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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani got an early win on a signature policy proposal thanks to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

On Jan. 8, Hochul announced the city and state would partner on a plan to launch free universal childcare for 2-year-old children in New York City. Mamdani, a week into taking office, had centered no-cost childcare for New Yorkers in his winning campaign to address cost of living.

The two Democrats need each other — Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has to make good on sweeping proposals in the nation’s largest city, and Hochul, a moderate, needs to show receipts as she faces re-election in 2026. The childcare plan, part of Hochul's budget proposal, would need approval by the Legislature as part of the state's budget.

New York City already has universal preschool for 4-year-old children, and offers 3-K, or early childhood education for 3-year-old students.

Hochul and Mamdani are set to launch the free childcare program beginning at 2 years old within New York City. Hochul’s office said she is committed to fully funding the first two years of the expansion.

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Two people in Portland, Oregon, were injured in a shooting involving federal agents on Thursday, authorities and officials said, a day after tensions were heightened across the nation following a fatal shooting by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

Portland police officers responded to a report of a shooting at around 2:18 p.m. local time on Jan. 8. Officers confirmed that federal agents were involved in the shooting, the Portland Police Bureau said in a news release.

Shortly after, police said officers received information that a man had been shot and had called for help in the area. Officers discovered a man and woman with apparent gunshot wounds.

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a contentious settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, according to a government tender.

The tender, which seeks bids from developers, would clear the way to begin construction of the E1 project.

The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now first reported the tender. Yoni Mizrahi, who runs the group’s settlement watch division, said initial work could begin within the month.

Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.

The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.

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Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar, according to the latest edition of federal nutrition advice released Wednesday by the Trump administration.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins issued the 2025-2030 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which offer updated recommendations for a healthy diet and provide the foundation for federal nutrition programs and policies. They come as Kennedy has for months stressed overhauling the U.S. food supply as part of his Make America Healthy Again agenda.

"Our message is clear: Eat real food," Kennedy told reporters at a White House briefing.

The guidelines emphasize consumption of fresh vegetables, whole grains and dairy products, long advised as part of a healthy eating plan.

But they also take a new stance on "highly processed" foods, and refined carbohydrates, urging consumers to avoid "packaged, prepared, ready-to-eat or other foods that are salty or sweet, such as chips, cookies and candy." That's a different term for ultraprocessed foods, the super-tasty, energy-dense products that make up more than half of the calories in the U.S. diet and have been linked to chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

The new guidance backs away from revoking long-standing advice to limit saturated fats, despite signals from Kennedy and Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary that the administration would push for more consumption of animal fats to end the "war" on saturated fats.

Instead, the document suggests that Americans should choose whole-food sources of saturated fat — such as meat, whole-fat dairy or avocados — while continuing to limit saturated fat consumption to no more than 10% of daily calories. The guidance says "other options can include butter or beef tallow," despite previous recommendations to avoid those fats.


The dietary guidelines, required by law to be updated every five years, provide a template for a healthy diet. But in a country where more than half of adults have a diet-related chronic disease, few Americans actually follow the guidance, research shows.

The new recommendations drew praise from some prominent nutrition experts.

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President Donald Trump has lashed out at Nato after the alliance made several critical comments about US military ambitions in recent days.

The US leader said that if it weren’t for his involvement “Russia would have all of Ukraine right now”, adding that Russia had “zero fear of Nato” without the support of the US.

"Without my involvement, Russia would have ALL OF UKRAINE right now,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.

“Russia and China have zero fear of Nato without the United States, and I doubt Nato would be there for us if we really needed them.”

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The federal government has officially resumed garnishing wages and withholding benefits from student loan borrowers after years of legal limbo.

The Trump administration has made several moves to limit repayment options and enforce collections after an extended COVID-era pause. The federal Education Department announced a proposed legal agreement to squash the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan in December 2025, dealing a final blow to the Biden administration's efforts to forgive or reduce the $200 billion burden of repayment on 5 million federal borrowers.

More than 7 million SAVE borrowers have been in administrative forbearance, not requiring payments, since June 2024. Interest on their debt restarted in August 2025 and the administration announced plans to resume wage garnishment on borrowers behind on payments beginning Jan. 7, according to reports.

Here's what to know about who is at risk of having money taken from their paycheck.

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A theater professor at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee who was fired in September for his “insensitive” social media post after Charlie Kirk’s assassination is back on the job and will receive a $500,000 settlement.

Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing, had shared a Newsweek article on social media on Sept. 10 that quoted Kirk’s own words about gun violence after the right-wing activist was fatally shot.

“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” Kirk said at an event in 2023. “That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe.”

Michael did not caption the post with his own thoughts, but his social media activity gained the attention of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who posted a screenshot of his post and professor page on X, asking the university, “What do you say?”

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The president of the Beersheba District Court Judge Benny Sagi, who was the judge of Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption case, was killed on Sunday after a vehicle crashed into his motorcycle while he was traveling on Route 6.

According to police, a vehicle that was driving off-road came up onto the highway and hit Sagi’s motorbike, TImes of Israel said. 

Magen David Adom said medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene described the accident as “shocking.”

The president of the Beersheba District Court Judge Benny Sagi was killed on Sunday after a vehicle crashed into his motorcycle while he was traveling on Route 6.

According to police, a vehicle that was driving off-road came up onto the highway and hit Sagi’s motorbike.

Magen David Adom said medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene described the accident as “shocking.”

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