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Trump rolls out his Board of Peace at the Davos forum, but many top US allies aren’t participating

By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI and WILL WEISSERT
Jan 22, 2026 9:12 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday inaugurated his Board of Peace to lead efforts at maintaining a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, insisting “everyone wants to be a part” of the body he said could eventually rival the United Nations — despite many U.S. allies opting not to participate.
FCC targets talk shows by revisiting ‘equal time’ rule for political candidates

By Kelly Kasulis Cho and Scott Nover
Jan 22, 2026 9:07 pm - The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that network talk shows are required to give equal airtime to all candidates intending to run for the same public office, changing course on a decades-old ruling and again raising free-speech concerns over the Trump administration’s approach to media regulation.
Trump administration halts use of human fetal tissue in NIH-funded research

Jan 22, 2026 9:01 pm - The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The policy, long urged by anti-abortion groups, expands restrictions issued during President Donald Trump’s first term.
TikTok finalizes deal to form new American entity

By KAITLYN HUAMANI
Jan 22, 2026 8:46 pm - TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years.
Huge US winter storm to bring crippling snow, sleet and ice from Texas to Boston

By EMILIE MEGNIEN and JEFFREY COLLINS
Jan 22, 2026 8:00 pm - Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers nervously watched forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm that could bring catastrophic damage, widespread power outages and bitterly cold weather barreled toward the eastern two-thirds of the U.S.
Trump administration tells agencies to compile data on money sent to Democratic states, including Illinois

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Jan 22, 2026 7:28 pm - President Donald Trump's budget office this week ordered most government agencies to compile data on the federal money that is sent to 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia in what it describes as a tool to “reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds.”
Smith defends his Trump investigations at a House hearing. ‘No one should be above the law,’ he says

By ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Jan 22, 2026 5:33 pm - Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations of President Donald Trump at a congressional hearing Thursday in which he insisted that he had acted without regard to politics and had no second thoughts about the criminal charges he brought.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide

By Douglas MacMillan
Jan 22, 2026 5:26 pm - The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
3 people involved in a Minnesota church protest are arrested, as judge refuses to charge Don Lemon

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and JACK BROOK
Jan 22, 2026 5:24 pm - A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday, even as a judge rebuffed related charges against journalist Don Lemon.
House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Jan 22, 2026 5:12 pm - The House passed this year's final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers, still smarting from last fall's record 43-day shutdown, worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.

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