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Claudette Colvin, 86, who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, dies

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus became an early flashpoint in the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday in Texas. She was 86, and her death in hospice care was confirmed by Roseboro Holdings, which represents the Claudette Colvin Foundation; the

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Warren urges OCC to delay review of World Liberty Financial trust charter

Beincrypto reports US Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to delay its review of a national trust bank charter application filed by World Liberty Financial (WLFI) until the President divests from the company. In a letter to OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould, Warren said

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Slotkin says prosecutors are investigating her over video about illegal orders

Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said she learned federal prosecutors are investigating her after she took part in a video urging military service members to resist illegal orders. Ms. Slotkin said she found out about the inquiry from the office of Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District

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Report finds surge in hate speech across India after 2025 Pakistan clash

Independent.co reports that a new India Hate Lab (IHL) report, produced by the Washington DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate, found hate speech targeting Muslims and Christians surged across India in 2025 amid the country’s border conflict with Pakistan. IHL documented 1,318 hate speech events

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Condemns ICE After Fatal Shooting

Only days into his third term as mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey stepped to a microphone hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on the city’s south side and forcefully rejected the federal self‑defense claim, calling it “bullshit,” telling ICE to “get

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Randa Abdel-Fattah serves defamation notice to South Australian premier

The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has been served a formal concerns notice for defamation by Palestinian writer and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah over his public comments about her cancellation from the Adelaide Writers’ Week program. Lawyers acting for Abdel-Fattah delivered the notice on Wednesday, saying the fallout from her removal

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Trump flips middle finger at heckler during Ford factory tour in Dearborn

President Trump raised his middle finger at a heckler who accused him of being a 'pedophile protector' while touring a Ford factory in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday afternoon. The interaction was fleeting and occurred out of sight of the small group of reporters in the press pool. Footage

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Government to consider widening hate-speech protections to LGBTQ+ and religious groups

The federal government will consider extending legal protections to religious groups, people with a disability and LGBTQ+ Australians after new hate speech laws drafted in the wake of the Bondi Beach shootings pass parliament. Parliament will sit on Monday and Tuesday next week to debate a bill that includes new

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Demonstrator hit by projectile and blinded during Santa Ana protest

A demonstrator was hit in the face with a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a protest outside the federal immigration building in Santa Ana, according to Independent.co. The Friday gathering was in response to the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis and began

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Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused a bus seat in 1955, dies at 86

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86; she died on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 13, of natural causes, a spokesman for her family, Ashley D. Roseboro, confirmed to People. Colvin was 15 when, on March 2, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated

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Smithsonian sends more records to White House as deadline arrives

The Smithsonian’s secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch III, said in an email on Tuesday that the institution had transmitted additional materials to respond to a White House request for records about its content, plans and operations, part of an effort the Smithsonian called a bid to be “transparent and open.

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Labour drops compulsory element of digital ID for right-to-work checks

Sir Keir Starmer has reportedly scrapped plans for a compulsory digital identity scheme for workers, Independent.co reports. The prime minister had said last year Labour would introduce a digital ID system that would be voluntary in most cases but mandatory for right-to-work checks, and in September he announced a

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Trump praises Tehran protesters while condemning demonstrators in Minnesota

President Trump publicly praised demonstrators in Tehran while simultaneously denouncing people protesting in Minnesota, The New York Times reported. On Tuesday he wrote, “KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” and decried “the senseless killing of protesters,” comments the paper says were meant for those in Tehran. Sixty-three minutes earlier,

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California proposal would impose one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets

Time reports that a proposed California ballot measure, the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, seeks to impose a one‑time 5% tax on billionaires’ assets and may cause the state to lose billions in future tax revenue before it reaches the ballot. The measure would levy a one‑time 5% tax

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Lindsey Halligan says she can retain U.S. attorney title despite ruling

Lindsey Halligan, the Trump loyalist chosen as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, told a federal judge in Richmond that she was within her rights to continue using that title even though another judge has ruled her appointment unlawful. In an aggressively worded filing to Judge David

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Shipping boss tells MPs Brexit paperwork forced vets to chase lorries

Toby Ovens of Broughton Transport told the business and trade committee that British vets had been forced to chase lorries down motorways on their way to Dover because of the "pure hell" of Brexit paperwork required by inspectors in Calais. Ovens brandished a wad of paperwork with 26

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Justice Department memo said Trump could order troops into Venezuela without Congress

A secret Justice Department memo from the Office of Legal Counsel concluded that President Trump had constitutional authority to send U.S. military forces into Venezuela to help carry out the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization, according to people familiar with the document. The roughly 22-page memo

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Criticism mounts over criminal inquiry into Fed chair Jerome Powell

The U.S. attorney in Washington has opened a criminal inquiry into Federal Reserve chair Jerome H. Powell over a $2.5 billion renovation of the Fed’s headquarters and whether he lied to Congress, drawing swift criticism from Republicans, international policymakers, Wall Street and some Trump allies. Jeanine Pirro

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Minneapolis pastor says ICE detained him at protest and an agent mocked his race on release

People reports that Pastor Kenny Callaghan of All God’s Children MCC said he was detained by ICE on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 7, after heading toward protests near his Minneapolis church. Callaghan told Fox 9 Minneapolis that he heard whistles and car horns, grabbed his own whistles and

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Trump leans on government power in push to lower prices

Nearly one year after returning to the White House, President Trump has embraced a strategy of using the force of government to try to push down prices, outlining some of his thinking in a speech in Detroit. Over the past month he has combined regulatory threats and punitive actions aimed

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Federal prosecutors resign amid dispute over Minnesota ICE shooting probe

Independent.co reports that roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have given notice amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

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Clintons refuse subpoenas in House Epstein probe, say they will 'forcefully defend' themselves

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are refusing to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Time reported, despite Republican threats to seek to hold the couple in contempt of Congress. In a letter to Republican Rep. James

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Albanese calls Grok images 'abhorrent' but Australian politicians remain on X

In Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described X’s AI chatbot Grok generating sexualised images of women and children as “abhorrent”, but he — and most other politicians in Australia — have not stopped using the platform. Albanese said Australians deserved better and that the online safety regulator would look into the

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Trump proposes one-year 10% cap on credit card interest, prompting market and expert concern

Time reports President Donald Trump has proposed a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, saying the change would take effect on Jan. 20. The announcement coincided with early trading drops for some U.S. credit card companies when the New York Stock Exchange opened, with American Express,

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Ukip denies new logo resembles Nazi-era Iron Cross

The UK Independence Party has denied claims that its planned new logo resembles a Nazi symbol, Independent.co reports. The far-right party, led by Nick Tenconi, has submitted a black-and-white design featuring a shield, spear and the slogan "the new right" to replace its yellow-and-purple pound emblem. Critics