January 8, 2026

Senate advances measure to rein in Trump in Venezuela

The Senate voted 52-47 Thursday to take up a resolution that could prevent President Donald Trump from launching further military actions in Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote — a response to a special forces operation last weekend in which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were taken into U.S. custody — allows for […]

January 8, 2026

Avelo Airlines is getting out of the deportation business

Avelo Airlines has announced that it will no longer fly deportation flights for the U.S. government, citing public backlash. The airline began flying deportees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last year, despite protests from lawmakers in New York and Connecticut.  CEO Andrew Levy announced the pivot in policy in an email to staff, […]

January 8, 2026

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders

An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for […]

January 8, 2026

New Coast Guard video shows pursuit of sanctioned oil tanker Bella 1

Newly released U.S. Coast Guard video shows American forces shadowing the tanker formerly known as the Bella 1 across the North Atlantic before seizing it under a federal warrant. The footage adds new detail to a weeks-long pursuit that U.S. officials said underscores how aggressively the administration is enforcing its embargo on Venezuelan oil. The […]

January 8, 2026

ICE shooting fuels protests in Minnesota; Two dead in Utah church attack

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed a woman while she was behind the wheel of an SUV, and protests quickly followed. Now, two very different accounts of the incident are colliding. Plus, a memorial in Salt Lake City becomes a crime scene. Two individuals are dead, at least six others wounded […]

January 8, 2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene has left Congress, will she also leave the GOP?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has left Congress and is now openly questioning whether the Republican Party still has a place for her. For one of President Donald Trump’s most visible allies, it marks a sharp and public rupture with the movement she once embodied. In her first interview since resigning from the House on Monday, Greene told […]

January 8, 2026

HPV vaccine may prevent cancer even for unvaccinated as CDC amends guidance

Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) not only protects people who receive the shot but also reduces disease among those who are unvaccinated, a population-wide effect known as herd immunity, Swedish scientists reported in a new study published in the January edition of the medical journal, The Lancet  Public Health. These findings come as the U.S. […]