Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings  —  A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July  —  A killing in Minneapolis and the shooting …

Musk says X outcry is ‘excuse for censorship’  —  Elon Musk has said critics of his social media site X are looking for “any excuse for censorship”, after its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok drew criticism over its use to create sexualised images of people without their knowledge or consent.

Iran protests latest: Tehran says it has arrested 100 ‘armed rioters’ after threatening death penalty  —  At least 65 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December  —  On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents

Banks criticize Trump's push for 10 percent credit card interest rate cap  —  Financial institutions and other credit card issuers say the cap, which the president wants in effect by Jan. 20, would limit consumers' access to credit.  —  President Donald Trump has called on credit card companies …

Scoop: Bannon quietly making moves toward 2028 run  —  Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is laying the groundwork for a 2028 run for president, two people familiar with his thinking tell Axios. … Instead, he's told allies he wants to shape the debate and pressure Republican candidates …

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center  —  The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump's second term.  —  The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move its performances …

Congress Is Reversing Trump's Steep Budget Cuts to Science  —  After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the proposed cuts and even boosting funds for basic research.  —  Congress is racing to undo thousands of cuts …

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity.  So we left … Chou resigned Friday from the position of program director at the National Cancer Institute.  Grothaus retired on Dec. 31, 2025, from the position of program officer at the National Institute of Aging.

Trump's Venezuela, Greenland Threats Make Canada Fear It's Next  —  The president's past talk about annexing Canada has taken on new, chilling resonance.  —  For months, many Canadians hoped Donald Trump had lost interest in making their country the 51st US state — his plate full …

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker  —  The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent's room to unclog a toilet.

Judge Blocks Trump Officials From Freezing Billions in Social Services Funds  —  The ruling temporarily halted plans to freeze more than $10 billion in funds for anti-poverty programs bound for five Democratic-led states.  —  A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration …

How John Thune is trying to save the Senate for Republicans … Having Republicans back home touting the party line, Thune said, will help.  —  “Last year, our members were in many cases, for obvious reasons, in Washington, trying to get the job done,” Thune said in an interview.

Beef Tallow, Long a Health Pariah, Rises to the Top of the Food Pyramid  —  The new dietary guidelines give federal approval to a fat that has slowly caught on with consumers, even as doctors have warned against it.  —  Beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the federal government told Americans …

A majority in name only?  House Republicans barely hanging on  —  Moves to Trump administration, resignations and deaths leave GOP without a functional majority.  —  On Thursday, neither party really had the majority in the House.  —  Over the course of seven roll-call votes …

January 9, 2026  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II.  Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

Feds bashed for “shocking” lockdown of Minneapolis ICE shooting probe  —  Former prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys are alarmed by the Trump administration's “highly unusual” decision to kick local investigators off the probe into the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Trump's plan to strong-arm insurers into lower prices is met with skepticism … That's because the biggest culprit in rising health care costs is the rates charged by hospitals and doctors' offices, which are in turn covered by insurers, experts say.  The cost of getting health care in the U.S. is higher …

'They're ready for us to walk': Nurses at top NYC hospitals prep for historic strike … “These hospitals are more toxic than my ex,” one union member's sign read.  —  The nurses pointed to a shooting Thursday night at New York-Presbyterian's Brooklyn Methodist Hospital as a fresh example …

Trump, Venezuela and the doctrine that wouldn't die … We might call it the Monroe Creed, because, really, it is more an article of faith than a doctrine of international law.  “I believe strictly in the Monroe Doctrine, in our Constitution, and in the laws of God,” wrote the founder of Christian Science Mary Baker Eddy in 1905.

Unexploded missiles, witnesses undercut Trump account of Nigeria strike  —  Of the 16 U.S. Tomahawk missiles fired at militants in Nigeria, at least four appeared not to explode, according to officials and imagery reviewed by The Post.  —  OFFA, Nigeria — When President Donald Trump announced …

How the US shut the door on asylum-seekers  —  One of the most consequential changes to immigration in the US under Trump, explained. … When he first emerged on the political stage more than a decade ago, Donald Trump made closing America's borders and remaking our immigration system a central plank of his agenda.

From “America First” to “Manifest Destiny”: MAGA eyes foreign expansion  —  MAGA is pressing the Trump administration to write a new chapter in America's expansionist history — one that adds territory and influence as part of a new Western empire. … - But reframed as hemispheric dominance …

Anti-abortion groups pressure Trump, GOP leaders on ACA Hyde ‘flexibility’  —  A coalition of leading anti-abortion groups on Friday urged President Trump along with House and Senate Republican leaders to hold firm in demanding strict protections against ObamaCare subsidies being used to pay for abortion.