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Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested that Donald Trump should apologise for his claims that European troops were not on the front lines in the war in Afghanistan. In a rare direct rebuke of the United States president, Starmer said on Friday that Trump's earlier to US broadcaster Fox News that NATO allies stayed "a little off the front lines" in Afghanistan were "insulting and frankly appalling". ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Former United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended his prosecution of President Donald Trump, rejecting Republican claims that the cases were politically motivated. Testifying before lawmakers at the House Judiciary Committee, Smith said the two federal cases, one over Trump's handling of classified documents and the other over efforts to overturn the 2020 election , were based on evidence, not politics. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Trump warns U.S. 'armada' heading to Iran; death toll in protest crackdown tops 5,000, activists say
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
rose past at least 5,000, activists said. that his threats had halted the planned executions of more than 800 protesters. Trump had said that such killings would be "I said, 'If you hang those people, you're going to be hit harder than you've ever been hit,'" he told reporters on Air Force One as he returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "And an hour before this horrible" event, they canceled ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article At least five Minneapolis-area children swept up in Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign in recent days A two-year-old girl and her father are in federal custody after immigration officers broke the man's car window and arrested them on their way home from the grocery store, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Until very recently, the conventional wisdom about the expiration of stopgap-spending authority on January 30 was that nobody in either party wanted another government shutdown . That's why House and Senate Democratic and Republican negotiators managed to put together 12 more-or-less consensus appropriations bills ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began forcibly entering homes without judicial warrants last summer, two administration officials told NBC News. An internal document, dated May 12, 2025, but made public by two whistleblowers earlier this week , told officers they could rely on an administrative warrant to enter homes if there was an order to remove someone from the country. Administrative warrants are ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Joe Kottke 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slavery exhibit is dismantled in Philadelphia. (Obtained by NBC Philadelphia) The city of Philadelphia sued the Department of the Interior and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city's historic district. The suit, filed in federal ...
Source: yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion . The three-way talks come hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys during ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The U.S. military announced Friday it had carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on an alleged drug boat and said there was one person who survived the attack. "On Jan. 23, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations," U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X with a video that it said showed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The Trump White House has reportedly ordered federal agencies to conduct a sweeping review of funding to more than a dozen states carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election , a move that lawmakers from the targeted states condemned as unlawful political retaliation. The review, first reported by RealClearPolitics , was outlined in a data request that the White House Office of Management and ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed local and state officials for what he described as "chaotic" federal immigration enforcement during a visit to Minneapolis. His comments came after meeting with immigration enforcement officials and taking part in a roundtable with local leaders and community members. The stated purpose of his trip was to restore "law and order" to the state amid an influx ...
Source: upi.com