The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”
ProPublica
Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “su...
NYT - President Trump pardons a fraudster for the second time.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter h...
Asia Times - MAGA mouthpiece Kari Lake claims US-funded broadcasts effectively serve Iranians and Venezuelans, but she presides over Potemkin airwaves.
Asia Times
The hollow resurrection of US international broadcasting - Asia Times
Deserving of scrutiny is the boasting this week by the self-proclaimed acting chief executive officer of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), ...
Some of these Chinese spoofing efforts are crude, but it demonstrates a seriousness on Beijing’s part to sew misinformation.
China-backed fake news network uncovered | NewsLab posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Graphika has uncovered a network of 43 domains and 37 subdomains that pushed pro-China messaging while posing as the New York Times, the Guardian, ...
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to five years in prison for charges including obstruction of arrest related to the December 2024 martial law declaration.
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to five years for obstruction charges, other cases still pending
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for charges including obstruction of arrest related to the Dec. 3, 2...
Canada and China reach a trade deal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-meeting-xi-china-9.7047880
President Trump is keeping the Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by its recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
ABC News
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado 'grateful' to Trump after giving him her Nobel medal
President Donald Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House Thursday, where she said she presented him wit...
WaPo - A fellow detainee says he witnessed a man in ICE custody in Texas being choked to death by guards. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/
🚨President Trump threatens to invoke in Minnesota the Insurrection Act, which would allow soldiers to make arrests, detain individuals and seize property. (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) image
A shooting occurred last night in Minneapolis after ICE officers were attacked by men with shovels during an arrest operation.
ICE officer shoots man in leg in north Minneapolis after shovel attack, officials say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer​ shot a man Wednesday night in north Minneapolis after allegedly being attacked by men with sh...