The first US-brokered sale of Venezuelan crude oil under Donald Trump's new energy plan went to Vitol, a global oil trading firm whose senior US-based trader was a major donor to Trump's 2024 re-election campaign.
Vitol Full of Crooks
An 11-year-old boy faces homicide charges after shooting and killing his father in Perry County, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Police said Clayton then entered the bedroom and shouted, "Daddy's dead." Troopers at the scene also said they heard Clayton tell his mother, "I killed Daddy." Read more
The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for
The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for
Less than 1 percent of them have been released. Read more
In the two years since the Connecticut Department of Transportation released guidance for cities and towns interested in installing speed or red-light cameras, fewer than 10% of the state's municipalities have submitted and won approval of their plans.
The Justice Department (DOJ) is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats, impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they made, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.
Private jet sales are hitting record highs, and new U.S. tax breaks could be helping fuel the surge, reported Luxury Launches.
A federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to limit their tactics against protesters in Minnesota, as federal immigration enforcement officers confront demonstrators rallying after a woman was killed by an ICE officer last week.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote in her order that ICE cannot retaliate against, arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity." Read more
"Jan 16, 2026
Stranger Things
Let's talk for a minute about Kristi Noem, and the reason we need to do so is because of something she said yesterday, Thursday, January 15th.
Noem was speaking to reporters outside the White House, and she was asked if she expects Americans to be carrying around proof of citizenship in case they are stopped for questioning.
Listen carefully to what she said." Read more
Artist Marina Abramovi said that a public performance art piece where she had nine orgasms did have a "terrible" effect on her. She's the woman who once let people do "whatever they wanted" to her for several hours which ended up putting her life in danger as her audience almost killed her, until the moment the performance was over and she walked away with everyone fleeing at her movement. Among her other works is "The Artist is Present," in which she spent two-and-a-half months sitting in a chair in New York City's Museum of Modern Art where anyone could join her for a silent conversation. Read more
As public opinion in the country increasingly turns against the U.S. president over his threats to seize Greenland, the AfD is seeing the downside of its strong alignment with him.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading calls for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Trump Mobile for failing to ship gold phones, months after collecting deposits.
Diversity-training programs purport to teach participants how to be better colleagues to people from different backgrounds and to eliminate unconscious bias and make workplaces more welcoming. But in too many places, these trainings"and the broader DEI structures of which they are part"have instead mandated ideological conformity, enforced with the leverage every employer holds over its workers
Over the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 14 and wounded another 18 human beings in the Gaza Strip, amongst them was a 16-year-old girl and Muhammad al-Hawli, a senior resistance leader who had called on the US to hold Israel to account for the 1,193 times it broke the 10 October 2025 "ceasefire."
Link: Makes No Difference to Palestinians Whoever is POTUS
With U.S. ties at their lowest point in modern history, Canada is turning to one of the only countries with which it had even worse relations: China. Canada is forging a "new strategic partnership" with China, its second-biggest trading partner, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday during what he called a "historic" trip to Beijing. That includes a break with the United States on tariffs, which have hit both the Canadian and Chinese economies. "The United States used to be a friend and ally," Guy Saint-Jacques, a former Canadian ambassador to China, told NBC News in an interview. Now, "we are treated as an enemy."
