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Things are unloaded from Air Force One after the plane, carrying President Donald Trump to the World Economic Form in Davos, experienced a minor electrical issue after departure, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, and returned to Joint Base Andrews, Md. Trump will board a second plane to complete the trip. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Air Force One returns to Washington area due to minor electrical issue, White House says

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President Donald Trump’s plane, Air Force One, has safely returned to Joint Base Andrews about an hour after departing for Switzerland on Tuesday evening.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announces the 2026 election date at the National annual away caucus in Christchurch Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026, as Finance Minister Nicola Willis, right, looks on. (Alden Williams/STUFF via AP)

New Zealand election scheduled for Nov. 7 with the costs of living and housing the top issues

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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced a national election will be held Nov. 7.

FILE - Vice President JD Vance, right, and second lady Usha Vance watch a demonstration by Marines during activities to mark the upcoming Marine Corps' 250th anniversary Oct 18, 2025, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

Suspect charged in vandalism of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home pleads not guilty

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A man charged with vandalizing Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home has pleaded not guilty.

Caravans are placed in a newly-legalized Jewish settlement of Yatziv, adjacent to the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in the West Bank, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel's settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month

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Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once hoped to build a hospital for Palestinian children.

U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Supreme Court takes up politically charged case with independence of the Federal Reserve at stake

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President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case.

CORRECTS TO HEARING, NOT ARRAIGNMENT - U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., speaks to the media after a hearing in federal court Monday, Dec. 29, 2025 in Miami. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Another hearing delay for a Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID-19 funds

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A federal judge in Miami has rescheduled a hearing for a Florida congresswoman charged with conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds.

FILE - This photo combination shows Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, in Washington, Sept. 17, 2025 and Julia Letlow in Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, Brett Duke, File)

Cassidy primary shows how Trump pits Republicans against each other as they face midterm reckoning

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President Donald Trump is fighting a two-front war at the outset of this year’s midterm campaigns, working to prevent Democratic victories while also attempting to purge the Republican Party of the few remaining members who have defied him.

Martin Luther King III, and his wife Arndrea Waters King smile during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Milwaukee Bucks, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

The new ‘Be The People’ campaign wants to unite hundreds of millions of Americans to solve problems

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A privately funded initiative called “Be The People” will try to connect hundreds of millions of Americans with efforts to solve local problems as part of a vision for the next 250 years of the United States.

Federal officers stand outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protest on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it

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President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, but achieving his goal wouldn’t have been possible without his big tax and spending cuts bill.

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen fire a 2S1 Gvozdika self propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar town, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Russia batters Ukraine's power grid again as officials seek momentum in US-led peace talks

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has launched more than 300 drones and missiles in a nighttime attack on Ukraine's power grid.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Surrounded by billionaires in Davos, Trump plans to lay out how he'll make housing more affordable

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On the anniversary of his inauguration, President Donald Trump is heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos, an annual gathering of the global elite.

FILE - Ire Gene Grovner walks through remnants of the old slave's quarters at the Chocolate Plantation where his ancestors lived some eight generations ago on Sapelo Island, Ga., on May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Slave descendants score a victory with voters in fight to protect their Georgia island homes

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Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves have won their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box.

Deployed soldiers exit a vehicle around Congress in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, after President Bernardo Arvalo declared a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Trump threats and Bukele model on crime back Latin American progressives into corner

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Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador's war on gangs.

Rep. Kelly Morrison D-Minn., center, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., second from the right, and Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., far right, at the Bishop Whipple Federal Building, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
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Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members' access to ICE facilities

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A federal judge has refused to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring members of Congress to give a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, center, walks with Minister for Foreign Affairs and Research of Greenland Vivian Motzfeldt, left, and Denmark's Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, right, prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel Peace Prize

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U_S_ President Donald Trump has linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace."

The logo of the World Economy Forum is displayed on a window of the Congress Center where the Annual Meeting Forum take place in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Inequality and unease are rising as elite Davos event opens with pro-business Trump set to attend

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The Swiss town of Davos hosts the annual meeting of elites from business, government and culture this week.

FILE- This April 21, 2018, file photo shows the Fannie Mae headquarters building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
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Trump's voice in a new Fannie Mae ad is generated by artificial intelligence, with his permission

Read full article: Trump's voice in a new Fannie Mae ad is generated by artificial intelligence, with his permission

What sounds like President Donald Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video.

A person holds an upside-down American flag as law enforcement stand during a protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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Army puts 1,500 soldiers on standby for possible Minnesota deployment, AP sources say

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The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation.

People protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Europe warns of 'dangerous downward spiral' after Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland

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The eight European countries targeted by U_S_ President Donald Trump for a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland have criticized the move in an unusually strong joint statement, warning that his threats “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”.

Presidential candidate Andre Ventura, of the populist Chega party, casts his ballot in Portugal's presidential election at a polling station in Lisbon, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
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Hard-right populist wins a place in a two-way runoff in Portugal’s presidential election

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André Ventura, the leader of Portugal's hard-right Chega party, has placed second in the country's presidential election.