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1.29.26
ABCnews.com—Senate Dems say they've negotiated an agreement to avoid a government shutdown by separating out the DHS/ICE budget from a bundle of other funding bills
CNN.com—Trump sues the IRS and the Treasury Department for the unauthorized leaks of his tax returns during his first term in office
CBS News—Man arrested for impersonating an FBI agent in an attempt to free Luigi Mangione
BBC News—Apple reports record iPhone sales for its most recent quarter
NBC News—New study finds that genetics plays a larger role in lifespan than previously thought
USA Today—Another massive winter storm to hit the east coast just a week after a massive storm that affected tens of millions of people in dozens of states


1.28.26
BBC News—FBI raids Georgia elections office at the behest of Trump and his baseless ongoing obsession with somehow proving that he won the 2020 election
ABCnews.com—The Fed holds interest rates steady
CBS News—ICE says the agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti have been placed on leave during the investigation, contradicting its earlier claims that they were still on the job but in a different city
NBC News—Bruce Springsteen slams ICE in new song dedicated to the people of Minneapolis
USA Today—Tesla canceling two of its car models to focus instead on building robots
CNN.com—Papa Johns to offer pan pizza for the first time in more than a decade in an effort to lure customers back


1.27.26
ABCnews.com—ICU nurse murdered by ICE agent after trying to help a protestor off the ground who was being bullied by a pack of the thugs
BBC News—Family members of men killed in illegal boat strike off the coast of Venezuela sue the US
USA Today—More than a million people lost power during massive winter storm over the weekend
NBC News—UPS could cut up to 30,000 jobs and close 24 facilities as it moves away from low-profit Amazon deliveries
CNN.com—Amazon is ending its experiment with brick and mortar grocery stores
CBS News—Philip Glass withdraws premiere of new symphony from the Trump-rebranded Kennedy Center


1.22.26
ABCnews.com—Death of Cuban immigrant who was being held in a Texas ICE facility is ruled a homicide
BBC News—Trump sues JP Morgan for $5 billion
CNN.com—New ICE policy attempts to ignore the Fourth Amendment by telling officers they are allowed to force entry into homes without a judicial warrant
CBS News—The Trump administration formally withdraws the US from the World Health Organization
NBC News—Sinners sets new Oscar record with 16 nominations
USA Today—Baltimore Ravens hire Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter as their new head coach


1.21.26
ABCnews.com—After saying he was prepared to take Greenland by force and trying to bully European allies with tariffs if they opposed him, Trump backs down on both threats during Davos speech
BBC News—Massive winter storm expected to hit much of the US this weekend
CBS News—Supreme Court seems likely to overturn Trump's attempted dismissal of a Fed Board governor
NBC News—Prue Leith announces that she's leaving The Great British Baking Show after nine seasons
USA Today—Florida charter boat captain accused of selling bricks of cocaine he found at sea
CNN.com—Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute the rest of her prison sentence


1.20.26
NBC News—Indiana caps off perfect season with College Football National Championship victory
BBC News—Measles outbreak in South Carolina shows no signs of abating
ABCnews.com—NASA could launch its first manned moon mission in over 50 years as early as this February
USA Today—Snowy conditions lead to 100 car pileup on Michigan highway
CNN.com—Study finds that billionaires are 4000 times more likely to hold public office than ordinary citizens
CBS News—Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones elected to Baseball Hall of Fame


1.15.26
ABCnews.com—Trump threatens to invoke the insurrection act and send the military to Minnesota because citizens of that state are exercising their constitutional free speech and protest rights
NBC News—Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit seeking access to California voter registration data
CBS News—26 people charged in college basketball point shaving scheme
CNN.com—Mortgage rates fall to lowest level in three years
USA Today—Verizon hit with widespread outage
BBC News—Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy to step down after 14 years of overseeing the Star Wars franchise for Disney


1.14.26
BBC News—China announces record $1.2 trillion global trade surplus despite Trump's tariffs
NBC News—Astronauts cut ISS mission short due to medical issue
USA Today—GoFundMe pages to support Ford worker who was suspended after he heckled Trump collect donations of over $800,000
ABCnews.com—Saks Global, owner of several high-end retail brands, declares bankruptcy
CNN.com—Microsoft unveils plan to prevent higher consumer energy prices in areas where it is building AI data centers
CBS News—Changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War could cost up to $125 million


1.13.26
NBC News—ICE agent murders US citizen who he had no authority over who was peacefully leaving her home on her street
CBS News—Trump DOJ opens politcally motivated criminal probe into Fed chair Jerome Powell
BBC News—Apple will use Google's Gemini for many of its backend AI functions, but will maintain the same on-device user privacy standards
ABCnews.com—Federal court rules that Trump illegally blocked Congressionally-approved clean energy grants to Democrat-leaning states
CNN.com—Dilbert creator Scott Adams dies after bout with prostate cancer
USA Today—Peeps unveils new limited edition flavors for Easter

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