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United States. Multiple college and professional basketball teams play weekend matchups across venues, with games scheduled Saturday and Sunday this week. St. Thomas visits South Dakota after a 74-69 win; North Dakota tr…
St. Louis, Danville and Topeka city officials mobilized crews ahead of a forecast winter storm. Public works and streets departments pretreated roads with brine, staged plows and coordinated contractors to prioritize art…
Charleston, W.Va. — Governors and state agencies mobilized ahead of a major winter storm expected this weekend, issuing preparedness and emergency declarations and coordinating utilities and transportation crews. The Nat…
SACRAMENTO — Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California joined the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, making it the first U.S. state to do so after the federal government …
New York — Governor Kathy Hochul declared a State of Emergency Friday as an Arctic storm and extreme cold swept the Northeast and other states, prompting multi-agency preparations. National Weather Service offices issued…
PHILADELPHIA. The City of Philadelphia sued the U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday after the National Park Service removed an outdoor slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park. The federal complai…
Washington — U.S. and Chinese officials finalized an agreement to create a majority American-owned TikTok joint venture that will operate the app’s U.S. business. ByteDance will retain a 19.9% stake while a consortium le…
MINNEAPOLIS, Vice President J.D. Vance visited the city Thursday to meet federal immigration officers, local law enforcement and leaders after the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Good during an ICE operation. He urged off…
Raleigh, N.C. — State officials in North and South Carolina activated emergency response preparations as a major ice storm approached this weekend. Governors Josh Stein and Henry McMaster declared states of emergency thi…
PORTLAND, Maine. Federal immigration agents conducted a sweeping enforcement operation this week in Maine, arresting about 50 people on the first day and identifying roughly 1,400 operational targets, officials said. Sta…
Wichita, Kan. — Wichita State defeated East Carolina 77-60 on Wednesday as Kenyon Giles scored 27 points, giving the Shockers a 12-8 record and a 4-3 mark in the American Athletic Conference. Honolulu — Hawaii beat CSU B…
Across the United States, local governments and nonprofits opened warming shelters and expanded beds as severe cold and winter storms approached. Cities including Mullins, Elyria, St. Louis, Asheville and Eupora mobilize…
United States — State transportation agencies prepared roads ahead of a weekend winter storm this week, pre-treating highways with brine, loading salt and applying sand mixtures. Agencies reported staffing crews, readyin…
DES MOINES, Iowa, Former Des Moines Public Schools superintendent Ian Roberts pleaded guilty Thursday to federal counts of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms, according to a plea agreemen…
Chicago. Meteorologists across the U.S. Midwest and Plains warn of an approaching winter system that will produce heavy snow in parts of Kansas and Missouri, lake-effect and scattered snow in Michigan and Wisconsin, and …
Chicago and Vancouver — Companies announced corporate and operational developments this week. First Industrial Realty Trust reported the preliminary tax treatment for its 2025 common stock distributions on Jan. 20, indic…
United States — Local governments considered ordinances addressing data centers, cryptocurrency mining, mayoral powers, nightlife safety, immigration enforcement, and rent stabilization. Kingsport officials advanced deve…
WASHINGTON, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 directing federal agencies to restrict large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes that could otherwise be bought by families.…
United States reporters documented coordinated walkouts Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's second term. Indivisible affiliates and local organizers announced events via press release and soci…
Washington — President Donald Trump declined Tuesday to attend an emergency G7 summit proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron and questioned NATO’s value to U.S. security during a White House press briefing. He reit…
Washington — Federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia moved to replace Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney, after a judge ruled her appointment unlawful. One judge solicited applications…
United States. Lawmakers, officials and outlets reported policy moves to expand affordable housing, reduce barriers. State and local proposals this week included Washington legislation to broaden parking-lot-to-housing t…
United States — Regional banks reported Q4 and full-year 2025 results today on Jan. 21, 2026, showing profit and asset growth. Plumas Bancorp posted fourth-quarter net income of $10.9 million and year net income of $29.6…
Santa Clara, California — Abilytics appointed Balesh Lakshminarayanan as chief executive on January 21, while Inworld AI unveiled TTS-1.5, a low-latency text-to-speech model, and WhaleFlux positioned itself as an enterpr…
Washington — Air Force One returned to Joint Base Andrews Tuesday evening after the crew detected a minor electrical issue shortly after takeoff while en route to Davos for the World Economic Forum, the White House said.…