MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a person familiar with the matter ...
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2026. There are 344 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle. Also on this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine. In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, with a dramatic farewell speech, resigned his U.S. Senate seat after his state and ...
We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — "Intimidation," "threats" and "blackmail" are just some of the terms being used by European Union leaders to describe U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he will slap new tariffs on nations opposing American control of Greenland. European language has hardened since ...
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2026. There are 345 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president of the United States, succeeding Jimmy Carter. Also on this date: In 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997. In 1936, Britain's King George V died after his physician injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. The king was succeeded by his eldest son, ...
Monday is Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2026. There are 346 days left in the year. This day in history: In 1937, Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental speed record in his H-1 Racer aircraft, flying from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in seven hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. Also on this date: In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il trovatore" premiered in Rome. In 1861, Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union; it would join the Confederacy the following month. In 1942, a German submarine sank the Canadian liner RMS Lady Hawkins off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ...
