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Lead On Jan. 8, the Department of Homeland Security issued a policy requiring members of Congress to provide seven days’ notice before visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention sites, and filed the rule in federal court the following day. The move reinstates a restriction that a Washington, D.C., federal judge blocked in December after finding … Read more

Lead On Jan. 11, 2026, Republican Sen. Rand Paul told ABC News that U.S. military strikes on Iran would likely produce unintended consequences and are not the right response to protests inside the country. Speaking on This Week, Paul said threats to bomb Iran—made this week by President Donald Trump if Tehran killed protesters—risk strengthening … Read more

Lead This week Google unveiled an experimental “AI Inbox” for Gmail that replaces the conventional chronological message list with an AI-curated set of to-dos and topical summaries drawn from a user’s mail. The feature is currently limited to a small group of “trusted testers” and works only with consumer Gmail accounts, not Workspace. In short … Read more

Lead The Golden Globes return on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, with the ceremony staged at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Tonight’s lineup — from box-office entries like One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme to TV hits such as The Studio and The White Lotus — promises a high-profile field and a busy red … Read more

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave $3 million on Dec. 29 to a committee aligned with business groups seeking to block a proposed California ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires. The contribution, disclosed publicly in January 2026, went to Californians Against Higher Taxes, a committee run by the California Business Roundtable. Organizers … Read more

Lead The weeklong “Will for Peace 2026” naval exercises began on 9 January 2026 off Simon’s Town, South Africa, with warships from China, Russia, Iran and South Africa taking part. Organizers say the drills focus on rescue, maritime strike and technical exchanges and are intended to reassure shipping lanes amid rising global maritime tensions. India … Read more

Lead: Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental tumulus at Karaağaç in northwestern Turkey that dates to the late eighth century B.C. The burial mound, rising more than 100 feet (30 m) above the surrounding plain and crowned by an internal wooden-chamber tomb, contained high-quality grave goods dated to about 740–690 B.C. Excavators say the architecture and … Read more

Lead: In early January, the Department of Homeland Security surged more than 2,000 agents into the Twin Cities as part of what officials called the largest DHS operation ever, citing immigration enforcement and fraud investigations. The deployment followed renewed attention to a multi-year fraud probe tied to Feeding Our Future, a Minneapolis nonprofit accused of … Read more

Lead Lord Mandelson told the BBC that he does not expect US President Donald Trump to mount a military seizure of Greenland, arguing advisers would warn that such a move would harm US interests and Nato cohesion. The comments came after renewed public focus on Greenland this weekend, following Trump’s remarks that the US should … Read more

Lead: A gas-cylinder explosion at a house in Islamabad at 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Sunday killed eight people, including a newlywed couple, and injured more than a dozen, police said. The couple had been sleeping in the home after their wedding celebration the previous day when the blast caused the roof to collapse … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump has publicly warned Cuba to “make a deal” or face the end of Venezuelan oil and financial flows, following a US operation on 3 January that seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas. Mr. Trump said on Truth Social that shipments of roughly 35,000 barrels a day and other funds that … Read more

Lead Walmart and Google on Jan. 11, 2026 announced a partnership to let shoppers use Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, to discover and buy items from Walmart and Sam’s Club. The deal was revealed onstage by incoming Walmart CEO John Furner and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York … Read more

Lead Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent, is set for a jury trial after prosecutors say he conspired with the Banfields’ au pair to kill his wife and a visitor at the family home in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 24, 2023. Police allege the scheme involved luring a man to the house, a staged 911 … Read more

Lead: A private aircraft crashed on Saturday, January 10, 2026, in the Paipa–Duitama area of Boyacá, central-eastern Colombia, killing all six people aboard, officials said. Among the dead was popular singer Yeison Jiménez, 34. The aircraft, registered N325FA, had been en route to Medellín when it went down; local authorities declared mourning and investigators have … Read more

Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, told the Big Shot podcast two weeks ago that the very best students at large public universities can match or exceed the top students from Ivy League schools. He pointed to colleagues who attended non‑Ivy institutions — Gary Cohn (American University) and David Solomon (Hamilton College) — to … Read more