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Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Washington's ambition to take control of Greenland remained intact, Denmark said on Thursday, as a European military mission arrived on the mineral-rich strategic Arctic island, drawing a sharp rebuke from Russia. The developments came a day after a high-level meeting at the White House failed to resolve "fundamental disagreement" over Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory that President Donald Trump has ...
Source: digitaljournal.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) — 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 -
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the Supreme Court for making it easier for political candidates to establish standing to challenge the lawfulness of state vote-counting rules in advance, noting that even as Justice Amy Coney Barrett agreed with the result, she disagreed with the majority's "reasoning" as "unmoored from precedent." In a Wednesday decision led by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined in ...
Source: lawandcrime.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 -
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 -
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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department does not believe there is currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, a top department official said Tuesday. The decision to keep the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com