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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado waves to supporters on Pennsylvania Avenue as she leaves the White House after meeting with President Donald Trump Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption toggle caption Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP WASHINGTON — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to Trump, an honor…

Politics / January 15, 2026 Early signs suggest that the Mamdani era in New York is off to an encouraging start—beginning with the mayor’s continued mastery of political spectacle. Ad Policy Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a January 13 press conference(Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images) On the first Monday of the new mayor’s first week in office a returning visitor to Room 9—the press room just off the right side of the lobby—was struck by how little has changed. The scenery has been upgraded, with laptops and iPads now replacing more cumbersome computer terminals, and the phalanxes of daily tabloid and…

A person enters a polling station to vote on Nov. 4, 2025, at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images The Trump administration on Thursday was dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states. Federal district Judge David O. Carter dismissed a lawsuit in California that sought to give the Justice Department access to that state’s unredacted voter file, which includes sensitive data like Social Security numbers and driver’s license data. A district judge in Oregon also said in court Wednesday…

Politics / January 15, 2026 With another deadline looming at the end of the month, party leaders must use the power they have to begin dismantling Trump’s police state. Ad Policy Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, flanked by masked agents, at the perimeter of the site where Renee Good was shot to death. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) Democrats must shut down the government over ICE or face their voters’ wrath Last week’s public execution of an unarmed Minneapolis mom engaged in routine ICE-watching feels like a critical juncture in the Trump administration’s attempted authoritarian takeover of the United States.…

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. On Thursday, he made a health care announcement via a social media video. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In a video posted to social media Thursday, President Trump announced an outline for new health care legislation. The plan does not include a remedy for people who buy their health insurance on Healthcare.gov, some of whom are facing sky-high premium hikes this month. Trump dubbed the ideas “The Great Healthcare Plan.” According to a White House fact sheet and a press call hosted…

Activism / January 15, 2026 We can turn the tide against Trump—but only with mass action and courageous leadership. Ad Policy Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley speaks to acrowd of bystanders near the scene where federal agents shot and killed a woman earlier on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026.(Alex Kormann / The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images) Shortly after dropping her 6-year-old son off at school, Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Republican leaders attempted to smear Good as a “domestic terrorist” and claim that Ross acted in “self-defense.”…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen on March 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services offered no explanation of its decision to terminate and later restore grant money for mental health and addiction programs. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images After a tense day of confusion and backroom negotiations, the Trump administration moved Wednesday night to restore roughly $2 billion in federal grant money for mental health and addiction programs nationwide. The money had been cut off late Tuesday without warning, sending shockwaves through…

Environment / January 15, 2026 Political realism doesn’t outweigh scientific realism. Ad Policy Homes burn as powerful winds drive the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025, in Pasadena, California.(David McNew / Getty Images) This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation strengthening coverage of the climate story. “Let’s be realistic.” That’s the advice coming from a growing number of voices in climate circles in the United States. In October, billionaire Bill Gates argued that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is unavoidable and not a “super…

In this Nov. 30, 2021, photo, syringes and vials of Naloxone are shown during the media tour of the supervised drug injection site OnPoint, in New York. Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images A Trump administration official has confirmed to NPR that sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. Letters terminating funding went out late Tuesday night, sending shockwaves through the country’s public health system. Letters will be sent soon restoring that funding. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the Department of Health and Human…

Politics / January 14, 2026 Mamdani names Midori Valdivia as taxi commissioner as the drivers who powered his rise press him to finish the fight against medallion debt. Ad Policy New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani holds a press briefing to Nominate Midori Valdivia for chair and commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission at LaGuardia Airport Queens, New York City, on January 13, 2026.(Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images) Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood with the city’s yellow cab and Uber drivers at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday night to announce Midori Valdivia as his choice to oversee the Taxi…