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-		<title>Exiled crown prince calls for US intervention on &#8216;instrument of repression&#8217; in Iran</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693084-iran-reza-pahlavi-us-intervention-tehran-protests/</link>
+		<title>Trump says he&#8217;ll protect time slot for Army-Navy game by executive order</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694605-trump-army-navy-game/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, on Friday called for the U.S. to take decisive action against the “instrument of repression” in Tehran to stop the brutal crackdown of anti-government protests and warned against any deals with the country’s autocratic leaders. “The United States has a choice,” Pahlavi said during an event at&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Saturday said he will sign an executive order to secure an &#8220;EXCLUSIVE&#8221; four-hour time slot for the annual Army-Navy college football game in December. &#8220;The Army-Navy Game is one of our Greatest American Traditions — Unmatched Patriotism, Courage, and Honor!&#8221; Trump posted on Truth Social. &#8220;This incredible Tradition is now at risk of being&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Tens of thousands demonstrate outside US Embassy in Cuba</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693124-cubans-protest-us-embassy/</link>
+		<title>Iran protest death toll surges to over 3,300: Activist group</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694586-iran-protests-death-toll-3300/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Bork]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Friday to protest the deaths of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.&#160; The protesters also called for the release of Maduro, a close ally of Cuba who now faces trial on drug trafficking charges&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A human rights group on Saturday found that the number of deaths during widespread anti-government protests in Iran has reached over 3,300. The Human Rights Group Activist News Agency verified the latest death toll after three weeks of protests, with 4,382 cases that the group said are still under review. &#8220;So far, 2,107 people with&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>38K gallons of water recalled over black &#8216;substance&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692926-meijer-38k-gallons-water-recall/</link>
+		<title>Schumer: Democrats will try to block Trump&#8217;s Greenland tariffs</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5694564-schumer-trump-greenland-tariffs/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Kutz]]></dc:creator>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The affected water was sold in gallon-size jugs in six states.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday said Senate Democrats will block President Trump&#8217;s new 10 percent tariffs to be implemented on European countries over his calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. &#8220;Donald Trump’s foolhardy tariffs have already driven up prices and damaged our economy and now he is only making things worse,&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump says Canada should do trade deals with China</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693072-trump-carney-china-trade/</link>
+		<title>Leavitt told CBS News that Trump would sue if his interview was cut short on air: Reports</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694554-cbs-news-trump-interview-karoline-leavitt/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should be making a trade deal with China, an economic U.S. adversary the president has been going after during his second term. “That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the media outlet if it cut its 13-minute interview with the president, according to multiple news reports on Saturday. CBS News&#8217;s Tony Dokoupil interviewed Trump on Tuesday for the &#8220;CBS Evening News.&#8221; After the interview was finished taping, Leavitt passed on&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Norwegian lawmakers rip Trump accepting Machado Nobel prize: &#8216;Embarrassing and damaging&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692902-norway-trump-machado-nobel-peace-prize-transfer/</link>
+		<title>Trump puts $1B price tag on Gaza peace board permanent seats: Reports</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694508-trump-board-peace-gaza-membership-fee/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump will ask countries that want to join his &#8220;Board of Peace&#8221; to oversee Gaza to pay $1 billion for membership, according to reporting from Bloomberg and The Atlantic on Saturday. A draft charter seen by both outlets showed that Trump will serve as the executive board&#8217;s inaugural chairman, who will approve which member&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Machado &#8216;profoundly confident&#8217; in &#8216;orderly transition&#8217; in Venezuela after Trump meeting</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693004-machado-venezuela-transition-trump/</link>
+		<title>US-EU trade deal in jeopardy over Trump&#8217;s new tariffs</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694469-european-union-trade-deal-trump-tariffs/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[A day after her meeting with President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the U.S. is moving toward free elections in the country, but she acknowledged it would be a “process that has several phases.” During a press conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, Machado criticized Delcy&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[European leaders on Saturday said the trade deal with the U.S. and the European Union is on hold after President Trump announced new 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and other European countries over his growing rhetoric to acquire Greenland. President of the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) Manfred Weber said that while there is approval over&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Live updates: Trump backs off Insurrection Act threat in Minnesota amid ICE scrutiny</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691485-live-updates-trump-minnesota-ice-health-care-venezuela/</link>
+		<title>US strike in Syria kills al Qaeda leader tied to deaths of Iowa National Guard troops</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5694453-us-military-strike-syria-al-qaeda-leader-isis/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill staff]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday walked back his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act amid protests in Minnesota following last week&#8217;s fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters at the White&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Friday that killed an Al-Qaeda leader with ties to an alleged ISIS gunman who killed three Americans in an ambush last month, according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).&#160; CENTCOM on Saturday identified the deceased leader as Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, an “experienced terrorist leader” with “direct&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump says there&#8217;s no reason &#8216;right now&#8217; to use Insurrection Act in Minneapolis</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693019-trump-insurrection-act-minneapolis/</link>
+		<title>Sunday shows preview: Trump faces scrutiny over Greenland, Iran moves</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/video-clips/sunday-shows/5694328-sunday-shows-trump-tariffs-greenland-iran-ice-minnesota/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Sunday Shows]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday there is “no reason” for him to invoke the Insurrection Act, one day after he threatened to use the law in the wake of demonstrations in Minneapolis.&#160; “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters at the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump is facing scrutiny over his increasing demands for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, facing pushback from Danish and Greenlandic leaders, some Republican lawmakers and a majority of Americans. The president has frequently said the U.S. needs the island territory for national security purposes, citing the threat of Russia and China having access to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump touts rural health fund as part of affordability push</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5692996-trump-rural-health-fund-affordability/</link>
+		<title>Spanberger calls for unity as she becomes Virginia&#8217;s first female governor</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5694426-abigail-spanberger-viginia-governor-inauguration/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathaniel Weixel]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday touted a targeted $50 billion rural health fund as evidence of his administration’s commitment to helping rural communities improve health care costs and access, part of a White House push to focus on affordability ahead of November&#8217;s midterm elections.  The fund was added as a last-minute sweetener to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and as a backstop for&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) called for unity and pledged to “work tirelessly” for Virginians as she was sworn in as the Commonwealth’s first female governor on Saturday.  “It is the honor of my life to stand before you and take the oath today,” Spanberger said as she stood on the steps of the Virginia Capitol,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>If the justices don&#8217;t reinforce their Janus ruling soon, unions will ignore it to death</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/labor/5692251-janus-ruling-union-opposition/</link>
+		<title>Supreme Court prepares to weigh Trump’s power over Federal Reserve </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693451-trump-federal-reserve-supreme-court/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Rhodes, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zach Schonfeld]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME affirmed the First Amendment rights of public employees to opt out of union participation, but the justices have refused to revisit and enforce the ruling as unions have adopted countermeasures to circumvent it.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump’s power over the Federal Reserve will be front and center at the Supreme Court next week.&#160;&#160; The justices on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over accusations of mortgage fraud.  Looming over it all is the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>White House, bipartisan governors call on biggest US grid operator to lower prices</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5692935-pjm-power-bills-energy-prices/</link>
+		<title>Trump invites leaders of Egypt, Turkey, Argentina to join Gaza peace board</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694377-gaza-board-trump-egypt-turkey-argentina/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694377</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors are trying to pressure the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to bring down electric prices, especially in the wake of heavy demand from data centers. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright were joined Friday by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Maryland Gov.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has invited the presidents of Egypt, Turkey and Argentina to join his newly created “Gaza Board of Peace.”  The White House announced the board’s creation on Friday as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to advance its 20-point peace plan for the region.  Argentinian President Javier Milei announced that he’d accepted his position&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
-		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T21:15:07+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Virginia Senate passes redistricting amendment, teeing up special election</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5690530-virginia-congressional-map-redraw/</link>
+		<title>Tillis, Murkowski say Trump tariffs tied to Greenland will hurt US, divide NATO</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5694271-tillis-murkowski-trump-tariffs-greenland/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690530</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694271</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Virginia state Senate Democrats passed their redistricting constitutional amendment Friday, putting the party one step closer to redrawing the Old Dominion’s congressional lines. Democrats in the upper chamber passed a constitutional amendment for a second time that would allow lawmakers to redraw Virginia’s House map and temporarily bypass the state’s redistricting commission. The measure is&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Saturday slammed President Trump&#8217;s new 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and European allies, saying the tariffs will hurt the U.S. and divide NATO if the president takes Greenland by military force. &#8220;This response to our own allies for sending a small number of troops to Greenland&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T18:29:35+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/tillisthom_011326gn02_w.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="918705" />
+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-18T00:52:25+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>America is sleepwalking into socialism </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5692120-democratic-socialism-rise-america/</link>
+		<title>Carville predicts GOP &#8216;wipeout&#8217; in 2026 midterms</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5694291-democrats-midterm-elections-james-carville/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[President Trump]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692120</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694291</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Democratic socialism is gaining traction among younger Americans due to their dissatisfaction with capitalism, which has failed to provide basic security, and is being championed by figures like Zohran Mamdani, whose focus on food insecurity, housing  and public goods has resonated with voters.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville predicted Saturday that the 2026 midterm elections will be a “wipeout” for Republicans, with Democrats picking up 25 seats “at a minimum.”&#160; “Frankly, it’s going to be a wipeout,” Carville told host Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News’s “Saturday in America.”  “Your viewers need to know that the Democrats are going&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T21:38:25+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump to pardon former Puerto Rico governor</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692864-trump-to-pardon-former-puerto-rico-governor/</link>
+		<title>CNN analyst says &#8216;DOJ has lost its damn mind&#8217; with Walz, Frey probe</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694218-elie-honig-cnn-doj-walz-frey-probe-minnesota-immigration-enforcement/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692864</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Elie Honig]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota ICE Shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump immigration agenda]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[walz probe]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694218</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (R), a White House official confirmed to The Hill.  Vázquez Garced, who was governor of the U.S. territory from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020 campaign.  In August, Vázquez Garced pleaded guilty to accepting a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[CNN analyst Elie Honig blasted the Trump administration Friday evening after the Justice Department (DOJ) moved to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over the unrest following protests over immigration enforcement in the state. Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor, cast doubt on the strength of the department’s accusations that&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/doj_120425gn02_w.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="783054" />
+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T19:28:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump sharpens health care affordability message for midterms</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/1230-report/5692872-trump-rural-health-care-midterms/</link>
+		<title>Federal judge blocks Trump administration from cutting off Minnesota SNAP benefits</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5694215-judge-bars-trump-administration-cuts-minnesota-food-stamps/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cate Martel]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[12:30 Report]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Laura M. Provinzino]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota fraud investigation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[usda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694215</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[12:30 Report is The Hill&#8217;s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Friday! President Trump’s inauguration weekend was exactly a year ago now. Part of me feels like that was just yesterday but most of me feels like it’s been two or three years! In today&#8217;s issue: Programming note: The Hill’s 12:30 Report will not publish Monday&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from withholding tens of millions of dollars in funding for Minnesota’s food stamp program amid widespread claims of fraud. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in a letter last month to recertify the eligibility of nearly 100,000 households in four counties&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:38:51+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T19:06:40+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Walz appeals for deescalation amid Minneapolis chaos </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5692863-trump-insurrection-act-threat/</link>
+		<title>Trump is reversing Martin Luther King Jr.’s accomplishments </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5693043-trump-reversing-mlk-legacy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A. Scott Bolden, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Civil Rights]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Black Americans]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693043</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what’s happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It’s a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions.   Gov.&#160;Tim Walz tried to lower the temperature as tensions escalated in Minneapolis, urging protesters to remain peaceful&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump is attempting to reverse the progress made towards racial equality by Martin Luther King Jr. by eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs, withdrawing from legal actions to enforce the Voting Rights Act, and cutting funding for anti-poverty initiatives.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:36:08+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Mother of Musk child sues over Grok sexualized images</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5692810-grok-ai-sexualized-images/</link>
+		<title>Danish officials react to tariff threat: We will not &#8216;bow down&#8217; to Trump&#8217;s &#8216;bullying tactics&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694216-denmark-response-trump-tariff-threat-greenland/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Ai deepfakes]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[artificial intellgience]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Ashley St. Clair]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Grok]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692810</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brian Mikkelsen]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[denmark]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Greenland tariffs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Pelle Dragsted]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland acquisition]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump tariff agenda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694216</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing the tech billionaire’s AI company, xAI, after its chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her. St. Clair filed suit against xAI in New York state court Thursday, alleging that Grok generated images of her “as a child stripped down to a string&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Denmark leaders are refusing to &#8220;back down&#8221; to the Trump administration after President Trump announced plans Saturday to impose new tariffs on the country and seven of its allies next month amid his push to acquire Greenland. Danish lawmaker Pelle Dragsted, in a translated post on social platform X, urged European leaders to demonstrate “solidarity&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T19:14:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Maybe we actually should trust the experts</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5691557-kennedy-jr-distrust-experts/</link>
+		<title>How a pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5692543-small-business-loan-debt-trap/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Moher, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Goldstone, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Robert F Kennedy, Jr.]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[scientists]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691557</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Finance]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Labor Statistics]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CARES Act]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[covid relief]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Economic Injury Disaster Loan program]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[loan interest]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692543</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[We would never trust a random person with no credentials to fix our cars, so why would we trust them with our physical or mental health?]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Millions of small businesses are discovering that the emergency fiscal help they relied on in 2020 came with a long tail of unintended consequences.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:30:26+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/small-business_covid_cafe-du-monde_05282024_AP24149527227718-1.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="1216243" />
+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T07:19:17+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump adviser suggests 10 percent interest &#8216;Trump cards&#8217; in lieu of legislative cap</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692816-trump-proposal-credit-card-cap/</link>
+		<title>Trump calls for regime change in Iran, blasts leader as &#8216;sick&#8217;: &#8216;It’s time&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694156-donald-trump-regime-change-iran/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steff Danielle Thomas]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iran protests]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iranian regime]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Politico]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[regime change]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Iran relations]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump&#8217;s economic adviser said Friday that the administration has been in touch with major banks regarding the administration’s proposal to temporarily cap credit card interest rates amid concerns about its long-term economic impact. &#160; Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration expects banks to voluntarily provide “Trump cards” to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Saturday said it&#8217;s &#8220;time to look for new leadership&#8221; in Iran, after the nation&#8217;s leader lashed out at the president for supporting anti-government protesters and blamed the U.S. for the regime&#8217;s deadly crackdown. In an interview with Politico, Trump doubled down on his criticism of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Tehran&#8217;s &#8220;use of violence&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump casts doubt on Kevin Hassett Fed nomination: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want to lose him&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692734-trump-hesitant-nominate-hasset-fed/</link>
+		<title>Trump announces 10 percent tariffs on Denmark, allies amid Greenland turmoil</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694162-trump-tariffs-denmark-allies-greenland-acquisition-push/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvan Lane]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday he was hesitant to nominate his top White House economic adviser to chair the Federal Reserve, suggesting he might be going in a different direction. During remarks at a White House health care event, Trump praised Kevin Hassett — director of the National Economic Council and a finalist for the Fed&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>Trump baffles global allies with his interest in Greenland</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5690997-greenland-trump-military-threats/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bernard Goldberg, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Miller]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690997</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland acquisition]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump tariff agenda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694162</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for national security purposes, and has threatened to use the U.S. Military to do so if necessary, despite the fact that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and has its own government and culture.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump announced Saturday that he will implement a 10 percent tariff on Denmark and its European allies starting next month, ratcheting up the pressure in his bid to acquire Greenland.  “We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T17:15:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Iran cleric calls for executions, threatens Trump</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692740-iran-protest-execution-khatami/</link>
+		<title>Trump isn’t ‘screwing around’ with our elections — it’s dangerous to suggest he is</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5691762-chris-matthews-trump-democracy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[execution]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Iran protests]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692740</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691762</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric in Iran, on Friday called for the execution of protesters across Tehran as the government seeks to stifle demonstrations in the capital. “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!” Khatami said in a sermon carried across state radio, according to The Associated Press. Khatami also offered pointed words for&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Words matter. Matthews, as the consummate political insider, knows that better than most. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:21:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T06:48:43+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Vulnerable Republicans join Trump to tout rural health care plan</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692760-trump-rural-health-roundtable/</link>
+		<title>Trump’s year on immigration reflects massive change in American life</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693537-trump-immigration-crackdown-year-one/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692760</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693537</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[A number of Republicans facing uphill reelection bids in November were present at the White House for a rural health care roundtable with President Trump on Friday.&#160; The roundtable follows the administration announcing that $10 billion would be invested in states’ rural health care under the Rural Health Care Transformation Program last month.&#160; “I hope&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most visible enforcement effort seen in history while closing the door to many legal pathways for entering the U.S. Trump promised to plug the border and crack down hard on those living in the country illegally,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/Immigration_Beitsch_AP_JohnLocher.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="798690" />
+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T15:57:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump floats slapping tariffs on countries against US acquiring Greenland</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692713-trump-tariffs-greenland-territory/</link>
+		<title>Iranian leader says &#8216;criminal&#8217; Trump at fault for deadly protests</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694112-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-donald-trump-iran-protests/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692713</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iran protests]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iranian regime]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S. military]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Iran protests]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694112</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs.&#160; “I went through country after country,” Trump said at&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that “several thousands” of people have been killed amid the mass of anti-government protests, casting blame on the U.S. and critics for the casualties.  “In this revolt, the U.S. president made remarks in person, encouraged seditious people to go ahead and said: &#8216;We do not support you,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>CIA director met with Venezuela’s leader in Caracas as Trump huddled with Machado</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692708-john-ratcliffe-cia-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-meeting/</link>
+		<title>Miller amid Greenland push: Nations not entitled to territories &#8216;they cannot defend&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694105-stephen-miller-greenland-acquisition-defense/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[cia]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Delcy Rodriguez]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Maduro ouster]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[democrats]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[denmark]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Greenland acquisition]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House GOP]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate GOP]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[venezuelan oil]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692708</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump foreign policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland takeover]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694105</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House.  Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Army Special Forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Friday doubled down on the Trump administration&#8217;s argument that acquiring Greenland is &#8220;essential&#8221; for U.S. national security. “The new domain of international competition is going to be polar competition,” Miller told Fox News&#8217;s Sean Hannity, seeking to justify President Trump&#8217;s proposal to take over the Arctic&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T16:38:59+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>White liberals are Jasmine Crockett’s biggest obstacle to the Senate</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5691340-crockett-texas-senate-challenge/</link>
+		<title>Authorities&#8217; inaction on threats against Trump voters is alarming</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5693096-pennsylvania-trump-threat-letters/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dallas S. Jones, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Amy McGrath]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[James Talarico]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Jasmine Crockett]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Royce West]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691340</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Criminal Justice]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania State Police]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693096</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[There's no avoiding it: White liberal voters often dismiss qualified candidates of color, especially Black candidates, as unelectable.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Trump voters in Pennsylvania received death threats, and the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police have failed to take any action, despite the fact that it is a felony to threaten a voter with death.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T06:43:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>X outages reported days after thousands briefly affected</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5692678-x-platform-outage-reported/</link>
+		<title>Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe economy is weak under Trump: Poll</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5694036-trump-economy-weakness-survey/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[X outage]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692678</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[affordability]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump economic agenda]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump tariff agenda]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694036</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error message. Some have also reported issues with the website and server connection, according to Downdetector. As of 10:42 a.m. EST Friday, Downdetector had received 53,482 reports of outages on X.  The issues on Friday follow a brief Tuesday outage&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Nearly 60 percent of Americans have a negative view of the economy under President Trump, according to a new survey. The Wall Street Journal poll, released earlier this week, found that 57 percent of respondents described the strength of the U.S. economy as “not so good” or “poor.” Only 9 percent of respondents said the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T16:22:08+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T15:58:21+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin asks for prosecutors to be disqualified</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692630-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-shooter-prosecution/</link>
+		<title>FAA advises airlines to take ‘caution’ when flying over Latin America</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694050-faa-advisory-pilots-latin-america-trump-venezuela/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk shooting]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Death penalty]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Utah Valley University]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692630</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[drug boat strikes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[FAA]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[FAA advisory]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Maduro capture]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S. strikes in Venezuela]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694050</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was shot, according to The Associated&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday urged airlines to “exercise caution” when flying over parts of Latin America, warning of military activities and possible interference with satellite navigation capabilities.  In several advisories, the agency said “potential risks exist for aircraft at all altitudes, including during overflight and the arrival and departure phases of flight.”&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>History is clear: Gun carry regulation was always the norm </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5689653-historical-gun-laws-supreme-court/</link>
+		<title>Newsom&#8217;s gerrymander just might have a racial discrimination problem</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5693035-california-congressional-map-challenge/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert J. Spitzer, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693035</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[In its deficient reading of history, the Supreme Court seems to have missed this lesson. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[California may have a slight problem: Its new congressional map may be based on racial discrimination.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump will make good on his threat to intervene in Iran</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5689136-trump-will-make-good-on-his-threat-to-intervene-in-iran/</link>
+		<title>UVA board members resign ahead of Spanberger’s inauguration: Report</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5694014-uva-board-members-resignation-abigail-spanberger-governor-inauguration/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dov Zakheim, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - National Security]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5689136</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[2025 Virginia governor's race]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[James Ryan]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Paul Manning]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Porter Wilkinson]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Sheridan]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump DEI crackdown]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[UVA Board of Visitors]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5694014</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Washington has multiple options.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Top members of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors have reportedly resigned following pressure from state Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D). The New York Times reported Friday that Rachel Sheridan, head of the board, board member Porter Wilkinson and major donor Paul Manning have stepped down. All of the current and resigning board members were&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Renee Good shooting recounted in 911 transcripts, incident report</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692526-renee-good-shooting-recounted-in-911-transcripts-incident-report/</link>
+		<title>Is there really an ‘affordability’ crisis?</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5691609-wages-inflation-debate/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Kutz]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692526</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Marks, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Finance]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691609</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[One caller told dispatch, "They just shot a lady, point-blank range in her car."]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[I love to eat out, but man is it expensive! I feel like you can&#8217;t get a decent dinner for two in any nice restaurant for under $125.  My friends all agree. But then again, they&#8217;ve always agreed. As long as I can remember, I have complained about the high price of restaurants, travel, Broadway shows and concert tickets.   People like&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>ACLU accuses federal agencies in Minnesota of racial profiling, illegal stops in new lawsuit</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692570-aclu-lawsuit-minnesota-immigration-enforcement-profiling/</link>
+		<title>Massie calls Clintons’ subpoena over Epstein ties ‘theater’: ‘Just release the doggone files’</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5693982-massie-clinton-house-gop-subpoena-epstein-files/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Renee Good]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Points]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Clinton subpoeana]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House Oversight Committee]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Todd Blanche]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693982</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Friday against the Trump administration, accusing federal agencies of using racial profiling to conduct illegal stops in Minnesota.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are named among the agencies in the complaint. The North Star State has been home to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Wednesday dismissed his GOP colleagues&#8217; subpoena of former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in its probe of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, calling the move “theater.&#8221; Massie was asked by the &#8220;Breaking Points&#8221; hosts about his pressure on the Trump administration to release the Epstein files&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Haberman on Trump Insurrection Act threat: &#8216;I certainly would take him seriously&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692571-haberman-trump-insurrection-act/</link>
+		<title>Experts reveal greatest concerns with RFK Jr.&#8217;s new dietary guidelines</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5692009-experts-reveal-greatest-concerns-with-rfk-jr-s-new-dietary-guidelines/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy Tanner]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692009</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said people should take President Trump seriously when he talks about invoking the Insurrection Act, this time in response to unrest in Minnesota following two separate shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. “The president has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act before. Do you think he’s&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[(NEXSTAR) – After Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. &#8220;turned the food pyramid upside down,&#8221; health experts are weighing in on what they see as the most worrying – and positive – aspects of the new dietary guidelines. Americans are being instructed to eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>The Hans Island Whisky War offers valuable lessons on Greenland</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5691161-greenland-strategic-importance-allies/</link>
+		<title>Social Security: What is the minimum amount a retiree is entitled to?</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5693273-social-security-what-is-the-minimum-amount-a-retiree-is-entitled-to/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Latham, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691161</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bartiromo]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Nexstar Media Wire News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693273</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The lesson of the Whisky War is that strategic importance does not require theatrical melodrama. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Didn’t earn so much during your working years? It’s likely you’re still eligible for retiree benefits from the Social Security Administration.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Watch live: Machado gives remarks after meeting with Trump</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/video-clips/5692299-watch-live-maria-corina-machado-press-conference/</link>
+		<title>A better way to fund national parks — paid for by their most eager visitors</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5692761-national-parks-international-tourists-fees/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tate Watkins, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Finance]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International tourists]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[national parks]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Old Faithful]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S. national parks]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Yellowstone]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Yosemite]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692761</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will speak with reporters Friday morning, a day after meeting with President Trump at the White House. Machado, following the visit, said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. The meeting came more than a week after the U.S. ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and vowed to run&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Awe has an upkeep cost, and right now, we’re not keeping up. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Stephen A. Smith: Trump will cost GOP midterms, possibly White House</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692504-stephen-a-smith-trump-gop-midterms/</link>
+		<title>Former federal prosecutor blasts DOJ over Walz, Frey subpoenas: &#8216;Total garbage&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693944-harry-litman-doj-subpoenas-walz-frey-minnesota-immigration/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[insurrection act]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota ICE shootings]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ subpoena]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Harry Litman]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota ICE Shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Renee Good]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith warned Thursday that the Trump administration&#8217;s policies could cause Republicans to lose this year&#8217;s midterms.  “To all the Republicans out there, to all the conservatives out there: You’re about to lose the midterms,” Smith said during an episode of his SiriusXM show. “You’re going to lose, and you might lose&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>The Make America Healthy Again movement could sway the midterms</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5691285-gop-embraces-maha-reforms/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Travis N. Taylor, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691285</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump immigration agenda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693944</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The "Make America Healthy Again" movement is overwhelmingly popular and could swing a large number of votes towards the GOP if Republicans embrace its policies and become more vocal in promoting them.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman condemned the Justice Department&#8217;s (DOJ) probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) as “total garbage.&#8221; In an interview Friday on MS NOW, Litman called the investigation “a complete and utter non-starter.” “The statute that Ken refers to requires force, intimidation or threats,” Litman told&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T13:48:50+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Waltz on Iran: &#8216;All options are on the table&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692445-iran-un-security-council/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that all options are on the table regarding Iran, including military intervention. “Colleagues, let me be clear: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations,” Waltz said while speaking at the&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>Almost 2 in 3 say Trump hasn&#8217;t done enough to lower prices of everyday goods: Survey</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692428-trump-lower-prices-cnn-survey/</link>
+		<title>Democratic lawmakers come to Walz&#8217;s defense after DOJ subpoena</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693913-democrats-defend-tim-walz-minnesota-doj-subpoeana/</link>
 		
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-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Almost 2 in 3 Americans say President Trump has not done enough to lower prices on everyday goods, according to a poll released Friday. The CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, found 64 percent of respondents believe Trump has “not gone far enough” to alleviate affordability concerns in the U.S. Additionally, 42 percent of those polled&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>Watch: Trump touts investments in rural health at White House roundtable</title>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump hosted a roundtable at the White House on Friday morning centered on investments in rural health care. Beginning this month, states are expected to receive funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program averaging around $200 million and ranging between $145 million to $281 million. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)&#160;Administrator Mehmet Oz&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>Greenland, Venezuela, Minnesota, oh my — 2026 is already off to a terrible start</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5691127-trump-scandals-venezuela-greenland-ice/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Truax, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Trump immigration agenda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693913</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[This is getting ridiculous. 
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+					<description><![CDATA[Democrats on Capitol Hill are defending Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) after the Justice Department (DOJ) accused him of obstructing federal law enforcement’s operations in the North Star State. DOJ issued subpoenas for Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Friday, more than a week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Senate Democrat on Trump Greenland rhetoric: &#8216;This is the president being an idiot&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5692421-donald-trump-greenland-denmark-ruben-gallego/</link>
+		<title>Major ski resorts are short on something essential: Snow</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5693677-major-ski-resorts-lack-snow/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Dorn]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Lake Tahoe]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[ski resorts]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Vail]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Vail Resorts]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says President Trump is “being an idiot” by making forceful demands of Denmark, a NATO ally, to cede its control of Greenland to the United States, something Danish leaders have repeatedly shot down. “This has nothing to do with actual security concerns. This is the president being an idiot, and he&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Vail's CEO said it's the worst early-season snowfall in more than 30 years for the company's western U.S. resorts.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Bacon says he would ‘lean’ toward Trump impeachment if Greenland invaded: ‘Utter buffoonery’</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5692379-don-bacon-donald-trump-impeachment-greenland-invasion/</link>
+		<title>911 call, police radio released in Luigi Mangione arrest: &#8216;He looked like the CEO shooter&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693755-911-call-police-radio-luigi-mangione-united-healthcare-shooting/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Bosar]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Wednesday he’d consider impeaching President Trump if the U.S. decides to invade Greenland, which he described as “utter buffoonery.” “It&#8217;s ridiculous that this has to even be done,&#8221; Bacon told the Omaha World-Herald. “But when the president talks about taking Greenland one way or the other way every day this&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>The SHANTI Act: A renaissance of India-US nuclear energy cooperation</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5690605-nuclear-power-india-us-partnership/</link>
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-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690605</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brian Thompson shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Luigi Mangione]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[McDonalds]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693755/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[American firms can now compete on a level playing field for one of the world's largest nuclear markets.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The 911 call and police radio audio in Luigi Mangione's arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania were released Friday to Nexstar's WTAJ News.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rian Bossler]]></dc:creator>
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-		<title>Watch live: Whole Hog Politics with Chris Stirewalt and Bill Sammon</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5692385-watch-live-whole-hog-politics-chris-stirewalt-bill-sammon/</link>
+		<title>NY council member on church leader detained by ICE: &#8216;We have to stand up against this nonsense&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693773-brooklyn-new-york-ice-detainee-criticism/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Euzarraga]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The Hill’s SVP of Editorial, Bill Sammon, joins NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt to discuss the latest political hot topics and national news in Whole Hog Politics. Sign up for the Whole Hog Politics weekly newsletter&#160;here&#160;or in the box below.]]></description>
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-		<title>58 percent call 2025 a failure for Trump: Poll</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692359-donald-trump-2025-presidency-survey/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[CNN poll]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[President Trump approval]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Sebastian Ordonez]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Susan Zhuang]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692359</guid>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693773/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[More than half of Americans in a survey released Friday rated President Trump&#8217;s first year back in office as a &#8220;failure.&#8221; The CNN/SSRS survey found that 58 percent of U.S. adults said 2025 was a failure for the president on a number of issues. Another 42 percent said the year was a &#8220;success,&#8221; and about&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[“We have to stand up against this nonsense."]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Dow]]></dc:creator>
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-		<title>Welfare fraud could play a starring role in the 2026 midterms</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5691454-vance-democrats-welfare-fraud-hammer/</link>
+		<title>Ocasio-Cortez ramps up fight with Vance amid 2028 speculation</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5692659-ocasio-cortez-presidential-bid/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Peek, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691454</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amie Parnes]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Will the GOP’s efforts to combat the ongoing theft of immense amounts of money from taxpayers resonate with voters? ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is increasingly taking aim at Vice President Vance, her possible opponent in a 2028 presidential matchup, should she choose to launch a White House bid.&#160; In the last week, Ocasio-Cortez has drawn a stark contrast between her views and those of Vance on the recent Minneapolis shooting, arguing that his defense&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Mamdani’s shameful rush to abandon anti-discrimination</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5687198-mamdanis-shameful-rush-to-abandon-anti-discrimination/</link>
+		<title>Both sides on edge as Supreme Court appears poised to uphold transgender athlete bans</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5691352-supreme-court-transgender-athlete-bans/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adela Cojab Moadeb, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Civil Rights]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lexi Lonas Cochran]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[transgender athletes]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691352</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Mamdani is dismantling the very anti-discrimination rules meant to stop antisemitism before it turns bloody.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Both those for and against transgender athlete bans are on the edge of their seats after oral arguments at the Supreme Court this week, where a majority of the justices seemed open to allowing the bans. While it will likely be months until a final decision is announced, the conservative-majority high court appeared inclined to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Michael Kors class action settlement: Do you qualify for store credit?</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5692085-michael-kors-settlement-lawsuit/</link>
+		<title>Sanders tells Oz it&#8217;s not &#8216;cool&#8217; that robots performing ultrasounds in Alabama</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5693814-sanders-oz-robots-ultrasounds-alabama/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Gustafson]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692085/</guid>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693814</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Customers who made a qualifying purchase at a Michael Kors Outlet store between May 10, 2019 and Nov. 14, 2025 may be eligible for a credit.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday told Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz that it is not &#8220;cool&#8221; that robots are performing ultrasounds in Alabama, after Oz brought up the subject at the White House earlier in the day. Oz joined President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Minifridge recall expands to 964,000 Frigidaires after fire reports</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/5692294-frigidaire-minifridge-recall-expansion/</link>
+		<title>DOJ sues Virginia for not providing voter data</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693787-doj-sues-virginia-voter-data/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Owners of the recalled minifridges are urged to stop using them immediately.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday sued Virginia for not handing over state voter data, the latest among several states the department has targeted in an effort to retrieve registration information from individuals across the country since last year. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, shared screenshots of the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Former reality TV star Farrah Abraham running for Austin City Council seat</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5692194-farrah-abraham-austin-city-council/</link>
+		<title>Judge limits ICE tactics at Minnesota protests</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693762-judge-limits-ice-tactics-protests/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cora Neas]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[I love this city and I want to get involved in and help where I live and breathe, and I know I can help because I'm making it, others seem to be struggling, and I want to jump in the mix,'" she said.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to limit their tactics against protesters in Minnesota, as federal immigration enforcement officers confront demonstrators rallying after a woman was killed by an ICE officer last week. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote in her order that ICE cannot retaliate against, arrest or&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Suspended Ford worker who heckled Trump gets $800K in donations</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5691850-suspended-ford-worker-trump-donations/</link>
+		<title>Threat level for Al Udeid US Air Force Base lowered</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5693739-threat-level-al-udeid-lowered/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor Delandro]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Bohn]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[A Ford employee was suspended after heckling Trump during a visit of a Michigan auto plant.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[This comes as officials indicated there were no imminent plans for the U.S. to attack Iran.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
-		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy Tanner]]></dc:creator>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T01:50:29+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>H-E-B once again ranks as No. 1 grocery store in the US</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5691785-h-e-b-no-1-grocery-store-us-ranking/</link>
+		<title>DOJ issues subpoenas for Walz, Minneapolis mayor in criminal investigation</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693648-minnesota-officials-doj-subpoenas/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Jones]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[grocery stores]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Woodman's grocery]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[H-E-B claimed the top spot for the fourth year in a row, and the fifth time in nine years. Market Basket, Woodman’s, Costco, and Aldi round out the top five.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), accusing them of standing in the way of federal law enforcement officer&#8217;s abilities to carry out their jobs, The Washington Post reported. Both were given subpoenas as part of an investigation at the DOJ,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T00:54:01+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>No, don&#8217;t take over Greenland — there&#8217;s absolutely no need.</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5686959-no-dont-take-over-greenland-theres-absolutely-no-need/</link>
+		<title>Trump grapples with red lines in Iran as protests crushed — for now</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5693657-iran-protests-trump-red-lines/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Waters, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5686959</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693657</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. already possesses exactly what it needs in Greenland.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump is appearing to back off immediate action against Iran after promising anti-government forces that “help is coming” earlier this week and cautioning the regime against killing protesters — warnings Iran’s leaders ignored.  While Iran remains under a nationwide internet blackout, reports from the country indicate that street protests, which rocked the country a&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-13T19:19:24+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T00:36:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>90 passengers safe after American Airlines plane veers off taxiway at Rochester airport</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692167-american-airlines-plane-rochester-airport/</link>
+		<title>California sends xAI cease and desist letter over sexualized deepfakes</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5693608-california-ag-targets-deepfakes/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gio Battaglia]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[american airlines]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Rochester]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693608</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[American Airlines said Flight 3057 partially left the paved surface of the taxiway after completing deicing procedures amid snow and freezing temperatures.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) sent a cease and desist letter Friday to xAI demanding that it stop producing AI-generated sexualized deepfakes of girls and women online, including on the social platform X. Bonta said in a statement that the &#8220;creation, distribution, publication and exhibition&#8221; of deepfakes of girls is child sexual abuse material&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T11:53:38+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T00:24:59+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Spotify to hike subscription price</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5692183-spotify-subscription-price-increase/</link>
+		<title>House Ethics Committee investigating allegations against Nancy Mace</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5693642-ethics-committee-investigates-mace/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sean Noone]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sudiksha Kochi]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[price increase]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Spotify]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693642</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Spotify last hiked fees for U.S. subscribers in June 2024, which marked the second increase in less than a year.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that it is investigating allegations against conservative firebrand Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). The Ethics Committee did not go into detail about the probe. However, it noted that the matter regarding Mace was transmitted by the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) on Dec. 2, 2025.  “The Committee notes that the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T14:40:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>How Trump’s Iran strike options are shaped by Venezuela buildup</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5692218-trump-iran-strike-options/</link>
+		<title>Gaza &#8216;Board of Peace’ announced: Witkoff, Kushner among members</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693615-gaza-board-of-peace-members/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Meyn]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693615</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump’s strike options against Iran amid the nationwide protests are shaped by his massive military buildup in the Caribbean, which has ballooned since late last year and culminated in U.S. special forces capturing Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.  The Pentagon dispatched dozens of warships, F-35 fighter jets, spy planes, Marines and the USS Gerald R.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The White House announced Friday the composition of the “Board of Peace” tasked with implementing President Trump’s 20-point peace plan and steering Gaza’s postwar reconstruction.  The body, headed by Trump, will also include three of his closest diplomatic advisers — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president&#8217;s son-in-law, Jared Kushner&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:19:16+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T00:07:49+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Katie Pavlich feels ready to meet the moment</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5691342-katie-pavlitch-launches-new-show/</link>
+		<title>Biggest US grid operator appears to stop short of reforms pushed by Trump and bipartisan governors</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5693600-pjm-power-grid-electricity-prices-ai-data-centers/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693600</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Author and longtime political commentator Katie Pavlich is gearing up to launch her own opinion show Monday night on NewsNation. “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” slated for the channel’s 10 p.m. hour, will focus on “culture, politics, [and] policy debates,” and its launch comes at a particularly fraught time for American politics. “I know every day is&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[After the Trump administration and a coalition of bipartisan governors called on the biggest U.S. electric grid operator to enact reforms to cut electricity prices, the operator announced its own plan that does not include key details of the bipartisan proposal. The grid operator, PJM, which serves states on the East Coast and in the Midwest, said Friday&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T23:56:42+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>GOP senators try to talk Trump down from invoking Insurrection Act in Minneapolis</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5692084-gop-senators-trump-insurrection-act-minneapolis/</link>
+		<title>Nobel Prize committee says Machado decision to give Trump award doesn&#8217;t change who won</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693556-nobel-prize-medal-ownership/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692084</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Republican senators are trying to put the brakes on talk of invoking the Insurrection Act to quell angry protests against immigration officers in Minneapolis after one fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. Invoking the law, which was last updated in 1874, would allow President Trump to mobilize active-duty troops or federalized National&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The committee that awards the Nobel Prize said Friday that the physical symbols of the prize — a medal and diploma — can be given away, but the honor itself is “inseparably linked” to the winner. &#160; “The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Democrats escalate opposition to DHS funding in bid to rein in ICE</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5692032-democrats-dhs-funding-ice/</link>
+		<title>Tax changes coming for seniors this year</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692808-new-tax-break-for-seniors/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Lillis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The fight over ICE is heating up. Democrats in both chambers are escalating their push to overhaul U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. They’re doing so by vowing to oppose legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless it includes&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) Act that President Trump signed into law last July implemented multiple changes to the tax code, including for seniors.  One notable change is a new $6,000 deduction available for people age 65 and older, in addition to the standard deduction previously available.  On Thursday, officials from the AARP discussed&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>The Memo: Trump’s Insurrection Act threat roils waters amid Minneapolis tensions</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692022-insurrection-act-debate-trump/</link>
+		<title>DOJ seeks life sentence for convicted would-be Trump assassin</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5693466-doj-seeks-life-sentence-routh/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Niall Stanage]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692022</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Lee]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Assassination attempt]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Routh]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693466</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday, amid continued tension in Minneapolis in the days following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot and killed on Jan. 7.&#160; Another person was shot and injured Wednesday evening in Minneapolis as&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department is seeking a life sentence for the man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump while he golfed in South Florida in 2024. Ryan Routh, 59, was found guilty last year on all five counts he faced following a trial where he mounted his own defense. Federal prosecutors wrote in court filings&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T00:31:01+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Homan says Trump administration needs better &#8216;messaging&#8217; about immigration enforcement</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5692198-white-house-border-czar-ice/</link>
+		<title>Omar tells protesters throwing projectiles at police: &#8216;Do not let your anger get the best of you&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693505-ilhan-omar-urges-peaceful-protests/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693505</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday the Trump administration needs to be better about its &#8220;messaging&#8221; over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations across the country. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re being egged on by the press,&#8221; Homan told Laura Ingraham on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; on Fox News. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a lot of false&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) urged those demonstrating against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota to not let anger win out in response to reports of protesters throwing projectiles at police. “Do not let your anger get the best of you,” Omar said in an interview with NewsNation&#8217;s Mills Hayes on Friday.&#160; “We are&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:48:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Pompeo warns Trump not to trust &#8216;bad actor&#8217; Delcy Rodríguez to run Venezuela</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692164-pompeo-warns-trump-venezuela/</link>
+		<title>Trump housing plan would open 401(k)s for down payments: Hassett</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5693471-trump-401k-housing-proposal/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692164</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693471</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned President Trump on Thursday not to trust Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez to run her country, calling her a &#8220;bad actor.&#8221; &#8220;I forget his exact language, [but Trump said] that she was behaving pretty well,&#8221; Pompeo said on the &#8220;Cats &#38; Cosby&#8221; radio show on WABC 770 AM.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump will announce a proposal next week to allow Americans to dip into their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home as part of his housing affordability push, one of his top economic advisers said Friday. Kevin Hassett,&#160;the director of the National Economic Council, said Trump will unveil the plan at the upcoming&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:56:33+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T22:31:33+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Noem announces new ICE deputy director</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692150-ice-deputy-director-charles-wall/</link>
+		<title>Education Department delays wage garnishment for defaulted student loan borrowers</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5693408-student-loan-wage-garnishment-debt-relief/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692150</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lexi Lonas Cochran]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[student loans]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693408</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday that Charles Wall will serve as Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s (ICE) new deputy director after previously serving as the agency&#8217;s principal legal adviser. &#8220;Mr. Wall has served as an ICE attorney for 14 years and is a forward leaning, strategic thinker who understands the importance of prioritizing the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Education Department said Friday it would delay plans to garnish the wages of federal student loan borrowers who are in default.  The department said it will temporarily delay wage garnishment for those who haven&#8217;t paid toward their loans in more than nine months as new student loans reforms are implemented this year. It previously&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:57:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T22:05:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump announces Gaza &#8216;Board of Peace&#8217; has been formed</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692121-trump-announces-board-of-peace-gaza/</link>
+		<title>New Venezuela leader calls for warmer relations with US, opening oil industry to outside investors</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693337-venezuela-interim-president-us-oil/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693337</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump announced Thursday that the &#8220;Board of Peace&#8221; to oversee Gaza has been formed, months after Israel and Hamas reached a fragile ceasefire following two years of conflict. &#8220;It is my Great Honor to announce that THE BOARD OF PEACE has been formed,&#8221; Trump posted on Truth Social. &#8220;The Members of the Board will&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday called for warmer diplomatic relations with the U.S. and advocated for opening her country&#8217;s oil industry to foreign investors in the wake of President Trump&#8217;s decision to take control of Venezuela&#8217;s oil. &#8220;Let us not be afraid of diplomacy,&#8221; Rodríguez said in her first state of the union&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T18:39:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T22:13:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Florida Republican candidate suggests &#8216;sin tax&#8217; for OnlyFans creators</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5691927-florida-governor-candidate-sin-tax/</link>
+		<title>Schatz says US &#8216;absolutely rolled&#8217; by China-Canada trade deal</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5693288-schatz-criticizes-china-canada-deal/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alaina Papazian]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691927/</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Canola seed oil]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[China-Canada trade deal]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[tariffs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693288</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA["...young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families, rearing children, I don't want them to be selling their bodies to sick men online."]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Friday Americans would be hurt by a trade deal between China and Canada as foreign nations seek new trade partners amid the Trump administration’s tariff wars. “We just got absolutely rolled in this Canada &#8211; China deal. A stark foreign policy failure with domestic economic consequences,” Schatz wrote in a&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
-		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Russell Falcon]]></dc:creator>
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-		<title>Trump&#8217;s Iceland ambassador nominee apologizes for 52nd state &#8216;joking&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692007-billy-long-apologizes-iceland-joke/</link>
+		<title>Third offshore wind project halted by Trump is allowed to resume construction</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5693355-offshore-wind-project-trump-virginia-dominion/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692007</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693355</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), President Trump&#8217;s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, on Thursday apologized for joking about Iceland becoming the 52nd state with himself as governor. “There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn’t met for three years, and they were kidding about Jeff Landry&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A third offshore wind project halted by the Trump administration was allowed to resume construction Friday, dealing yet another blow to the administration’s anti-wind efforts. Federal Judge Jamar Walker, an appointee of former President Biden in Virginia, allowed the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project to temporarily keep building. Walker granted a preliminary injunction Friday&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T21:29:03+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Pentagon taking over Stars and Stripes to eliminate &#8216;woke distractions&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5692054-pentagon-control-stars-stripes-newspaper/</link>
+		<title>Liberian man released for second time after ICE officers broke into home with battering ram</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693339-liberian-man-ice-arrest-released/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693339</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon announced Thursday it would take editorial control of independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes to refocus coverage on “warfighting” and remove “woke distractions.” “The Department of War is returning Stars &#38; Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,” top Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement posted to the social platform&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A Liberian national who was arrested by federal immigration officers in Minnesota last weekend after they used a battering ram to break down his door was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Friday for the second time in less than 24 hours, according to his attorney, who spoke with The Associated Press. A&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-17T19:45:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Ilhan Omar tells LindellTV reporter &#8216;your brain has been fried&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5691929-ilhan-omar-clashes-reporter-fraud/</link>
+		<title>Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of geofence warrants </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5693307-constitutionality-geofence-warrants-supreme-court/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[LindellTV]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[minnesota fraud]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Ilhan Omar]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691929</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zach Schonfeld]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[geofence warrants]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693307</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) clashed with a reporter from LindellTV on Wednesday after she asked the congresswoman about a $9 billion fraud scandal in Minnesota. The reporter walked across the Capitol grounds with Omar for the second day in a row, pressing the Minnesota representative about a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing where&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which allow law enforcement to demand companies turn over information on cellphones online at a location during a specific time window.  In a brief order, the justices said they will review a defendant’s appeal that argues such warrants violate his Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.  The case will potentially be&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T21:07:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>GOP breaks with Trump on credit card interest rate cap proposal</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5692013-gop-trump-credit-card-interest-rate-cap/</link>
+		<title>Supreme Court takes up Bayer’s bid to limit Roundup weed killer liability</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5693313-supreme-court-bayer-pesticide-liability/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sudiksha Kochi]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Many Republicans are flatly rejecting President Trump’s proposal for a one-year 10-percent cap on credit card interest rates, warning that it will be unsustainable in the long run. Trump’s proposal echoes a long-standing push by progressive Democrats and a few conservative firebrands on Capitol Hill to implement credit card interest rate caps, which would limit&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Friday took up a bid from Bayer to&#160;limit liability for pesticide makers, including Bayer’s Roundup weed killer, which has become the subject of numerous cancer suits. The court said it would take up the company’s petition, which was&#160;backed by the Trump administration.&#160; It said it would only evaluate the question of&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during meeting</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691990-maria-machado-nobel-peace-trump/</link>
+		<title>Taiwan to invest more in US chip manufacturing in new trade deal</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5693243-taiwan-trade-deal-chip-manufacturing/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[chips]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[tariffs]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Thursday that she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during their meeting at the White House. “I presented the president of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters in Washington.&#160; Machado said she told Trump that 200 years ago&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Taiwan has reached a trade agreement with the U.S., committing to a multibillion-dollar investment in American chip manufacturing in exchange for reduced tariffs, the Commerce Department announced Thursday. As part of the trade deal, Taiwanese companies will invest at least $250 billion in building out advanced semiconductor, energy and AI capacity in the U.S. The&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Panel postpones Trump ballroom review</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691854-trump-white-house-ballroom-review/</link>
+		<title>Newsom on criticism of fatal ICE shooting post: &#8216;That&#8217;s fair&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693147-newsom-criticism-ice-post/</link>
 		
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-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The Commission of Fine Arts postponed a review Thursday of President Trump&#8217;s White House ballroom, as the president has not appointed new members to replace those he fired in October. Arts commissioners were meant to meet Thursday for an &#8220;information presentation&#8221; about construction on the ballroom, The New York Times reported. The review was pushed&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday called criticism over an online post from his press office about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) &#8220;fair&#8221; after it equated the agency with state-sponsored terrorists. Newsom addressed the post on his podcast &#8220;This is Gavin Newsom&#8221; with conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, who said the post &#8220;makes our politics&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T20:44:23+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Ex-wife of Sinema aide accuses former Arizona senator of wrecking her marriage</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5691947-sinema-lawsuit-marriage-aide/</link>
+		<title>Indiana, Florida senators bet gummy bears, cafecitos on college football championship</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5693215-jim-banks-ashley-moody-bet-college-football-championship-iu-miami/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Albanese gummy bears]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[cafecitos]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[College Football playoffs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[indiana]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[senate republicans]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[University of Miami]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693215</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has been sued by the ex-wife of a former congressional aide who is accusing the onetime Arizona senator of breaking up her 14-year marriage through “intentional and malicious interference,” according to a lawsuit filed in Moore County, N.C. The plaintiff, Heather Ammel, is accusing Sinema of seducing her ex-husband, who&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sens. Ashley Moody (R-Ind.) and Jim Banks (R-Fla.) agreed to a playful bet ahead of the upcoming college football national championship game between the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Indiana University Hoosiers. The teams will face off Monday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.  Moody posted a video to social platform X on Friday&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T20:37:09+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Man shot during Portland immigration stop pleads not guilty to assaulting agent</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5691888-border-patrol-shooting-portland/</link>
+		<title>Watch: Trump to attend boulevard renaming ceremony near Mar-a-Lago</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/video-clips/5693127-watch-live-trump-sunshine-boulevard-renaming-ceremony-florida/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693127</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[A man who was injured in a shooting during an immigration stop with U.S. Border Patrol agents last week in Portland, Ore., pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that allege he assaulted law enforcement and damaged federal property, according to federal court records. Luis Nino-Moncada was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated assault on a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump&#8217;s name will soon be attached to several miles of Sunshine Boulevard in Palm Beach, Fla. The president participated in the renaming ceremony Friday after commissioners voted last summer to designate 4 miles of the stretch running from Palm Beach International Airport to his Mar-a-Lago resort as President Donald J. Trump Boulevard, with honorary&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T21:13:47+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Senators scramble as crypto fissures threaten key bill</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5691815-senate-crypto-legislation-delayed/</link>
+		<title>Mortgage rates hit lowest level in more than 3 years</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5693188-mortgage-rates-lowest-level-in-3-years/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Dorn]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[housing costs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Bankers Association]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage raTes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Realtor.com]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Redfin]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693188</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Senators are scrambling to find a way forward on key cryptocurrency legislation after the Senate Banking Committee postponed a highly anticipated markup following the loss of a major industry player’s support. Late Wednesday, Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) announced he was delaying Thursday morning’s markup of the crypto market structure bill. The Senate markup&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.06% this week — down from 7.04% a year ago.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T19:42:03+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Stephen Miller: Minnesota officials staging &#8216;insurgency against the federal government&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691618-miller-accuses-minnesota-officials-insurgency/</link>
+		<title>Harris addresses MLK event in Chicago</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5693163-mlk-day-chicago-kamala-harris/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alonzo Small]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693163/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Thursday claimed Minnesota state officials are staging &#8220;an insurgency against the federal government&#8221; as they push back on expanding federal immigration operations in Minneapolis. Miller appeared on &#8220;The Charlie Kirk Show&#8221; on Real America&#8217;s Voice and was asked if the federal government was looking at possible&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The former vice president spoke for about 20 minutes, touching on topics around the theme of “Defending Our Democracy, Protecting Our Rights.”]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T19:28:43+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump administration apologizes for deporting college student flying home for Thanksgiving</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691824-trump-administration-apologizes-deporting-student/</link>
+		<title>Exiled crown prince calls for US intervention on &#8216;instrument of repression&#8217; in Iran</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693084-iran-reza-pahlavi-us-intervention-tehran-protests/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[immigration enforcement]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[international student]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[student deportation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iranian protests]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Reza Pahlavi]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Iran relations]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693084</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration during court proceedings earlier this week apologized for deporting a student attempting to fly home for Thanksgiving break last year. Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was detained on Nov. 20 at Boston Logan International Airport before boarding a flight to surprise her family in Texas for the holiday.&#160; Lopez Belloza,&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, on Friday called for the U.S. to take decisive action against the “instrument of repression” in Tehran to stop the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests and warned against any deals with the country’s autocratic leaders. “The United States has a choice,” Pahlavi said during an event at&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T19:41:46+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump, Schumer meet on frozen New York tunnel project</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5691848-trump-schumer-meet-new-york-tunnel-project/</link>
+		<title>Tens of thousands demonstrate outside US Embassy in Cuba</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693124-cubans-protest-us-embassy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Bork]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump met with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Wednesday at Trump’s request to discuss the hold that the president put on the $16 billion Gateway tunnel project linking New York City and New Jersey. Schumer emphasized to Trump the urgent need to promptly release his hold on the major project, which has&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands gathered Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana to protest the deaths of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.  The protesters also called for the release of Maduro, a close ally of Cuba who now faces trial on drug trafficking charges in a&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Democratic Women&#8217;s Caucus commends FDA for lifting black box warning on estrogen</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5691761-hormone-therapy-fda-house-democratic-women/</link>
+		<title>38K gallons of water recalled over black &#8216;substance&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692926-meijer-38k-gallons-water-recall/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Choi]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Kutz]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[fda]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[hormone therapy]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[meijer]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[water recall]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692926</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The House Democratic Women&#8217;s Caucus (DWC) commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for lifting the black box warning on estrogen-based products for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In November, Kennedy announced that the FDA would be removing the black box warning from estrogen-based HRT&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The affected water was sold in gallon-size jugs in six states.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Zelensky pushes back on Trump: Ukraine isn&#8217;t &#8216;stumbling block to peace&#8217; </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5691763-zelensky-responds-trump-accusations-peace-deal/</link>
+		<title>Trump says Canada should do trade deals with China</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693072-trump-carney-china-trade/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded Thursday to accusations from President Trump that Ukraine was stalling a peace deal in the country’s ongoing war with Russia, saying his country will “never be a stumbling block for peace.” “Ukraine has never been and will never be a stumbling block to peace,” Zelensky posted on the social platform&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should be making a trade deal with China, an economic U.S. adversary the president has been going after during his second term. “That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>DOJ: Ban on mailing concealable firearms unconstitutional, can&#8217;t be enforced</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5691733-doj-opinion-handguns-usps/</link>
+		<title>Norwegian lawmakers rip Trump accepting Machado Nobel prize: &#8216;Embarrassing and damaging&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692902-norway-trump-machado-nobel-peace-prize-transfer/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Maduro ouster]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela oil]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[white house]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Former Putin adviser: Russia will use nuclear weapons against Europe if it &#8216;comes close to a defeat&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5691709-karaganov-russia-nuclear-war/</link>
+		<title>Machado &#8216;profoundly confident&#8217; in &#8216;orderly transition&#8217; in Venezuela after Trump meeting</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5693004-machado-venezuela-transition-trump/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Bork]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693004</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[An ally and former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Boris Yeltsin said the country could use nuclear weapons against Europe should Russia ever be on the verge of defeat in its ongoing war with Ukraine. “What is defeat of Russia? If Russia comes ever close to a defeat, that would mean&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A day after her meeting with President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the U.S. is moving toward free elections in the country, but she acknowledged it would be a “process that has several phases.” During a press conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, Machado criticized Delcy&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Senate passes trio of spending bills</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5691659-senate-passes-spending-bills/</link>
+		<title>Live updates: Trump backs off Insurrection Act threat in Minnesota amid ICE scrutiny</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691485-live-updates-trump-minnesota-ice-health-care-venezuela/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Weaver]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691659</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[The Senate on Thursday passed a package of three spending bills, hitting the halfway mark in its push to fund the government for fiscal 2026 ahead of the end-of-month deadline. Senators green-lighted the second three-bill minibus, 82-15. The package included measures to fund the Commerce, Justice, Energy and Interior departments through the end of September.&#160;&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday walked back his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act amid protests in Minnesota following last week&#8217;s fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters at the White&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T23:02:40+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Democrats across US propose state laws restricting ICE after Minneapolis shooting</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5691601-state-legislation-targets-ice-enforcement/</link>
+		<title>Trump says there&#8217;s no reason &#8216;right now&#8217; to use Insurrection Act in Minneapolis</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5693019-trump-insurrection-act-minneapolis/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5693019</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Democrats in multiple states have pushed legislation attempting to rein in federal immigration enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.  Good&#8217;s death sparked protests nationwide against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which have featured the deployment of ICE and Customs and Border Protection personnel to Democratic-run&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday there is no reason for him to invoke the Insurrection Act, one day after he threatened to use the law in the wake of demonstrations in Minneapolis.  “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters at the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/Trump_Departure.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="166229" />
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-		<title>Trump call to control Greenland &#8216;catastrophic geopolitically&#8217; for US: Ben Rhodes</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691667-rhodes-warns-trump-greenland/</link>
+		<title>Trump touts rural health fund as part of affordability push</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5692996-trump-rural-health-fund-affordability/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathaniel Weixel]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691667</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692996</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Ben Rhodes, who served as former President Obama&#8217;s deputy national security adviser, said President Trump’s push to control Greenland is “catastrophic geopolitically” for the United States and the future of the NATO alliance. In an interview on MS NOW’s “Deadline: White House,” Rhodes warned that invading Greenland — which is under NATO protection by virtue&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday touted a targeted $50 billion rural health fund as evidence of his administration’s commitment to helping rural communities improve health care costs and access, part of a White House push to focus on affordability ahead of November&#8217;s midterm elections.  The fund was added as a last-minute sweetener to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and as a backstop for&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>US Embassy in Qatar urging increased caution amid Trump rhetoric on Iran</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5691412-us-embassy-qatar-advises-caution/</link>
+		<title>If the justices don&#8217;t reinforce their Janus ruling soon, unions will ignore it to death</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/labor/5692251-janus-ruling-union-opposition/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Rhodes, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Congress Blog]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Congress Blog - Labor]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Big Labor]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[government employees]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Janus v. AFSCME]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[organized labor]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692251</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME affirmed the First Amendment rights of public employees to opt out of union participation, but the justices have refused to revisit and enforce the ruling as unions have adopted countermeasures to circumvent it.]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:41:49+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+	</item>
+		<item>
+		<title>White House, bipartisan governors call on biggest US grid operator to lower prices</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5692935-pjm-power-bills-energy-prices/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692935</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Embassy in Qatar advised personnel Wednesday to exercise increased caution as President Trump warns of military action in Iran amid rising tensions between both countries and the suppression of anti-government protesters. The embassy also advised personnel to limit any nonessential travel to Al Udeid Air Base, officials said in a post on social&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration and a group of bipartisan governors are trying to pressure the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to bring down electric prices, especially in the wake of heavy demand from data centers. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright were joined Friday by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Maryland Gov.&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T21:01:16+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T23:22:18+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>NCAA says 40 athletes from 20 schools investigated for sports rigging over past year</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5691506-ncaa-college-sports-betting-scandal/</link>
+		<title>Virginia Senate passes redistricting amendment, teeing up special election</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5690530-virginia-congressional-map-redraw/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominick Mastrangelo]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691506</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690530</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The NCAA says it has investigated more than three dozen student athletes from 20 schools in connection with game rigging and point shaving in the last year. The new numbers from the intercollegiate body come just hours after federal prosecutors in Philadelphia unsealed an indictment charging more than 20 men with conspiracy to rig games&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Virginia state Senate Democrats passed their redistricting constitutional amendment Friday, putting the party one step closer to redrawing the Old Dominion’s congressional lines. Democrats in the upper chamber passed a constitutional amendment for a second time that would allow lawmakers to redraw Virginia’s House map and temporarily bypass the state’s redistricting commission. The measure is&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T20:14:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/virginia-state-capitol_rva_010820ap_virginia.jpeg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="1213488" />
+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T18:29:35+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump administration, Honduras launching trade talks, Greer says</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691407-bilateral-trade-us-honduras/</link>
+		<title>America is sleepwalking into socialism </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5692120-democratic-socialism-rise-america/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Honduras]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691407</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Socialists of America]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692120</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration on Thursday said it has launched trade talks with Honduras as it increases the U.S.&#8217;s presence in Latin America.  On Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with Honduran President-elect Nasry “Tito” Asfura, who was backed by President Trump throughout the campaign season. The two discussed future bilateral trade and economic opportunities,&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Democratic socialism is gaining traction among younger Americans due to their dissatisfaction with capitalism, which has failed to provide basic security, and is being championed by figures like Zohran Mamdani, whose focus on food insecurity, housing  and public goods has resonated with voters.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T18:23:18+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Administration reinstates mental, substance abuse grants 1 day after canceling them</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5690488-trump-administration-restores-samhsa-grants/</link>
+		<title>Trump to pardon former Puerto Rico governor</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692864-trump-to-pardon-former-puerto-rico-governor/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Choi]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692864</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (R), a White House official confirmed to The Hill.&#160; Vázquez Garced, who was governor of the U.S. territory from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020 campaign.&#160; In August, Vázquez Garced pleaded guilty to accepting a&#8230;]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T19:53:48+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+		<title>Trump sharpens health care affordability message for midterms</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/1230-report/5692872-trump-rural-health-care-midterms/</link>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cate Martel]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[12:30 Report]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692872</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration restored mental health and substance abuse grants one day after abruptly canceling them, with Democrats blasting the chaos caused by the ordeal. Late on Tuesday, recipients of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grants were informed that their funding had been canceled, with communication reportedly stating their missions no longer&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[12:30 Report is The Hill&#8217;s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Friday! President Trump’s inauguration weekend was exactly a year ago now. Part of me feels like that was just yesterday but most of me feels like it’s been two or three years! In today&#8217;s issue: Programming note: The Hill’s 12:30 Report will not publish Monday&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>&#8216;The danger is real&#8217;: Texas officials are latest to warn of spike in &#8216;mystery seed&#8217; deliveries</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5691315-the-danger-is-real-texas-officials-are-latest-to-warn-of-spike-in-mystery-seed-deliveries/</link>
+		<title>Walz appeals for deescalation amid Minneapolis chaos </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5692863-trump-insurrection-act-threat/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy Tanner]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691315</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692863</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA["They may look innocent, but the danger is real," Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller warned. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Right now, Minnesota feels like a pressure cooker — what’s happening there is bigger than one city, one governor or one president. It’s a snapshot of what happens when immigration becomes a political weapon instead of a policy problem that demands grown-up solutions.   Gov.&#160;Tim Walz tried to lower the temperature as tensions escalated in Minneapolis, urging protesters to remain peaceful&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Watch live: Trump welcomes Florida Panthers to White House</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/video-clips/5691370-watch-live-donald-trump-florida-panthers-white-house-visit/</link>
+		<title>Mother of Musk child sues over Grok sexualized images</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5692810-grok-ai-sexualized-images/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691370</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Shapero]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Ai deepfakes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[artificial intellgience]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Ashley St. Clair]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Grok]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692810</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump is set to honor the 2025 Stanley Cup champions Thursday afternoon at the White House. The Florida Panthers won their second-consecutive championship last June, defeating the Edmonton Oilers across six games. The Panthers visited with Trump last year to mark their 2024 Stanley Cup win against the Oilers. The president was awarded with&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, is suing the tech billionaire’s AI company, xAI, after its chatbot Grok produced sexualized images of her. St. Clair filed suit against xAI in New York state court Thursday, alleging that Grok generated images of her “as a child stripped down to a string&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:49:06+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Pentagon moving carrier strike group toward Middle East amid tensions with Iran</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5691421-defense-department-carrier-strike-group-iran-tensions/</link>
+		<title>Maybe we actually should trust the experts</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5691557-kennedy-jr-distrust-experts/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[aircraft carriers]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[USS Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691421</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Moher, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Healthcare]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Medical Experts]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Public health emergencies]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Robert F Kennedy, Jr.]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[scientists]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691557</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon on Thursday said it is moving a carrier strike group from the South China Sea toward the Middle East as tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to rise. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group were spotted moving west away from the Indo-Pacific region, according to&#160;images from Copernicus, a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[We would never trust a random person with no credentials to fix our cars, so why would we trust them with our physical or mental health?]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:30:26+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Farah Griffin: Trump invoking Insurrection Act could trigger &#8216;tremendous clashes&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691381-farah-griffin-trump-insurrection-act/</link>
+		<title>Trump adviser suggests 10 percent interest &#8216;Trump cards&#8217; in lieu of legislative cap</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692816-trump-proposal-credit-card-cap/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Davis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692816</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Alyssa Farah Griffin warned against President Trump’s suggestion Thursday that he could invoke the Insurrection Act to militarize federal troops in Minnesota, saying it could result in “tremendous clashes” in the state.&#160; The president posted Thursday on Truth Social that he was prepared to “institute the INSURRECTION ACT” to “quickly put an end to the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump&#8217;s economic adviser said Friday that the administration has been in touch with major banks regarding the administration’s proposal to temporarily cap credit card interest rates amid concerns about its long-term economic impact. &#160; Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration expects banks to voluntarily provide “Trump cards” to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T21:08:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Sally Yates backs Jason Esteves in Georgia governor&#8217;s race</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5691393-esteves-wins-yates-endorsement/</link>
+		<title>Trump casts doubt on Kevin Hassett Fed nomination: &#8216;We don&#8217;t want to lose him&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5692734-trump-hesitant-nominate-hasset-fed/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691393</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvan Lane]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[federal reserve]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Hassett]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692734</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced Thursday she’s backing former state Georgia Sen. Jason Esteves (D) for governor. &#8220;I am endorsing Jason Esteves for governor because this moment calls for strong leadership and a strong governor who will fight against Donald Trump’s destructive agenda. Under Trump, Georgia is in crisis — costs are high,&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said Friday he was hesitant to nominate his top White House economic adviser to chair the Federal Reserve, suggesting he might be going in a different direction. During remarks at a White House health care event, Trump praised Kevin Hassett — director of the National Economic Council and a finalist for the Fed&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T19:37:12+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:29:30+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump attacks on Jerome Powell testing Fed&#8217;s independence </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5691399-fed-independence-political-pressure/</link>
+		<title>Trump baffles global allies with his interest in Greenland</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5690997-greenland-trump-military-threats/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bernard Goldberg, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691399</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[denmark]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Miller]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690997</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[What we’re watching right now is a tug-of-war between short-term political wins to help Republicans in the midterms and long-term economic stability. Undercutting the Fed may feel like relief in the moment, but history shows it can lead to higher inflation, market instability and deeper pain for us all down the road.  ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for national security purposes, and has threatened to use the U.S. Military to do so if necessary, despite the fact that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and has its own government and culture.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T21:09:37+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T19:36:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Thomas Massie destroys Laura Loomer&#8217;s reporter on Epstein, forever wars </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5691357-trump-massie-loomer-feud/</link>
+		<title>Iran cleric calls for executions, threatens Trump</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692740-iran-protest-execution-khatami/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robby Soave, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Robby's Radar]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691357</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[execution]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Iran protests]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Republic]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692740</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Loomer doesn’t want people who think for themselves, she wants a Republican Party that votes in lockstep with her vision of Donald Trump. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric in Iran, on Friday called for the execution of protesters across Tehran as the government seeks to stifle demonstrations in the capital. “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!” Khatami said in a sermon carried across state radio, according to The Associated Press. Khatami also offered pointed words for&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T21:10:08+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:21:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>US sanctions Iranian officials accused of repressing protests</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5691294-us-sanctions-iranian-officials-protests/</link>
+		<title>Vulnerable Republicans join Trump to tout rural health care plan</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692760-trump-rural-health-roundtable/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophie Brams]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692760</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[A number of Republicans facing uphill reelection bids in November were present at the White House for a rural health care roundtable with President Trump on Friday.&#160; The roundtable follows the administration announcing that $10 billion would be invested in states’ rural health care under the Rural Health Care Transformation Program last month.&#160; “I hope&#8230;]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:26:22+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+		<title>Trump floats slapping tariffs on countries against US acquiring Greenland</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692713-trump-tariffs-greenland-territory/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692713</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs.&#160; “I went through country after country,” Trump said at&#8230;]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:40:36+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+		<item>
+		<title>CIA director met with Venezuela’s leader in Caracas as Trump huddled with Machado</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5692708-john-ratcliffe-cia-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez-meeting/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[cia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Delcy Rodriguez]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Maduro ouster]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[venezuelan oil]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692708</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration announced new sanctions Thursday against Iranian officials, as tension rises between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran&#8217;s continued suppression of anti-government protests. The Treasury Department said the levies will target “the architects of the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators” and the “shadow banking networks” alleged to be helping wealthy Iranians&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House.&#160; Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Army Special Forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Don’t let Treasury turn crypto reporting into a global surveillance dragnet </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5690265-oecd-carf-threatens-privacy/</link>
+		<title>White liberals are Jasmine Crockett’s biggest obstacle to the Senate</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5691340-crockett-texas-senate-challenge/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Michel and Aharon Friedman, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dallas S. Jones, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5690265</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Amy McGrath]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Charles Booker]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[James Talarico]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Jasmine Crockett]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Jasmine Crockett]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Royce West]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691340</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department is preparing regulations to implement the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, which would require crypto exchanges and wallet providers to collect and share detailed personal and transaction data with foreign governments, raising privacy concerns.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[There's no avoiding it: White liberal voters often dismiss qualified candidates of color, especially Black candidates, as unelectable.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T13:52:05+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T19:27:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Cook Political Report shifts 18 House races toward Democrats</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5691280-cook-report-democrats-house-momentum/</link>
+		<title>X outages reported days after thousands briefly affected</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5692678-x-platform-outage-reported/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Mueller]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[congressional races]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Cook Political Report]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House races]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[rating changes]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691280</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[X outage]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692678</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Cook Political Report on Thursday shifted 18 House races toward Democrats in the latest sign of the party’s momentum ahead of the midterms.&#160; Citing President Trump’s unpopular polling numbers and Democrats’ winning streak in recent special elections, the nonpartisan election handicapper has projected that Democrats have “more than enough opportunities” to win a majority&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error message. Some have also reported issues with the website and server connection, according to Downdetector. As of 10:42 a.m. EST Friday, Downdetector had received 53,482 reports of outages on X.  The issues on Friday follow a brief Tuesday outage&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T19:28:42+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T16:22:08+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Maine officials expecting ICE operations soon</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5691198-maine-officials-warn-ice-immigration-action/</link>
+		<title>Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin asks for prosecutors to be disqualified</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692630-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-shooter-prosecution/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Gov. janet Mills]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Maine ICE operations]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[undocumented immigrants]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5691198</guid>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Death penalty]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Gray]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Tony Graf]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Robinson]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Utah Valley University]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692630</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Maine officials on Wednesday warned residents they were expecting federal immigration authorities to arrive in the state in the coming days. The potential action follows days of unrest in Minnesota and Oregon, including a fatal shooting in Minneapolis that prompted sometimes violent protests. “To the Federal government I say this: if your plan is to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was shot, according to The Associated&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2026-01-15T19:53:20+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T16:33:52+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+		<item>
+		<title>History is clear: Gun carry regulation was always the norm </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5689653-historical-gun-laws-supreme-court/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert J. Spitzer, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Judiciary]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5689653</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[In its deficient reading of history, the Supreme Court seems to have missed this lesson. ]]></description>
+		
+		
+		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:06:26+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+	</item>
+		<item>
+		<title>Trump will make good on his threat to intervene in Iran</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5689136-trump-will-make-good-on-his-threat-to-intervene-in-iran/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dov Zakheim, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - National Security]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5689136</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[Washington has multiple options.]]></description>
+		
+		
+		
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T16:21:19+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+	</item>
+		<item>
+		<title>Renee Good shooting recounted in 911 transcripts, incident report</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5692526-renee-good-shooting-recounted-in-911-transcripts-incident-report/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Kutz]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5692526</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[One caller told dispatch, "They just shot a lady, point-blank range in her car."]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2026-01-16T17:10:12+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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