January 14, 2026

Monkeys on the loose in St. Louis as officials search for owner

Heading to St. Louis? You might want to keep an eye out… for monkeys. It’s been nearly a week since law enforcement first received reports of monkeys roaming parts of the St. Louis area. Now, after days of unsuccessful searches, officials say they are moving away from tracking the animals themselves and focusing instead on […]

January 14, 2026

Cash-strapped luxury retailer Saks Global files for bankruptcy protection

Saks Global, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, is seeking a financial lifeline. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Tuesday, citing cash shortfalls and missed key payments. Saks, which had been trying to secure $1 billion in financing to keep its stores open, recently missed interest […]

January 14, 2026

White House cuts billions in addiction recovery, mental health grants: Report

On Tuesday evening, the White House sent hundreds of termination letters to federal grant recipients working in addiction recovery and mental health, according to NPR. Sources told the publication that the total amount cut could reach $2 billion.  The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration originally provided the affected grants. Many of the […]

January 14, 2026

Starlink becomes lifeline, and target, in Iran’s protest blackout

Iranian authorities are hunting for and confiscating illegal Starlink satellite dishes in Tehran in an effort to stop protest videos from reaching the outside world. The campaign was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and has been detailed by activists and human rights groups.  According to the Journal, authorities are combining door-to-door searches and […]

January 14, 2026

Why more doctors are billing their patients like it’s the 1920s

Keith Smith, an anesthesiologist in Oklahoma City, and his colleague Steven Lantier finally decided enough was enough. The hospital where they worked was price gouging patients, and the two doctors knew it. “We felt like we were accomplices,” Smith told Straight Arrow News. “We were anesthetizing patients that were going to be facing a real […]

January 14, 2026

Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to move

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance came nine months before Rosa Parks, and it ultimately helped crack the law that enforced segregation. Colvin, whose stand in 1955 put her at the center of a constitutional fight she never sought, […]

January 14, 2026

Greenland draws a hard line ahead of high-stakes White House meeting

Greenland’s prime minister says his country chooses Denmark, not the United States. The declaration landed just hours before senior officials from Greenland and Denmark sit down with the Trump administration in Washington on Wednesday. At a joint news conference in Copenhagen, Jens-Frederik Nielsen left zero room for interpretation. “If we have to choose between the […]

January 14, 2026

Trump backs Iran protesters; High-stakes White House Greenland meeting set

President Donald Trump is publicly encouraging anti-government protesters in Iran to persist, as the death toll keeps increasing. His statement is now fueling fears of escalation. Plus, a pivotal White House meeting on Wednesday about Greenland. Trump wants to buy the territory, but Greenland’s leaders say that’s not happening. And the death of a civil […]

January 14, 2026

Date set for Trump’s White House meeting with Venezuela’s Machado

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado at the White House on Thursday. The sit-down comes as Trump resists picking a single lane, keeping his lines open to multiple power centers in Caracas after Nicolás Maduro’s capture. A White House meeting, but no endorsement […]

January 14, 2026

Prosecutors quit after DOJ pushed for investigation into Renee Good’s widow

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Tuesday after the Department of Justice asked for an investigation into the widow of a woman killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to The New York Times. A federal agent killed the woman, Renee Good, during an incident last Wednesday, and officials including President Donald Trump and […]