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 …

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

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.

A majority in name only?  House Republicans are 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 …

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 …

Greenland's party leaders firmly reject Trump's push for US control of the island  —  Greenland's party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump's repeated calls for the U.S. to take control of the island, saying that Greenland's future must be decided by its people.

Ellison and the Lie … Earlier this week, Tony Dokoupil, the newly installed anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” took a brief moment to mark the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  “President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol …

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 …

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 Married Labor Boss Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer  —  POPPIN BOTTLES  —  Lori Chavez-DeRemer is reportedly being investigated for pursuing a relationship with a subordinate, among other things.  —  Video  —  Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is facing …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

The ICE agent's cellphone video: Five key moments … Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.

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.

A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute receive a number of requests for comments regarding the permanence of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate's status.  The facts are clear and well established.

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.”

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 …

Tim O'Brien on the decline of The Donald  —  “He talks in circles that would defy Magellan to make sense of.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✌️ Subscribe to PN ✌️  —  As a weekend bonus for subscribers …