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Trump seeks to quell data center rebellion

By Ian Duncan and Evan Halper
Jan 13, 2026 5:07 pm - In a bid to tamp down growing unrest in communities over tech giants’ expansion of power-hungry data centers, President Donald Trump said his administration would push Silicon Valley companies to ensure their massive computer farms do not drive up people’s electricity bills, seizing on a promise Tuesday by Microsoft to be a better neighbor.
Justice Department prosecutors resign amid turmoil over Minnesota ICE shooting investigation

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER
Jan 13, 2026 4:55 pm - Roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have given notice of their departures amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, according to people familiar with the matter.
US lost more immigrants than it gained in 2025, new estimate shows

By Lauren Kaori Gurley and Javier Zarracina
Jan 13, 2026 4:30 pm - For the first time in at least half a century, more immigrants left the United States than entered last year, according to new estimates released Tuesday by economists at the Brookings Institution.
Rubio says court hearings no longer possible for deported Venezuelans

By Salvador Rizzo
Jan 13, 2026 4:21 pm - The Trump administration said it cannot comply with a federal judge’s order to provide dozens of deported Venezuelan migrants the opportunity to challenge their removals in an American court, saying in a legal filing late Monday night that such efforts would be impossible after U.S. forces deposed the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro this month.
Tensions flare in Minnesota as protesters and federal agents repeatedly square off

By MARK VANCLEAVE and TIM SULLIVAN
Jan 13, 2026 2:52 pm - Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at activists Tuesday during another day of confrontations in Minneapolis while students miles away walked out of a suburban school to protest the Trump administration's bold immigration sweeps.
Clinton fails to show for Epstein deposition, threatened with contempt of Congress

Kadia Goba
Jan 13, 2026 9:59 am - House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, threatened Tuesday to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after the former president declined to appear before the panel for a closed-door deposition related to its investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who poked fun at bad bosses, dies at 68

Harrison Smith
Jan 13, 2026 9:54 am - Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip “Dilbert,” only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur - at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere - with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13. He was 68.
Bargain grocer Aldi seizes the moment and expands with consumers hurting

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
Jan 13, 2026 9:16 am - The discount grocery chain Aldi is expanding rapidly and plans to open more than 180 U.S. stores this year as more Americans skip nights out at restaurants and cook at ho...
Russia launches another major attack on Ukraine’s power grid and other sites, killing 4

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Jan 13, 2026 6:45 am - Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid and apparently snubbing U.S.-led peace efforts as the war approaches the four-year mark.
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses 2,000, activists say, as chaos recalls 1979 revolution

By JON GAMBRELL
Jan 13, 2026 6:38 am - The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran surpassed 2,000 people on Tuesday, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown on demonstrators.

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