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Top News Stories for Friday, January 16th 2026
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted "fundamental disagreement" over the future of the Arctic island. Denmark announced it would increase its military presence in Greenland on Wednesday as foreign ministers from Denmark and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
An Iranian protester who the United States feared faced imminent execution will not be sentenced to death, the judiciary said Thursday, while Donald Trump said he would "watch it and see" about threatened military action. Trump had repeatedly talked in recent days about coming to the aid of the Iranian people over the crackdown on protests that rights groups say has left at least 3,428 people dead. The ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
If the byproduct of Wednesday's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home is to deter probing reporting of government action, the Trump administration could hardly have chosen a more compelling target. Hannah Natanson, nicknamed the "federal government whisperer" at the Post for her reporting on President Donald Trump's , had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized in the search of her Virginia home, the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
United States authorities have said they will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries. The suspension will take effect on January 21 and will affect applicants from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, and several countries in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The change only affects people who want to move to the US permanently. It does not apply to visitors or ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Home » » Thousands of federal grants funding mental health and addiction services were suddenly terminated late Tuesday as the Trump administration sent hundreds of notices announcing the discontinuations. The sudden terminations at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) affected over 2700 of the agency's discretionary grants worth nearly $1.9 billion. According ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on the second phase of the United States-led Gaza ceasefire deal , amid a teetering ceasefire that Israel has repeatedly violated as its genocidal war continues. The Palestinian group on Thursday welcomed the establishment of a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee that would operate under the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis. Trump made the threat after a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. The incident further heightened the sense of fear and ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Truth matters more than ever. As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown and lethal patterns emerge, HuffPost reporters are on the story, holding power to account. Support the journalism that documents what's happening — and why it matters. Already a member? As a political candidate, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) — a longtime ally to President Donald Trump who was involved in efforts ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
The court's hearing on state bans on trans athletes in women's sports was not a serious legal exercise. It was bigotry masquerading as law. Bluesky On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases weighing the constitutionality of state bans on transgender women and girls in competitive sports. Given the Republican antipathy toward the trans community—and the way conservatives have ginned ...
Source: thenation.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's embattled U.S. attorney pick filed a furious response to a judge's question about why she's still calling herself a U.S. attorney after a court ruled her appointment was illegal. The president's own appointee, Judge David Novak, issued an order earlier this month demanding that Lindsey Halligan "explain why her identification does not constitute a false or misleading statement." In response ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Federal Court Upholds California Congressional Map, Bolstering Dems' Chances of Retaking the House Voters adopted Prop. 50 to counter gerrymandering in Texas, the court ruled. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. In a big win for Democrats , a federal court panel on Wednesday upheld a new voter-approved congressional map in California that was designed to give Democrats five new ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Critics call move to cut payments after 1 February for number of Democratic-run states 'unconstitutional' Donald Trump has revived his stalled push to cut federal funding for a number of Democratic-run states, announcing that any with a perceived "sanctuary city" status will not receive payments after 1 February. The president made the statement during a freewheeling address at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good , a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video angles showing exactly what happened. We wrote about how the media called documented murder a "dispute." This week, we're writing about how career Justice ...
Source: techdirt.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was blocking Louisiana's attempt to extradite a doctor in the Golden State accused of mailing abortion pills. The Democratic governor's announcement comes a day after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, said he sent the extradition paperwork in an effort to bring the physician "to justice." Louisiana has some of the strictest ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Six lawyers from US attorney's office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ's civil rights division A wave of federal prosecutors in Minnesota and Washington DC have resigned in protest over the justice department's decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis . Six lawyers from the US attorney's office in ...
Source: theguardian.com