🗞️Trump threatens Iran...again

January 28th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• President Trump warned on social media that a "massive armada" led by the USS Abraham Lincoln and larger than one sent to Venezuela, is heading toward Iran to pressure Tehran into negotiating a nuclear deal with no weapons allowed, Trump also threatened a strike far worse than last June's U.S.-Israel attacks on its facilities

• The FBI carried out a court-authorized search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Office in Georgia, as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities related to the 2020 presidential election

• Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and defended the Trump administration's January 3rd military operation that captured and ousted Venezuelan President Maduro as a targeted success against a national security threat…Rubio also discussed the administration’s approach to China, Iran, and Greenland

• The federal agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave…read more here

• The Federal Reserve voted to hold interest rates steady at 3.5%-3.75% today, marking the first pause after three consecutive 25-basis-point cuts in late 2025

• Google announced an expansion of Gemini AI features in Chrome, including a persistent sidebar chatbot for handling multi-step web tasks like booking flights or filtering apartments, image generation via Nano Banana, and "Personal Intelligence" linking Gmail/Photos data

• Amazon announced that they are laying off approximately 16,000 corporate employees as part of an ongoing effort to reduce bureaucracy, streamline operations, and redirect resources toward AI investments

• SoftBank is in early talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI as part of a potential $100 billion funding round that could value the company at around $830 billion

• JPMorgan Chase announced it will match the U.S. government's $1,000 one-time contribution to "Trump Accounts", which are tax-advantaged retirement savings plans for newborns, for their eligible U.S. employees’ children born from 2025–2028…read more here

• The S&P 500 reached 7,000 points for the first time today

• DOW up .02% / S&P down .01%

Plus: A Gallup poll showing U.S. adults’ charitable activities from 2001-2025

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