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Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado

January 15, 2026, 8:39 PM President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal. The president called it a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect." "Mara presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done," Trump wrote on his social media platform. He also said that Machado was a "wonderful woman who has been through so much" and that it was a great honor to meet ...

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San Jose bans ICE from using its properties

12h San Jose will prohibit federal immigration activity at dozens of city properties and vacant lots. The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using 11 city garages and parking lots, as well as the parking areas of 75 community centers and libraries as staging areas or operational bases. The city’s policy comes on the heels of Santa Clara County passing a similar policy to block ICE from using county-owned vacant lo ...

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CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern'

CBS CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’ Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom Jeremy Barr in Washington Thu 15 Jan 2026 20.04 EST Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous “US officials” on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis “suffered internal bleeding to the torso” af ...

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S Korea's ex-president Yoon guilty of abuse of power in martial law bid

South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of abuse of power, obstructing justice and falsifying documents in relation to his failed martial law bid in 2024. Prosecutors have sought a 10-year jail term for this set of charges. The sentence will come at a later date. This is the first of the verdicts in four trials linked to his shock martial law decree. Although short-lived, the move plunged the country into turmoil, sparking protests as MPs rushed to the national as ...

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Postal Service unveils new Muhammad Ali stamp in champ's hometown

Updated 8:27 PM EST, January 15, 2026 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Postal officials unveiled a commemorative stamp of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, featuring a photo of the champ in his fighting prime. The Postal Service printed 22 million of the Ali stamps, which feature an Associated Press photo from 1974 showing the fighter holding up his gloves in a fighting stance. His last name, in bold black and red all-cap lettering, accents the stamp. “We ...

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Maria Corina Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal

Thu 15 Jan 2026 16.54 EST First published on Thu 15 Jan 2026 16.37 EST The Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado has said she "presented" her gold Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump after meeting him in the White House, nearly a fortnight after he ordered the abduction of Venezuela's president, Nicols Maduro. Machado, who received the award last year for her struggle against Maduro's "brutal, authoritarian state", told reporters she had done so "in rec ...

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Trump says the US 'shouldn't even have an election' in 2026 because of all his accomplishments

Thursday 15 January 2026 14:20 EST President Donald Trump told Reuters the U.S. should not have an election later this year because of his accomplishments in office. In a 30-minute interview with the outlet, Trump said he had accomplished so much in office that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election” in 2026. Trump also expressed frustration that the Republican Party could lose control of the House of Representatives or Senate in the upcoming midterms, according to the outl ...

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Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke

January 15, 2026 3:33 pm CET First Greenland, next Iceland? Reykjavík is concerned about America’s growing territorial ambitions, after POLITICO reported that President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland Billy Long joked in Washington that Iceland will be the 52nd U.S. state and he’ll be governor. “The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has contacted the U.S. Embassy in Iceland to verify the veracity of the alleged comments,” Iceland’s foreign ministry told POLITICO in a statement. ...

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Trump announces outlines of health care plan he wants Congress to consider

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts so they can handle insurance and health costs as they see fit. Democrats have rejected the idea as a paltry substitute for the tax credits that had helped lower ...

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Abortion opponents threaten to withhold midterm support amid rift with Trump

01/15/2026 05:00 AM EST The anti-abortion movement’s embrace of President Donald Trump paid them major dividends in his first term: The Supreme Court justices he appointed overturned Roe v. Wade, and state abortion bans swept the country. But a year into his second term, with little movement on their top policy priorities and mounting frustration with Trump’s rhetoric on government funding of abortion, IVF, and other hot-button issues, some activists are questioning the alliance — and their o ...

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US judge to shield scholars who challenged deporting of pro-Palestinian campus activists

23 min ago - January 15, 2026 8:58 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago BOSTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Describing President Donald Trump as an "authoritarian," a federal judge said on Thursday he will issue an order aimed at protecting academics who challenged the arrest and ... (Reuters)

Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate 'woke distractions'

1 hr ago - Updated 8:36 PM EST, January 15, 2026 The Pentagon said Thursday that it is changing the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes so it concentrates on “reporting for our warfighters” and no longer includes “woke distractions.& ... (AP)

31,000 Kaiser Nurses Plan to Strike Across California and Hawaii, From SF to San Diego

1 hr ago - Written By: Angelina Walker Published January 16, 2026 More than 31,000 frontline nurses and health care professionals at Kaiser Permanente have issued a 10-day notice of intent to strike, according to a Press Release obtained by Nurse.org. The notic ... (Nurse.org)

Federal judge blocks 3 Oregon timber sales and strikes down 'loophole'

1 hr ago - Thu, January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM EST A federal judge vacated approvals for three major logging projects in Oregon and ruled that the U.S. Forest Service could not use a so-called "logging loophole" to approve large-scale timber projects in a decision ... (Yahoo! News/Salem Statesman Journal)

Postal Service unveils new Muhammad Ali stamp in champ's hometown

2 hrs ago - Updated 8:27 PM EST, January 15, 2026 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Postal officials unveiled a commemorative stamp of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, featuring a photo of the champ in his fighting prime ... (AP)

Former biotech CEO sued over COVID vaccine alleged insider trading

2 hrs ago - 12h The former chief executive of a biopharmaceutical company used insider information about contamination in a COVID-19 vaccine to make more than $10 million in trades, the New York Attorney General’s office alleged Thursday in a new lawsuit ag ... (msn/ABC News)

Wikipedia parent partners with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity on AI access

3 hrs ago - Published Thu, Jan 15 2026 4:57 PM EST | Updated Thu, Jan 15 2026 5:36 PM EST Wikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post on Thursday, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity, as part of the company’ ... (CNBC)

Former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey now running for Connecticut governor

3 hrs ago - Updated 5:01 PM EST, January 15, 2026 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Betsy McCaughey, a Republican former lieutenant governor of New York who switched parties in an unsuccessful 1998 bid to unseat then-Gov. George Pataki, is now running for governor of ... (AP)

White House eyes prosecutor in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office for new fraud role, sources say

3 hrs ago - Updated on: January 15, 2026 / 4:36 PM EST The frontrunner to oversee a new national counter-fraud push at the Justice Department in the wake of revelations of massive public benefits fraud in Minnesota is a top official in Deputy Attorney General To ... (CBS News)

Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado

4 hrs ago - January 15, 2026, 8:39 PM President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal. The president called it a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect." "Mara presented ... (ABC News)

CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern'

4 hrs ago - CBS CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern' Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross 'suffered internal bleeding' after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom Jeremy Barr in Washington Thu 15 Jan 2 ... (The Guardian)

Abrego Garcia says DOJ playing 'fast and loose' with judge ahead of 'critical' hearing that could end criminal case

4 hrs ago - Jan 15th, 2026, 3:44 pm With his human smuggling criminal trial canceled in Tennessee and a crucial evidentiary hearing upcoming in two weeks, one which could lead the case to be dismissed on vindictive prosecution grounds, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is t ... (Law & Crime)

San Jose bans ICE from using its properties

5 hrs ago - 12h San Jose will prohibit federal immigration activity at dozens of city properties and vacant lots. The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using 11 city garages and park ... (msn/AP)

Judge: TSA 'plainly' violated court order with renewed union busting push

7 hrs ago - The Homeland Security Department’s planned ouster of the American Federation of Government Employees from the Transportation Security Administration, scheduled to take effect Sunday, must now be halted. ERICH WAGNER | JANUARY 15, 2026 05:33 PM E ... (GovExec.com)

S Korea's ex-president Yoon guilty of abuse of power in martial law bid

7 hrs ago - South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of abuse of power, obstructing justice and falsifying documents in relation to his failed martial law bid in 2024. Prosecutors have sought a 10-year jail term for this set of charg ... (BBC)

Fire breaks out in Seoul's Gangnam district

9 hrs ago - snip-"SEOUL, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Nearly 300 South Korean firefighters were battling a major fire on Friday in a deprived area of the upmarket Gangnam district of southern Seoul, a fire official said. No casualties have been reported, but 47 residents ... (Reuters)

US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts

10 hrs ago - The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas. The Senate bill approved significant science funding for NASA, ... (Reuters)

Trump press secretary launches tirade against reporter who asked about ICE

12 hrs ago - The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused a reporter of being a "leftwing activist" during a heated confrontation on Thursday over the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent last week. Beginning his question during the White House pre ... (The Guardian)

Tina Peters tried hijacking her election data breach trial into a conspiracy theory 'circus' that should not be reheard

12 hrs ago - Jan 15th, 2026, 2:55 pm A Colorado appeals panel on Wednesday dissected whether the data breach trial for Tina Peters, the first election official found guilty of a felony in connection with 2020 election conspiracy theories, was hijacked by electio ... (Law & Crime)

Amazon threatens 'drastic' action after Saks bankruptcy, says $475M stake is now worthless

12 hrs ago - Retail Amazon threatens 'drastic' action after Saks bankruptcy, says $475M stake is now worthless Published Thu, Jan 15 2026 10:49 AM EST Updated 3 Hours Ago Gabrielle Fonrouge @fonrougegab @in/gabrielle-fonrouge Annie Palmer @in/annierpalmer/ KEY PO ... (CNBC)

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