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Top News Stories for Friday, January 23rd 2026
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump was joined by a small number of world leaders Thursday as he signed the charter of his "Board of Peace," a new body he has billed as part of the solution to a series of global conflicts. Major Western allies chose to skip the ceremony on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with some voicing concerns that the body, which Trump plans to chair personally, could ...
Source: nbcnews.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
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Since coming to the United States 30 years ago from Mexico, Fernando Perez said U.S. immigration officers have stopped by his home numerous times, but he has never once answered the door. "There are rules and I know them," said Perez, speaking in a mix of English and Spanish in a Home Depot parking lot where he has routinely sought work as a day laborer from contractors and people renovating ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ukraine and Russia will hold joint peace talks Friday with the United States, the first trilateral meeting since the nearly four years ago. The talks in Abu Dhabi follow marathon overnight discussions at the Kremlin between President Donald Trump's envoys and Vladimir Putin. Trump met earlier Thursday with Ukraine's . The two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates signals a renewed effort to strike a deal after ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Prime minister joins MPs, veterans and relatives in condemning US president's claim that troops avoided frontlines Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of "diminishing" the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers by claiming that those who fought in Afghanistan avoided the frontlines, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from all sides of the UK political spectrum as well as the families of veterans. Trump's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
– Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of , after hundreds of Kurdish fighters evacuated from the area as part of a recent deal. Syria's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the government's prisons authority is now in charge of al-Aqtan prison north of the northern city of Raqqa, and the files of the detainees are being ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will look to pass this year's final tranche of spending bills on Thursday, an effort that is being complicated by Democratic lawmakers' concerns that the measure funding the Department of Homeland Security inadequately addresses President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts . The House has already passed eight of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund federal agencies and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The Supreme Court appeared likely to reject President Donald Trump's bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook during oral arguments on Wednesday, finally marking an outer limit of what the court's conservative members would stomach from Trump's authoritarian second term. There did not appear to be five votes among the justices to embrace Trump's radical assertion of executive power over the nation's central ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 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! Federal agents say they are target the 'worst of the worst' criminals, but some local officials are questioning their aggressive tactics and noting that several detainees appear ...
Source: pressherald.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Vice-president says 'number one thing' that would lower the temperature would be for officials to help facilitate 'reasonable enforcement of law' JD Vance on Thursday put the onus on local officials to "turn down the temperature" in Minneapolis , where federal immigration agents in recent days have detained a five-year-old child with his father and gassed protesters throughout the city. Flanked by federal law ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
One year ago this week, a case of measles was recorded in Gaines County, Texas. It was the start of an outbreak that killed two children and sickened at least 760 people. Thousands more in the U.S. have contracted measles since. In April, the Pan American Health Organization, an offshoot of the World Health Organization, will determine whether the same virus strain first recorded in west Texas on Jan. 20, 2025, has ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to Greenland as "Iceland" during his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, even as he demanded that the U.S. be handed ownership of the territory. When the president initially raised Greenland, which he said he was originally "going to leave … out of the speech," he referred to it correctly. He issued veiled threats to Denmark, invoking the U.S.'s illegal ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Order says gov't must stop search while court reviews Washington Post motions. A federal judge today ordered the US government to stop searching devices seized from the house of a Washington Post reporter. It may be only a temporary reprieve for the Post and reporter Hannah Natanson, however. Further proceedings will be held on whether the search can resume or whether the government must return the devices. ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Ruling presents Democrats with opportunity to pick up another US House seat in November elections New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday , handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat before this fall's midterm elections. The ruling from Jeffrey Pearlman, a New York state supreme court justice, comes after a Democratic-aligned law firm challenged ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Governor's office says US pavilion bowed to pressure and pulled scheduled 'fireside chat' with Fortune magazine The office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, said his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos was canceled under pressure from the Trump administration . Newsom had been scheduled to sit down with Fortune at an event sponsored by USA House, the country's official headquarters at the annual ...
Source: theguardian.com