The Trump administration designated three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations on Tuesday and imposed new sanctions in an effort to curb the Islamic extremist group. The administration singled out the Lebanese branch for the harshest designation, labeling it a Foreign Terrorist Organization, a classification that criminalizes any material support under federal law. The Jordanian and Egyptian branches were designated as global terrorist entities for their support for Hamas, which the United States also classifies as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. “These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. “The United States will use all available tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to engage in or support terrorism.” In November, Trump signed an executive order paving the way for his administration to classify certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations. He said that “final documents are being drawn” for the designation to be “done in the strongest and most powerful terms.” Trump’s executive order states that the Lebanese chapter joined Hamas and Hezbollah and other Palestinian factions to launch rockets at both civilians and military targets in Israel. It listed the Egyptian chapter as calling for “violent attacks against United States partners and interests” and the Jordanian chapter’s leaders as providing “material support to the militant wing of Hamas.” “Such activities threaten the security of American civilians in the Levant and other parts of the Middle East, as well as the safety and stability of our regional partners,” the order said. The move comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued state-level orders in late 2025 labeling both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. CAIR, which describes itself as the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States, responded by suing both state governments and declaring that it does not support terrorism. Following DeSantis’s declaration, the group accused the Florida governor of being “Israel first.” Abbott called on the Trump administration to strip CAIR of its tax-exempt status for its alleged ties to foreign terrorist organizations. He argued that federal investigators and court filings have identified CAIR as “a direct subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood” and as a “front group” for Hamas in the United States. He also cited a recent report that claims CAIR awarded $1,000 cash grants to college students who disrupted classes and intimidated or harassed fellow students “while celebrating Hamas’s October 7th attack.”  The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928. Its founder, Hassan al-Banna, spoke openly about fighting non-Muslims through jihad and wrote that “Jihad is an obligation from Allah and every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.” Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, and Jordan followed in April 2025.

President Donald Trump ended temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis living in the United States, ordering them to leave the country by March 17. “Temporary means temporary,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News Digital Tuesday. “Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.” “Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests,” Noem said. “We are putting Americans first.” Roughly 2,471 Somali nationals currently live in the U.S. under temporary protected status, according to Fox. An estimated 600 of them are living in Minnesota. ONE WAY TICKET DHS is ENDING Temporary Protected Status for Somalians in the United States. Our message is clear. Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves. pic.twitter.com/moTA5BnCpM — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 13, 2026 There are also 1,383 Somalis living in the country with pending applications for temporary protected status, the outlet reported. If Somalis who are subject to the order refuse to leave the United States by March, they will likely become targets of federal immigration authorities. The policy change comes just one day after Minneapolis and St. Paul announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its mass deportation sweeps in Minnesota. The lawsuit seeks to “end the unlawful, unprecedented surge of the federal law enforcement agents into Minnesota,” state Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a press conference on Monday. “The obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law,” he said. The feud between the Trump administration and officials in Minnesota boiled over after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good, who was reportedly tied to a radical ICE Watch organization tracking the agency’s whereabouts. The president has accused Good of committing an act of “domestic terrorism” after she was seen in footage blocking a road the ICE agents were trying to pass through before she ignored their commands to get out of the car. Good was then seen putting her car in reverse and backing up, before driving forward. One video appears to show the agent taking a hit as he stood in front of the vehicle before shots were fired. The Trump administration has also zeroed in on Minnesota’s Somali community after federal authorities revealed last month that an estimated $9 billion in taxpayer funds may have been stolen as part of a massive fraud campaign that’s largely been tied to the population. The fraudsters are accused of funneling cash from state welfare programs through fake nonprofits and shell companies back to Somalia — and even Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported last month.

The search is on for actor Timothy Busfield, 68, who has been accused of child sex abuse by minors who say the alleged misconduct occurred when they were working with him. The prolific star is on the run as the Albuquerque Police Department teamed up with US Marshals to bring him into custody, per a statement APD issued on Monday.  Busfield was served with an arrest warrant on Friday. The alleged crimes included two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse. The actor worked with twin boys, born in 2014, on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” which aired on Fox from 2022 to 2025. Busfield directed some episodes and was named as an executive producer, per Deadline. One of the boys identified in court documents as “SL” told APD Officer Marvin Brown that Busfield touched his “penis and buttocks, masking it as play” more than once. The alleged abuse is said to have started with the boys when they were 7 years old. An investigation began in November 2024 when a University of New Mexico Hospital doctor reported his suspicions of sexual abuse and grooming to authorities, as reported by The New York Post.  The actor allegedly had the boys refer to him as “Uncle Tim” and tickled them on their stomachs and legs. Busfield responded to these allegations in November and confirmed it was “highly likely” he engaged in “physical contact” with them. “I don’t remember those boys,” Busfield said, per the affidavit. “No, I don’t. I don’t actually, I don’t remember it, if it happened. I don’t remember overtly tickling the boys ever, but it wouldn’t be uncommon for me.” The actor also indicated that the twins’ mother was making the claims as a form of revenge for the child stars not being part of the last season of “The Cleaning Lady,” which has since been canceled. Investigators initially didn’t press charges, but the case was reopened in September 2025 when one of the boys reported the alleged abuse to his doctor. The actor was accused but never charged in two previous sexual assault allegations in 1994 and 2012, Deadline noted. “First allegation occurred in 1994. A seventeen-year-old extra on Little Big League sued in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming Busfield assaulted her, served her alcohol, groped her, atempted [sic] sex in a trailer,” Officer Marvin Kirk Brown wrote in the arrest warrant obtained by People. No charges were filed, and both parties settled. The second allegation is from March 2012. “A twenty-eight-year-old woman accused Busfield of battery in an LA movie theater—alleging he slipped hands under clothes, touched genitals for four minutes,” the arrest warrant said, noting that there was no lawsuit filed due to “slim evidence.” Busfield described the encounter as “consensual.” Busfield has a long and successful Hollywood career, with credits in major projects such as “Field of Dreams,” “Revenge of the Nerds,” and “The West Wing.” He won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1991 for his role on the ABC series “Thirtysomething.”  The actor is married to “Little House on the Prairie” actress Melissa Gilbert. They have no children. Busfield has three children from two previous marriages.

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, breaking with his party once again, said he favors the United States intervening in Iran against the tyrannical regime that is reportedly brutally murdering its own citizens in order to retain power. “The ruthless Iranian regime has been callously slaughtering civilians who aren’t even involved in the nationwide anti-government protests, horrified witnesses said — as the death toll surged on Tuesday to roughly 2,000,” The New York Post reported. “Chilling eyewitness accounts of the bloodshed started emerging late Monday after Iranians were finally able to make international calls after authorities cut the country’s internet supply as part of its merciless crackdown.” On Monday, speaking of possible strikes on Iran, Fetterman said on CNN, “Those strikes make sense, absolutely. I do support those things. … I’m saying I’m open to that. And I am actually inspired by the real kinds of courage that those protesters in Iran are demonstrating now. “ “So I don’t know why we can’t all want to support that to back them and now bring that awful regime to its knees,” he continued. “Now, that’s where it’s at right now. They’re so desperate. They killed the internet, and now they’re mowing down their own citizens. Now they’re even so desperate, offering six dollars a month as some kind of a payoff now, too. Now for me, I think we can all agree that the world would be better, safer and more just if you could break that regime.” ? NEW: Senator John Fetterman BREAKS RANKS with Democrats to support President Trump taking military action in IRAN to protect the protestors pic.twitter.com/ys33osDkHy — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) January 12, 2026 Fetterman’s rhetoric echoed the words of former Speaker of the House and eminent historian Newt Gingrich, who bluntly stated on X, “It is not enough to sympathize with the Iranian people in their struggle to get free from the dictatorship which is clearly killing dissidents and fighting for its very survival. It is not enough to have government leaders publicly talking about support for the Iranian people but failing to do anything real. It is also not enough to send token support but fail to take the steps necessary to replace the dictatorship. In a few weeks either the dictatorship will be gone or the Iranian people will have been defeated and suppressed and a campaign to find the ringleaders and kill them will have begun.” “There is no middle ground,” he continued. “The goal of every western [sic] leader should be to destroy the Iranian dictatorship at this moment of its vulnerability. Nothing will do more to move the Middle East toward peace, safety, and prosperity than the destruction of the Ayatollah’s dictatorship. The time to act is NOW.” It is not enough to sympathize with the Iranian people in their struggle to get free from the dictatorship which is clearly killing dissidents and fighting for its very survival. It is not enough to have government leaders publicly talking about support for the Iranian people but… — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 12, 2026