Thursday, January 23

🚨NATION

📌 Justice Department orders prosecutors to probe local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement (AP)

📌 Trump admin orders federal health agencies to halt communications (AXIOS)

📌 Trump vows to release all JFK, RFK and MLK classified files immediately (REUTERS)

📌 Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US (CNN)

📌 House passes Laken Riley Act, sending the first bill to Trump to sign into law (NBC)

 🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Yemen’s Houthi rebels release crew of commercial vessel seized in Red Sea in November 2023 (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 EU needs to end its military dependency on the US and arm itself ‘to survive,’ top EU officials warns (AP)

📌 About 1,000 North Koreans killed fighting Ukraine in Kursk, officials say (BBC)

📌 Colombians flee to Venezuela as clashes between rebel groups escalate in coca-rich border region (ABC)

 📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Elon Musk bashes the $500 billion AI project Trump announced, claiming its backers don’t ‘have the money’ (CNN)

📌 Here's why some of your social media accounts appear to have automatically followed President Trump (ABC)

📌 CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say (YAHOO)

📌 FDA approves Johnson & Johnson’s nasal spray for depression as stand-alone treatment (CNBC)

📌 Netflix raises prices for all US plans. Here's what to know. (ABC)

 🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Blake Lively demands gag order after Justin Baldoni releases unedited 'It Ends With Us' footage (FOX)

📌 A$AP Rocky’s lawyers look to find favorable jury as trial begins on charges he fired on ex-friend (AP)

📌 ‘Duck Dynasty’ revived at A&E (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Meet the inductees for the Songwriters Hall of Fame Class of 2025 (CBS)