Trump to Hold Off on 25% Colombia Tariffs, Reaches Deal on Migrants  —  US President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after reaching a deal on the return of deported migrants, the White House said.  —  The South American nation …

Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump's agenda  —  Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats' agenda.  Now liberals see an opening to stymie Trump.  —  DORAL, Florida — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown …

No. We Should Not Move Beyond ‘That’  —  The Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl.  (So are the Kansas City Chiefs, but who cares?)  The last time the Eagles won it all, in 2018, many of the players declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate with President Trump …

Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law  —  🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent media is more important right now than ever. … 🖊️ ✍️ 🗒️

Trump expected to sign executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops  —  President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces …

Nvidia falls 12% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off … WATCH NOW  —  U.S. technology firms plunged in premarket trading, as Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked concerns over competitiveness in AI and America's lead in the sector, triggering a global sell-off.

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests  —  The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, increasing the chances that non-criminals will be detained.

Democratic lawmakers slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices amid egg shortage  —  “During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.

Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed  —  Douglas Magno with Facundo Fernandez Barrio in Sao Paolo  —  Brazil's government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights.

Vance's political team signs on to run Vivek Ramaswamy's bid for Ohio governor  —  It's a signal that Vance's team, which overlaps in places with President Donald Trump's, is fully behind Ramaswamy — and that Vance himself is comfortable lending out their talents.

This Man is a Coward.  —  Mark Zuckerberg sat in the safety of his bubble this week, silent as Donald Trump dismantled and declawed the National Institutes of Health.  Forty billion dollars in research funding now hangs frozen.  Thousands of scientists wait in limbo.

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps  —  At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement …

Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?  —  The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats  —  On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.

Elon Musk's call for Germany to ‘move beyond’ Nazi guilt is dangerous, Holocaust memorial chair says  —  Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany's far-right AfD party, saying “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents.”

Elon Musk Is Giving Europeans a Headache … During an american election, a rich man can hand out $1 million checks to prospective voters.  Companies and people can use secretly funded “dark money” nonprofits to donate unlimited money, anonymously, to super PACs, which can then spend it on advertising campaigns.

Trump to reinstate service members discharged for not getting COVID-19 vaccine  —  Service members will receive back pay  —  President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.

I Voted for John Fetterman.  He Betrayed Supporters Like Me. … I don't have a lot of political regrets, but at the very top of the list is voting for John Fetterman in 2022.  At the time, I was living in a small town called Tunkhannock in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, where I grew up …