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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 18th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
– From to ordering , from turning government entities into rubber stamps to for a White House ballroom, President spent his first year back in office trampling political norms and testing institutional checks and balances. Some of his ideas that once , if not outright , are now reality. But there are other things that Trump "I've kept all my promises and much more," Trump insisted during a speech this week in ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Country says some appointments to the group, which will oversee the administration and reconstruction of Gaza, are 'contrary to its policy' Israel has objected to the White House's pick of world leaders who will join the so-called Gaza "board of peace", meant to temporarily oversee governance and reconstruction in the strip. The White House and other sources announced a flurry of appointments and invitations to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
KAMPALA — Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he had escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looked set to secure an overwhelming official victory margin in a presidential election. Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) said on Friday night that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in Kampala and "forcibly took him away to an unknown ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
As President Trump prepares to nominate a new Federal Reserve chair in the coming months, he hasn't been shy about his goal for the powerful economic posting: lower interest rates. "I want somebody that when the market is doing great, interest rates can go down because our country becomes stronger," the president said during a speech in Detroit on Tuesday. He's long pushed for lower rates, which could boost ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been sworn into office as Virginia's first female governor. Spanberger was sworn in at noon Saturday amid a cold drizzle outside the state Capitol after centuries of men holding the state's top office. "The history and the gravity of this moment are not lost on me — I maintain an abiding sense of gratitude to those who worked generation after generation to ensure women could be ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Central Command carried out an airstrike that killed alleged al-Qaeda terrorist leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim in Syria on Friday in retaliation for the deaths of two service members and their interpreter. Al-Jasim was affiliated with al-Qaeda and "directly connected" to the ISIS gunman who ambushed two U.S. service members and their civilian interpreter on Dec. 13 in Palmyra, Syria, CENTCOM said ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and others cannot use "crowd dispersal tools" against nonviolent protesters while enforcing federal immigration laws, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Court of Minnesota Judge Katherine Menendez said ICE officers cannot use tear gas, pepper spray and other commonly used devices to disperse protesters who are "engaging in peaceful and ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
ADHD or intellectual disabilities – adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the , telling pregnant women: "Don't take Tylenol." The latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has received a five-year jail sentence after being found guilty of multiple charges, including attempts to block his arrest after his failed move to impose martial law on the country in December 2024. Yoon was sentenced at the Seoul Central District Court on Friday in televised proceedings of one of the country's most sensitive political trials in recent history. But this ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Several Republican lawmakers are looking to talk President Donald Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis as the city sees demonstrations over the fatal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-involved shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The Insurrection Act, which was passed in 1807, was last invoked in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots over the ...
Source: foxnews.com