Christian leaders urge protecting worshippers’ rights after service interrupted
World Briefly
By By GIOVANNA DELL?ORTO Associated Press 
January 20, 2026
Several faith leaders called urgently for protecting the rights of worshippers while also expressing compassion for migrants after anti-immigration enforcement protesters disrupted a service at a Sout...
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January 20, 2026
HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (AP) — More than 100 vehicles smashed into each other or slid off the interstate in Michigan on Monday as snow fueled by the Great Lakes blanketed the state. The massive pileup prom...
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January 17, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Liberian man who has been shuttled in and out of custody since immigration agents in Minnesota broke down his door with a battering ram was released again Friday, hours after a ro...
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis
Politics, World Briefly
January 16, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his ad...
Trump says Iran wants to negotiate as death toll in protests rises
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January 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on protestersthat activists said had kille...
Trump pushes 1-year, 10% cap on credit card interest
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January 12, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Reviving a campaign pledge, President Donald Trump wants a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates, a move that could save Americans tens of billions of dollars but drew immedi...
House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders
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January 9, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through th...
Venezuela says 24 security officers killed in Maduro operation
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January 7, 2026
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the dead-of-night U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face drug c...
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January 7, 2026
The White House said Tuesday that “U.S. military is always an option,” even as a series of European leaders rejected President Donald Trump’s comments about seeking an American takeover of the world’s...
Trump’s comments spur anxieties about his plans for Greenland, Cuba
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January 5, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for t...