US top court leans towards TikTok ban over security concerns
The platform with nearly 170 million American users is challenging a law that would see it banned in the US in a matter of days.
Immigration crackdown already moving in Congress with Executive Orders expected – KATU
- Immigration crackdown already moving in Congress with Executive Orders expected KATU
- This New Immigration Bill That’s About to Pass Is a Horrifying Trojan Horse Slate
- Opinion | Congress to Trump: Yes to removing criminals, no to mass deportations The Washington Post
- Senate advances Laken Riley Act in bipartisan 84-9 vote CBS News
- Laken Riley Act: Massachusetts delegation overwhelmingly opposes immigration bill Boston Herald
Debunking Elon Musk’s claims of ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – Religion News Service
- Debunking Elon Musk's claims of 'Muslim grooming gangs' Religion News Service
- Elon Musk’s Latest Terrifying Foray Into British Politics The New Yorker
- What Is the U.K. ‘Grooming Gang’ Scandal Seized On by Elon Musk? The New York Times
- What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics The Economist
- Elon Musk’s X Postings Reportedly Being Monitored By U.K. Homeland Security Forbes
Biden administration sanctions Russia’s oil giants and tanker fleet – The Washington Post
- Biden administration sanctions Russia’s oil giants and tanker fleet The Washington Post
- U.S. Imposes New Sanctions to Squeeze Russia’s Energy Sector The New York Times
- US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage Reuters
- Biden Administration Fires Parting-Shot Sanctions at Russia’s Energy Sector The Wall Street Journal
- Crude prices jump as U.S. imposes sweeping sanctions against Russia oil industry CNBC
Guantanamo at 23: What’s next for the ‘lawless’ detention facility?
With 15 inmates remaining, advocates urge Biden to release more Gitmo detainees before he leaves office on January 20.
Pressure on Nigel Farage as Reform UK councillors resign over his leadership
Exclusive: Departures will add to scrutiny of party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’
A group of 10 councillors representing Reform UK have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership.
The resignations will add to pressure on the Reform leader after Elon Musk said he was “not up to the job”. They are timed to overshadow the party’s south-east conference this weekend.
Continue reading...Why Trump was spared a penalty in hush-money sentencing
The BBC's Nada Tawfik looks at what the sentence means for the incoming president.
Meta, Amazon nix diversity, inclusion programmes ahead of Trump term
Conservative groups have denounced the programmes and threatened to sue companies over them.
In court with the ‘9/11 mastermind’, two decades after his arrest
Legal disputes leave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in limbo as the population dwindles at Guantanamo Bay
In court with the ‘9/11 mastermind’, two decades after his arrest
Legal disputes leave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in limbo as the population dwindles at Guantanamo Bay
In court with the ‘9/11 mastermind’, two decades after his arrest
Legal disputes leave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in limbo as the population dwindles at Guantanamo Bay
Elon Musk’s latest foray into politics: a live chat with Germany’s far-right candidate – NPR
- Elon Musk's latest foray into politics: a live chat with Germany's far-right candidate NPR
- Elon Musk Is Trying to Break Germany’s Quarantine on the Far-Right AfD The New York Times
- Musk is courting the far right in Germany — and there's not much European leaders can do about it CNBC
- Elon Musk and far-right German leader Alice Weidel endorse each other in interview The Washington Post
- Musk urges Germans to vote for AfD in latest involvement in European politics CNN
Woman Who Lived to 116 Credited These Two Things She Ate Every Day as the Secret to Her Longevity – My Modern Met
- Woman Who Lived to 116 Credited These Two Things She Ate Every Day as the Secret to Her Longevity My Modern Met
- Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116 The New York Times
- Secret to long life of world's oldest person who died aged 116 was eating two specific things every morning UNILAD
- World’s oldest person Tomiko Itooka who credited long life to decades of hiking dies age 116... The Sun
- The world's oldest woman who died aged 116 and her successor shared their very different longevity secrets — from bananas to God Business Insider Africa
Trump Appointee Has Unhinged Plan for Purging Government Workers – Yahoo! Voices
US Supreme Court critical of TikTok arguments against looming ban
A law would require parent company ByteDance to sell off US operations of TikTok by January 19 or face a ban.
Almost 900 weapons seized in a year at Yorkshire young offender institution
Weapons such as sharpened objects and rocks taken from children aged 15-18 at YOI Wetherby
Almost 900 weapons were seized in one year from children detained in a young offender institution in the north of England, a prisons watchdog has found.
In its annual report published on Friday into HM young offender institution Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the institution’s independent monitoring board found that children were in possession of a range of improvised weapons. The children told IMB they carried the weapons because they felt unsafe behind bars.
Continue reading...Can a new president change Lebanon’s fortunes?
Appointment of Joseph Aoun ends two years of political paralysis.
Biden extends temporary status for immigrants from Ukraine, Venezuela
The US's decision to renew the 'temporary protected status' comes as President-elect Trump prepares to take office.
Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in for third consecutive term as president
Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term as president.
Coalition Air Strike, Coordinated With Israel for the First Time Against Houthi Targets, Signals That Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Could Be Next – The New York Sun
- Coalition Air Strike, Coordinated With Israel for the First Time Against Houthi Targets, Signals That Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Could Be Next The New York Sun
- Israel Strikes Ports and a Power Plant in Houthi-Controlled Parts of Yemen The New York Times
- Updates: Israel bombs key sites in Yemen as Gaza carnage continues Al Jazeera English
- Yemen's Houthis announce attack on US aircraft carrier in Red Sea Anadolu Agency | English
- 20 Israeli jets attack two ports and a power plant used by Houthis in Yemen The Times of Israel