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Democratic Gov. Says He's 'Considering' Clemency for Pro-Trump Official Convicted of Election Breach

Jan 9th, 2026, 6:16 pm Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) said that in his last stretch in office he is considering clemency for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who was jailed over an unauthorized breach of voting systems when seeking to validate President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Peters, 70, was convicted last year on state charges after participating in the 2021 breach and is serving a nine-year sentence in a Pueblo women’s prison. In an interview with ...

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G7 rescheduled so Trump can attend White House cage match

11h France has reportedly postponed this year's G7 summit in the spa town of Evian-les-Bains in order not to conflict with US President Donald Trump's 80th birthday on June 14. The meeting of G7 leaders was originally scheduled for June 14-16. However, US magazine Politico reported that the event has been moved to June 15-17 in order to not disrupt the 47th US president's birthday celebrations. The US also marks Flag Day on June 14. The White House this year has plans to hold a mixed martia ...

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Trump says US will do something on Greenland 'whether they like it or not'

January 9, 2026, 6:28 PM President Donald Trump on Friday continued to press for U.S. control of Greenland, telling reporters: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not." "Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor," Trump said as he hosted oil executives at the White House to discuss investments in Venezuela. The president has repeatedly said he wants to take ...

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House Democrats launch probe into Trump officials and oil companies

Jan. 9, 2026, 4:45 PM EST House Democrats on Friday launched a probe into possible conflicts of interest following the U.S. military incursion into Venezuela last weekend, seeking to learn whether Trump administration officials or oil companies have or will benefit from the situation. Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee, led by ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., on Friday sent letters to the chief executives of four major oil companies — Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillip ...

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Vivek Ramaswamy 'alarmed' after family's bodyguard charged for drug trafficking

Fri 9 Jan 2026 16.57 EST Last modified on Fri 9 Jan 2026 17.22 EST Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed concern after his family’s bodyguard was arrested recently on federal drug-trafficking charges. Justin Salsburey, 43, and his wife, 38-year-old Ruthann Rankin, were each charged on 30 December with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute large amounts of narcotics through the US mail. Authorities executing a search warrant allegedly discover ...

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Trump administration says it is creating new DOJ division to tackle fraud

January 9, 2026 9:53 AM EST Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration said on Thursday it was creating a new division at the U.S. Department of Justice to combat what the White House called "rampant" fraud across the country. Rights advocates and critics have said the Trump administration has used fraud allegations as an excuse to target immigrants and political opponents. They have also dismissed Trump's ability to tackle fraud, citin ...

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Hennepin County prosecutor asks the public to share Renee Good shooting evidence with her office

Nation Jan 9, 2026 2:01 PM EST MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday called on members of the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good directly to her office, challenging the Trump administration's decision to leave the investigation solely to the FBI. Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to bar state and local a ...

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Exxon CEO calls Venezuela 'uninvestable' without 'significant changes'

January 9, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. EST As President Donald Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting on Friday, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting. CEO Darren Woods said that Venezuela is "uninvestable" after Trump asked him how long it would take the firm to restart operations there. He added that "significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to ...

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Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump's second term. 13m ago Washington National Opera officials contend that exiting the Kennedy Center would also give it more control over programming decisions.Kenny Holston for The New York Times Jan. 9, 2026, 5:40 p.m. ET The Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move its performances out ...

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OST Seeks Answers After Tribal Members Taken Into ICE Custody

Jan 9, 2026 | 7:02 AM Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out announced on social media that four tribal members were recently detained by ICE in Minneapolis, prompting a formal response from tribal leadership about Native Americans’ rights in federal immigration actions. According to the President’s Office, the men were homeless and staying near the Little Earth housing complex when they were taken into custody. A tribal member who witnessed the incident confirmed they were enrolle ...

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Duran Duran Pays Tribute to Renee Good After Fatal ICE Shooting in Minnesota

7 min ago - Duran Duran paid tribute to the victim of a fatal ICE shooting in Minnesota during a recent concert. At its Friday (Jan. 9) concert at the Thunder Valley Casino in Sacramento, California, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame–inducted band dedicated ... (Billboard)

Trump signs order to firewall Venezuela oil revenue held in US

41 min ago - Sat, January 10, 2026 at 12:03 PM EST 1 min read (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump took another step toward controlling future sales of Venezuelan oil and its proceeds by declaring a national emergency and issuing a directive meant to block claim ... (Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg)

As protests rage, Iran pulls the plug on contact with the world

54 min ago - Thursday, Iran’s theocracy pulled the plug and disconnected the Islamic Republic’s 85 million people from the rest of the world. Following a playbook used both in demonstrations and in war, Iran severed the internet connections and telephon ... (Associated Press)

Over $120 million in USDA award payments to Minnesota suspended, Sec. Rollins says

2 hrs ago - Updated on: January 10, 2026 / 8:32 AM CST / CBS Minnesota U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that she is suspending payments on all active and future awards from the USDA to Minnesota amid the long-running fraud scandal in whic ... (CBS News)

Dave Matthews: I Don't Want My Taxes Dollars Paying for "Masked Thugs" in ICE

2 hrs ago - Dave Matthews says he doesn’t want “my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart.” The singer-songwriter shared an impassioned rebuke of ICE and the Trump administrat ... (Consequence)

Trump's call for Collins ouster throws wrench into Maine Senate race

3 hrs ago - 01/10/26 6:00 AM ET President Trump’s call for Sen. Susan Collins (R) to be ousted in November tossed a monkey wrench into the high-stakes Maine Senate race, raising further questions about the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent and whether sh ... (The Hill)

Protests against ICE planned across US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon

4 hrs ago - Updated 12:40 AM EST, January 10, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests against immigration enforcement are planned for cities and towns across the country on Saturday after one federal officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis and another shot and ... (AP)

Letitia James Announces New Lawsuits Against Trump Admin

5 hrs ago - Jan 09, 2026 at 11:09 PM EST New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she filed new lawsuits against President Donald Trump's administration, related to offshore wind projects. Newsweek reached out to the White House via email on Friday ... (Newsweek)

California completely drought-free for the first time in 25 years

6 hrs ago - Fri, January 9, 2026 at 8:41 p.m. EST It’s a major milestone in one of the continent’s most fire-prone regions. No corner of California was abnormally dry or mired in drought at the start of the new year, marking the first time we’ve s ... (Yahoo! News/The Weather Network)

Judge blocks Trump effort to pull election funding for states that don't adjust voting forms

6 hrs ago - 01/09/2026 09:04 PM ESTUpdated: 01/09/2026 11:38 PM EST A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from threatening to withhold federal election funding for states that refuse to alter their voter registration forms or voting systems to Pres ... (Politico)

Protests against ICE scheduled across Texas this weekend

7 hrs ago - 01/09/26 8:43 PM ET AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are scheduled across the largest metro areas in Texas this weekend following the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Wednesday. ... (The Hill)

Trump says US will do something on Greenland 'whether they like it or not'

7 hrs ago - January 9, 2026, 6:28 PM President Donald Trump on Friday continued to press for U.S. control of Greenland, telling reporters: "We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not." "Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will ... (ABC News)

Democratic Gov. Says He's 'Considering' Clemency for Pro-Trump Official Convicted of Election Breach

7 hrs ago - Jan 9th, 2026, 6:16 pm Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) said that in his last stretch in office he is considering clemency for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who was jailed over an unauthorized breach of voting systems when seeking to va ... (MEDIAite)

Vivek Ramaswamy 'alarmed' after family's bodyguard charged for drug trafficking

8 hrs ago - Fri 9 Jan 2026 16.57 EST Last modified on Fri 9 Jan 2026 17.22 EST Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed concern after his family’s bodyguard was arrested recently on federal drug-trafficking charges. Justin Sals ... (The Guardian)

Supreme Court to Review SEC Power to Recoup Illegal Gains

9 hrs ago - Fri, January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM EST 3 min read (Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court will consider how much power the Securities and Exchange Commission has to recover illegal profits in a case that could blunt one of the agency’s most potent enfo ... (Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg)

House Democrats launch probe into Trump officials and oil companies

9 hrs ago - Jan. 9, 2026, 4:45 PM EST House Democrats on Friday launched a probe into possible conflicts of interest following the U.S. military incursion into Venezuela last weekend, seeking to learn whether Trump administration officials or oil companies have ... (MS NOW)

Congress rails against the DOJ's skirting of Epstein: 'The exact opposite of what they're supposed to do'

10 hrs ago - Friday 09 January 2026 15:43 EST Members of Congress who pushed to release the files related to Jeffrey Epstein told The Independent that the Department of Justice is skirting the letter of the law it passed to force the release of the files. In Nove ... (The Independent)

G7 rescheduled so Trump can attend White House cage match

10 hrs ago - 11h France has reportedly postponed this year's G7 summit in the spa town of Evian-les-Bains in order not to conflict with US President Donald Trump's 80th birthday on June 14. The meeting of G7 leaders was originally scheduled for June 14-16. Howeve ... (msn/Deutsche-Welle)

GOP lawmakers question Noem's handling of ICE-related shooting in Minnesota

13 hrs ago - Alexander Bolton - 01/09/26 6:00 AM ET Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing skepticism over Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s handling of the Trump administration’s response to an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) o ... (The hill)

Israeli scientists unlock genetic links to Autism, brain disorder using CRISPR tech -study

13 hrs ago - The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic stem cells develop into brain ByPESACH BENSON/TPS, OMER NOVOSELSKY/TPS JANUARY 7, 2026 20:41 An international team of scienti ... (Jerusalem Post)

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