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ICE at Olympics angers Milan mayor, who says agency’s image is ‘terrible’

By Anthony Faiola, Tobi Raji and Rick Maese
Jan 28, 2026 4:59 pm - A routine deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Italy to assist with security around next month’s Winter Olympics has raised the ire of locals, including the mayor of Milan, a key host city.
Rubio defends Trump on Venezuela while trying to allay fears about Greenland and NATO

By MATTHEW LEE, STEPHEN GROVES and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Jan 28, 2026 4:15 pm - Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Donald Trump's military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, while explaining to U.S. lawmakers the administration’s approach to Greenland, NATO, Iran and China.
40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disaster

By Michael Kranish
Jan 28, 2026 3:46 pm - As high school teacher Christa McAuliffe prepared to be strapped into the space shuttle Challenger, Brian Russell, an official at the company that built the craft’s solid rocket boosters, had just participated in a fateful teleconference from his Utah headquarters.Like every other engineer in the conference room at Morton Thiokol on that day four decades ago, the 31-year-old Russell opposed launching because the bitterly cold temperature at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center threatened the O-rings that sealed the rocket boosters.
Trump signals interest in easing tensions, but Minneapolis sees little change on the streets

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, JACK BROOK and GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
Jan 28, 2026 2:33 pm - President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents, but there was little evidence Wednesday of any significant changes following weeks of harsh rhetoric and clashes with protesters.
FBI executes search warrant at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta

By KATE BRUMBACK
Jan 28, 2026 12:37 pm - FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed.
Eating snow cones or snow cream can be a winter delight, if done safely

By HOLLY RAMER
Jan 28, 2026 9:55 am - Experts say eating a bit of snow is probably fine if you live someplace with generally clean air, but staying away from plowed snow is a sensible precaution. It might contain deicing chemicals, debris and other contaminants.
A new report warns that combined war casualties in Russia's war on Ukraine could soon hit 2 million

By KAMILA HRABCHUK
Jan 28, 2026 9:10 am - A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of Russia's war on Ukraine could hit 2 million by the spring, with Russia suffering the largest number of troop deaths recorded for any major power in any conflict since World War II.
Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be lowered

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Jan 28, 2026 7:28 am - WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times l...
Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffs

The Associated Press
Jan 28, 2026 7:25 am - Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AI

Jan 27, 2026 6:49 pm - Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight.

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