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Top News Stories for Friday, January 16th 2026
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
A summit between Greenland, Denmark and Washington has done nothing to calm our fears as the US steps up its efforts to take control of my country T he year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of the world's biggest island, just like he did back in 2019 and in 2024/25 . Yet it feels different this time. This ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down early Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, ending a weeklong effort to get an unnamed crew member home to evaluate a medical issue. "NASA was ready. The team responded quickly and professionally, as did the teams across the agency, working closely with our commercial partners and executed a very safe return," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a ...
Source: aol.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 -
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal officer shot a man in the leg during an attempted traffic stop Wednesday night, the Department of Homeland Security said as a crowd of protesters gathered near the shooting site, about 12 miles from where an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good last week. The agency said the shooting happened just before 7 p.m. after law enforcement officials were attacked with a shovel and ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 -
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 -
Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered to remain detained on child sex abuse charges Wednesday in New Mexico as new details emerged about a separate misconduct allegation against him. Busfield did not enter a plea during a court appearance in which he was ordered to be held without bond. Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Judge Felicia Blea-Rivera said a hearing will take place in five business days. ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 -
Top federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned after the Department of Justice pushed to investigate the widow of Renee Good and rebuffed an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot her last week. Veteran prosecutor Joseph Thompson, who was previously appointed by Donald Trump to serve as Minnesota's acting U.S. attorney and first assistant U.S. attorney, had overseen ...
Source: aol.com