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Testimony ends in Uvalde officer's trial over response to 2022 school shooting, case set for jury 01/20/2026 05:38pm • Witness testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack, setting up the case to go to the jury. Defense lawyers for Adrian Gonzales rested the Prosecution rests after focus on blood evidence in Banfield double murder trial 01/20/2026 05:34pm • Jurors in the Fairfax County, Virginia, trial of Brendan Banfield, who is charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife and another man, focused on blood evidence in the fourth day of the so-called "au pair affair" trial. Blood stain analyst Iris Dalley Graff described what she saw fro Vikings WR Jordan Addison won't face trespassing charge in Florida after dismissal of case 01/20/2026 04:38pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison will not be charged with misdemeanor trespassing, after the case against him was dismissed one week following his arrest. Florida state attorney Susan Lopez issued a termination of prosecution notice in Hillsborough County court on Israeli crews target UN facilities for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem 01/20/2026 01:43pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region. Crews began bulldozing the United Nati Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it 01/20/2026 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A ballooning Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget. Hiring bonuses of $50,000. Swelling ranks of ICE officers, to 22,000, in an expanding national force bigger than most police departments in America. President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation operation in Recovery of 5 more bodies from Karachi shopping plaza brings fire death toll to 28 01/20/2026 12:50pm • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ��� The bodies of five more people were recovered on Tuesday from the scene of last weekend's massive fire at a shopping plaza in Pakistan���s largest city, bringing the confirmed death toll to 28, officials said. The search for dozens of people reported missing is continuing Why experts question whether China's one-child policy was necessary in the first place 01/20/2026 12:05pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� China's one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being sold or even killed, because parents wanted their only child to be a male. Now, experts say, the Jailed Ugandan opposition figure Besigye's health is failing, his party says 01/20/2026 11:35am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� The health of jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is failing, his party said on Tuesday, after he was driven overnight to a medical facility in the capital, Kampala. Besigye's health ���has reached a critical and deteriorating state,��� the People's Front for Fre South African authorities revise death toll in school bus crash to 12 as driver is arrested 01/20/2026 11:21am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� South African authorities on Tuesday revised the death toll in a school bus crash to 12 children and announced the driver had been arrested and would face criminal charges. The privately operated minibus collided head-on with a truck early Monday morning while carrying children Despite Greenland, France's Macron and NATO's head make nice with Trump behind the scenes 01/20/2026 10:55am • PARIS (AP) ��� While Europe is pushing back publicly against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland, the language appears softer behind the scenes. Trump published a text message on Tuesday that he received from French President Emmanuel Macron, confirmed as genuine by Macron's office. Starting Islamic State group claims blast on Chinese restaurant in Kabul that killed 7 01/20/2026 10:55am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan���s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national, and wounded more than a dozen others. The group said in a statement posted on its Aamaq ne Turkey's pro-Kurdish party warns Syria violence threatens peace efforts 01/20/2026 10:52am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkey���s pro-Kurdish political party suggested on Tuesday that violence against Kurdish groups in Syria risks undermining fragile reconciliation efforts with Kurdish militants, who have fought a decadeslong insurgency inside Turkey. The warning from Tulay Hatimogullari, co- Philippine coast guard rescues 1 and searches for 12 missing after motorboat vanishes 01/20/2026 06:02am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Philippine authorities on Tuesday rescued a crew member of a motorboat and were searching for 12 others including business people who were out fishing for leisure, officials said. The boat Amejara left a wharf in southern Davao city Saturday night with nine passengers an How Trump reshaped DC���s relationship with the federal government 01/20/2026 05:24am • Only one year into President Donald Trump���s second term, the relationship between Washington, D.C. and the federal government has been tested in new ways, as a series of legal challenges have put fresh attention on the limits of home rule and who ultimately controls policing, public safety and gov Today in History: January 20, American hostages released from Iran after 444 days 01/20/2026 04:10am • Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2026. There are 345 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 20, 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 da