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Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
NATO members are deploying small numbers of troops to Greenland for a joint military exercise, after a tense meeting with the White House about the island's future. French President Emmanuel Macron referred to the exercise as "Operation Arctic Endurance." Talks between U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials were "frank but constructive" but did not resolve the "fundamental disagreement" of Greenland's future, the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
on the platform on Wednesday. "This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers." The change was announced hours after California's top prosecutor, Rob Bonta, said he launched an investigation into sexualized AI deepfakes, including those of children, generated by Grok. The representative added: "While this is an encouraging development, California DOJ is investigating to determine whether xAI ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. "It's so good to be home," said NASA astronaut ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Donald Trump has unveiled a slew of proposals aimed at making life more affordable for everyday Americans, but according to one top economist, there's something that would make a bigger difference than anything the president has floated so far. Trump has laid out plans to tackle everything from mortgage rates credit card debt energy costs . Yet, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman thinks those options pale in ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
A federal officer in the United States has shot a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Officials say officers had tried to stop a car to arrest the man and opened fire after two people attacked one of them with a "snow shovel and broom handle". Protests broke out in the city after the incident. Wednesday's shooting comes exactly a week after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Let's be clear: The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide at least against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering nerve pain and other nasty long-term consequences. The most important reason for older adults to be vaccinated against the respiratory infection RSV is that their by almost 70% in the year ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Just more than a year after the new luxury behemoth was formed, it announced it had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy Every year, the stores down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue dress up their windows at Christmastime. Tourists from all over the world come to gawk at all the glitter, lace, ruffles and bows. Saks's Fifth Avenue location, so iconic that it's embedded in the brand's name, is usually dressed top to bottom ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
challenging a state law that allows mail-in ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day to be counted. The high court divided 7-2 in siding with Congressman Michael Bost, an Illinois Republican who challenged his state's law for counting late-arriving ballots. The high court found that he has the legal right to sue over the rules that govern the counting of votes in his election to Congress. Chief Justice ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
challenging a state law that allows mail-in ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day to be counted. The high court divided 7-2 in siding with Congressman Michael Bost, an Illinois Republican who challenged his state's law for counting late-arriving ballots. The high court found that he has the legal right to sue over the rules that govern the counting of votes in his election to Congress. Chief Justice ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield is due in court for an initial appearance Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to authorities to face charges of child sex abuse stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
There were 1.18 million units available for sale at the end of December, down 18% from November. The median price of a home sold in December was $405,400, up 0.4% from a year earlier. There were 4.06 million existing home sales for the full year, unchanged from 2024. December sales were the strongest in nearly three years after adjusting for seasonal factors. A home with a "Sold" sign from a real estate company in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
A federal three-judge panel for the U.S. Central District Court of California upheld Prop 50, ruling that Democrats can proceed in using their newly redrawn congressional maps in the state for the 2026 midterm elections. The court found "that the evidence presented reflects that Proposition 50 was exactly what it was billed as: a political gerrymander designed to flip five Republican-held seats to the ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
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