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Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump also shared an AI image of him talking to European leaders in The White House with the US Flag over Greenland Leer en Español posted private messages from the leaders of Nato and France just a day after his leaked correspondence over Greenland with the prime minister ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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After the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen , several states had to repeal laws requiring that residents demonstrate a "special need" before they were allowed to carry guns in public for self-defense. But even as they made carry permits easier to obtain, legislators made them much harder to use by restricting the locations where people could legally possess ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Longtime U.S. allies say they have abandoned large prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group fighters and their families in northeastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Tuesday it had redeployed from the al-Hol camp to nearby cities, blaming "international indifference" for the withdrawal. The move comes amid intensifying fighting between the SDF and fighters loyal to the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
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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 -
The American Bankers Association today offered several recommendations for how the IRS should implement a new tax benefit for lenders serving rural and agricultural communities, which was included in a tax package passed by Congress last year. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act included language allowing banks to exclude from gross income 25% of the interest they receive from loans secured by rural or agricultural real ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
The legality of President Donald Trump's push to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was already one of the biggest issues of the Supreme Court term before a bombshell dropped a little over a week ago. ed Chair Jerome H. Powell revealed on Jan. 11 that he was under criminal investigation and accused Trump appointees of using the investigation to undermine the independence that has allowed the powerful central ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
London — President Trump has called the U.K.'s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius — a deal his administration previously supported — an act of "great stupidity" that further justified his desire for the U.S. to acquire Greenland . One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is the site of a key U.K.-U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean. "Shockingly, our 'brilliant' NATO Ally, the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
In a pair of extraordinary moves, two federal judges issued court orders Tuesday saying they intend to remove Lindsey Halligan at the helm of a key U.S. attorney's office in Virginia and threatening disciplinary sanctions for any government lawyer who continues to refer to her as U.S. attorney in legal filings. The separate actions by Chief Judge M. Hannah Lauck and Judge David J. Novak, who were nominated by ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Second lady Usha Vance is pregnant with her fourth child, she announced Tuesday with Vice President JD Vance . "We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy," the couple said in a social media post . The pair already share two sons and a daughter. Their joint statement said that Usha Vance and the baby are both doing well, adding that they look "forward to welcoming him in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Attorney General Keith Ellison among at least five officials ordered to testify before federal grand jury The Department of Justice has issued criminal grand jury subpoenas to at least five top Democratic officials in Minnesota who are accused of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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In a major escalation of the 's 'maximum pressure' campaign against the Venezuelan regime, U.S. military forces have boarded and seized yet another oil tanker in the Caribbean. The takeover of the Motor Vessel Sagitta on Tuesday marks the seventh vessel to be intercepted by American forces as the Trump administration tightens its grip on South American oil exports. U.S. Southern Command confirmed the ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Between ICE 's general authoritarian provocations and the lethal violence it has unleashed in Minnesota particularly, you can understand why some Democrats want their elected representatives to defeat a pending appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS appropriations are part of a huge package ...
Source: nymag.com
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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