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Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Former United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended his prosecution of President Donald Trump, rejecting Republican claims that the cases were politically motivated. Testifying before lawmakers at the House Judiciary Committee, Smith said the two federal cases, one over Trump's handling of classified documents and the other over efforts to overturn the 2020 election , were based on evidence, not politics. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's leading Republican and Democratic officials, now engaged in one of the nation's highest profile Senate races, offered starkly different comments on Friday as a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents racked up their arrest totals. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has challenged immigration officials to provide judicial warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
on Thursday filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, accusing the lawsuit , filed in Florida state court in Miami, alleges that JP Morgan "debanked" Trump and his businesses after his first term "because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so." Debanking, "once a relatively obscure issue in finance," has "become a politically charged issue in recent ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article At least five Minneapolis-area children swept up in Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign in recent days A two-year-old girl and her father are in federal custody after immigration officers broke the man's car window and arrested them on their way home from the grocery store, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began forcibly entering homes without judicial warrants last summer, two administration officials told NBC News. An internal document, dated May 12, 2025, but made public by two whistleblowers earlier this week , told officers they could rely on an administrative warrant to enter homes if there was an order to remove someone from the country. Administrative warrants are ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The city of Philadelphia has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and its secretary Doug Bergum for removing an outdoor exhibit on slavery in Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit filed Thursday also names the National Park Service and its director Jessica Bowron as defendants in the case and asks a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction to return the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Bank of America is weighing whether to launch a new credit card that would comply with President Trump's push to temporarily cap card interest rates at 10% , according to a person familiar with the financial giant's plans. Bank of America already offers credit cards with initial average percentage rates below 10%. For example, its no-frills BankAmericard offers consumers a 0% introductory APR for 18 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is ordering an administration-wide review of federal funding for over a dozen states, the vast majority of which are led by Democratic governors. The review will focus on federal funding for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington, all of ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and one Oscar nod in particular has sparked some heated conversations. In the Best Actress category, Kate Hudson received her first nomination in 25 years for her role in the movie Song Sung Blue. The last time she was in competition for an Oscar was for her supporting role as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's rock and roll ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a healthy pace. Consumer prices rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday , up from a 2.7% annual pace in October. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices also increased 2.8% in ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked higher this week, but remains near its lowest level in more than three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.09% from 6.06% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.96%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Vice-president says 'number one thing' that would lower the temperature would be for officials to help facilitate 'reasonable enforcement of law' JD Vance on Thursday put the onus on local officials to "turn down the temperature" in Minneapolis , where federal immigration agents in recent days have detained a five-year-old child with his father and gassed protesters throughout the city. Flanked by federal law ...
Source: theguardian.com