Headlines for January 15, 2026

U.S. Pulls Back from Some Middle East Bases Amid Trump’s Threats to Attack Iran, State Department to Halt Processing Visas for Immigrants from 75 Countries, ICE Shoots Man in Minneapolis After Gov. Walz Decries Federal “Campaign of Organized Brutality”, ICE Jails Oglala Sioux Members at Fort Snelling, Site of 19th-Century Concentration Camp, Protester in Santa Ana Is Left Permanently Blind by “Less Lethal” Round Fired by Federal Agent, ProPublica: ICE Agents Used Potentially Fatal Chokeholds in 40+ Cases, Maine Officials Warn ICE Is Preparing Surge into Lewiston and Portland, Danish Foreign Minister: “Fundamental Disagreement” with Trump over Greenland, Trump’s Middle East Envoy Witkoff Says Gaza Truce Has Entered Its Second Phase, Senate Republicans Kill War Powers Resolution to Limit Trump on Venezuela, FBI Agents Raid Home of Washington Post Reporter Hannah Natanson, Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members, Trump Flips Middle Finger to Autoworker Who Called Him a “Pedophile Protector”