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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 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 Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts 01/20/2026 12:00pm • Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy ��� building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained the bud Analysis: China's birth-rate struggles underscore its millennia-long effort to manage 'the masses' 01/20/2026 08:29am • BEIJING (AP) ��� From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. ���China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact,��� Mao Zedong said Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel Peace Prize 01/20/2026 01:15am • NUUK, Greenland (AP) ��� U.S. President Donald Trump 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 felt ���an obligation to think purely of Peace,��� in a text message released Monday. T Surrounded by billionaires in Davos, Trump plans to lay out how he'll make housing more affordable 01/20/2026 12:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he's picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where ski chalets for vacations cost a cool $4.4 million. On the anniversary of h Survey: Financial Advisors More Cautious in Client Retirement Outlook for 2026 01/19/2026 07:00pm • Financial advisors are mostly bullish on their clients' retirement readiness and tax burdens in the new year, according to a new U.S. News-AdvisorFinder survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2025. However, the sentiment on retirement shifted from a previous survey conducted in the third quarter, These Four States Will Help Pay Your Private Student Loans 01/19/2026 07:00pm • Many Americans are trying to juggle student loan payments with their other monthly expenses. The median student loan balance is between $20,000 and $25,000, according to the Federal Reserve's Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2024. Naturally, borrowers are often looking for way 7 Best Silver ETFs to Buy 01/19/2026 07:00pm • If there is one metric that succinctly captures how the "debasement trade" of 2025 evolved into something broader in 2026, it is the gold-to-silver ratio. This ratio measures how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold and is often used as a relative valuation gauge between the two m National Harbor Sphere revenues would 'dwarf' those from Commanders, Six Flags, Braveboy says 01/19/2026 06:10pm • Revenue from the proposed Sphere entertainment venue at National Harbor in Maryland would far exceed that generated from the Washington Commanders and Six Flags combined, according to the Prince George's County executive. Sphere Entertainment Co. is working with Maryland, Prince George���s County Inequality and unease are rising as elite Davos event opens with pro-business Trump set to attend 01/19/2026 02:45pm • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ��� Corporate chiefs and government leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump swarm into Davos, Switzerland, this week, joining an elite annual meeting that promotes dialogue and economic progress ��� even as a domineering tone from Washington has upended the global order US futures sink after Trump warns of higher tariffs for 8 countries over Greenland issue 01/19/2026 12:18pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� European shares mostly fell and U.S. stock futures skidded Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap a 10% extra tariff on imports from eight European countries because they oppose having America take control of Greenland. Germany's DAX lost 1.3% to close at 24,960 Diplomacy or retaliation? The EU mulls its options as tensions with U.S. rise over Greenland 01/19/2026 11:23am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Threats from the White House over Greenland have sparked outrage and a flurry of diplomatic activity across Europe, as leaders consider possible countermeasures, including retaliatory tariffs and the first-ever use of the European Union's anti-coercion instrument. U.S. President D China's population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution 01/19/2026 06:03am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, the country's authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births ��� tactics that rang Deandre Ayton makes Lakers history while making 10 shots without a miss in win over Toronto 01/19/2026 01:50am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Only two players in the entire luminous history of the Los Angeles Lakers had made at least 10 shots without a miss and grabbed at least 10 rebounds in a game before Sunday night. Deandre Ayton joined the club with a performance that demonstrated everything the Lakers hoped they