Issue 2026-01-16
Stories
- Trump Freezes Talks, Threatens Strikes After 600-Plus Killed in Iran Protests
- U.S. Indefinitely Pauses Immigrant Visas for 75 Nations under Expanded ‘Public Charge’ Rule
- Hamas Orders Gaza Power Handover Ahead of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Roll-Out
- US–Taiwan Pact Trades 5+ New TSMC Arizona Fabs for 15% Tariff Rate
- U.S. Invokes Section 232 to Levy 25 % Duty on Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X AI Chips
- Trump–Rodriguez First Call Signals Post-Maduro US-Venezuela Reset
- Australia’s Under-16 Social-Media Ban Purges 4.7 Million Accounts in First Month
- AWS Switches On European Sovereign Cloud, Pledges €7.8 B EU Build-Out
- UK Pressure Forces X to Disable Grok’s “Digital Undressing” Feature
At a Glance
- On 12–13 Jan 2026, with verified protest deaths surpassing six hundred, President Trump cancelled diplomacy and publi...
- On 15 Jan 2026 the State Department ordered consulates to stop issuing immigrant (green-card) visas to applicants fro...
- On 11 Jan 2026 Hamas formally told its Gaza ministries to ready a transfer of all authority to a non-partisan Palesti...
- Washington and Taipei have agreed in principle to cut the Trump-era 20 % reciprocal tariff to 15 %, provided TSMC rou...
- On 15 Jan 2026, President Trump ordered a new 25 % import tariff on two specific high-performance AI chips slated for...
- In their inaugural phone conversation on 15 Jan 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s acting president De...