Trump blames 'bad public relations people' on not selling economic wins
01/20/26 4:29 PM ET President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged his administration was having trouble selling his economic wins, at one point saying it could be the result of “bad public relations people.” “The numbers that we inherited were way up, and now we brought them, almost all of them, way down, way down,” Trump told reporters from the White House briefing room where he made an appearance to mark exactly one year in office. “I mean… maybe you have bad public relations people, but we’re n ...
Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
Jan. 20, 2026, 3:09 PM EST Arguments in the latest battle over the separation of church and state will be heard Tuesday in a Louisiana federal courtroom where a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed at public schools is being challenged on constitutional grounds. And in a highly unusual development, all 17 active judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will be present to hear the Texas case, as well as a similar lawsuit filed by parents and civil liberties ...
More than 10 countries have signed on to Trump's "Board of Peace," sources say
Updated on: January 20, 2026 / 12:33 PM EST / CBS News Washington — More than 10 countries have signed on to join President Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News, though only five — United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Morocco, Hungary and Canada — have publicly accepted his invitation to join. As the president envisions it, the group would comprise world leaders, with him as its chairman. Countries can contribute $1 billion to become perm ...
Canada PM Mark Carney gets standing ovation at Davos as he warns of world order 'rupture'
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at Davos Tuesday as he warned that “the old order is not coming back.” Carney spoke at the World Economic Forum, insisting the world order based on rules has become “fiction” and stressing the need for smaller countries to forge new alliances. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate,& ...
Dozens of former military leaders defend Mark Kelly in Pentagon fight
Jan. 20, 2026, 12:15 p.m. ET Dozens of former military leaders are supporting Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Pentagon, saying Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threats against the retired Navy captain could serve to undermine veterans’ protected speech. The group includes former Secretary of the Army Louis E. Caldera, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1998, and former Secretary of the Navy Sean C. O’Keefe, who served in the position during President ...
Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela
(Newsweek) President Donald Trump has shared an image, seemingly AI-edited, that shows him sitting alongside a map of the U.S. that includes Greenland, Canada and Venezuela as he speaks with European leaders. The picture, which Trump posted on Truth Social, appears to be an edited version of a photograph taken when leaders—including French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen—went to Washington, D.C., in August 2025.
Trump Leaks Leaders’ Private Texts and Trashes Allies in Deranged Posting Frenzy
(Daily Beast) Trump has gone on an insane posting spree that covered everything from leaking private messages to issuing further takeover threats against U.S. allies. In a flurry of unhinged messages on Truth Social, the 79-year-old president continued his dangerous rhetoric about the U.S. seizing Greenland while also sharing apparent text messages from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Mark Rutte, as well as calling for his political opponents to be jailed.
Senator Thinks Trump Is Literally 'Insane': 'He Is a Madman'
(Mediaite) Asked on Anderson Cooper 360 whether there was any hope for European leaders to “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his repeated threats to annex Greenland, Gallego said, “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.” “You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper. “Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?”
U.S. Senator Comes Out And Says It About Trump: 'Invoke The 25th Amendment'
(Huff Post) Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and Vice President JD Vance to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over his latest threat to Greenland. Markey shared a New York Times headline on X about Trump’s letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, which noted that since he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer feels an “obligation to think purely of Peace.”
Its sundowning in America
(Paul Krugman) I had never heard the term “sundowning” before it happened to my own father, yet it’s a fairly common syndrome. It’s terrible to watch sundowning in someone you love. But that’s a personal tragedy – not a national or global one. It’s an entirely different matter when the president of the United States is sundowning — a president surrounded by malign sycophants who tell him whatever he wants to hear and indulge his every whim, no matter how destructive.
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Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting 'Very Low IQ' Somalis
18 min ago - . . . . . . In nearly two hours of remarks, Trump seemingly sought to address his cratering approval by running through a list of his supposed accomplishments. His remarks also included a series of vicious, racist remarks about Somali people and othe ... (Talking Points Memo)
'Say Their Names' mural vandalized on MLK Day
25 min ago - Published January 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM CST A mural memorializing 14 Bexar County and San Antonio residents killed by law enforcement officers or in-custody deaths was defaced outside of Martin Luther King Jr. Academy on MLK Day. At least 10 of the 14 ... (KSTX/TPR/NPR)
Penn calls federal commission's request for personal employee information 'unconstitutional,' 'disconcerting'
52 min ago - Published Jan. 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m. ET The University of Pennsylvania in a legal filing Tuesday pushed back against a federal commission’s demand that in effect would require it to turn over lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling th ... (Philadelphia Inquirer)
More than 10 countries have signed on to Trump's "Board of Peace," sources say
1 hr ago - Updated on: January 20, 2026 / 12:33 PM EST / CBS News Washington — More than 10 countries have signed on to join President Trump's "Board of Peace" for Gaza, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News, though only five — United Ar ... (CBS News)
US spending deal provides funding for 2,500 new air traffic controllers, $2.4 billion for Amtrak
1 hr ago - January 20, 2026 11:59 AM EST Updated 5 hours ago WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A bipartisan spending deal announced by U.S. lawmakers Tuesday provides funding for 2,500 air traffic controllers and $2.4 billion for U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak, wh ... (Reuters)
US forces seize seventh sanctioned tanker linked to Venezuela in Trump's effort to control its oil
1 hr ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the South American country’s oil. U.S. Southern ... (AP)
Trump blames 'bad public relations people' on not selling economic wins
2 hrs ago - 01/20/26 4:29 PM ET President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged his administration was having trouble selling his economic wins, at one point saying it could be the result of “bad public relations people.” “The numbers that we inherited we ... (Reuters)
Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
2 hrs ago - Jan. 20, 2026, 3:09 PM EST Arguments in the latest battle over the separation of church and state will be heard Tuesday in a Louisiana federal courtroom where a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed at public schools is being challenge ... (NBC News)
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
3 hrs ago - Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involv ... (Politico)
ICE buys $100k worth of 'non-lethal' pepper ball rounds days after blinding protester with one
3 hrs ago - Tuesday 20 January 2026 15:56 EST Four days after a 21-year-old anti-ICE protester was permanently blinded by a pepper ball munition, the nation’s deportation agency spent nearly $100,000 on more of the “non-lethal” rounds, according t ... (The Independent)
France supports suspension of EU-US trade deal, foreign minister says
4 hrs ago - France supports the suspension of a trade deal between the European Union and the U.S., Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the French parliament on Tuesday, as a row over the future of Greenland intensified.U.S. President Donald Trump has threate ... (Reuters)
Justice Department subpoenas Walz and others in immigration enforcement obstruction probe
4 hrs ago - Updated 3:41 PM EST, January 20, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal prosecutors served six grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal law enforcement during a sweeping ... (AP)
O'Hare air traffic controllers evacuate tower after water pipe burst, causing flight delays: FAA
4 hrs ago - Air traffic controllers were forced to evacuate the center tower at O'Hare airport early Tuesday morning after a water pipe burst. The evacuation lasted about an hour, starting around 1 a.m. Operations had to be shifted to a facility in an office bui ... (ABC 7 Chicago)
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US Sen. Bernie Sanders rally with nurses on ninth day of strike
4 hrs ago - Updated 12:15 PM EST, January 20, 2026 NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied with nurses Tuesday in Manhattan during the ninth day of the largest strike of its kind that the city has seen in deca ... (AP)
Russia batters Ukraine's power grid again as officials seek momentum in US-led peace talks
4 hrs ago - By KAMILA HRABCHUK Updated 4:49 AM CST, January 20, 2026 Leer en español KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid ... (AP)
Canada PM Mark Carney gets standing ovation at Davos as he warns of world order 'rupture'
5 hrs ago - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at Davos Tuesday as he warned that “the old order is not coming back.” Carney spoke at the World Economic Forum, insisting the world order based on rules has become “ficti ... (Independent)
Judge posts job opening for top prosecutor spot that DOJ claims Lindsey Halligan occupies
5 hrs ago - WASHINGTON — A top federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia has posted a job opening for a top federal prosecutor position that the Trump administration claims is occupied by Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan. Chief Judge M. Hannah Lauck ... (NBC)
Kurdish-led forces pull out of camp for IS families during clashes in Syria
5 hrs ago - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says it has withdrawn from a camp holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), as clashes with the Syrian government continue despite a ceasefire agreement. Th ... (BBC)
Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
5 hrs ago - Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published ... (Washington Post)
Dozens of former military leaders defend Mark Kelly in Pentagon fight
6 hrs ago - Jan. 20, 2026, 12:15 p.m. ET Dozens of former military leaders are supporting Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Pentagon, saying Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threats against the retired Navy captain could serve to un ... (USA Today)
