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Noem defends Minnesota ICE operations, says judge's order "didn't change anything"

January 18, 2026 / 12:02 PM EST Washington — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration's ongoing immigration operations in Minnesota on Sunday, while saying that a federal judge's order limiting the tactics federal agents can use "didn't change anything." "These law enforcement officers are out there every day doing the work to protect the American people, and they will keep doing that because they believe in enforcing the law, whic ...

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Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and focusing on its 'vulnerability'

Sunday 18 January 2026 13:45 EST President Donald Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and becoming fixated on the country’s “vulnerability” to foreign adversaries. In recent weeks, Trump has griped that the Arctic reaches of the Great White North are exposed to Chinese and Russian encroachment, multiple unnamed officials told NBC News. U.S. officials are now reportedly looking into coordinating with Ottawa to strengthen Canada’s northern border. “Trump is really worried about ...

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Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs: 'The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency'

Jan. 18, 2026, 9:58 AM EST / Updated Jan. 18, 2026, 10:52 AM EST WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended proposed tariffs targeting eight European countries that oppose President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the goal is to avoid a future national emergency. Throughout his second term, Trump has moved to impose sweeping tariffs on countries around the world by citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, w ...

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'60 Minutes' Will Reportedly Run Segment Yanked By Bari Weiss On Tonight's Broadcast -- Against Huge Timeslot Competition

Jan 18th, 2026, 1:36 pm After much controversy, 60 Minutes — reportedly — will finally run the segment yanked by Bari Weiss right before its originally scheduled airdate. However, it will do so on a broadcast that is all but certain to get dismal ratings — as it faces stiff competition from an NFL playoff game. According to CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, the postponed segment — which focuses on the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador’s high-security CECOT prison — wil ...

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Macron to urge EU to use trade 'bazooka' in response to Trump's tariffs

January 18, 2026 1:39 pm CET French President Emmanuel Macron will ask the EU to activate the bloc's so-called trade "bazooka" — the Anti-Coercion Instrument — in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland. “He will be in contact all day with his European counterparts and will ask, in the name of France, the activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument,” Macron's office said on Sunday. The instrument offers the EU various punitive trade measures that can ...

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Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, Washington Post reports

Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty U.S. soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of widespread protests against the government's deportation drive, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the state escalates, the newspaper said, citing unnamed defense officials, adding that it is not clear whether any of them will be sent. The Pentagon and the White House did no ...

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Man accused of aiming laser at Trump helicopter acquitted in 35 minutes

Sat 17 Jan 2026 15.56 EST Last modified on Sat 17 Jan 2026 15.58 EST A man tried on a felony charge of aiming a laser at presidential helicopter Marine One while it was transporting Donald Trump was acquitted recently by a jury in Washington DC – which reached its decision in about 35 minutes Tuesday. The swift verdict of not guilty in the case of Jacob Winkler represented another high-profile defeat for Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host whom Trump appointed to be the US attorney for th ...

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Gaza is our show: US pushes its plan over Netanyahu's objections

11h President Trump's advisers have little patience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's objections as they push ahead with "phase two" of the Gaza peace plan. "This is our show, not his show. We managed to do things in Gaza in recent months nobody thought was possible, and we are going to continue moving," a senior U.S. official told Axios, referring to Netanyahu. Friction point: Netanyahu released an unusually pointed statement objecting to the "exec ...

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Power grids on high alert as Arctic freeze coming for half the country

Saturday 17 January 2026 15:08 EST Grid operators overseeing power in 28 states are on high alert to shore up fuel supplies and brace for a spike in power demand as the Northeast and Midwest face an Arctic freeze this holiday weekend. The frigid outbreak, the first of several expected through early February, is forecast to bring temperatures 15F to 30F below normal, with repeated waves of Arctic air pushing deep into the central and eastern U.S. Grid operators, PJM Interconnection LLC and the ...

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Progressive MeidasTouch Network Drops Michael Cohen's Podcasts After Claiming He 'Felt Coerced' to Testify Against Trump

Jan 17th, 2026, 6:57 pm Progressive media company MeidasTouch Network announced it was cutting ties with Michael Cohen on Saturday, hours after he claimed prosecutors “pressured” him to mold his testimony to bolster a political witch hunt against President Donald Trump. “Programming note: MeidasTouch Network will no longer by producing or carrying the shows Political Beatdown or Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen,” the left-leaning outlet posted on X. MeidasTouch has turned into one of the bigger ...

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Thousands Gather Peacefully in Los Angeles in Support of Protesters in Iran

14 min ago - Jan. 18, 2026, at 7:24 p.m. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A few thousand demonstrators gathered Sunday in Los Angeles in support of protesters in Iran. Marchers, some waving the flag of Iran before the Islamic Revolution, rallied downtown near Los Angles ... (U.S. News & World Report/AP)

Trump tells Norway's PM he has no obligation to 'think purely of peace' after Nobel snub

31 min ago - Trump has boasted about ending eight wars, styling himself as "the president of peace" and therefore deserving of the Nobel honour but those claims have been exaggerated. US President Donald Trump told Norway's prime minister he no longer needed to t ... (Euronews)

Minneapolis police chief says video of ICE arrest "pisses me off"

47 min ago - January 18, 2026 / 7:00 PM EST Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara shook as he watched video of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulling a woman — a U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment — from her car. The woman, ... (CBS News)

Trump's voice in a new Fannie Mae ad is generated by artificial intelligence, with his permission

1 hr ago - Updated 6:32 PM EST, January 18, 2026 NEW YORK wit (AP) — What sounds like President Donald Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video. The voice in the ad, created wit ... (AP)

Justice department 'not investigating' Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death

1 hr ago - Sun 18 Jan 2026 18.08 EST Last modified on Sun 18 Jan 2026 18.09 EST Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy attorney ... (The Guardian)

Van Hollen: 'ICE agents are the ones breaking the law, not the peaceful protesters'

2 hrs ago - Sun, January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM EST Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday, saying it needs “dramatic reform” after recent turmoil surrounding the agency. “ICE agents are the ones ... (Aol/The Hill)

Trump administration's claims of so-called "reverse discrimination" upend DOJ Civil Rights Division

2 hrs ago - Updated on: January 18, 2026 / 5:23 PM EST / CBS News At first glance, some of the language looks familiar. A letter sent to state officials in Rhode Island by the Justice Department in June included a reminder that federal civil rights law "prohibi ... (CBS News)

Van Hollen on Trump Greenland push: 'This is not about security'

3 hrs ago - 01/18/26 5:02 PM ET Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland on Sunday and said it is “not about security.” “This is not about security, Jon. This is about a land grab. Donald Trump want ... (The Hill)

Mike Pence joins growing number of Republicans opposing Trump over Greenland

3 hrs ago - Sunday 18 January 2026 15:18 EST Donald Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence has joined a growing number of Republicans publicly opposing his administration’s efforts to acquire Greenland. Pence criticized the president’s aggressi ... (The Independent)

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor

7 hrs ago - By JACK BROOK Updated 9:46 PM CST, January 18, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigrat ... (AP)

Sri Lanka unveils a rare purple star sapphire claimed to be the biggest of its kind

7 hrs ago - By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Updated 2:01 PM CST, January 18, 2026 Leer en español COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Purple Star Sapphire weighing 3,563 carats which is claimed to be the world’s biggest of its kind was unveiled on Saturday in ... (AP)

High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 21

7 hrs ago - By JOSEPH WILSON, SUMAN NAISHADHAM and IAIN SULLIVAN Updated 10:00 PM CST, January 18, 2026 Leer en español ADAMUZ, Spain (AP) — A high-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into an oncoming tr ... (AP)

Minneapolis Mayor Rejects Kristi Noem's Call for Protest Zone

10 hrs ago - Published Jan 18, 2026 at 02:46 PM EST updated Jan 18, 2026 at 02:47 PM EST Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey rejected Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's proposal to establish a designated protest zone in the city during separate Sunday ... (Newsweek)

Man detained by ICE in Minneapolis dies in Texas DHS facility

11 hrs ago - Local News Man detained by ICE in Minneapolis dies in Texas DHS facility According to ICE, its "contract security" found Diaz unresponsive in his room and he was pronounced dead on Jan 14. President Donald Trump threatened to "institute the Insurrect ... (KARE channel 11 Minneapolis)

NATO chief says he has spoken to Trump about 'security situation in Greenland'

11 hrs ago - 01/18/26 4:50 PM ET NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Sunday he spoke with President Trump about the “security situation” in Greenland. “Spoke with @POTUS regarding the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic. We will conti ... (The Hill)

US reportedly considers granting asylum to Jewish people from UK

12 hrs ago - Sun 18 Jan 2026 16.28 EST Last modified on Sun 18 Jan 2026 17.11 EST Discussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trump’s administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph, citing ... (The Guardian)

Nobel Foundation voids Trump's gifted Nobel Peace Prize: "The decision is final"

12 hrs ago - Story by Rey Harris • 7h In a press release issued Friday, the foundation explained that no matter what happens to the medal, "it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize." "Even if the medal ... (msn)

Gov.-elect Sherrill criticizes Trump's focus on Greenland, says New Jerseyans are concerned about cost of living

12 hrs ago - January 18, 2026, 12:51 PM New Jersey Democratic Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill criticized President Donald Trump on Sunday for pursuing the acquisition of Greenland while the cost of living remains a top issue in the United States. "There is not one pers ... (ABC News)

Small part of Sunshine State becomes Snowy State as Florida gets snow for 2nd year in a row

13 hrs ago - By JEFFREY COLLINS Updated 2:45 PM CST, January 18, 2026 Leer en español PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A small part of Florida is the Snowy State for the second year in a row. Snow briefly covered the grass and rooftops in parts of the western ... (AP)

Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and focusing on its 'vulnerability'

13 hrs ago - Sunday 18 January 2026 13:45 EST President Donald Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and becoming fixated on the country’s “vulnerability” to foreign adversaries. In recent weeks, Trump has griped that the Arctic reach ... (The Independent)

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