Voices, The Peoples News
January 20, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Archaeology
‘Floating’ Pyramid of Egypt Analyzed by Experts to Find the Mystery Behind Its Evolution and Reason Behind Its Special Place
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1390808/egypt-floating-pyramid-mystery-solved-archaeology-news-pharaoh-senusret-lahun-spt
Archaeologists Discover the World’s Oldest 3D Map Inside a Cave, Hosts Three Different Styles of Ancient Art. About 20,000 years ago, prehistoric people carved and smoothed the cave floors to create the miniature 3D feature of its surroundings.
https://knewz.com/world/archaeologists-discover-the-worlds-oldest-3-d-map-inside-a-cave-hosts-three-different-styles-of-ancient-art/
Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover a Well-Preserved Mummy Wearing Gold and Blue Sky God Mask
https://www.newsbreak.com/knewz-1594593/3765623574644-archaeologists-in-egypt-uncover-a-well-preserved-mummy-wearing-gold-and-blue-sky-god-mask
Researchers Uncover Scribes of Ancient Pharaohs That Used Advanced Inks Containing Copper 2000 Years Ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171110113931.htm
Archeologists have uncovered more than 1,000 stone blocks of the foundation wall of Queen Hatshepsut’s valley temple in Luxor as well as the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of Ahmose I, the first pharaoh of Egypt’s golden New Kingdom era
https://www.newsbreak.com/knewz-1594593/3767056285506-archaeologists-stumble-on-new-findings-in-queen-hatshepsut-s-famous-mortuary-temple-in-egypt-stuns-researchers
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Scores of Afghans have left for the US after their visas were processed in the Philippines
https://apnews.com/article/afghan-special-us-visa-applicants-philippines-ced25c685ab3ff1527f1781fae2d1bdd
‘Damn Right’ Trump Will Take On ‘Paramilitary’ Mexican Drug Cartels, Says Mike Waltz: ‘The American People Expect It’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/damn-right-trump-will-take-on-paramilitary-mexican-drug-cartels-says-mike-waltz-the-american-people-expect-it/
DeSantis’ border plan: Make illegal entry a state crime, expand 287(g) program, more
https://www.newsbug.info/news/nation/desantis-border-plan-make-illegal-entry-a-state-crime-expand-287-g-program-more/article_09b43828-d915-5688-9180-967b688f5bd0.html?=/&subcategory=9%7CFood+%2F+Drink
Federal appeals court declares DACA unlawful, but keeps program in place for now
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/politics/2025/01/17/daca-program-ruled-illegal-by-federal-appeals-court
Mexican authorities to seal secret tunnel on US border. The tunnel, discovered on Jan. 10, connects the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez with the Texas city of El Paso.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mexico-sealed-tunnel/2025/01/19/id/1195642/
North Texas Republican introduces bill to make ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy permanent. U.S. Representative Roger Williams says he has the votes to pass legislation.
https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/texas-republican-remain-in-mexico-policy-permanent/287-9233a889-7a3b-45c9-81f3-cc7b29fd9fa9
Senate advances Laken Riley Act without added protections for victims of domestic violence. Ten Democrats joined with Republicans on Friday to move forward the bill, which would require the deportation of undocumented immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes like shoplifting.
https://19thnews.org/2025/01/laken-riley-act-protections-domestic-violence-victims/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Federal Reserve withdraws from global regulatory climate change group
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/Ib85973e0d51e11efa72bdc73e718d234/View/FullText.html?transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE officially comes to power today. Here’s what’s likely first on the agenda.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-officially-comes-power-today-090401254.html
Elon Musk’s DOGE will be sued minutes after Trump is sworn in: Lawsuit will challenge legality of ‘department of government efficiency’, by alleging it violates federal rules
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/elon-musk-doge-lawsuit
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Louisiana leads lawsuit against Biden’s ban on new offshore drilling
https://www.businessreport.com/article/liz-murrill-leads-lawsuit-against-bidens-offshore-drilling-ban
# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
Food pantries are bracing for more demand if the Trump administration cuts food aid
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5213815/food-pantries-are-bracing-for-more-demand-if-the-trump-administration-cuts-food-aid
# General News
Column: Martin Luther King Jr.’s son has a message for Donald Trump – and for America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/19/column-martin-luther-king-day-trump-inauguration-message/77724790007/
# Gov / Politics
Trump ally says first 100 days will be “shock and awe”
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5258481/trump-protest-peoples-march-womens-march-inauguration-presidency-policies-agenda
Here Are 31 Major Actions Trump Will Focus On In Day One Executive Order Barrage. Here’s a look at just 31 of those executive actions Trump plans to take significant enough to be mentioned in the brief
https://www.mediaite.com/news/here-are-31-major-actions-trump-will-focus-on-in-day-one-executive-order-barrage/
‘Pushing back’: Republican Senators reportedly just ‘broke with Trump’ on a key issue
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1390808/egypt-floating-pyramid-mystery-solved-archaeology-news-pharaoh-senusret-lahun-spt
‘Trump’s team is worried’ Mitch McConnell will ‘open floodgates’ against nominee
https://www.alternet.org/trump-s-team-is-worried-mitch-mcconnell-will-open-floodgates-against-nominee-report/
Diplomats Are Resigning En Masse Before Trump Takes Over
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-state-dept-diplomats-resign-055740273.html
Joe Biden almost sparked WW3 – Vladimir Putin ally warns of ‘nuclear exchange’
https://www.newsweek.com/dmitry-medvedev-nuclear-war-nato-almost-began-joe-biden-2017352
Donald Trump’s Presidency Will Fuel a Greater Than $4 Trillion Investment — and It Has Nothing to Do With Artificial Intelligence (AI)
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/01/20/donald-trump-fuel-4-trillion-investment-not-ai/
Report: Federal government can’t fully account for its ‘unsustainable’ spending
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_5a14c10e-d45b-11ef-bcec-b727297eea9c.html
Senior State Dept. Diplomats Resign, Trump To Suspend Security Clearances In Day 1 Purge
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-career-state-department-resignations_n_678ddb00e4b099ed401c7c8a
The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/18/tech-bros-trump-inauguration-silicon-valley-nation-state
This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies. Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/18/sadiq-khan-far-right-billionaire-bullies
Thousands of left-wing demonstrators descend on Washington to protest Trump inauguration
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5258481/trump-protest-peoples-march-womens-march-inauguration-presidency-policies-agenda
# Gov / Politics / Global
Senior Taliban official hits out at own group’s policies towards women
https://au.news.yahoo.com/senior-taliban-official-hits-own-110703098.html
German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows: Ambassador Andreas Michaelis said in his confidential diplomatic report that the Trump agenda would rob the legislative branch, law enforcement and media of their independence.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-us-trump-7b47360c97f8f6ac11052303dd58e0c5
China says it’s sending its vice president to Trump’s inauguration. It’s a sign Beijing may be willing to play ball, international relations experts say.
https://www.aol.com/china-says-vice-president-han-044143599.html
Delegation from Germany’s far-right AfD in US for Trump inauguration
https://www.barrons.com/news/german-far-right-co-leader-to-attend-trump-inauguration-63aa30d2
Israel stops Gaza ceasefire an hour before start time as Netanyahu demands ‘list of hostages first’
https://www.voanews.com/a/netanyahu-says-ceasefire-will-not-begin-unless-hamas-provides-list-of-hostages-/7942164.html
Israel-Hamas ceasefire takes hold with first hostages freed
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43571/ceasefire-goes-into-effect-in-gaza
Netanyahu says Israel ‘reserves right to resume war’ as over 70 arrested at pro-Gaza rally in Westminster
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/us-marshals-deputize-nearly-4000-officers-ahead-of-inauguration/
Russia is escalating its dangerous shadow war against NATO, and there are fears it could get a lot worse
https://www.aol.com/russia-escalating-dangerous-shadow-war-124702432.html
Taliban deputy foreign minister calls for girls’ high schools to open
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250120-taliban-deputy-foreign-minister-calls-for-girls-high-schools-to-open/
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Rami Malek, ‘Mr. Robot’ star, says he was ‘thrown’ on the hood of a cop car in racial profiling incident: ‘I may well be going to jail for something I’ve not done’
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/rami-malek-thrown-onto-cop-car-racial-profiling-incident-1236278455/
Nearly 4,000 police officers from around the country deputized ahead of the Presidential Inauguration
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/us-marshals-deputize-nearly-4000-officers-ahead-of-inauguration/
‘This is personal’: Marine veteran reacts to judgment on federal loophole police used to seize his cash
https://www.aol.com/personal-marine-veteran-reacts-judgment-100027386.html
South Carolina schoolgirl found stabbed, bludgeoned and burned to death in ‘monstrous and distubing’ killing
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-schoolgirl-found-stabbed-920120
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Black Passenger Sues American Airlines After Being Accused Of Trafficking His Wife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAzXnTeTU8U
Justice Department announced its findings that the Louisiana State Police (LSP) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-findings-report-regarding-louisiana-state-police
# Media
# Medical / General News
Shut away and ignored: thousands of disabled adults are at the frontier of the human rights
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/19/millions-shut-out-society-social-care-crisis-disabled-adults
How the Trump admin’s attacks on abortion could devastate health care access globally
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/20/how-the-admins-on-abortion-could-devastate-health-care-access-globally/
Missouri lawmakers are going after voter-approved abortion rights. Voters will likely reelect them
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/national/missouri-lawmakers-are-going-after-voter-approved-abortion-rights-voters-will-likely-reelect-them/article_b76781e0-a093-57fc-957b-644baf6386d3.html
# NATO
Hundreds of Swedish forces arrive in Latvia in largest deployment with NATO to date
https://apnews.com/article/sweden-latvia-nato-0018ee9deb9fd963a999ee5f6d964b3f
# Other Interesting Things
Fish exhibits unusual behaviour and appears to “walk” upright. Footage shows the quirky red fish stood vertically, its head pointing upwards and tail stuck to the tank floor while other fish swim gracefully around it
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/science/zoology/fish-exhibits-unusual-behaviour-and-appears-to-walk-upright/vi-AA1xjAbq
Man Leaves 12-Pack Bottled Water on Porch During Snowstorm – Left Stunned on Finding None of Them Frozen. Thaxton shared that the water bottle had been lying on his porch where the temperature was 28 degrees Fahrenheit for past four days.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/man-leaves-12-pack-bottled-water-on-porch-during-snowstorm-left-stunned-on-finding-none-of-them-frozen
NASA Earth Observatory Captures ‘Ghost Islands’ Birthed by Mud Volcanoes, Leaves Scientists Baffled. The landmass mysteriously appeared over the Caspian Sea from the eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano and vanished once it underwent erosion.
https://knewz.com/world/nasa-earth-observatory-captures-ghost-islands-birthed-by-mud-volcanoes-leaves-scientists-baffled/
# Science
Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet. New research into the single-celled organism is providing clues about what the early planet looked like – and raising the prospect that we may not be alone in the universe
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/19/luca-is-the-progenitor-of-all-life-on-earth-but-its-genesis-has-implications-far-beyond-our-planet
New category of particles discovered in the subatomic realm. A new study published in Nature, physicists have discovered a new class of quantum particles known as fractional excitons. These particles behave in surprising ways and have the potential to significantly enhance scientists’ understanding of the quantum realm
https://www.azoquantum.com/News.aspx?newsID=10695#:~:text=In%20a%20new%20study%20published,understanding%20of%20the%20quantum%20realm
Researchers Discover Stunning Cavern Half the Size of Manhattan Teeming With Life Beneath the Antarctic Ice
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/researchers-discover-stunning-cavern-half-the-size-of-manhattan-teeming-with-life-beneath-the-antarctic-ice
# Security / Surveillance
National security threats persist as arrests made in Virginia, NC, Florida
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_dd003b38-d5ba-11ef-a36b-3366581edfb1.html
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
Microsoft doubles down on Windows 11 — calls for major Copilot+ PC upgrade cycle in 2025
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-calls-for-major-copilot-pc-upgrade-cycle-in-2025
Chinese entities sanctioned over roles in American cyberattacks
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/17/treasury-department-sanctions-chinese-cyber-attacks/2451737139974/
# Veterans / VA
Legislation introduced to support veterans, increase transparency
https://veterans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5841
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