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- Federal Prosecutors Issue Subpoenas to Five Democratic Officials in Minnesota
- “You’ll Find Out”: Trump Teases Takeover of Greenland
- U.S. Seizes Another Venezuelan Oil Tanker in the Caribbean
- Russian Attack on Kyiv Leaves Ukrainian Parliament Without Power
- UAE and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Commit to Joining Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Gaza
- NYC Mayor Mamdani and Vermont Senator Sanders Join Striking Nurses
- Trump Admin Acknowledges DOGE Employees Accessed and Shared Social Security Data
- Public Health Groups Sue CDC and RFK Jr. over Vaccine Recommendations
- Trump Pardons California Woman After Commuting Her Sentence During His First Term
- Trump Asks Federal Judge to Block DOJ from Releasing Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Report
- Fed Chairman Powell Set to Attend SCOTUS Oral Arguments on Trump’s Attempts to Fire Fed Governor Cook
- NYT Editorial Board: Trump Used Office to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
- Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Performance of Song “Promised Land” to Renee Good
- Trump Threatens to Impose Tariffs on 8 European Countries Opposing His Push to Take Over Greenland
- Pentagon Prepares 1,500 Soldiers to Be Possibly Deployed to Minnesota
- Trump Calls for Regime Change in Iran
- Israeli Forces Start Demolishing UNRWA Headquarters
- Trump Invites Putin, Xi and Netanyahu to Join Board of Peace to Oversee Gaza Ceasefire
- U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Türk Visits Sudan
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Reelected to a Seventh Term
- At Least 19 People Killed in Chile Wildfires
- Guatemala Declares State of Emergency After 10 Police Officers Killed
- Hundreds Protest in Davos Ahead of Trump’s Visit
- WaPo: DOJ Looking to Weaken Gun Laws to Appeal to Second Amendment Supporters
- Top Catholic Cardinals in the U.S. Issue Statement Denouncing U.S. Foreign Policy
- Rev. Al Sharpton Denounces ICE Killing of Renee Good at MLK Day Rally
- Coalition of Activist Groups Calls for a Nationwide Walkout to Protest Trump Admin
- Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act to Suppress Protests Against Federal Agents’ Abuses
- ACLU Lawsuit Seeks to Halt “Unprecedented Level of Violence” Committed by Immigration Agents
- Records Reveal Minneapolis Mother Renee Good Was Struck Multiple Times by ICE Agent’s Bullets
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