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Volume 2 • Issue No. 14 • Updated Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 08:07 AM UTC

Iran's judiciary signals fast trials and executions for detained protesters

Sources: AP News


Trump escalates threats against Iran and Venezuela while facing domestic political pressure

Sources: AP News


Justice Department finds no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting

Sources: AP News


Supreme Court appears likely to uphold state bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports

Sources: AP News, NPR


China's trade surplus surges 20% to record $1.2 trillion despite Trump's tariffs

China's trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump's higher tariffs. China's exports rose 5.5% for the whole of last year to $3.77 trillion, while imports flatlined at $2.58 trillion.

Sources: AP News, NPR


U.S. Vice President Vance meets with Danish and Greenlandic officials amid tensions over Trump's interest in Greenland

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Denmark's foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart in Washington to discuss the Arctic island, which is a semiautonomous territory of the United States' NATO ally Denmark. Greenland's Prime Minister said if forced to choose between the U.S. and Denmark, they choose Denmark and NATO.

Sources: AP News, NPR


Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up bus seat before Rosa Parks, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died at 86. She was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for the same act.

Sources: AP News, NPR


House Republicans threaten contempt proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton for refusing to testify on Epstein ties

Sources: AP News, NPR


FTC accuses AI search engine company of 'rampant consumer deception' through dark patterns

Sources: NPR


Minnesota faith communities organize resistance to aggressive ICE operations

Sources: NPR