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FCC says TV talk shows must offer equal time to political candidates

January 21, 2026 / 10:30 PM EST / CBS News

The Federal Communications Commission warned TV broadcasters Wednesday that daytime talk shows and late-night programs must give equal time to opposing political candidates.

The move addressed a genre of TV that President Trump has long argued is politically biased, leading to calls from the president to revoke broadcasters’ FCC licenses.

The announcement hinges on a decades-old federal law requiring any FCC-licensed broadcaster that lets a political candidate appear on its airwaves to also offer “equal opportunities” to all other candidates running for the same office. The law exempts “bona fide newscasts” and news interviews from the equal time rule.

In 2006, the FCC said the news exemption applied to an interview on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” meaning the late-night comedy show could feature then-California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger on-air without also inviting his Democratic opponent.

But in a four-page notice on Wednesday, the FCC said it is “not the case” that all late-night and daytime entertainment shows are exempt. The regulator said it decides whether the exemption applies on a case-by-case basis, and it “has not been presented with any evidence” that interviews on those shows qualify for the news exemption.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Trump ally, wrote on X: “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as ‘bona fide news’ programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes. Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”

The FCC did not call out any specific shows by name. But Mr. Trump reposted a news headline on Truth Social that said the FCC is taking “aim” at two ABC shows that have long drawn the president’s ire — “The View” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Carr shared a screenshot of Mr. Trump’s post on X.

ABC did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News on the FCC’s notice. NBC and CBS, which also air late-night shows criticized by Mr. Trump, declined to comment.

Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez sharply criticized the FCC’s announcement, calling it “an escalation in this FCC’s ongoing campaign to censor and control speech.” She also argued the notice was “misleading” since the FCC hasn’t formally changed any of its rules, a process that typically involves a public comment period and a vote by the commissioners.

“Broadcasters should not feel pressured to water down, sanitize, or avoid critical coverage out of fear of regulatory retaliation,” Gomez said in a statement. “Broadcast stations have a constitutional right to carry newsworthy content, even when that content is critical of those in power. That does not change today, it will not change tomorrow, and it will not change simply because of this Administration’s desire to silence its critics.”

Mr. Trump has feuded with critical talk show hosts for years. He celebrated CBS parent company Paramount’s decision to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last summer, and he hailed ABC’s decision in September to temporarily preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following comments Kimmel made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. And he’s publicly called on NBC to fire late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

The president has also long argued that the FCC should revoke TV broadcast licenses for networks that consistently criticize him. The FCC has traditionally exerted limited influence over the content aired by TV networks, partly due to First Amendment constraints.

“They give me only bad publicity or press,” Mr. Trump told reporters in September. “I mean, they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr.”

The issue has drawn the attention of Carr, who has regularly pointed to laws requiring broadcasters to operate in the “public interest.”

Hours before ABC temporarily took Kimmel off the air, Carr publicly urged the Disney-owned TV network to “take action” in response to the comedian’s remarks on Kirk, saying in a podcast interview that “there are avenues here for the FCC.”

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said at the time.

Those comments drew bipartisan criticism, with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas arguing Carr overstepped and could set a bad precedent the next time there’s a Democratic president.

“I gotta say, that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’ That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar, going, ‘nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,'” Cruz said of Carr’s remarks on Kimmel, mimicking a mob boss’s accent.

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

By Associated Press
Updated 5 hr ago
Updated Jan 22, 2026, 2:57 AM ET
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2026, 5:55 PM ET

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Former ICE Acting Direct John Sandweg weights in on the ICE memo

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Former ICE Acting Direct John Sandweg weights in on the ICE memo

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

Published January 21, 2026 6:25pm EST

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.”

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“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’

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.

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“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.

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Trump revels in Davos about making the rich even richer

Analysis by Aaron Blake
15 hr ago
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2026, 4:54 PM ET

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After it was announced that California Gov. Gavin Newsom would share his views on President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, this week, MAGA influencer Katie Miller derided the Democrat for his presence at the event frequented by wealthy businessmen.

“Of course Gavin Newsom is going to Davos,” Miller, who is married to top White House adviser Stephen Miller, posted Monday on X. “Nothing quite says America First like commiserating to the crowd of the World’s Elites.”

But what’s transpired over the last couple of days hasn’t exactly driven home her point in the way she might have envisioned.

Newsom has spent his time urging the elites at Davos to stand up more strongly to Trump. And it’s Trump who’s been rubbing elbows with the wealthy and taking no shame in talking about his ties to rich people and his efforts to make them even richer.

Even as Americans struggle with what they overwhelmingly view as a stagnant economy, the president seemed to revel Wednesday in how good his policies have been for the wealthy.

He made a series of such comments during a reception with CEOs.

“So I think in terms of your investments, you’re in great shape,” Trump told the crowd. “I don’t even ask anybody how you’re doing now. It’s like everybody is making so much money.”

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Trump said he often goes around giving congratulations to business leaders.

“They say, on what?” Trump said. “I said, ‘you’ve doubled your net worth since I’ve been president, right?’ He said, ‘Yeah, even more than that.’ They would say, ‘Even more. We’re doing even better than that.’ And we’ve given you platform where you can put your genius to work.”

At another point at the same event, Trump pointed to his big domestic agenda bill – which he often called the “Big Beautiful Bill” – that passed last year and a key tax deduction it gave business owners.

Trump then riffed about how, in his first term, one wealthy friend bought an airplane they didn’t even use because they wanted to use such a deduction.

“I always said, that’s what made my first term so successful,” Trump said. “Because, I mean, people were buying things that – I have a friend who bought an airplane, he never used it. He just bought it. He said, ‘I get a – I deducted it.’

“It’d be a great plane to buy, actually, because he’ll never use it,” Trump continued.

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It’s one thing to boast about your ties to rich people and how they reduce their tax burden in good times, when a strong economy is lifting all boats. But one of the biggest problems with the current economy is how “K-shaped” it is – i.e. it’s great for the wealthy but not nearly so much for the rest of the country.

Indeed, Oxfam’s recent annual inequality report this month showed billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster last year than they had averaged over the previous five years.

And Miller’s post points to the political risks here.

Even as about 7 in 10 Americans viewed the economy as “poor” in last week’s new CNN poll, here was Trump at a gathering of elites talking about how good he’s been for the upper part of that K-shaped economy. That’s pretty tone-deaf.

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And it’s hardly the only example of an unadvisable comment that might irk Americans concerned about their pocketbooks. Amid the economic problems, Trump and his Cabinet – which happens to be stocked with billionaires – have made a series of these kinds of remarks.

Trump’s comments came just a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke about the administration’s idea to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

Some Americans believe big, institutional investors have driven up housing costs. Bessent sought to assure this move wouldn’t hurt “mom and pop” investors. But his definition of “mom and pop” investors raised some eyebrows.

“Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement,” Bessent told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, “bought five, 10, 12 homes. So, we don’t want to push the mom and pops out. We just want to push everyone else out.”

Just your average retiree, owning anywhere from five to a dozen homes.

Newsom promoted the clip of Bessent, asking, “Could this smug man be more out of touch?” Bessent shot back Wednesday that the Democratic governor “may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.”

And over the course of the last year, the administration has made a series of awkward comments about how Americans could navigate economic difficulties. Trump talked about simply buying fewer dolls and pencils.

More recently, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can afford a $3 meal of quality food that includes “a piece of broccoli.”

The 2026 election figures to focus extensively on the economy, and the Trump team is giving Democrats plenty to work with in painting them as out of touch.

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After President Donald Trump announced a new Greenland “framework” had been agreed upon with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the NATO chief told Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” the U.S. forcibly taking control of Greenland from Denmark was not discussed during meetings between him and Trump in Switzerland during the World Economic Forum.

“That issue did not come up anymore in my conversations with Mr. President. He’s very much focused on what we need to do to make sure that that huge Arctic region, where change is taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians are more and more active, how we can protect that,” Rutte said when pressed on the details of the reported “framework” that has been agreed upon.

Trump said the agreement resulted in his decision not to impose tariffs scheduled to go into effect Feb. 1.

“That was really the focus of our discussions,” Rutte insisted.

Trump announced the new “framework” for Greenland in a post on his social media site Truth Social Wednesday afternoon while at the World Economic Forum this week.

“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” the president wrote. “Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning The Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made available as discussions progress.”

Trump noted that Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff will lead “the negotiations” and report directly to him.

“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that,” Trump said earlier in the morning at the World Economic Forum. “Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh, good.’ That’s probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.”

During the exclusive interview with Fox News, Rutte called Trump “totally right” about needing to shore up security in the Arctic region, noting that the chance of Russia or China becoming a threat in that region is increasing every day. The NATO Secretary General also praised Trump’s leadership in getting other NATO countries to pay more money for the alliance’s defenses.

“I would argue tonight with you on this program he was the one who brought a whole of Europe and Canada up to this famous 5%,” Rutte insisted, “which is crucial for us to equalize our spending, but also protect ourselves. And this is the framework which you see in his post that we will work on.”

Rutte also noted that increased volatility between NATO-aligned countries, Russia and China underscored the need to shore up security in the Arctic region.

The NATO chief was asked whether he thought other countries were dealing with the Russians and the Chinese differently than they have in the past.

“It’s not up to me to comment on what individual allies are doing in terms of their relationship with China,” Rutte responded. “I think collectively, as NATO, we have a position. The position is that we should not be naive. I can tell you’ll regret these huge investments the Chinese are making in the military. They are not there to organize parades in Beijing, and the military in Russia are not there to organize parades in Moscow. They are there to be used.”

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

By Associated Press
14 hr ago
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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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.

Jet donated by Qatar could start serving as Trump’s new Air Force One this summer, Air Force says

January 22, 2026 / 12:20 AM EST / CBS News

President Trump could start flying in a plane donated by Qatar as early as this summer, as the U.S. Air Force confirms it will deliver the refurbished jumbo jet for use as Air Force One within months.

“The Air Force remains committed to expediting delivery of the VC-25 bridge aircraft in support of the Presidential airlift mission, with an anticipated delivery no later than summer 2026,” an Air Force spokesperson said Wednesday, confirming a report by The Wall Street Journal.

The royal family of Qatar donated the Boeing 747-style plane for Mr. Trump’s use last spring. The plane could not enter service immediately, though, as the Pentagon needed to retrofit it to serve as Air Force One. It also needed to be checked for security and spying devices before it was accepted, a source told CBS News at the time.

The donated plane could take the place of two 35-year-old jets that currently serve as Air Force One. Mr. Trump has long pushed to replace the aging planes, but a project to replace them has faced delays, with delivery of two new planes currently set for 2027 and 2028.

The existing planes showed their age late Tuesday, when Air Force One turned around less than an hour after taking off for Switzerland due to a “minor electrical issue.” The president then switched to a smaller plane before flying across the Atlantic for the World Economic Forum.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt joked at one point during the ordeal that the Qatari jet sounded “much better.”

The donation has drawn criticism from congressional Democrats and watchdog groups, who have argued it poses ethics concerns for the president to accept a gift worth hundreds of millions of dollars from a foreign country. Some critics have also questioned the cost of retrofitting the donated plane.

“The fact that taxpayers are now funding a fifth Air Force One, originating from a foreign monarchy, is a staggering abuse of public trust, fiscal priorities, and national security interests,” said Virginia Canter, chief counsel for ethics and anti-corruption at Democracy Defenders Fund, a group run by an Obama-era ethics official that requested an investigation into the gift last year.

Mr. Trump has brushed off the concerns and defended his decision to accept the gift.

“If we can get a 747 as a contribution to our Defense Department to use during a couple of years while they’re building the other ones, I think that was a very nice gesture,” Mr. Trump said last year. “Now I could be a stupid person and say, oh no, we don’t want a free plane.”

Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-arrives-in-davos-after-air-force-one-turned-around-due-to-minor-electrical-issue/

北约秘书长：未与特朗普讨论格陵兰岛主权问题

发布时间：2026年1月22日 08:46 | 来源：联合早报

北约秘书长吕特星期三说，他当天在瑞士达沃斯参加世界经济论坛年会期间与美国总统特朗普会晤时，并未讨论格陵兰岛的主权问题。（法新社）

北约秘书长吕特说，他与美国总统特朗普会晤时并未讨论丹麦对格陵兰的主权这一关键问题。

吕特星期三（1月21日）接受美国福克斯新闻频道访问。被问及格陵兰岛是否会继续属于丹麦，他回答说，当天早些时候与特朗普会晤时并没有谈及这一点。

特朗普与吕特会晤后宣称，双方已制定“关于格陵兰岛乃至整个北极地区未来协议的框架”。

吕特接受福克斯新闻频道访问时并未就特朗普宣布的协议框架提供太多细节。“我们已达成一项良好的协议，可以真正开始着手解决这些问题。”

他补充说：“这意味着，我们双方都同意，从北约的角度来看，北约可以采取哪些集体行动来确保整个北极地区的安全。”

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当被问及格陵兰岛是否会根据协议继续留在丹麦王国时，吕特说：“今晚我和总统的谈话中没有再提及这个问题。”

他补充说：“他非常关注我们需要做些什么来确保这个幅员辽阔的北极地区——目前那里正在发生变化，中国和俄罗斯的活动也日益频繁——我们该如何保护它。这才是我们讨论的重点。”

https://news-multimedia-1393112320.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/eb25927d90e95fa4b7aab3bd047cf1bcd02925f4cac265d5b5a489803cb583e2

北约秘书长：未与特朗普讨论格陵兰岛主权问题

发布时间：2026年1月22日 08:46

北约秘书长吕特星期三说，他当天在瑞士达沃斯参加世界经济论坛年会期间与美国总统特朗普会晤时，并未讨论格陵兰岛的主权问题。（法新社）

北约秘书长吕特说，他与美国总统特朗普会晤时并未讨论丹麦对格陵兰的主权这一关键问题。

吕特星期三（1月21日）接受美国福克斯新闻频道访问。被问及格陵兰岛是否会继续属于丹麦，他回答说，当天早些时候与特朗普会晤时并没有谈及这一点。

特朗普与吕特会晤后宣称，双方已制定“关于格陵兰岛乃至整个北极地区未来协议的框架”。

吕特接受福克斯新闻频道访问时并未就特朗普宣布的协议框架提供太多细节。“我们已达成一项良好的协议，可以真正开始着手解决这些问题。”

他补充说：“这意味着，我们双方都同意，从北约的角度来看，北约可以采取哪些集体行动来确保整个北极地区的安全。”

当被问及格陵兰岛是否会根据协议继续留在丹麦王国时，吕特说：“今晚我和总统的谈话中没有再提及这个问题。”

他补充说：“他非常关注我们需要做些什么来确保这个幅员辽阔的北极地区——目前那里正在发生变化，中国和俄罗斯的活动也日益频繁——我们该如何保护它。这才是我们讨论的重点。”

https://news-multimedia-1393112320.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/eb25927d90e95fa4b7aab3bd047cf1bcd02925f4cac265d5b5a489803cb583e2