Issue 2026-01-30
Stories
- EU Blacklists Iran’s IRGC After Italy-Led Push
- Senate, White House Cut Two-Week DHS CR, Advancing 5-Bill Minibus to Dodge Shutdown
- Trump Claims One-Week Kyiv Strike Freeze After Direct Call with Putin
- Fed Freezes Rates at 3.5-3.75% as Powell Nears Exit, Markets Bet on June Cut
- Caracas Green-Lights Hydrocarbons Law Rewrite, Ending PDVSA’s Monopoly
- SpaceX Sets Up Shell Firms for Pre-IPO Merger With xAI
- Meta Posts $22.8B Q4 Profit, Signals $115-135B AI CapEx for 2026
- Single-Transit Kepler Data Uncovers Earth-Sized ‘HD 137010 b’ 146 ly Away
- Global AI Oversight Ramps Up as California’s Frontier AI Laws Take Effect (Jan 2026)
At a Glance
- On 29 Jan 2026, EU foreign ministers unanimously added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the bloc’s terrori...
- Late on 29 Jan 2026 negotiators split Homeland Security from a six-bill package, locking in full-year funding for 96...
- On 29 Jan 2026, President Trump announced that Vladimir Putin had "agreed" to halt Russian attacks on Kyiv and other...
- On 29 Jan 2026 the FOMC kept its policy band unchanged, ending a three-meeting cutting streak and shifting expectatio...
- On 29 Jan 2026 acting president Delcy Rodríguez signed a fast-tracked amendment that scraps the state oil company’s m...
- New Nevada filings dated 21 Jan 2026 show SpaceX creating two “K2” merger vehicles to swap xAI shares for SpaceX stoc...