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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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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilizes state National Guard amid ongoing protests

Updated Jan 17, 2026, 2:18 PM ET PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2026, 6:30 AM ET Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has mobilized the state National Guard to support the Minnesota State Patrol, Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya, state public affairs officer for the Minnesota National Guard, said in a statement Saturday. “We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time,” Tsuchiya added. The mobilization comes after throngs of demonstrators protested in the snow Friday night near the Bish ...

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Trump says he'll sue JPMorgan Chase for allegedly cutting him off after US Capitol riot

Sat 17 Jan 2026 14.02 EST Last modified on Sat 17 Jan 2026 14.48 EST Donald Trump threatened to sue JPMorgan Chase on Saturday, citing an unsubstantiated allegation that major banks discriminated against him after the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot. Trump announced the potential lawsuit in a post on social media, tying the threat to his criticism of a recent Wall Street Journal article that reported he had offered the JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, the position of US Federal Reserve chair. Tru ...

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Republicans are turning up the rhetoric against Trump's plan to take Greenland

Senator Thom Tillis, who is retiring in 2026, said that both Republicans and Democrats would revolt if Trump attempted to take Greenland by force, according to Politico. “If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking … there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,” Tillis said. Meanwhile, Congressman Don Bacon predicted such an action — which he called “the dumbest thing I’ve ev ...

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Danish Politician Accuse Stephen Miller of Having 'Mentality of a Rapist' Towards Greenland in Shocking MS NOW Interview

MS NOW's Alex Witt offered an on-air disclaimer after a member of Denmark's parliament made a shocking statement about chief White House aid Stephen Miller having the "mentality of a rapist" towards Greenland. Danish MP Rasmus Jarlov spoke with Witt on Saturday about President Donald Trump's continued threats to take over Greenland, which has been firmly under the auspices of Denmark since 1814. Witt played video of Miller arguing for Greenland to become part of the United States befo ...

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Twin Cities Live: Counterprotesters chase off Jake Lang's group from downtown Minneapolis January 17, 2026

Live: Counterprotesters chase off Jake Lang’s group from downtown Minneapolis January 17, 2026 Hundreds of counterprotesters outnumbered the conservative influencer’s supporters protesting Islam on Saturday. By Star Tribune staff Groups from competing protests confronted each other in downtown Minneapolis Saturday as police tried to keep them separated. Shoving matches and tug-of-wars over banners broke out among dozens of people surrounded by media along the snow-swept streets near City Ha ...

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Bruce Springsteen takes on Trump, ICE at LOD, 'You must speak out'

14 min ago - Bruce Springsteen criticized the Trump administration's deployment of ICE agents to Minneapolis, and the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Good, at the Light of Day Winterfest main event show Saturday, Jan. 17 at the Count Basie Center for the ... (Asbury Park Press)

7th Day Of NYC Nurses Strike Highlights Ongoing Healthcare Problems

51 min ago - By Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, Jan 18, 2026, 07:19am EST UPDATED Jan 18, 2026, 07:43am EST The largest nurses strike in New York City history reached its seventh day on Sunday with no clear end in sight. And even if thi ... (Forbes)

FBI Asks Agents to Travel to Minneapolis for Temporary Duty

1 hr ago - January 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM EST Updated on January 18, 2026 at 2:35 AM EST The FBI is asking agents across the US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation. The bureau in recent days sent messages to ... (Bloomberg)

Trump ban on new foreign drones could raise prices and shrink choices

2 hrs ago - Jan. 18, 2026, 5:00 AM EST In late December, the Federal Communications Commission set the drone world abuzz with a sudden announcement that all new models of foreign-made drones and critical components would be banned from the United States. The mov ... (NBC News)

Democrat targeted by Trump attacks 'authoritarian' effort to intimidate critics

3 hrs ago - Sun 18 Jan 2026 06.00 EST Last modified on Sun 18 Jan 2026 06.02 EST Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to intimidate potential critics and discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by ... (The Guardian)

L.A. County DA Hochman says employee was "wrongfully detained" by ICE

4 hrs ago - Updated on: January 17, 2026 / 8:49 PM PST Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says that federal agents wrongfully detained a member of his office on Friday. "I am writing to inform you of a disturbing incident involving one of our c ... (CBS News)

Schumer: Democrats will try to block Trump's Greenland tariffs

5 hrs ago - 01/17/26 10:10 PM ET Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday said Senate Democrats will block President Trump’s new 10 percent tariffs to be implemented on European countries over his calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. &# ... (The Hill)

Abigail Spanberger Repeals ICE Cooperation Order on First Day as Governor

5 hrs ago - Published Jan 17, 2026 at 08:25 PM EST updated Jan 17, 2026 at 08:36 PM EST Newly sworn in Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, rescinded her predecessor Republican Glen Youngkin's order that mandated state and local law enforcement must ... (Newsweek)

Anti-ICE demonstrators chase off outnumbered far-right activists at Minneapolis rally

6 hrs ago - January 17, 2026 8:02 PM EST Updated 9 hours ago MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists who had vowed to march on a neighborhood where many immigrants live on Sat ... (Reuters)

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

6 hrs ago - 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 ... (MEDIAite)

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

7 hrs ago - 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 mont ... (msn/Axios)

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

7 hrs ago - 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 – ... (The Guardian)

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

8 hrs ago - 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 outb ... (The Independent)

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

10 hrs ago - 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. T ... (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-readies-1500-soldiers-possibly-deploy-minnesota-washington-post-reports-2026-01-18/)

Minneapolis Resident's Accent Gets Him Arrested, Detained by Border Patrol

13 hrs ago - A Minneapolis resident was arrested by Border Patrol agents in front of his young daughter after officers questioned his accent and cited it as grounds for detainment, according to video footage that has sparked widespread condemnation. Ramon Menera, ... (International Business Times)

'It's time to look for new leadership in Iran': Trump calls for regime change - Politico

14 hrs ago - "“What [Khameini] is guilty of, as the leader of a country, is the complete destruction of the country and the use of violence at levels never seen before," Trump said in the interview. US President Donald Trump called for new leadership in the ... (Jerusalem Post)

Regulators say Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern merger paperwork is incomplete

14 hrs ago - Justin Diep Jan 17, 2026 Updated 2 hrs ago Federal rail regulators rejected Union Pacific's $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern, saying its application is incomplete. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board unanimously ruled Friday that Union Pac ... (Omaha World Herald)

Barack Obama shares loving birthday tribute to wife, Michelle, on her 62nd birthday

15 hrs ago - January 17, 2026, 1:47 PM Michelle Obama is marking her 62nd birthday on Saturday, and her husband, former President Barack Obama, is celebrating her with a heartfelt message. He posted a photo of the couple together on Instagram, writing, "Happy bir ... (ABC News)

Newsom sets special election for LaMalfa's seat for Aug. 4

16 hrs ago - Posted January 17, 2026 at 3:51pm California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set the special election to serve out the remaining term of the late Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa for Aug. 4, the latest date possible under state law. The Democratic governor’s ... (Roll Call)

Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board

16 hrs ago - The Trump administration is asking countries that want a permanent spot on his new Board of Peace to contribute at least $1 billion. According to a draft charter for the proposed group seen by Bloomberg, President Donald Trump would serve as its inau ... (Bloomberg)

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