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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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Statement from Renee Good's wife, Becca Good

(MPR News) "First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her."

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U.S. payrolls rose 50,000 in December, less than expected

(CNBC) The U.S. labor market ended 2025 on a soft note, with job creation in December less than expected, according to a report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 for the month, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000.

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Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis

(The Guardian) A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding restraints on the agency Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his mass deportation campaign – and some are threatening to use the next funding deadline to force those changes. Democrats sharply condemned the Trump administration over the killing of Renee Nicole Good, demanding accountability after the president; JD Vance the vice-president; and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem repeatedly claimed that the officer acted in “self-defense”.

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Democrats call for hearings, independent probes over ICE shooting

(Roll Call) Democratic members of Congress on Thursday called for oversight hearings and independent probes into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent as well as the wider Trump administration approach to immigration enforcement. The lawmakers raised concerns about whether the American people would have doubts about a federal investigation into the shooting in Minneapolis, pointing to the quick defenses of the agent from President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that included descriptions of what happened that didn’t appear to match with videos of the incident.

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

4 min 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

1 hr 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

1 hr 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

2 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'

2 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

2 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

5 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

6 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)

Iran protests grow deadlier as regime internet blackout fails to stop uprising

6 hrs ago - Trump says 'Iran's in big trouble,' as unrest spreads across nation Efrat Lachter Updated January 9, 2026 4:08pm EST .............................. ............................ Thirteen days into the protests, the leaders of France, the United Kingd ... (foxnews.com)

Iran supreme leader signals upcoming crackdown on protesters 'ruining their own streets' for Trump

7 hrs ago - Protests in Iran raged Friday night in the Islamic Republic, online videos purported to show, despite a threat from the country’s theocracy to crack down on demonstrators after shutting down the internet and cutting telephone lines off to the wo ... (AP News)

ICE Detains and Holds Four Native Americans, Tribal Leader Says

8 hrs ago - "The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis. Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement on Facebook that the men, who were homele ... (Newsweek)

Trump calls for one year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%

9 hrs ago - Fri, January 9, 2026 at 8:47 p.m. EST 1 min read WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday ​he was calling for a one-year cap on ‌credit card interest rates at 10% starting January 20 but he ‌did not pro ... (Yahoo! Finance/Reuters)

Protesters sue ICE to stop 'unconstitutional' Minnesota actions after Renee Good's killing

9 hrs ago - Friday 09 January 2026 12:39 EST Protesters suing to block “unconstitutional” federal law enforcement actions in Minnesota have described officers firing pepper spray into a moving car and threatening to break a car window on the same day a ... (The Independent)

Nicolas Maduro's lawyer weirded out as Reagan-era attorney he 'did not authorize' shows up to represent client

9 hrs ago - Jan 9th, 2026, 1:05 pm Just days into the Trump administration's narco-terrorism case against captured and deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, two high-profile additions have been made to his legal team. Oddly, one of those lawyers, who famous ... (Law & Crime)

Texas hands over complete list of registered voters to Trump administration

10 hrs ago - Posted on January 9, 2026, 8:01 AM Texas officials have turned over the state's voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State's Office, complying with the Trump administration's demands for ac ... (Houston Public Media/NPR)

FBI picks career agent to replace Dan Bongino as deputy director

10 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2026, 6:02 PM ET FBI Director Kash Patel has named Christopher Raia, a seasoned career agent, to replace Dan Bongino as deputy director, according to people briefed on the matter. Raia is a respected agent with 22 years’ experie ... (CNN Politics)

Judge Blocks Trump Officials From Freezing Billions in Social Services Funds

10 hrs ago - Jan. 9, 2026, 6:28 p.m. ET A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing roughly $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services destined for five Democratic-led states, keeping funds flowing ... (New York Times)

[Canadian] Unemployment rate jumps to 6.8% as more workers look for jobs

11 hrs ago - The Canadian Press Unemployment rate jumps to 6.8% as more workers look for jobs Craig Lord Fri, January 9, 2026 at 2:55 p.m. EST 4 min read OTTAWA -- Statistics Canada said a surge in workers rejoining the labour force pushed the unemployment rate h ... (The Canadian Press, via Yahoo!Finance)

Jack Smith to testify publicly before House Judiciary Committee as soon as this month

11 hrs ago - January 9, 2026 / 1:57 PM EST Washington — Former special counsel Jack Smith is expected to testify publicly in front of the House Judiciary Committee as soon as this month. GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, the committee's chairman, told Politico on Friday ... (CBS News)

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

11 hrs ago - 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 sa ... (Washington Post)

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