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Top News Stories for Thursday, January 22nd 2026
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
US president confirms meeting and says he is 'dealing with president Putin and he wants to make a deal' From He's now briefly off Europe , and back talking about the US. Take a breath, because it may not last long. Trump then talks about cost of living and other related issues as he says "because basically America was subsidizing every nation in the world because presidents allowed them to get away with it." He ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
The Supreme Court signaled deep skepticism Wednesday that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve , with several conservative justices joining their liberal colleagues in posing pointed questions of the lawyer defending the president. By the end of the two-hour argument, many of the justices appeared to be more interested in how the court would side with Cook — ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said a 10% credit card interest rate cap would be catastrophic, Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 21). Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dimon said Wednesday (Jan. 20) that while his bank would weather the disaster, most consumers in the United States would not be as lucky, according to the report. "It would remove credit from 80% of Americans, and that is ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Home » » A federal judge has barred Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump 's appointee as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, from referring to herself by the title before the court or potentially face attorney disciplinary proceedings, due to her continued use of the title, ignoring "a binding court order" that nullified her from the role. In an 18-page ruling, U.S. District ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Home » » Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court took into consideration a Hawaii law that limits individuals with concealed-carry permits from carrying firearms on private property open to the public unless granted consent from the property owner, with the majority deeming the legislation as an infringement on the U.S Constitution's Second Amendment. The case revolves around a Hawaiian law and similar ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders told their members in a closed-door meeting Wednesday they will vote no on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security over concerns it doesn't do enough to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to two sources in the room. Their position suggests an overwhelming majority of the 213 House Democrats will vote against the DHS bill, reflecting the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
A year after the Texas outbreak began, new US cases reveal gaps in vaccination and rising risk for children T he measles outbreak in South Carolina now stands at 664 cases, more than doubling in a few weeks, officials said this week. The highly contagious virus has also spread onward to North Carolina, Ohio and Washington state, and similar outbreaks are unfurling in Arizona and Utah as well. The outbreak, which ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Former television sports reporter Michele Tafoya is jumping into the U.S. Senate in Minnesota as a Republican. She submitted , as Republicans target a pickup opportunity in a state the GOP has not won statewide since 2006, when then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty was reelected. A Republican has not been elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota since Norm Coleman in 2002. "I think Minnesota is in a crisis," Tafoya told CBS ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Government officials may not examine electronic devices seized from a Washington Post reporter until litigation stemming from the search of her home is settled, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Wednesday. The ruling from US Magistrate Judge William B. Porter was issued hours after The Post demanded in a court filing that federal law enforcement officials return the electronic devices the government seized from ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday largely focused on diplomatic tensions, but he also turned at points to the U.S. economy—including his new plans to rein in institutional investors in the single-family home market. "In recent years, Wall Street giants and institutional investment firms, many of you are here, many of you are good friends of mine, many of you are ...
Source: rismedia.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
A newly disclosed whistleblower complaint indicates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorized its officers to enter homes without judicial warrants in the cases of people with deportation orders, a sweeping reversal of longstanding rules. Historically, ICE has told its officers that they could not rely on administrative immigration warrants — signed by officials at the agency, not judges — to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Washington — The House Oversight Committee is set to vote Wednesday on holding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt after the pair refused to appear before the Republican-led panel, which is investigating the Justice Department's handling of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The committee is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. to consider the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org New federal guidance to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 vaccines down to 11 comes as states already are charting their own courses on vaccine policy. The new federal guidelines mention a directive issued by President Donald Trump in December calling to align the U.S. vaccination schedule with "peer" ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A chess grandmaster from the Bay Area who died in October was found to have died due to a probable cardiac arrhythmia and had methamphetamine and the active ingredients of kratom in his system at the time of his death, authorities said. Daniel Naroditsky, 29, a Foster City native who became one of the most influential voices in the sport of chess, died Oct. 19 at his North ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
"Even the name" chosen for the Trump administration's ramp-up of immigration enforcement in Maine was denounced as "racist and degrading" by one state politician on Wednesday as reports mounted about federal agents arresting dozens of people in the Portland and Lewiston areas. "Nothing about this is normal or okay," said Hannah Pingree, a Democratic former state lawmaker who is running for governor of the state. ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
As ratepayers and environmentalists continue sounding the alarm over a push to rapidly build data centers to support artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency across the United States , scientists stressed Wednesday that powering such facilities with clean energy could save trillions of dollars in climate and health costs over the coming decades. "US electricity demand could increase by 60% to 80% between 2025 and ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Federal officials are warning shoppers to steer clear of cans of potentially tainted Genova Yellowfin Tuna that were mistakenly shipped this week to six grocery store chains in nine different states. The suspect cans were part of a larger recall of tuna products last February after Tri-Union Seafoods learned that some of the "easy open" pull tab lids were defective, the Food and Drug Administration said in a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Days ahead of a scheduled trial, social media company Snap has settled a lawsuit accusing the platform of causing social media addiction, according to reports from multiple outlets . , the settlement was announced Tuesday in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County. The lawsuit against Snap was brought by a 19-year-old known in court documents as K.G.M., accusing the social ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer Netflix is now offering to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business in all cash — in an effort to win over the Hollywood giant's shareholders for its $72 billion merger and potentially thwart a hostile bid from Skydance-owned Paramount. Back in December, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, announced Tuesday that they're expecting their fourth child. They revealed the news in a joint post on Instagram. "We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July," the post read. "During this exciting ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 -
The Justice Department has sent subpoenas to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other state leaders, escalating its investigation into whether state officials conspired to impede law enforcement during the Trump administration's immigration operations, according to a document reviewed by NBC News and a person familiar with the investigation. The subpoenas were also sent to Minnesota Attorney ...
Source: nbcnews.com