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Top News Stories for Thursday, January 15th 2026
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Senate Republicans are vowing to block any effort by President Trump to seize Greenland by military force, as Trump officials on Wednesday refused to back off their demands to control the island during a meeting with top diplomats at the White House. Republican senators are flummoxed by Trump's insistence that he's willing to use military force to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, something they fear ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday night said Iran has called off scheduled executions of detained protesters and that the killing of protesters in the streets was stopping, though he continued to consider taking military action against the Islamic regime. "We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping. It's stopped. It's stopping and there's no plan for executions or an execution," he told ...
Source: upi.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) — A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head. Smoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
, the history of what happened that day is being reconsidered, revised and reassessed by the party in power. The House GOP's new Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack held its first hearing Wednesday, what was billed as an examination of the FBI's that had been found outside the Democratic and Republican party headquarters during the day. The FBI's work dragged on for years until the supporters engaged in mob ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Becky Pepper-Jackson just wanted to be on the girls' middle school cross country team. Now, five years later, she's at the Supreme Court. In 2021, West Virginia enacted a law banning transgender girls from playing on girls' and women's sports teams, from middle school through college, from the top levels of athletics down through intramural sports. But Pepper-Jackson didn't just wake up one morning and decide to ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's first choice to serve as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is defending her use of the title despite a judge ruling she was unconstitutionally appointed. Lindsey Halligan's attorneys filed a response to a judge's order on Tuesday, saying the court is wrong in accusing her of misrepresenting herself as a U.S. attorney. U.S. District Judge David Novak ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Judges uphold redrawing to offset Texas gerrymandering as Newsom attacks lawsuit as 'weak attempt to silence voters' A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld the California ballot initiative that allows temporary changes to congressional district maps designed to benefit Democrats in upcoming elections. The measure, known as Proposition 50 , emerged in response to actions taken in Texas, where Republican leaders ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration's immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves. Such an action could have far-reaching impacts across the U.S., potentially even in places that aren't particularly friendly to ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
At least three prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota have resigned over their concerns with the direction of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a person familiar with the resignations told NBC News on Tuesday. The person confirmed the resignations of Joseph Thompson, Melinda Williams and another attorney. The two named ...
Source: nbcnews.com