Luke Ganger and Brent Ganger arrive at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill to speak at a public forum on violent use of force by immigration agents. Their sister, Renee Good, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January. Protesters have called on federal agents to stop using violence in pursuit of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. Eventually, the vehicle with federal agents side-swiped Martinez’s car. He said Democrats have tracked at least 186 incidents of problematic uses of force by federal immigration agents.

More than 1200 people including military and civilians were killed in militant attacks across the country in 2025, according to data shared by the Pakistani military. That’s double the number recorded in 2021, when the US retreated from Kabul and the Afghan Taliban returned to power. Multiple Pakistani military officials told CNN they are now fighting a “war” in the border regions. US-made M-16s and M-4 Carbines have also ended up in the hands of another insurgent group, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), according to Pakistani military sources. “I fired back at my enemies but could not reach them,” Uddin told CNN of the encounter that took both his legs.

1) The trade deficit jumped in November after a sharp fall in October. The November figure was still 56% lower than the January 2025 figure, but 56% is not 77%. January 2025 had the largest trade deficit on record to that point, $128.8 billion. 3) The overall trade deficit has been higher in 2025 than it was in 2024. Through November, the total goods and services trade deficit in 2025 was $839.5 billion.

Savannah Guthrie appears on NBC’s “Today” in 2025. “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie will not head to Milan for NBC’s 2026 Winter Olympics coverage as she deals with the ongoing police investigation into the suspected abduction of her mother. AdvertisementSavannah Guthrie and her mother, Nancy Guthrie, in 2023. AdvertisementOn Tuesday, Lima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at a news briefing that authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. Guthrie, a “Today” co-host since 2012, has been off the program since Monday.

LA28 Olympics committee Chair Casey Wasserman faced calls from L.A. officials Tuesday to resign following revelations about racy emails he exchanged with convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. “I think Casey Wasserman needs to step down,” said L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who along with other L.A. politicians is working with the LA28 Olympics organizing committee on planning the Games. AdvertisementState Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) and three Los Angeles City Council members — Hugo Soto-Martínez, Monica Rodriguez and Imelda Padilla — all called on Wasserman to resign. Like Supervisor Hahn, Soto-Martínez called the revelations about Wasserman a distraction from the L.A. Games. Wasserman was picked by then-Mayor Eric Garcetti to oversee the Olympics in L.A.

US fighter jet shoots down Iranian drone approaching US aircraft carrier A U.S. fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone as it approached the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the North Arabian Sea on Tuesday, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.

Stephen Miran, governor of the US Federal Reserve, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, on December 22, 2025. Miran was confirmed by the Senate to serve at the Fed while keeping his role at the White House through an unpaid leave, an unusual arrangement. In his letter dated Tuesday, Miran wrote that he had promised senators he would leave the White House should he remain at the Fed past January. Because of Fed rules, though, only a sitting Fed governor can assume that post as chair – and there are no open governor spots. He has dissented at four meetings as a Fed governor, in favor of bigger rate cuts.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro meets with President Trump at the Oval Office on Feb. 3, 2026. President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler. Yet it did appeared to ease tensions between Colombia and the United States, longtime allies whose relationship soured over the last year amid public clashes between Trump and Petro. Petro refused to receive U.S. military flights of deported migrants, acquiescing only after Trump threatened heavy tariffs on Colombian goods. In the fall, Trump accused Petro of failing to stop cocaine production — and of being a drug trafficker.

New Arctic chill headed for the Northeast with possible snow A new Arctic chill is headed for the Northeast with snow possible across the region. Temperatures are expected to only reach the teens with wind chills making it feel even colder.

The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports. Homeland Security withdrew its subpoena without providing an explanation. The email notified him that his account had been subpoenaed by the Department of Homeland Security. Two weeks later, Homeland Security agents were on his doorstep, asking him questions about the email that he sent to Dernbach, which the agents conceded broke no laws. § 1509(a)(1) to issue subpoenas,” said McLaughlin, referring to Homeland Security Investigations, an investigative unit within ICE.

The United States will send its largest Winter Olympic delegation ever to the Milan Cortina Games, with 232 athletes traveling for the event. The total number of competitors could surpass the record of 228 set at Pyeongchang 2018. With Olympic competition set to begin Wednesday ahead of the official start on Friday, here are 10 athletes to watch:

The fact is, the Kennedy Center has always been political. (Bettmann Archive / Getty Images)The Kennedy Center proved political from Day 1. The Brutalist monumentalism of the Kennedy Center also grew over time to be loved, increasingly bringing cachet to a diverse nation’s artistic needs. Rostropovich exuded, in the Kennedy Center aura, the expression of an overwhelmingly triumphant celebration of the end of the Soviet repression. You can take the symphony and the opera out of the Kennedy Center, but you can’t take the essence of the Kennedy Center, the living memorial to the ideal of something larger than political ego, out of the symphony and opera.

David Muir sits down with Disney's next CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Iger David Muir sits down with D'Amaro and Iger to discuss the future of The Walt Disney Company – including streaming, embracing AI, and the company's legacy.

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Savannah Guthrie was supposed to fly to Italy on Monday for NBC’s much-anticipated coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics. But instead, Guthrie spent a heart-wrenching day in Tucson, Arizona, supporting a massive search for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy. ‘The worst phone call of her life…’With that big international trip coming up, Guthrie spent much of last weekend with her husband and two kids. It was “the worst phone call of her life,” said an NBC producer who knows Savannah personally. “If you know Savannah then you know her mom — because she raised her, through some very tough times,” Llamas said.