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Electrical issue that grounded Trump’s flight raises questions about aging Air Force One aircraft

By Alexandra Skores
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2026, 3:49 PM ET

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President Donald Trump gestures as he boarded Air Force One hoping to leave Washington for Switzerland on Tuesday in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The plane would ultimately turn back.

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The “electrical issue” aboard Air Force One Tuesday night that forced President Donald Trump’s Europe-bound plane to turn back is raising troubling questions about the age of the decades-old aircraft flying the president.

The Air Force has long been working to upgrade the aging fleet, and Trump has been pushing for changes to the Air Force One program dating back to his first term.

The plane that needed to turn back, a Boeing 747-200B, landed safely in Maryland just after 11 p.m. ET. It is a part of the Air Force’s VC-25A program that includes Air Force One. Trump was in a replacement aircraft roughly an hour later, en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The plane turned back to Joint Base Andrews out of an abundance of caution, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“This has to be one of the best maintained planes in the world,” said Mary Schiavo, CNN transportation analyst. “But there are things on every aircraft where when that warning light comes on you have to turn around and go back and address it.”

The plane in question was first deployed in 1991, according to the Air Force. It’s one of two Boeing planes commissioned to fly the president. Both are more than three decades old and have been long ridiculed by Trump, who wants new ones.

But it’s going to take some more time to get a new plane.

Boeing’s contract to replace two Air Force One jets had an original delivery date of 2022, but that has come and gone with no new plane.

Trump also has his donated Qatari jet in production, which he previously predicted could be ready for his usage by February, however there have been no indications that the plane is about to join the fleet.

Updates on new planes

Trump has long-awaited new planes for presidential use. There are a few different planes that are part of the discussion at this point in addition to the Qatari plane.

The Air Force announced in December it would purchase two additional Boeing jets from the German carrier Lufthansa to support its future presidential airlift program, with delivery dates slated for this year, indicating they’d be used mostly for training.

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At a price tag of $400 million, the Air Force said in a statement that it is “procuring two aircraft to support training and spares for the 747-8 fleet” as it prepares to replace the 747-200 models that currently serve as Air Force One in the coming years.

The first plane will be delivered early this year and the second is expected to be delivered before the end of 2026. If the Air Force were to add the planes to the presidential fleet, it will likely take significant time.

Refurbishments on commercial jets that don’t have the strict and complicated requirements of Air Force One can take weeks or months depending on how much work needs to be done and the age of the aircraft. For example, according to aviation website Simply Flying, certain maintenance checks involving the complete disassembly of a plane are done every six to 12 years. That comprehensive inspection typically takes between three to six weeks.

The main replacement option is two additional Boeing 747 planes that were initially intended to be commercial jets but are now being modified in San Antonio as part of the VC-25B program. According to the military, the new planes are expected to “serve as a flying White House for the next 30 years,” replacing the current two.

The new modifications to the 747-8 aircraft are expected to include electrical power upgrades, a mission communication system, a medical facility, executive interior and autonomous ground operations capabilities.

On December 12, the Air Force awarded a $15.5 million modification to its existing contract with Boeing for the VC-25B program. The award brings the face value of the contract to over $4.3 billion.

As of now, the first VC-25B aircraft is projected to be delivered in mid-2028, a timeline that would put the delivery just before the end of Trump’s second term.

Track record of presidential aircraft

Tuesday night’s incident is also not the first time one of the president’s aircraft has endured problems. This week’s incident was the second time in recent months Trump has been forced to turn to a backup aircraft.

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Things are unloaded from Air Force One after the plane, carrying President Donald Trump to the World Economic Form in Davos, experienced a minor electrical issue after departure, Tuesday, and returned to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.

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During a September visit to the United Kingdom, Trump and first lady Melania Trump safely boarded a support helicopter after the one they were traveling in experienced a hydraulic issue and was forced to land at a local airfield, Leavitt announced at the time.

To resume his trip to Switzerland, the president switched Tuesday to a Boeing C-32A, the US Air Force version of the twin-engine 757 jetliner, often used by the first lady or Cabinet members. The Air Force has four C-32s in its fleet.

The plane that turned the president around Tuesday has a storied history.

On September 11, 2001, former President George W. Bush was interrupted during an event at a Florida elementary school after the attack on the World Trade Center South Tower in New York City and was hurried to the plane. It flew the president to an Air Force base near Shreveport, Louisiana, according to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, then to a secure bunker on an Air Force base in Nebraska.

It later transported the former president to Washington, DC, where he addressed the nation hours later.

It also once flew Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush to Israel for the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, according to the Air Force.

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Former DOJ official urges pro sports leagues to create internal watchdog to police illegal gambling

January 21, 2026 / 9:50 PM EST / CBS News

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In the hours before his game, on a mild February night in 2024 inside the on-campus Corbett sports center in Greensboro, North Carolina, Camian Shell allegedly sent a heart emoji in response to a text message he’d just received. By the end of the game, Shell’s North Carolina A&T men’s basketball team would suffer a huge halftime deficit and an eventual 84-58 defeat.

Shell’s heart emoji is now evidence in one of the largest and most sweeping federal investigations into alleged point shaving in college sports.

Shell, who pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last week in Philadelphia federal court, is one of more than a dozen college athletes accused of accepting bribes from gamblers to take a dive and deliberately tank their performance on the court.

According to charging documents, a co-conspirator texted Shell a request to shave points before one February 2024 game. Prosecutors alleged Shell sent the emoji in response to the text and “underperformed in and influenced the first half as they had agreed.”

The conspiracy allegedly corrupted nearly 30 NCAA basketball games in 2024 and 2025.

The case comes just months after two Major League Baseball pitchers were charged with allegedly rigging individual pitches, in an alleged conspiracy with gamblers. In recent months, an NBA player has also been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring with gamblers to underperform on the court, to help bettors secure victorious wagers.

This series of high-profile cases — which follow a rapid nationwide expansion of legal sports gambling — has triggered calls for the leagues to create and empower an internal investigative agency to police for illicit gambling schemes and misconduct by players and other employees.

One proposal, released by former federal corruption prosecutor Carolyn Pokorny, recommends an “inspector general for sports integrity,” which is funded by the leagues but operates independently.

“When your reputation and your business model are at stake, you just can’t investigate yourself credibly. You need someone with independence to do it,” Pokorny told CBS News.

Pokorny said the recent criminal sports gambling investigations by the Justice Department have exposed vulnerabilities in the major sports leagues and risk damaging the sports’ brands.

Pokorny, who previously oversaw sports gaming cases in the Eastern District of New York, said the Justice Department has only limited bandwidth to root out unlawful gaming in sports.

Pokorny told CBS News, “Those kinds of prosecutions are really critical. But you have to keep in mind that prosecutors are stretched very thin, and they have a huge mandate. They’re handling terrorism, drug cartels and human trafficking. They are not the sports integrity police.”

In a December op-ed for Bloomberg Law, Pokorny pointed to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a private oversight body funded by Wall Street firms, as a “working model for how this could be done.” Pokorny said the leagues could work in collaboration to have a single inspector general monitoring for suspicious wagers, patterns or actions. She said any individual league could also do so on its own.

She compared the proposed inspector general to government inspectors general offices, which have full-time attorneys and auditing specialists who conduct audits, inspections and investigations to root out waste, fraud and abuse. They also monitor for misconduct and vulnerabilities to fraud and criminal misconduct.

In response to a request for comment on Pokorny’s proposal, the NCAA pointed to its existing enforcement efforts, which it described as “one of the largest integrity monitoring programs in the world.” The collegiate sports organization also noted that it has called for an end to “prop bets,” or wagers on things other than a game’s final outcome, including the performance of individual players. The NCAA said prop bets pose “integrity risks.”

The NFL and MLB declined to comment to CBS News. The NBA and NHL did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Justice Department’s NCAA basketball gambling investigation required nearly two years to fully uncover, spanning 26 criminal defendants. Most of the games that were allegedly impacted took place in early 2024. Prosecutors said the bribes could range between $10,000 and $30,000 per game. The people behind the alleged scheme are accused of finding games in which a corrupted player was on a team that was favored to lose and then bribing the player to deliberately underperform during the game and not cover the point spread.

Games involving the following teams were allegedly rigged or impacted, investigators say: North Carolina A&T, Towson, Abilene Christian, Alabama State, Butler, DePaul, Duquesne, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Fordham, Georgetown, Kennesaw State, Kent State, La Salle, McNeese State, Nicholls State, Ohio University, St. Louis University, St. John’s, SUNY Buffalo, Tulane and Western Michigan University.

An attorney for Shell would not comment when reached by CBS News.

In response to the case, NCAA President Charlie Baker issued a statement which, in part, said the revelations were “not entirely new information to the NCAA.”

“Through helpful collaboration and with industry regulators, we have finished or have open investigations into almost all of the teams in today’s indictment,” Baker said at the time.

An internal investigation by the NBA also led the league to ban Toronto Raptors center Jontay Porter in April 2024 for allegedly giving information about his health status to gamblers. Porter pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy later that year.

Pokorny told CBS News that internal investigations by the professional leagues and NCAA are helpful but not sufficient to root out the spread of gambling schemes.

“It’s private industry. They can do what they want,” she said, referring to the idea of appointing an independent inspector general. “I think they can do this today, and the business case for doing it [in] sports betting is: It’s a multi-billion dollar industry to protect.”

Sports business reporter John Ourand, who covers the leagues, media and industry for digital news outlet Puck, said there is still little, if any, indication the sports gambling cases have hurt the bottom lines of pro sports leagues or NCAA — at least not yet.

Ourand told CBS News, “No matter what metric you’re taking a look at — attendance, sponsorships or TV viewership — people are still watching college sports.”

英国推无人机学位课程 培养未来军事技术人才 | 联合早报

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英国推无人机学位课程 培养未来军事技术人才

英国武装部队负责人说，俄乌战争中无人机造成的伤亡已超过火炮，凸显了现代战争的新形态。图为基辅一栋居民楼去年12月27日遭俄军无人机和导弹袭击后严重受损。 （法新社）

英国国防部与教育部星期三（1月21日）宣布，今年9月将开设首个国防专项无人机本科学位课程，旨在为英军培养先进无人机技术专业人才。

中新社报道，这项在赫里福德新型技术与工程学院（NMITE）开设的课程为期三年，由英国陆军投入资金支持，每年计划招收15名非军人学生和五名军人学员。

据报道，课程内容借鉴俄乌战争中的实战经验，聚焦无人系统操作、防御及相关STEM（科学、技术、工程、数学）技能培养，毕业生将同时具备军事应用与民用商业领域的无人机技术研发能力。

英国国防部说，这项课程比传统大学工程硕士课程缩短一年，学员可更快进入专业领域就业。

英国武装部队负责人说，俄乌战争中无人机造成的伤亡已超过火炮，凸显现代战争的新形态。这一学位课程为青年工程师提供了通往前沿领域的快车道。

该课程是英国《战略防务评估》的重要组成部分，目标通过人工智能（AI）、无人机及自主系统技术，使英军大幅提升战斗力。

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英国推无人机学位课程 培养未来军事技术人才 | 联合早报

发布/2026年1月22日 10:07

英国推无人机学位课程 培养未来军事技术人才

英国武装部队负责人说，俄乌战争中无人机造成的伤亡已超过火炮，凸显了现代战争的新形态。图为基辅一栋居民楼去年12月27日遭俄军无人机和导弹袭击后严重受损。 （法新社）

英国国防部与教育部星期三（1月21日）宣布，今年9月将开设首个国防专项无人机本科学位课程，旨在为英军培养先进无人机技术专业人才。

中新社报道，这项在赫里福德新型技术与工程学院（NMITE）开设的课程为期三年，由英国陆军投入资金支持，每年计划招收15名非军人学生和五名军人学员。

据报道，课程内容借鉴俄乌战争中的实战经验，聚焦无人系统操作、防御及相关STEM（科学、技术、工程、数学）技能培养，毕业生将同时具备军事应用与民用商业领域的无人机技术研发能力。

英国国防部说，这项课程比传统大学工程硕士课程缩短一年，学员可更快进入专业领域就业。

英国武装部队负责人说，俄乌战争中无人机造成的伤亡已超过火炮，凸显现代战争的新形态。这一学位课程为青年工程师提供了通往前沿领域的快车道。

该课程是英国《战略防务评估》的重要组成部分，目标通过人工智能（AI）、无人机及自主系统技术，使英军大幅提升战斗力。

英国 无人机

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As U.S. is poised to lose measles-free status, RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy downplays its significance

January 21, 2026 / 9:07 PM EST / KFF Health News

After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ralph Abraham, said he was unbothered by the prospect at a briefing for journalists this week.

“It’s just the cost of doing business with our borders being somewhat porous for global and international travel,” Abraham said. “We have these communities that choose to be unvaccinated. That’s their personal freedom.”

Infections from other countries, however, accounted for only about 10% of measles cases detected since Jan. 20, 2025, the official start of the deadly measles outbreak in West Texas, which spread to other states and Mexico. The rest were acquired domestically. This marks a change since the U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. Measles occasionally popped up in the U.S. from people infected abroad, but the cases rarely sparked outbreaks, because of extremely high rates of vaccination. Two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine strongly prevent infection and halt the virus’s spread.

To maintain its measles elimination status, the U.S. must prove that the virus has not circulated continuously in the nation for a year, between Jan. 20, 2025, and Jan. 20, 2026. To answer the question, scientists are examining whether the major outbreaks in South Carolina, Utah, Arizona, and Texas were linked.

Health officials confirmed that the main measles virus strain in each of these outbreaks is D8-9171. But because this strain also occurs in Canada and Mexico, CDC scientists are now analyzing the entire genomes of measles viruses — about 16,000 genetic letters long — to see whether those in the United States are more closely related to one another than to those in different countries.

The CDC expects to complete its studies within a couple of months and make the data public. Then the Pan American Health Organization, which oversees the Americas in partnership with the World Health Organization, will decide whether the U.S. will lose its measles elimination status. And that would mean that costly, potentially deadly, and preventable measles outbreaks could become common again.

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“When you hear somebody like Abraham say ‘the cost of doing business,’ how can you be more callous,” said pediatrician and vaccine specialist Paul Offit, in an online discussion hosted by the health blog Inside Medicine on Jan. 20. “Three people died of measles last year in this country,” Offit added. “We eliminated this virus in the year 2000 — eliminated it. Eliminated circulation of the most contagious human infection. That was something to be proud of.”

Abraham said vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent measles but that parents must have the freedom to decide whether to vaccinate their children. Several states have loosened school vaccine requirements since 2020, and vaccine rates have dropped. A record rate of kindergartners, representing about 138,000 children, obtained vaccine exemptions for the 2024-25 school year.

Information on vaccines has been muddied by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who previously founded an anti-vaccine organization. He has undermined vaccines throughout his tenure. On national television, he has repeated scientifically debunked rumors that vaccines may cause autism, brain swelling, and death.

Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, disparaged the Trump administration’s focus on finding genetic technicalities that may spare the country’s measles-free status. “This is the wrong thing to pay attention to. Our attention has to be on stopping the outbreaks,” she said.

“If we keep our status, it should be because we have stopped the spread of measles,” she said. “It’s like they’re trying to be graded on a curve.”

The Trump administration impeded the CDC’s ability to assist West Texas during the first critical weeks of its outbreak and slowed the release of federal emergency funds, according to KFF Health News investigations. However, the agency stepped up its activity last year, providing local health departments with measles vaccines, communication materials, and testing. Abraham said HHS would give South Carolina $1.5 million to respond to its outbreak, which began nearly four months ago and had reached 646 cases as of Jan. 20.

If the CDC’s genomic analyses show that last year’s outbreaks resulted from separate introductions from abroad, political appointees will probably credit Kennedy for saving the country’s status, said Demetre Daskalakis, a former director of the CDC’s national immunization center, who resigned in protest of Kennedy’s actions in August.

And if studies suggest the outbreaks are linked, Daskalakis predicted, the administration will cast doubt on the findings and downplay the reversal of the country’s status: “They’ll say, who cares.”

Indeed, at the briefing, Abraham told a reporter from Stat that a reversal in the nation’s status would not be significant: “Losing elimination status does not mean that the measles would be widespread.”

Data shows otherwise. Case counts last year were the highest since 1991, before the government enacted vaccine policies to ensure that all children could be protected with measles immunization.

Lauren Sausser contributed reporting.

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Judge orders redrawing of a NYC congressional district, potentially costing Republicans a key seat

By Associated Press
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PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2026, 6:08 PM ET

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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, at the US Capitol in June 2025.

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Albany, New York AP—

A judge on Wednesday threw out the boundaries of the only congressional seat in New York City represented by a Republican, ordering the state to redraw the district on the grounds that its current composition unconstitutionally diluted the votes of Black and Hispanic residents.

Republicans are expected to appeal the decision, as a new front opens in a national gerrymandering battle that has both political parties jockeying for advantage in the fight over control of the US House.

About a third of states have considered redrawing their House districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for Republicans to craft new congressional lines to help his party hold onto its narrow House majority in this year’s midterms. Democrats countered by launching their own redistricting efforts, though they have sometimes been hampered by laws they passed intended to prevent partisan gerrymandering.

In New York, Judge Jeffrey Pearlman handed Democrats an early win in the fight, ruling that a district held by Republican US Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in southern Brooklyn and Staten Island should be reconfigured.

The case, filed by an election law firm aligned with the Democratic Party, argued the current lines of the district were drawn without accounting for a rise in Staten Island’s Black and Latino residents, thereby diluting their voting power.

Republicans had bashed the lawsuit as a clear effort to game the district to help Democrats and eliminate one of the few remaining GOP districts in the state.

In a statement, Malliotakis said, “This is a frivolous attempt by Washington Democrats to steal this congressional seat from the people and we are very confident that we will prevail at the end of the day.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, had vowed to wade into the national redistricting fight but had few legislative avenues to substantially change the state’s congressional lines before the election.

The state’s current map was drawn by Democrats in the state Legislature and signed into law by the governor, designed to give their party a boost in a few battleground districts ahead of the 2024 elections. Democrats picked up a few seats in New York under that map, though Republicans eventually won a House majority.

消息：特朗普政府计划年底前颠覆古巴政权

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1月16日，古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔在哈瓦那的美国大使馆外挥着古巴国旗，抗议美国在加勒比海地区的侵略行为。 （路透社）

消息人士透露，美国特朗普政府正在古巴政府内部寻找“内线”，试图在今年底前颠覆古巴政权。

综合新华社报道，《华尔街日报》星期三（1月21日）引述知情人士和美国高级官员的话说，特朗普政府尚无具体计划，但美国政府官员私下认为，对委内瑞拉的军事行动是对古巴的“警告”。

报道称，美国企图通过切断委内瑞拉对古巴的石油供应重创古巴经济、削弱古巴政权。

当前，古巴和美国关系处于高度紧张状态。本月初，美国对委内瑞拉发动大规模军事打击。特朗普随后暗示，古巴可能成为美国下一个关注目标，并威胁称，若失去委内瑞拉石油供应，古巴将难以“支撑”。

特朗普11日再次对古巴施压，称若古巴不尽快“达成协议”，将面临“零石油、零资金”流入的局面。

古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔则说，古巴不会主动攻击和威胁任何国家，但已做好准备捍卫每一寸国土。

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Trump slams UK island handoff deal that could put key US military base at risk

Published January 21, 2026 6:25pm EST

Diego Garcia is a threat to Beijing’s strategy to control shipping lanes between oil-rich Middle East and China’s industrial heartland, defense expert says

By Emma Bussey
Fox News

President Donald Trump dramatically reversed course Tuesday on a U.K. plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while warning it could jeopardize U.S. access to the Diego Garcia military base.

Trump’s reversal highlights what a defense expert called a “new Trump Doctrine” before linking the president’s opposition to the Chagos deal with his Greenland push and citing fears Mauritius could later back out.

Writing on his Truth Social platform Tuesday, Trump called the U.K.’s Chagos decision “an act of great stupidity.”

“Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,” Trump wrote. “There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.”

TRUMP ISSUES STERN WARNING TO NATO AHEAD OF VANCE’S HIGH-STAKES GREENLAND MEETING

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President Trump linked the opposition to a Diego Garcia transfer with his push to acquire Greenland from Denmark.(Planet Labs PBC)

“Trump has done a 180, partly because of the U.K.’s support for Denmark’s sovereign claims over Greenland and partly because of a new strategy outlined by the White House,” John Hemmings, director of the National Security Center at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.

“These moves are linked and part of a ‘new Trump Doctrine’” outlined in November’s National Security Strategy,” he explained.

“Diego Garcia is a potential threat to Beijing’s strategy to control vital shipping lanes between the oil-rich Middle East and China’s industrial heartland,” he added, describing how “nearly 23.7 million barrels of oil transit the Indian Ocean every day, with the base being vital in any U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan.”

TRUMP TELLS DAVOS US ALONE CAN SECURE GREENLAND, INSISTS HE WON’T ‘USE FORCE’

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In a separate post, Trump explicitly linked the Chagos dispute to his Greenland push.

“The U.K. giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of national security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired,” Trump wrote.

The Chagos Islands were separated from Mauritius during Britain’s decolonization process, a move the International Court of Justice ruled unlawful in 2019.

The U.K. later agreed to transfer sovereignty while leasing Diego Garcia back for at least 99 years at a cost of at least $160 million annually.

Diego Garcia is a hub for long-range bombers, logistics and power projection across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and Africa. Around 2,500 personnel, mostly American, are stationed there.

TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON GREENLAND PUSH AS POLLS SHOW LITTLE PUBLIC SUPPORT

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Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, was leased from the U.K. in 1966.(Reuters)

“If Mauritius were to offer the islands to China after taking de jure control, it would put immense pressure on the U.S. in the eyes of international public opinion,” Hemmings explained.

“After all, once Mauritius has de jure sovereignty, it can renegotiate the lease terms or even renege on the treaty at any time it wants.

“It might also provide access to the exclusive economic zone, with all of its rich fishing grounds, to Chinese fishing fleets, adding another layer of risk to U.S. Air Force operations around the island,” Hemmings said.

“At this moment, the U.S. base at Diego Garcia is thought to be secure, with Mauritius promising the U.K. (and by proxy, the U.S.) a 99-year lease, which will not, it is supposed, interfere with the operations of the air base at all. But the devil is in the details.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.

Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.

消息：特朗普政府计划年底前颠覆古巴政权 | 联合早报

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消息：特朗普政府计划年底前颠覆古巴政权

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1月16日，古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔在哈瓦那的美国大使馆外挥着古巴国旗，抗议美国在加勒比海地区的侵略行为。 （路透社）

消息人士透露，美国特朗普政府正在古巴政府内部寻找“内线”，试图在今年底前颠覆古巴政权。

综合新华社报道，《华尔街日报》星期三（1月21日）引述知情人士和美国高级官员的话说，特朗普政府尚无具体计划，但美国政府官员私下认为，对委内瑞拉的军事行动是对古巴的“警告”。

报道称，美国企图通过切断委内瑞拉对古巴的石油供应重创古巴经济、削弱古巴政权。

当前，古巴和美国关系处于高度紧张状态。本月初，美国对委内瑞拉发动大规模军事打击。特朗普随后暗示，古巴可能成为美国下一个关注目标，并威胁称，若失去委内瑞拉石油供应，古巴将难以“支撑”。

特朗普11日再次对古巴施压，称若古巴不尽快“达成协议”，将面临“零石油、零资金”流入的局面。

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古巴国家主席迪亚斯-卡内尔则说，古巴不会主动攻击和威胁任何国家，但已做好准备捍卫每一寸国土。

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ICE officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says

Published Jan 21, 2026, 5:55 PM ET / Updated Jan 22, 2026, 2:57 AM ET | CNN Politics

By Associated Press

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.

The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.

Democrats on Capitol Hill immediately began sounding the alarm over the ICE directive. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to testify before Congress about the memo.

Blumenthal sent a letter to the chairs of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Judiciary Committee asking them to “immediately” call for the testimony following “a shocking anonymous whistleblower disclosure.”

The Connecticut senator also sent a letter Wednesday to Noem and Lyons, writing that the memo, asserting that immigration officers have these sweeping powers, should “appall every American.”

“Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door and storm into your home. It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time,” Blumenthal said in a news release.

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the memo an “assault on freedom and privacy.”

For years, immigrant advocates, legal aid groups and local governments have urged people not to open their doors to immigration agents unless they are shown a warrant signed by a judge. That guidance is rooted in Supreme Court rulings that generally prohibit law enforcement from entering a home without judicial approval. The ICE directive directly undercuts that advice at a time when arrests are accelerating under the administration’s immigration crackdown.

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The memo itself has not been widely shared within the agency, according to a whistleblower complaint, but its contents have been used to train new ICE officers who are being deployed into cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown. New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.

It is unclear how broadly the directive has been applied in immigration enforcement operations. The Associated Press witnessed ICE officers ramming through the front door of the home of a Liberian man in Minneapolis on January 11 with only an administrative warrant, wearing heavy tactical gear and with their rifles drawn.

The change is almost certain to meet legal challenges and stiff criticism from advocacy groups and immigrant-friendly state and local governments that have spent years successfully urging people not to open their doors unless ICE shows them a warrant signed by a judge.

The Associated Press obtained the memo and whistleblower complaint from an official in Congress, who shared it on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive documents. The AP verified the authenticity of the accounts in the complaint.

The memo, signed by the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, and dated May 12, 2025, says: “Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose.”

The memo does not detail how that determination was made nor what its legal repercussions might be.

When asked about the memo, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in an emailed statement to the AP that everyone the department serves with an administrative warrant has already had “full due process and a final order of removal.”

She said the officers issuing those warrants have also found probable cause for the person’s arrest. She said the Supreme Court and Congress have “recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement,” without elaborating. McLaughlin did not respond to questions about whether ICE officers entered a person’s home since the memo was issued relying solely on an administrative warrant and if so, how often.

Recent arrests shine a light on tactics

Whistleblower Aid, a non-profit legal organization that assists workers exposing wrongdoings, said in the whistleblower complaint obtained by The Associated Press that it represents two anonymous US government officials “disclosing a secretive – and seemingly unconstitutional – policy directive.”

A wave of recent high-profile arrests, many unfolding at private homes and businesses and captured on video, has shined a spotlight on immigration arrest tactics, including officers’ use of proper warrants.

Most immigration arrests are carried out under administrative warrants, internal documents issued by immigration authorities that authorize the arrest of a specific individual but do not permit officers to forcibly enter private homes or other non-public spaces without consent. Only warrants signed by judges carry that authority.

All law enforcement operations — including those conducted by ICE and Customs and Border Protection — are governed by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects all people in the country from unreasonable searches and seizures.

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People can legally refuse federal immigration agents entry into private property if the agents only have an administrative warrant, with some limited exceptions.

Federal agents this month rammed the door of the Minneapolis home of a Liberian man with a deportation order from 2023, who was then arrested. Documents reviewed by The AP revealed that the agents only had an administrative warrant — meaning there was no judge who authorized the raid on private property.

Memo shown to ‘select’ officials

The memo says ICE officers can forcibly enter homes and arrest immigrants using just a signed administrative warrant known as an I-205 if they have a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals or a district judge or magistrate judge.

The memo says officers must first knock on the door and share who they are and why they’re at the residence. They’re limited in the hours they can go into the home — after 6 a.m. and before 10 p.m. The people inside must be given a “reasonable chance to act lawfully.” But if that doesn’t work, the memo says, they can use force to go in.

“Should the alien refuse admittance, ICE officers and agents should use only a necessary and reasonable amount of force to enter the alien’s residence, following proper notification of the officer or agent’s authority and intent to enter,” the memo reads.

The memo is addressed to all ICE personnel. But it has been shown only to “select DHS officials” who then shared it with some employees who were told to read it and return it, Whistleblower Aid wrote in the disclosure.

One of the two whistleblowers was allowed to view the memo only in the presence of a supervisor and then had to give it back. That person was not allowed to take notes. A whistleblower was able to access the document and lawfully disclose to Congress, Whistleblower Aid said.

Although the memo was issued in May, David Kligerman, senior vice president and special counsel at Whistleblower Aid, said it took time for its clients to find a “safe and legal path to disclose it to lawmakers and the American people.”

ICE officers are told to rely solely on administrative warrants, memo says

ICE has been rapidly hiring thousands of new deportation officers to carry out the president’s mass deportation agenda. They’re trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.

During a visit there by The Associated Press in August, ICE officials said repeatedly that new officers were being trained to follow the Fourth Amendment.

But according to the whistleblowers’ account, newly hired ICE officers are being told they can rely solely on administrative warrants to enter homes to make arrests even though that conflicts with written Homeland Security training materials.

ICE officers often wait for hours for the person they’re hoping to arrest to come outside so they can make the arrest on the sidewalk or at the person’s work — public places where they are allowed to operate without the risk of infringing on the person’s Fourth Amendment rights.

Whistleblower Aid called the new policy a “complete break from the law” and said it undercuts the “Fourth Amendment and the rights it protects.”

CNN’s Aleena Fayaz contributed to this report.