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US Begins ‘Transfer’ Of ISIS Prisoners From Syria To Iraq, Mulls Full Withdrawal
US Begins ‘Transfer’ Of ISIS Prisoners From Syria To Iraq, Mulls Full Withdrawal
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a fresh statement that it has launched a mission to transfer ISIS fighters from Syria to Iraqi government-controlled facilities. The announcement came hours after the Syrian army entered the Al-Hawl Camp in the country’s north, resulting in the escape of thousands of ISIS and ISIS-linked prisoners.
“CENTCOM launched a new mission to transfer ISIS detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq … to help ensure the terrorists remain in secure detention facilities,” the CENTCOM statement said. “The transfer mission began while US forces successfully transported 150 ISIS fighters held at a detention facility in Hasakah, Syria, to a secure location in Iraq. Ultimately, up to 7,000 ISIS detainees could be transferred from Syria to Iraqi-controlled facilities,” it added.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper was quoted as saying that Washington is “closely coordinating with regional partners, including the Iraqi government, and we sincerely appreciate their role in ensuring the enduring defeat of ISIS.”
“Facilitating the orderly and secure transfer of ISIS detainees is critical to preventing a breakout that would pose a direct threat to the United States and regional security,” he added.
The CENTCOM chief failed to mention the release of scores of ISIS members in Syria over the past few days.
This week, the Syrian military entered Hasakah Governorate’s Al-Hawl Camp, which for around a decade housed tens of thousands of ISIS prisoners and their families, including foreigners who entered Syria illegally to join the US-backed war against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Since the Syrian army entered the camp on 20 January, thousands of ISIS members and their families have been released from Al-Hawl. Videos on social media showed government-affiliated troops arriving at Al-Hawl and allowing the prisoners to leave.
Over 25,000 people were held in the camp prior to the withdrawal of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which recently lost most of its territory across northern Syria following the start of a massive assault by Damascus.
“It remains unclear how many detainees have fled and who currently controls the camp,” one of the camp’s overseers told Rudaw. The camp is made up of prisons that held ISIS fighters for years, as well as areas designated for internally displaced people.
Syrian Government Forces have raised the flag of ISIS in Al Karama town east of Raqqah. pic.twitter.com/M5iYwlZtih
— ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) January 21, 2026
Al-Roj Camp and the Hasakah Prison also hold tens of thousands of ISIS militants. Government forces are nearby but have not yet entered those two prisons.
Yet Hasakah’s Al-Shaddadi Prison fell to government troops three days ago after the SDF said it could no longer hold the facility due to continuous attacks. The Kurdish group slammed the US coalition, located at a base two kilometers away, for ignoring repeated distress calls and requests for assistance.
According to Kurdish media, at least 1,500 ISIS members have escaped from Al-Shaddadi. Damascus claims a little over 100 ISIS members escaped, and accused the SDF of letting them out.
According to Damascus-linked media reports, 81 ISIS prisoners have been detained by authorities out of a total of 120 who were “let out” by the Kurdish militia.
“I did a great job. You know what I did? I stopped a prison break,” US President Donald Trump boasted to the New York Post on January 20. “Oh, we did a good job with Syria. They had a prison break. European prisoners were breaking out and I got it stopped. That was yesterday,” he went on to say.
“European terrorists were in prison. They had a prison break. And working with the government of Syria and the new leader of Syria, they captured all the prisoners, put them back to jail, and these were the worst terrorists in the world, all from Europe,” he added, referring to foreign extremists who entered Syria years ago to join Washington’s war against Assad.
NEW: The Pentagon is considering a complete withdrawal of American troops from Syria, U.S. officials said, as Syria’s president moved to wrest control of the northeastern part of the country from an American-backed Kurdish-led militia https://t.co/YRziAcjnoW @laraseligman
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) January 22, 2026
The US military has, for years, been transferring ISIS militants across different countries in the region. In 2021, Iraq’s anti-ISIS Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) revealed that thermal cameras had recorded US military helicopters transferring ISIS militants to different locations in the country.
In August 2017, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported seeing US choppers transporting ISIS fighters in and out of the city of Deir Ezzor multiple times. The last reports of these activities came mere days before Syrian and Russian troops retook the city from the terrorist group.
The former Syrian government also said years ago that ISIS fighters were being moved out of a Kurdish-run prison and relocated to a US military base. Since the government assault on the north started earlier this month, Kurdish authorities have been warning that attacks on prisons pose the threat of triggering a major ISIS resurgence.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 01/22/2026 – 22:35
México derrota a Panamá y corta racha de 6 partidos sin victoria
CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ (AP) — El zaguero Richard Peralta anotó en su propia puerta en el alargue y México superó el jueves 1-0 a Panamá en un partido de preparación entre dos selecciones de la CONCACAF clasificadas al Mundial de 2026, con lo cual el Tri le puso fin a una racha de seis encuentros sin ganar.
Peralta intentó desviar un tiro suave de Carlos Rodríguez a los 92 minutos. pero lo desvió a su arco para darles el triunfo a los visitantes.
El equipo dirigido por Javier Aguirre y conformado exclusivamente por jugadores de la Liga MX consiguió su primer triunfo desde que se coronó en la pasada edición de la Copa Oro, en julio del año pasado.
El Tri, que debuta en el Mundial el 11 de junio ante Sudáfrica, enfrentará a Bolivia el domingo en Santa Cruz. Será el segundo encuentro de esta gira de preparación.
“Uno siempre quiere ganar, golear y gustar, la afición quiere que golee, pero nosotros seguimos en ese afán de llegar el 11 (de junio) con el mejor equipo posible”, valoró Aguirre.
México se vio forzado a usar jugadores de la Liga MX por no tratarse de una fecha FIFA.
“Los empates o derrotas ante rivales que han sido de los mejores del mundo nos hacen crecer, en el empate o la derrota, pero todo está enfocado en el 11 de junio”, insistió el “Vasco” Aguirre.
Panamá, que venía de empatar 1-1 con Bolivia y también padeció la ausencia de varios de sus jugadores regulares, sufrió su primera derrota del año.
Los canaleros quedaron ubicados en el Grupo L y comienzan su participación dentro de la Copa del Mundo el 16 de junio ante Ghana.
Con poco tiempo para entrenar, el “Vasco” Aguirre decidió iniciar el encuentro con seis de los ocho jugadores disponibles de Chivas, el equipo líder del torneo Clausura mexicano, pero de poco sirvió para inquietar al cuadro local.
Dos de esos jugadores hicieron su debut con la selección mexicana: Richy Ledezma y Brian Gutiérrez, quienes nacieron en Estados Unidos, pero aceptaron el ofrecimiento de la Federación Mexicana para representar al equipo azteca.
“Nos sirvió a ambos este ensayo, este partido y vi gente nueva”, comentó Aguirre. “Ambos tuvimos equipos jóvenes, nosotros con un promedio de 24 años y tuvimos tres debutantes”.
Además de Ledezma y Gutiérrez, México inició el encuentro con el volante Obed Vargas, quien nació en Anchorage, Alaska.
“Son tres chicos que naciendo en Estados Unidos decidieron jugar por México, sólo por ese motivo merece mis respetos”, agregó el entrenador mexicano. “Los tres iniciaron y no desentonaron, son chicos con gran futuro, estoy contento”.
La oportunidad más clara del encuentro no vino sino hasta los 76 minutos con un intento del lateral Bryan González que rozó el travesaño.
“El equipo tuvo paciencia, dimos casi 600 pases, el equipo no se desesperó, controló las transiciones”, dijo Aguirre. “En general fue un partido muy igualado e incómodo para los dos equipos”
En la recta final, Aguirre le dio oportunidad al ariete de Chivas, Armando González, quien fue campeón anotador el torneo Apertura. Sin embargo, la “Hormiga” tuvo sólo un remate de cabeza a los 89 minutos, peligroso pero desviado a tiro de esquina.
Cuando expiraba el encuentro, Jesús Gallardo llegó a línea de fondo por el costado izquierdo y retrasó una pelota para la llegada de Rodríguez, quien realizó un disparo ligeramente desviado por Peralta para el gol del triunfo mexicano.
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TikTok finaliza acuerdo para crear nueva entidad en EEUU
Por KAITLYN HUAMANI
TikTok ha finalizado un acuerdo para crear una nueva entidad estadounidense, evitando la amenaza inminente de una prohibición en Estados Unidos que ha estado en discusión durante años.
La plataforma de videos firmó acuerdos con importantes inversores, como Oracle, Silver Lake y MGX, para formar la nueva empresa conjunta TikTok U.S. La nueva versión operará bajo “salvaguardias definidas que protegen la seguridad nacional a través de una exhaustiva protección de datos, seguridad de algoritmos, moderación de contenido y garantías de software para los usuarios en Estados Unidos”, informó la compañía el jueves en un comunicado. Los usuarios estadounidenses de TikTok pueden seguir usando la misma aplicación.
Adam Presser, quien anteriormente trabajó como jefe de operaciones, confianza y seguridad de TikTok, será el director general de la nueva empresa. Trabajará en conjunto con una junta directiva de siete miembros, la mayoría de ellos estadounidenses, que incluye al CEO de TikTok, Shou Chew.
El acuerdo pone fin a años de incertidumbre sobre el destino de la popular plataforma de videos en Estados Unidos.
Tras recibir el apoyo de una amplia mayoría bipartidista en el Congreso, el presidente Joe Biden promulgó una ley que prohibiría las operaciones de TikTok en Estados Unidos si no encontraba un nuevo propietario en lugar de la compañía china ByteDance. La plataforma tenía programado dejar de operar en Estados Unidos en enero de 2025, de acuerdo el plazo establecido por la ley, y así fue durante varias horas.
Pero en su primer día en el cargo, el presidente Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva para mantenerla en funcionamiento mientras se buscaba un acuerdo para la venta de la empresa.
Además de un énfasis en la protección de datos, en la que se almacenarán los datos de los usuarios estadounidenses en un sistema local gestionado por Oracle, la empresa conjunta también se enfocará en el algoritmo de TikTok. La fórmula de recomendación de contenido, que ofrece a los usuarios videos específicos adaptados a sus preferencias e intereses, será entrenada, probada y actualizada nuevamente con datos de los usuarios de Estados Unidos, indicó la empresa en su anuncio.
Oracle, Silver Lake y la firma de inversión emiratí MGX son los tres inversores gestores, cada uno con una participación del 15%. Entre los demás inversionistas se incluye a la firma de inversión de Michael Dell, el multimillonario fundador de Dell Technologies. ByteDance retiene el 19,9% de la empresa conjunta.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/22/tiktok-finaliza-acuerdo-para-crear-nueva-entidad-en-eeuu/
Ball regresa al quinteto inicial y lidera el inicio rápido de Hornets, que aplastan 124-97 a Magic
ORLANDO (AP) — LaMelo Ball regresó a la alineación titular de Charlotte y anotó 16 puntos, repartió siete asistencias y capturó seis rebotes para que los Hornets aplastaran el jueves 124-97 al Magic de Orlando.
Ball, quien la noche anterior tuvo una de las peores actuaciones en el tiro de su carrera al salir desde el banquillo como parte de un plan para gestionar sus minutos, acertó seis de 12 disparos de campo y cuatro de ocho desde la línea de tres puntos contra Orlando. En la derrota del miércoles ante Cleveland, la tercera selección del draft de 2020 terminó con dos puntos tras encestar apenas uno de 15 tiros, incluyendo 0 de 10 triples.
Brandon Miller anotó 20 puntos para liderar el esfuerzo equilibrado de Charlotte. Collin Sexton salió desde el banquillo y anotó 12 de sus 19 puntos en la primera mitad.
Kon Knueppel y Tidjane Salaunadded añadieron 13 cada uno, mientras que Miles Bridges, Moussa Diabate y Ryan Kalkbrenner anotaron diez por cabeza.
Paolo Banchero consiguió 23 puntos, y Desmond Bane añadió 21 por el Magic. Moritz Wagner anotó 14, Noah Penda añadió 13 y Jeff Howard finalizó con diez.
De vuelta en la alineación titular, Ball jugó un papel importante en el rápido inicio de los Hornets que faltó contra Cleveland la noche anterior, cuando estaban detrás por 21 puntos en el primer cuarto. Ball anotó ocho puntos en siete minutos al atinar sus tres disparos, incluyendo dos de dos de larga distancia.
Charlotte tomó una delantera de 35-20 después de un período.
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White House Aims For Cuba Regime Change By Year-End
White House Aims For Cuba Regime Change By Year-End
Brimming with bravado after snatching Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a lightning raid on Caracas earlier this month, the Trump administration has now set a goal to end Communism in Cuba by the end of the year, according to sources who talked to the Wall Street Journal.
Using the Venezuela operation as a blueprint, the White House is working to identify people inside the Cuban government who could be ripe for making a deal in which they use their position to help oust the current leadership, including President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel. Maduro’s capture was reportedly enabled by an asset in his inner circle, who helped the CIA closely monitor Maduro’s movements and daily habits ahead of the brazen snatch-and-grab mission.
Following Maduro’s ouster, Trump used his Truth Social account to warn that the Venezuela operation spelled doom for the communist government of Cuba, and that they should cut a “deal” soon:
“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided “Security Services” for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE! Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack…THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
According to the Journal’s sources, the White House views the Cuban regime as teetering on the edge of collapse, and increasingly vulnerable with the loss of its Venezuelan trading partners. Assessments by the U.S. intelligence community paint a grim picture inside the communist nation, with Cuba’s tourism and agriculture industries significantly affected by shortages of medicine and basic necessities, routine blackouts, trade sanctions, and a host of other problems. Tourism has declined since the COVID-19 pandemic, and Cuba’s economy has retracted alongside Venezuela’s over the past decade.
China is delivering 30,000 tons of rice to Cuba, which is facing severe food and fuel shortages due to the U.S. blockade. The delivery is part of a new Chinese emergency aid program, and the first shipment arrived on Monday with the second shipment arriving at the Port of… pic.twitter.com/apHUokTk6Z
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) January 20, 2026
Amid growing unease with Trump’s interventionism — including among a broad swath of conservatives — Trump officials who spoke to the Journal sought to distinguish the administration’s activism from the long line of regime-change efforts he railed against as a candidate:
Some Trump officials said the president rejects regime-change strategies of the past. Instead, he looks to make deals where possible and to take advantage of opportunities as they come up, a senior Trump official said. As in Venezuela, this could look like escalating pressure while indicating the White House is open to negotiating an off-ramp, the official said. — WSJ
A “White House official” reiterated Trump’s warning about making a deal while there’s still time, saying, “Cuba’s rulers are incompetent Marxists who have destroyed their country, and they have had a major setback with the Maduro regime that they are responsible for propping up.” While the rhetoric suggests a preference for an ouster facilitated solely through the use of enterprising insiders, it seems one can’t rule out another military assault. Cuban blood has already been shed in Trump’s push to establish a new level of US dominance over the Americas, as 32 soldiers and intel agents were killed in the Jan. 3 US assault on Caracas.
Some observers worry that a collapse of the Cuban government could bring about a major humanitarian crisis that could usher in yet another costly US nation-building program, and waves of refugees seeking asylum. In contrast to Venezuela, Cuba hasn’t had any kind of organized political opposition or parties poised to graduate to managing the country.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 01/22/2026 – 22:10
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-aims-cuba-regime-change-end-year
Mujer baleada por la Patrulla Fronteriza en Oregon es sentenciada por entrar ilegalmente a EEUU
PORTLAND, Oregon, EE.UU. (AP) — Una mujer que fue baleada por un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza durante una reciente redada migratoria en Portland, Oregon, se declaró culpable el jueves de ingresar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos y fue sentenciada a un año de libertad condicional.
Yorlenys Zambrano Contreras compareció para su audiencia a través de una videollamada desde un centro de detención de inmigrantes en Tacoma, Washington, informó The Oregonian/OregonLive. No pasará tiempo en prisión pero deberá reportar su ubicación y cumplir con ciertos requisitos de toque de queda. Podrá permanecer en libertad en Oregon como parte de un acuerdo, informó el portal noticioso.
El caso se presentó inicialmente en Texas, donde fue acusada de ingresar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos, pero renunció a su derecho de comparecer en ese lugar para su juicio, informó el medio.
El tiroteo del 8 de enero, un día después de que un agente federal abatió a tiros a una mujer en Minneapolis, desató protestas debido a las agresivas tácticas de los agentes durante las redadas migratorias.
El FBI señaló en un documento judicial que no había localizado algún video de vigilancia ni imágenes de cualquier otro tipo sobre el tiroteo, en el que un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza hirió a Zambrano Contreras y a Luis Nino Moncada mientras viajaban a bordo de una camioneta en el estacionamiento de un complejo médico.
Según los documentos judiciales, el agente abrió fuego después de que Nino Moncada puso la camioneta en reversa y chocó en repetidas ocasiones el automóvil desocupado que los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza habían alquilado, rompiéndole los faros y el parachoques delantero. La camioneta impactó al agente, quien realizó dos disparos al temer por su vida, según los documentos.
Nino Moncada enfrenta cargos de agresión agravada contra un empleado federal y de daños a propiedad federal. Se ha declarado inocente y permanece detenido hasta que se realice su juicio, el cual está programado para marzo.
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS por sus iniciales en inglés), aseguró que Zambrano Contreras y Nino Moncada ingresaron ilegalmente a Estados Unidos en 2023 y 2022, respectivamente, y tenían vínculos con la pandilla venezolana Tren de Aragua.
El jefe de policía de Portland, Bob Day, confirmó que la pareja tenía “algún nexo” con la pandilla. Aseguró que los dos llamaron la atención de la policía mientras investigaba un tiroteo en julio pasado que se cree que fue perpetrado por miembros de la pandilla, pero no fueron identificados como sospechosos.
Zambrano Contreras fue arrestada previamente por cargos de prostitución, dijo Day, mientras que Nino Moncada estuvo presente cuando se ejecutó una orden de registro en ese caso.
La jueza federal Stacie Beckerman también ordenó el jueves que Zambrano Contreras debe permanecer lejos de las zonas en donde se llevan a cabo actos de prostitución, informó The Oregonian/OregonLive.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Greenland Remaining With Denmark Not Raised During Trump Talks, NATO Chief Says
Greenland Remaining With Denmark Not Raised During Trump Talks, NATO Chief Says
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Jan. 21 that the issue of Greenland remaining part of Denmark did not come up during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Rutte, in an interview with Fox News, was asked about Greenland’s sovereignty under a proposed framework Trump mentioned earlier in the day at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“That issue did not come up anymore in my conversations,” Rutte said. “[Trump] is very much focused on what do we need to do to make sure that that huge Arctic region—where change is taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and the Russians are more and more active—how we can protect it.”
Rutte told the crowd at the World Economic Forum that Trump was accurate about Chinese and Russian aggression in the region.
“When it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic,” Rutte, who previously served as the Dutch prime minister, said.
NATO spokesperson Alison Hart, in a Jan. 21 statement to The Epoch Times, said that discussions would focus on “ensuring Arctic security through the collective efforts of Allies, especially the seven Arctic Allies.”
Trump announced he had formed the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland and the broader Arctic region following his meeting with Rutte.
The president had threatened 10 percent tariffs on eight European NATO members—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland—opposing U.S. acquisition, set to take effect on Feb. 1.
He pulled back on that threat after signaling progress.
“This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations,” Trump wrote in a Jan. 21 post on Truth Social. “Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st.”
Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark since 2009 with about 56,000 residents, hosts a U.S. air base and is rich in critical minerals. Trump has repeatedly said that acquiring the island is essential for national security, blocking Russian or Chinese influence, and enabling a “Golden Dome” missile-defense system.
Negotiations on Greenland have included U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff. Recent meetings included Danish and Greenlandic officials and U.S. counterparts on Jan. 14, and a congressional delegation to Denmark on Jan. 17.
Putin, addressing the Greenland issue for the first time in public, signaled on Jan. 21 that Russia would not object to the United States acquiring Greenland and said it was an issue for Denmark and the United States.
“What happens in Greenland is of no concern to us whatsoever,” Putin told a meeting of Russia’s Security Council. “Incidentally, Denmark has always treated Greenland as a colony and has been quite harsh, if not cruel, towards it. But that is a different matter altogether, and hardly anyone is interested in it now.”
Travis Gilmore and Reuters contributed to this report.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 01/22/2026 – 21:45
House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding
WASHINGTON — The House passed this year’s final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers, still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown, worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.
The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in spending and now move to the Senate, with final passage needed next week before a Jan. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support. They funded Defense and various other departments, including Education, Transportation and Health and Human Services. A fourth bill funding the Department of Homeland Security was hotly disputed as Democrats voiced concerns that it failed to restrain President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
Republicans were able to overcome the Democratic objections and muscle the Homeland Security bill to passage in a 220-207 vote. The broader package, which funds a 3.8% pay raise for the military, passed in a 341-88 vote.
Before the votes, House Democratic leaders announced their opposition to the Homeland Security bill as the party’s rank-and-file demanded a more forceful stand in response to the Republican president’s immigration crackdown. Trump’s efforts have recently centered in the Minneapolis area, where more than 2,000 officers are stationed and where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Good, a mother of three.
In a joint statement, the Democratic leaders said Trump promised the American people that his deportation policy would focus on violent felons in the country illegally, but instead, ICE has targeted American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families.
“Taxpayer dollars are being misused to brutalize U.S. citizens, including the tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good. This extremism must end,” said the statement from Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar.
Democrats had limited options
Democrats had few good options to express their opposition to Homeland Security funding.
Lawmakers, when confronting a funding impasse, generally turn to continuing resolutions to temporarily fund agencies at their current levels. But doing so in this case would simply cede more Homeland Security spending decisions to Trump, said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
Also, there was concern that a failure to fund Homeland Security would hurt disaster assistance programs and agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration, while ICE and Customs and Border Protection would simply carry on. They could use funding from Trump’s big tax cut and immigration bill to continue their operations. ICE, which typically receives about $10 billion a year, was provided $30 billion for operations and $45 billion for detention facilities through Republicans’ “one big beautiful bill.”
This year’s Homeland Security bill holds the annual spending that Congress provides ICE roughly flat from the prior year. It also restricts the ability of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to unilaterally shift funding and allocate federal dollars as she sees fit. The bill also allocates $20 million for the purchase and operations of body cameras for ICE and CBP officers interacting with the public during immigration enforcement operations. And it will require Homeland Security to provide monthly updates on how it plans to spend money from Trump’s bill.
“It’s not everything we wanted. We wanted more oversight. But look, Democrats don’t control the House. We don’t control the Senate or the White House. But we were able to add some oversight over Homeland,” said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a member of the Appropriations panel.
Republicans countered that the Homeland Security bill helps lawmakers accomplish their most important duty — keeping the American people safe.
“This legislation delivers just that and upholds the America first agenda,” said Rep. Tom Cole, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Republicans also celebrated the avoidance of a massive, catchall funding bill known as an omnibus as part of this year’s appropriations process. Such bills, often taken up before the holiday season with lawmakers anxious to return home, have contributed to greater federal spending, they say. This year’s effort, while a few months behind schedule, manages to keep non-defense spending just below current levels, they emphasized.
“It sends a clear, powerful message back home — the House is back at work. We are back to governing,” said Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo.
Anger on the House floor
One by one, Democratic lawmakers lined up to voice their opposition to the Homeland Security bill with a particular focus on ICE, which has been rapidly hiring thousands of new deportation officers to carry out the president’s mass deportation agenda.
Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota said residents of her state were being racially profiled on a mass scale and kidnapped from their communities.
“Masked federal agents are seizing parents, yes, in front of terrified children,” McCollum said. “And many of these people we’re finding had no record and were here legally.”
“I will not fund an agency that acts like an American gestapo,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
“This is about the political retribution of a vengeful president,” said Clark of Massachusetts. “I will not rubberstamp the federal government’s use of political violence against its own people and I ask every member to join me in voting no.”
Cole decried some of the comments about ICE on the House floor.
“It’s reckless, encouraging people to believe that we have masses of bad actors in a particular agency,” Cole said.
In a last-minute add to the package, the House tacked on a provision that would repeal the ability of senators to sue the government over the collection of their cellphone data as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Senators had previously allowed suits claiming up to $500,000 in damages in an earlier funding bill, but the provision drew sharp criticism. The House unanimously agreed to block it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/22/house-approves-spending-bills/
Canada’s Military Preps Model Of Hypothetical US Invasion In Historic First
Canada’s Military Preps Model Of Hypothetical US Invasion In Historic First
It’s quite surprising, and a bit absurd, to read these lines in one of Canada’s premier and most widely read newspapers: “The Canadian Armed Forces have modelled a hypothetical US military invasion of Canada and the country’s potential response, which includes tactics similar to those employed against Russia and later US-led forces in Afghanistan, two senior government officials say.”
This is widely believed to be a first in the history of Canada’s military, given there’s never been reason for this founding NATO member to be attacked by another founding member of NATO, Globe and Mail additionally stated.
The two neighbors also partner and closely coordinate in continental air defense via NORAD, or North American Aerospace Defense Command. But Canadians no doubt woke up shocked Tuesday when beheld the US President sharing the following on social media…
Trump has also lately raised eyebrows in publicly talking about Canada as a potential 51st state, also while expressing his desire for the US to take over Greenland, and coming fresh off the Jan.3rd military assault and incursion on Venezuela to overthrow longtime leader Nicolás Maduro.
According to the Globe report, Ottawa’s contingency thinking and ‘model’ of a hot conflict with US forces reads less like a conventional defense plan and more like an insurgent playbook – even borrowing from the same guerrilla tactics used in Afghanistan by fighters who bled the Soviets and later the Americans.
This would include clashes along the border focused on ambushes, sabotage, as well as classic “hit-and-run tactics,” according to the report.
The Globe stressed that what’s being mulled remains a “conceptual and theoretical framework, not a military plan, which is an actionable and step-by-step directive for executing operations.” Naturally, Western media and tabloids are having fun with this one:
The two senior government officials said military planners are modelling a U.S. invasion from the south, expecting American forces to overcome Canada’s strategic positions on land and at sea within a week and possibly as quickly as two days.
Such an ‘insurgency-style’ response, as opposed to setting up a conventional battlefield ‘front’ – seems an acknowledgement that America’s armed forces would be far superior to Canada’s small military by comparison.
Officials featured in the Canadian media report downplayed the odds that Trump would actually order an invasion of Canada. Also there would be clear signs, probably very far in advance.
Obvious warning signs would including Washington pulling the plug on bilateral cooperation through NORAD, for starters. The neighbors’ bilateral trade would also likely collapse, and a ban on visas would like result in spiraling relations.
Canadian armed forces/Ottowa Citizen
The two NATO powers are nowhere near that point, of course, but Canada does risk Trump’s wrath as it this week said it is considering sending troops to Greenland, to potentially join EU countries’ own deployments as they signal Washington that Denmark is not prepared to give up the resource-rich huge Arctic land mass.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 01/22/2026 – 21:20
Scheffler inicia el año con un 63 y se mantiene en la lucha en The American Express
Por The Associated Press
La idea de Scottie Scheffler era evaluar su juego en el torneo The American Express, y todo parecía estar en buen estado el jueves. Hizo birdies en la mitad de sus hoyos para un 63, nueve bajo par, uniéndose a un desfile de puntuaciones bajas que lo dejaron a un golpe de los punteros.
Min Woo Lee y Pierceson Coody lideraron con 62, diez bajo par, en el campo Nicklaus Tournament en PGA West, el más fácil de los tres en la rotación. Scheffler jugó en La Quinta, donde no falló un green hasta el hoyo 17. Allí hizo un chip para birdie.
“Creo que la parte más difícil de estas pruebas donde tienes que hacer tantos bajo par es que sólo puedes hacer un número limitado en una ronda de golf”, dijo Scheffler. “Las pruebas más fáciles, donde las puntuaciones son increíblemente bajas, si empiezas a quedarte atrás, se vuelven más difíciles para mantener el ritmo, así que tienes que mantener el ritmo aquí”.
Jason Day tuvo la ronda más impresionante del día con su 63 en el Campo Stadim en PGA West, que fue en promedio casi cuatro golpes más difícil que el Nicklaus y poco más de tres golpes más duro que La Quinta.
Pero hubo un comienzo sólido para muchos de los 156 jugadores, el grupo nacional más grande del año entre los eventos regulares del la Gira de la PGA debido a los tres campos. Disfrutaron de las condiciones ideales que esperan en el desierto de California, con un clima agradable y apenas una brisa.
Incluso con la nueva tecnología infundida en TGL, el clima como éste siempre ha hecho que Palm Springs se sienta como jugar en interiores.
Vince Whaley dijo después de un 63 en Nicklaus: “Es como venir a un domo, casi”.
“Apenas hay viento, el césped es perfecto, los campos de golf son perfectos, y es sólo una buena oportunidad para ver dónde está tu juego en condiciones muy benignas. Porque si no puedes golpear un hierro seis aquí, no vas a golpear un hierro seis bien en ningún lado”.
Scheffler lidera el campo más fuerte en décadas en The American Express, acercándose a su tercer aniversario en el primer lugar del ranking, con un total combinado de 13 títulos de la Gira y tres majors en los últimos dos años.
Esta fue su primera competencia contra un campo completo — la primera vez jugando cuando había un corte de 36 hoyos — desde septiembre en Napa, California (cuando ganó).
Seis hoyos en el nuevo año, ya estaba cinco bajo par.
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