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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, our first edition of 2026. We hope you had a restful holiday break, considering we’ve already had at least a month’s worth of news in just the first week of January. On that note, here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump wants to turn the U.S. military into his personal global enforcers, protests rock the regime in Iranand Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gets a prominent U.S. lawyer. If 2025 marked a year of norm-busting for how the U.S. military is used (as we covered in multiple newsletters), we’re already looking at a…
by Calculated Risk on 1/08/2026 08:03:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET,: Employment Report for December. The consensus is for 55,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to decline to 4.5%.• At 10:00 AM: Housing Starts for September and October. • At 10:00 AM: University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index (Preliminary for January)• At 12:00 PM: Q3 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States from the Federal Reserve.
Arne Slot and Mikel Arteta have defended Gabriel Martinelli after the Arsenal forward sparked a skirmish by trying to roll an injured Conor Bradley off the pitch – but Dominik Szoboszlai, Roy Keane and Daniel Sturridge were more critical over the controversial incident. Knowing victory would move the leaders eight points clear, Martinelli tried to push the prone Reds defender off the pitch during second-half added time in the 0-0 draw at the Emirates Stadium, with the Northern Ireland captain down hurt and requiring a stretcher to leave the turf because of a knee problem. “I don’t know Gabriel Martinelli…
The U.S. Coast Guard was spotted on video helping to rescue residents of Kipnuk, Alaska, after the remnants of Typhoon Halong caused severe flooding on Oct. 12. ALASKA — After a recent bout of heavy snow, Alaska’s Panhandle could get slammed with torrential rain, resulting in potentially melted snow and increasing the state’s flood risk.The state was hit with a snowier than normal December. Typically, Juneau sees between 40 and 50 inches of snow. But in December 2025, the snow total surpassed records, reaching a whopping 82 inches, or over seven feet.The influx of snow caused large vessels to sink…
Helsinki – In November, Finland became the country in the European Union (EU) with the highest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, at 10.6%, surpassing Spain for the first time, which registered two tenths less, according to data published this Thursday by the EU statistics office, Eurostat. This historic “sorpasso” occurred after Finland increased its unemployment rate by two tenths compared to the month of October, while Spain reduced it by one tenth, to 10.4%. According to the Ministry of Employment and Economic Affairs of the Nordic country, the increase in unemployment is due in part to the structural reforms promoted by…
It is time to explore the principles on which human nature has been constructed and the social structures that are derived from behaviors embedded in the human genome.—Nicholas Wade, The Origin of Politics (46) Nicholas Wade is concerned that we are attempting to establish cultural norms and political structures that stray too far from traditions that are consistent with evolutionary biology and psychology. Two fateful collisions between politics and human nature are at present in progress. One is the steady fraying of the social cohesion required to hold together the multiethnic society that the United States has become. The other…
Serie A7:45 PMJanuary 8, 2026Regular Season – 19Giuseppe Meazza StadiumReferee: Maurizio Mariani, Italy Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. AC Milan World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Genoa World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics2.32Expected goals (xG)0.53Passing492 (90%)Accurate passes299 (80%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 16 G Mike Maignan (C) 90+7′ Unsportsmanlike conduct 6.3 31 D Strahinja Pavlovic 90+7′ Unsportsmanlike conduct 7.9 46 D Matteo Gabbia 70′ Tripping 7.0 23 D Fikayo Tomori 7.7 33…
There was a time when basketball’s centre of gravity could be traced to a handful of cities and leagues. Today, that map no longer holds. The modern game is shaped by influences that stretch from European youth academies to African development programmes and street courts in Asia. What happens on the court in New York […] The post How Globalisation Is Reshaping Modern Basketball appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
REBUILDING AFTER DEVASTATING WILDFIRE: The Palisades Fire not only destroyed thousands of homes, but also disrupted many residents’ lives. Laura Nativo, who lived in the Pacific Palisades for 15 years, joins FOX Weather to discuss how her life has changed since the fires.PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – The Palisades wildfire devastated thousands of California residents and families one year ago.The Palisades Fire began on Jan. 7, 2025, and spread over 23,000 acres. In total, 31 people died in the fire, and 18,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed.Laura Nativo, a California resident, had been living in the Pacific Palisades for 15 years…
After a recent viral video claimed Somali-run daycares in Minnesota were committing fraud, Trump officials quickly pointed to ongoing prosecutions over such allegations, and credited the administration. Responding to the video from conservative influencer Nick Shirley, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in late December that the Justice Department “has been investigating this for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals — 85 of Somali descent — and more than 60 have been found guilty in court.” In the Dec. 29 threadBondi praised the work of Trump administration appointees like Daniel Rosen, who was sworn in as the U.S. attorney…