption for qualified data centers for at least 20 years. This story was originally published by the Colorado Newsline . Lawmakers in the Colorado General Assembly are reviving a proposal to offer tax breaks for data center operators, aligning the state with dozens of other states competing for the favor of a fast-growing industry that has become a magnet for both ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Crews began bulldozing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency 's offices in Sheikh Jarrah and fired tear gas at a vocational school in Qalandia, marking Israel's latest and most dramatic step against UNRWA. Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes When Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency started ransacking the federal government's data in early 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice insisted that DOGE goons never improperly accessed and shared private information at the Social Security Administration. That was an obvious lie, of course, but we now have a court filing that attempts to correct the record almost a year ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice served subpoenas to several Minnesota officials Tuesday, including Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and others for an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration officers. Two Minnesota prosecutors, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, were sent similar subpoenas. U.S. Deputy Attorney ...
Source: upi.com