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Law enforcement officers stand amid tear gas at the scene of a shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis.

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Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it?

As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities.

January 15, 2026
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  • Juliana Kim and
  • Alana Wise
Women cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown

The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.

January 15, 2026
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  • The Associated Press
Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes turns 80 on Monday and has been very busy. "I can't remember a period of months when there's been so much going on," he says. He's pictured above in London in 2017.

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  • Author Interviews

Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book

Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Terry Gross
This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon capsule departing from the International Space Station shortly after undocking with four NASA Crew-11 members inside on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

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  • Space

After a medical evacuation from space, NASA's Crew-11 returns to Earth a month early

Four people from NASA's Crew-11 mission splashed down off San Diego, successfully completing five months aboard the International Space Station. The trip was cut short due to a medical issue.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Brendan Byrne
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen on March 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services offered no explanation of its decision to terminate and later restore grant money for mental health and addiction programs.

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  • National

24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored

For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.

January 15, 2026
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  • Brian Mann
In this photo illustration, a Starlink dish and router are displayed on February 12, 2024 in San Anselmo, California.

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  • Business

There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out?

Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.

January 15, 2026
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  • John Ruwitch
Bushra Mahnoor, photographed at home in Attock, Pakistan, advocates for the menstrual health of girls in Pakistan. "It was a big taboo mentioning that you were on your period. But mentioning that you were on your period without access to a pad was just even more humiliating," she says. Her non-profit Mahwari Justice last year filed a lawsuit to reclassify menstrual products as essential goods. Currently, menstrual pads are taxed as luxury products.

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  • Global Health

This country taxes menstrual pads as luxury goods. She's aiming to end the tax

Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Kristen Stewart, writer/director of the film <em>Chronology of Water</em>

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  • Movies

'I want to make tiny little movies that don't seem tiny,' says Kristen Stewart

In her feature-length directorial debut, actor Kristen Stewart adapts The Chronology of Water, the memoir of Lidia Yuknavitch, a competitive swimmer-turned-author who was abused as a child.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
The Washington Post Building at One Franklin Square Building on June 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

FBI searches WaPo reporter's home. And, Trump restores $2B to public health funds

The FBI searches the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of a leak investigation. And, the Trump administration restores $2B for mental health and addiction programs.

January 15, 2026
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  • Brittney Melton
A stone countertop fabricator wears a mask to help protect against airborne particles, which can contribute to silicosis, at a shop in Sun Valley, Calif.

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  • Science

Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits

Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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  • Education

More students are going to college. Affordability and workforce training are factors

Overall enrollment is up slightly at colleges and universities, driven by gains at community colleges and public four-year programs.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Sandro Rosta as Caleb Mir and Zoë Steiner as Tarima Sadal in <em>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Starfleet Academy' interrogates the values at the center of 'Star Trek' itself

It's not quite clear what the latest Trek series wants to be: a rollicking adventure, a college coming-of-age story, or a bizarre blend of both?

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
An armed Ugandan riot policeman patrols past campaign posters for longtime President Yoweri Museveni.

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  • Africa

Uganda goes to the polls amid heavy security and internet blackout

Ugandans are voting in a tense presidential election as 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule amid an internet shutdown and heavy military deployment.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, left, and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, arrive on Capitol Hill to meet with members of the Senate Arctic Caucus, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

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  • Europe

European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security

Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland after talks between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted disagreement.

January 15, 2026
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  • The Associated Press
President Theodore Roosevelt's philosophy of "speak softly and carry a big stick" prioritized diplomacy first, with military force as a last resort.

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  • Politics

What Teddy Roosevelt has to do with Trump's moves in Venezuela and Greenland

Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.

January 15, 2026
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  • Scott Neuman
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