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UN Issues Dire Warning as US Owes Billions in Dues

Published Jan 30, 2026 at 04:29 PM EST updated Jan 30, 2026 at 06:22 PM EST United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Friday that the world body faces “imminent financial collapse” by mid-year unless its financial rules are reworked or all 193 member states pay their assessed dues in full and on time. Newsweek reached out to the White House by email on Friday afternoon for comment. Why It Matters President Donald Trump has heavily focused on the nation's financial health since ...

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Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US

Updated 3:16 PM EST, January 30, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooded Minneapolis, Shane Mantz dug his Choctaw Nation citizenship card out of a box on his dresser and slid it into his wallet. Some strangers mistake the pest-control company manager for Latino, he said, and he fears getting caught up in ICE raids. Like Mantz, many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by fede ...

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New SNAP work requirements are coming on Feb. 1. What to know.

Jan. 30, 2026, 3:59 p.m. ET Come Feb. 1, the nearly 42 million low-income Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can expect major changes. The United States' largest nutrition assistance program has been a funding flashpoint for the second Trump administration, taking center stage during the 43-day 2025 government shutdown when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in October that it would not pay the next month's benefits. The bill that ended the shutdown ...

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Johnson backs fast-track process requiring Democratic support to swiftly end shutdown

01/30/26 5:33 PM ET Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Republicans he wants to utilize a special fast-track process that will require cooperation from Democrats to swiftly pass the funding package that the Senate is poised to send over and end what lawmakers hope will be a brief government shutdown. Johnson told Republicans about his desired play call on a Friday late afternoon conference call, two GOP sources told The Hill. The process, called suspension of the rules, will bypass the i ...

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Canadian company says Virginia warehouse sale to ICE won't proceed

Updated 5:51 PM EST, January 30, 2026 VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian company announced Friday it will no longer be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which said it wanted the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility. The pending sale by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments had been subject to intense criticism during an immigration crackdown in the United States. Two U.S. citizens were shot dead by f ...

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'Home Alone' and 'Schitt's Creek' actor Catherine O'Hara dies at 71

Actor Catherine O'Hara, best-known for roles in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," "SCTV" and other TV and film productions, has died at age 71, according to her representative. O'Hara died at her home in Los Angeles "following a brief illness," according to a statement from her agency, CAA, the Associated Press reported. More details were not immediately available. The Canadian actor, writer and comedian rose to fame as one of the original cast members on ...

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Trump DOJ accidentally exposed Epstein victims' identities in new botched release

January 30, 2026 3:43PM ET The Trump administration has botched the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files to accidentally expose private information about the victims — something that was clearly carved out of disclosure requirements under federal law, and that the administration itself has said it is working hard to avoid doing. According to MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin in a post on X Friday afternoon, her network's "initial review of documents just produced in re ...

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Senate set to pass government funding bill Friday after Graham pledges to lift hold

01/30/26 1:06 PM ET The Senate is on track to pass a government funding package Friday afternoon after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told colleagues that he will release his hold on the massive spending bill if he gets a vote on legislation to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. Graham brought the funding package, which includes five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security, to a griding halt Thursday evening, just a day b ...

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There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird

Yes, you read that right. “Moltbook” is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot — until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, allows bots to post, comment, create sub-categories, and more. More than 30,000 agents are currently using the platform, per the site. “The way th ...

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Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

Fri 30 Jan 2026 16.19 EST Last modified on Fri 30 Jan 2026 17.06 EST Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other on two separate occasions to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island. The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in both ...

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Canadian company says Virginia warehouse sale to ICE won't proceed

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Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US

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