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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 24th 2026
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has long admired political strongmen such as Russia's Vladimir Putin , Hungary's Viktor Orban and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman. Now he's got a new invite-only international "Board of Peace" that's full of them. "Usually they say, 'he's a horrible dictator-type person, I'm a dictator,'" Trump said of himself in a speech Jan. 21 on the sidelines of the World Economic ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
Much of the Gaza Strip lies in ruin from more than two years of Israeli strikes, with its 2 million Palestinian residents largely living in tents. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner this week unveiled plans for a "New Gaza" filled with gleaming high-rise towers and tourist-packed beaches — an optimistic vision that stands in stark contrast to the reality of a territory in ruins after two years ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 24th, 2026 -
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to grant President Donald Trump's request to let him immediately remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. But their eventual ruling following this week's arguments in the case may not give Cook a sweeping victory. Rather, according to some legal experts, a likely outcome would be a narrow decision that could return the matter ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump has sparked global indignation by suggesting NATO troops avoided frontline combat, minimizing the sacrifice made by America's allies during the war in Afghanistan. "We've never needed them," Trump said of non-U.S. soldiers in a Fox Business interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. "We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they'll say they sent some troops to ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Vice President JD Vance on Friday said the United States will stop funding any organization working on diversity and transgender issues abroad. Vance called the policy, which has been widely expected, "a historic expansion of the Mexico City Policy," which prevents foreign groups receiving U.S. global health funding from providing or promoting abortion, even if those programs are paid for with other sources of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Until very recently, the conventional wisdom about the expiration of stopgap-spending authority on January 30 was that nobody in either party wanted another government shutdown . That's why House and Senate Democratic and Republican negotiators managed to put together 12 more-or-less consensus appropriations bills ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Smith performed honorably, but no one person or investigation can protect America from Trump. Bluesky The New York Times said he appeared "wan and tired" on Thursday. I wouldn't have described former special counsel Jack Smith that way; maybe "depressed." But maybe that's projection. Smith has been defiantly asking House Republicans to let him testify publicly about his investigations and indictments of Donald ...
Source: thenation.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The city of Philadelphia has sued the US Department of the Interior and the National Park Service after officials were filmed dismantling exhibits on slavery at the President's House historical site at Independence Park on Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the office of Mayor Cherelle Parker, says "the National Park Service has removed artwork and informational displays" from the site, where George ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion . The three-way talks come hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement in Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys during ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The attack left one survivor, and the coastguard has been notified to launch search and rescue operations Reading Time: 2 minutes The US military said on Friday that it had carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month. US Southern Command said on social ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The Trump White House has reportedly ordered federal agencies to conduct a sweeping review of funding to more than a dozen states carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election , a move that lawmakers from the targeted states condemned as unlawful political retaliation. The review, first reported by RealClearPolitics , was outlined in a data request that the White House Office of Management and ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing scrutiny over its assertion that federal officers can forcibly enter a home without a judicial warrant – a move constitutional scholars, immigration experts and a federal judge say is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. An internal ICE memo from May 2025 directs agents to use force to enter residences after obtaining administrative warrants, which are ...
Source: aol.com