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Flashing lights for weeks on NYC thoroughfare spark outrage from locals over city’s slow fix: ‘We all deserve better’

21 janvier 2026 à 18:27
These strobing lights are no party for locals. Constant flashing from city-operated street lights in Queens have distracted drivers and irked nearby residents for weeks – and was only fixed after a social media post exposed the issue, The Post has learned. Constant light flashes on city-operated street lights in Queens have distracted drivers and...

Conservative justices appear skeptical about Trump’s push to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook – live

Supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh says that precedent set by firing Cook could ‘weaken, if not shatter’ Federal Reserve’s independence

House Republicans are starting a push on Wednesday to hold former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the prospect of the House using one of its most powerful punishments against a former president for the first time.

The contempt proceedings are an initial step toward a criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice that, if successful, could send the Clintons to prison.

They’re not above the law. We’ve issued subpoenas in good faith.

For five months we’ve worked with them. And time’s up.

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© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Court Denies Lawmakers Seeking Independent Monitor of Epstein Files

21 janvier 2026 à 18:24
A federal judge said he did not have the authority to supervise the Justice Department’s release of the documents.

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Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, made the request for an independent monitor in the release of the Epstein files, along with Ro Khanna, Democrat of California.

‘Treated like shirkers’: German unions cry foul over Merz’s sick-note crackdown

21 janvier 2026 à 18:23

Opponents say proposal to end sick notes issued over phone would fill up doctors’ waiting rooms unnecessarily

A German proposal to end the right to get short-term sick leave from a doctor over the telephone as a means of cracking down on skiving has met with an outcry from labour groups and the medical profession.

Germans enjoy some of the most generous employee illness policies in Europe, a fact the conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz, says is undermining efforts to kickstart the EU’s biggest economy, whose growth has largely stalled since 2022.

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© Photograph: Christian Mang/Reuters

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Peter Navarro, who was jailed under Biden, shows no mercy for Bill and Hillary Clinton facing similar contempt of Congress allegations

21 janvier 2026 à 18:17
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s senior trade counselor Peter Navarro is slamming Bill Clinton’s decision to dodge a deposition about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as congressional Republicans seek to jail the former president and his wife Hillary Clinton. The former president and ex-secretary of state were both compelled to appear before the...

Trump’s tariff threat leaves Europe with a choice: fight back or cease to matter | Georg Riekeles

21 janvier 2026 à 18:13

Appeasing Trump has only emboldened him. But European leaders are not as helpless as the US president believes

  • Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy Centre

EU leaders’ tough rebukes to Donald Trump in Davos must be followed by concrete action when they convene in Brussels on Thursday night. The US president’s attempt to strong-arm Greenland and Denmark, backed by explicit tariff threats against those who refuse to comply, is not bluster or improvisation. It is economic coercion, openly deployed to force political submission and territorial concessions. The danger lies in the demand itself, but also in how Europe responds.

The EU has reached a moment of truth. If it cannot defend one of its member states whose most basic interests are under direct threat, then the EU is weakened as a geopolitical actor and emptied of purpose.

Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy Centre

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Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances

21 janvier 2026 à 18:09

As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?

Donald Trump has told the Davos economic forum “without us, most countries would not even work”, but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US.

Individually and collectively, they have decided “to live in truth” – the phrase used by the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and referenced by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his widely praised speech at Davos on Tuesday. They will no longer pretend the US is a reliable ally, or even that the old western alliance exists.

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© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

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