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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Seventy-five years of transatlantic alliance. The most formidable military bloc in human history. read more


Less than 1 percent of them have been released. read more


One Las Vegas strip club is seeing an unexpected boom from the Sin City slowdown: a surge in first-time dancers auditioning. 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. read more


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 ... read more


"The Department of War is always prepared to execute the orders of the Commander-in-Chief if called upon," Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. read more


The agency recorded a total of 30 deaths in its custody last year, but at the current rate it would see that number reached by April -- and a grim record of 120 set for the whole of 2026. read more


How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president's friend Ronald Lauder -- who first proposed Arctic expansion -- is now making deals in the island read more


The Justice Department claims Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's request for an independent monitor is an overreach. read more


Saturday, January 17, 2026

A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X. read more


We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires." All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. read more


The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up to provide support in Philly amid rising tensions with ICE. read more


Just 16% of Republicans say Trump has helped "a lot" in addressing the cost of living, down from 49% in April 2024, when an AP-NORC poll asked Americans the same question about his first term. read more


The Trump loyalist said she denied the outlet access to a transmitter because it had failed to "align their message" with Trump's foreign policy.


"I sometimes feel embarrassed to walk into my political science classrooms. The students that I'm talking to, this is their whole conscious adult life. College freshmen right now were 8 years old when Trump walked down the escalator. And so their whole conscious experience of politics as a sentient, quasi-adult human is this nightmare politics that never ends. People don't necessarily want to study politics under those conditions, and I can't blame them." -- political scientist David Faris


A stretch of California's Pacific Coast Highway, the world-famous route that winds through steep, rugged and breathtaking terrain along the ocean, has reopened after a yearslong closure that hampered tourism and cast doubt on its future. read more


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