The Trump administration is restructuring, revising or eliminating more than $83B in Biden-era loans and conditional commitments for clean energy projects. "This action follows an exhaustive first-year review of the previous administration's $104B principal loan obligations, including approximately $85B rushed out the door
The son of Iran’s former monarch told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday that US airstrikes provide the “only chance” to remove Iran’s current theocratic government. “There’s no other way to help unarmed people who are facing this level of brutality that the regime has exerted against them,” said Reza Pahlavi. Some protesters have chanted his name at the widespread anti-government demonstrations that subsided after a violent crackdown. But the size of Pahlavi’s base within the country is unclear, and he has not lived in Iran since he was a teenager. On Friday, Pahlavi told CNN that he aimed to act as a transitional figure for Iran if the regime falls.
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Over 160 million people across more than two dozen states are under winter storm or ice storm alerts, from the Southern Rockies and Plains, all the way to New England. Travel and power outage impacts could last into at least early next week for areas that see significant snow and ice. That shift has implicated more of the Midwest and Northeast with heavy snow while still delivering destructive ice to a large portion of the South. Ice could knock out power to manyDamaging ice from freezing rain is the storm’s most serious threat. Heavy snow threat from Plains to East CoastHeavy snow will pile up for a wide area to the north of the storm’s freezing rain zone.
“I can tell you gentlemen, that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump,” Nehls, of Texas, said, addressing several law enforcement officers attending the hearing who responded to the riot that day. Nehls said the fault of the attack lies with “the US Capitol leadership team.”“We know they had the intelligence,” Nehls said before Fanone, after a loud cough, interrupted. “F**k yourself,” Fanone, who was dragged out and beaten in a crowd of rioters during one of the most violent clashes that day, said loudly. Smith, in his first public appearance before lawmakers, said he was “shocked” when he saw the attack on the Capitol. He warned that there are potentially “catastrophic” ongoing threats to US democracy because of the failure to hold Trump accountable for his “criminal” attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Stocks and bonds regained ground, the US dollar sank and gold posted its best week since 2020. Trump’s flip-flop on tariffs, paired with volatility in Japan’s bond market, sent US stocks and bonds bouncing around. The Trump administration’s policy proposals are whipsawing markets this year and the Greenland saga could be another nudge for investors to seek insurance against US uncertainty. Silver posted its best week since 2020 and is up almost 46% this year after climbing 141% in 2025 — also its best year since 1979. “I do think that these policy 180s, it’s not necessarily in the markets’ best interest long term,” he said.
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LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that his administration will release details about his proposed deal for U.S. military access to Greenland in two weeks, describing it as a “much more generous deal” than the current one. “I think Greenland is going very well. I’ll let you know in about two weeks.”For weeks, Trump had ramped up his long-running campaign to take Greenland from Denmark. “What are some of the elements of the Greenland concept?” a reporter asked Trump Thursday on Air Force One. AP Photo/Evan VucciAsked whether the U.S. had plans to “actually take ownership” of Greenland, Trump simply reiterated the two-week time frame.
PoliticsTrump keeps reversing his threats whenever markets fallJanuary 23, 2026 | 6:11 PM GMTOver the past year, President Donald Trump has issued multiple tariff threats against dozens of countries, only to reverse himself if financial markets slide.
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Washington Post LiveCitigroup CEO Jane Fraser on soaring AI spendingJanuary 23, 2026 | 5:47 PM GMTIn a WP Studio interview at Davos, Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser offered her take on the current level of AI spending.
If you haven’t been paying attention to the Texas race, here’s a quick primer. Still, Democrats cannot win Texas, a state where Trump beat Kamala Harris by almost 14 percentage points, without flipping at least some Republican voters. Crockett, by contrast, has always represented a deep blue district and has never had to run a seriously contested general election. This gets to something important for the general election, and which I think may be Crockett’s Achilles heel. Let’s grant for the sake of argument that she has the ability to mobilize new Democratic voters.
Zoo elephants treated to 'spa day' These elephants were treated to what their zoo called the “ultimate” spa day, complete with mud masks, pool time and dust bathing.
