Thursday, January 8, 2026

POLITICS

Minnesota Schools Teaching Black Lives Matter’s ’13 Guiding Principles’

Critics argue taxpayer-funded curriculum promotes partisan worldview over traditional social studies

Anonymous Trader Scores Massive Payday Hours Before Venezuela Raid

(José Niño, Headline USA) An unidentified gambler has pocketed approximately $410,000 in profits after correctly wagering that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would lose power, according to Reuters. The speculator's Polymarket account accumulated positions in contracts linked to Maduro's removal under terms suggesting unlikely odds ahead of the weekend military operation....

U.S. Seizes Two ‘Sanctioned’ Ships

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square)  After the weekend strikes in Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the U.S. continues to seize sanctioned vessels operating in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. Two sanctioned ships were seized Wednesday morning in support of the U.S. operation to secure the Western...

Republicans Go on Attack in Hearing Over $9 Billion of Social Services Fraud

(Morgan Sweeney,The Center Square)  Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state attorney general were either “complicit” in the now-estimated $9 billion of social services fraud that has taken place in the state in recent years or “asleep at the wheel,” according to Republican Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. “How could...

Danish PM Warns US Attack on Greenland Would Destroy NATO

(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Denmark’s premier has warned that US military action against Greenland would unravel the NATO alliance and the entire international order, after President Donald Trump reiterated hopes to take over the country. Speaking to Danish broadcasters on Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned “unacceptable pressure” by the Trump...

US Seizes Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker in the North Atlantic, Drawing Rebuke From Moscow

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US forces on Wednesday boarded and took by force a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that it initially tried to seize off the coast of Venezuela weeks ago, an action that drew condemnation from Moscow. The tanker was named the Bella 1 when the...

House Committee to Hold Hearing Today on Minnesota Fraud

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is set to hold its first of two scheduled hearings Wednesday on the “fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.” Three Republican Minnesota state lawmakers who “sounded the alarm” in the past on some of...

Trump Critic George Conway Launches Bid for Congress

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Political pundit and Trump critic George Conway has joined a crowded field of Democrats seeking to replace outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District. Conway, 62, a lawyer and former Republican consultant, announced his candidacy on Tuesday in a video that stressed...

Sheriff of Charlotte Metro Area Accused of Threat on State Lawmaker

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Threats to a state lawmaker, extortion, corruption and “willful misconduct and maladministration in office” are charges filed Monday in Superior Court by a state representative and four former employees of a sheriff in North Carolina’s largest metropolitan area. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, on the...

Trump Lays Out ‘Roadmap for Victory’ During GOP House Retreat

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) As the country is about to embark on a pivotal election year, President Donald Trump addressed the GOP U.S. House of Representatives retreat. During a nearly 90-minute speech held at the newly renamed, Trump-Kennedy Center, the president laid out what he calls a “roadmap to...

MTG Posts about Burgers, Appropriation Bill on Final Day in Office

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spent her last day in Congress criticizing an upcoming appropriations bill and posting to social media about her lunch in her home state of Georgia. Fifteen months since going on stage at the Republican National Convention supportive of Donald Trump,...

Eric Swalwell Threatens to Revoke Driver’s Licenses of Masked ICE Agents in CA

The congressman announced he would leverage the state's licensing authority to crack down on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who wear face coverings during operations...
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