Police in Joliet‚ Illinois‚ are searching for an “armed and dangerous” man after multiple people were found shot dead in two homes. 

Dexter Scott King‚ Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest son‚ has died at 62-years-old after fighting prostate cancer.

Democrats in Washington gave first priority to a new proposed law that calls for the labeling of violent sex offenders to be based on the "person first" principle. The goal is to destigmatize sex offenders by ceasing to define them in terms of their offense.

The only In-N-Out restaurant in Oakland‚ California is closing down due to rising crime. 

The special prosecutor for Trump's Georgia case‚ who is suspected of having an affair with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‚ has had his divorce court documents unsealed by a judge‚ revealing suspicious findings.

Iran‚ the leading state sponsor of terror‚ is scheduled to lead the United Nations Conference on Disarmament from March 18-29 and May 13-24‚ the U.N. announced last week. Each year‚ the U.N. disarmament conference is presided over by one of the 65 member countries. Each country serves as conference president for four working weeks. The presidency rotates among the members in alphabetical order. Other countries to serve as conference presidents this year are India‚ Indonesia‚ Iraq‚ Ireland‚ and Israel. The Conference on Disarmament is the U.N. body in charge of negotiating nuclear disarmament treaties and a slew of other weapons agreements. Concern over Iran’s nuclear ambitions has grown in recent decades‚ especially as the Iranian regime has grown more aggressive in the Middle East through a network of terror groups. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)‚ a U.N. nuclear watchdog organization‚ warned last year that Tehran has likely stockpiled enough enriched Uranium to make several nuclear warheads. IAEA inspectors have for months attempted to gain access to Iran’s stockpiles of nuclear material for inspection‚ but Tehran has barred them. “Though it may be drowned out due to all the other bad news out of the Middle East involving Iran‚ the regime is getting closer and closer to establishing itself as a threshold nuclear state‚” Behnam Ben Taleblu‚ a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies‚ told Fox News. “If anything‚ Iran seems to be capitalizing on all the mayhem in the Middle East‚ mayhem which Washington has failed to curb or manage well‚ to press ahead in what appears to be a quest for the ultimate deterrent‚” he added. On October 7‚ the terror group Hamas‚ backed by Iran‚ invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip‚ leading to the death of roughly 1‚200 Israelis and the capture of hundreds more in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. In recent weeks‚ Iran has stepped up direct attacks on its neighbors in Iraq‚ Syria‚ and Pakistan. Iran’s strikes‚ carried out by the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps‚ led to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Tehran and Islamabad. After an Iranian airstrike killed at least two children and wounded three others‚ according to Pakistan’s foreign ministry‚ Pakistani forces launched an airstrike of its own in Iranian territory. According to Iran’s foreign ministry‚ the Pakistani airstrike killed at least nine people‚ none of whom were citizens of Iran. Tehran said that four children‚ three women‚ and two men died in the strike. Both sides justified their airstrikes saying that their attacks were directed at insurgents inside the other country aiming to attack their own.

CNN‘s Jake Tapper pressed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the Biden administration’s response to the Norfolk Southern train derailment nearly a year after the toxic disaster in East Palestine‚ Ohio. In an exchange that aired on Monday‚ Tapper asked Buttigieg why calls for a major disaster declaration — including from Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — that could unlock additional resources such as health screenings to residents are not being heeded by the federal government. “The Biden administration refuses to do that‚” Tapper said. “They say a disaster declaration does not apply because it’s not a natural disaster. They say Norfolk Southern is responsible. So is that disaster declaration still just off the table for these residents who are clearly suffering?” CNN: Why won't Biden approve the Ohio governor's disaster declaration for East Palestine‚ Ohio? PETE BUTTIGIEG: "I don't know all the legalities of the emergency management process" pic.twitter.com/5Dj6m6Em0q — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 22‚ 2024 Buttigieg replied‚ “Look‚ leaving aside all the legalities of the emergency management process‚ I do know what we can do as a department is to make sure that railroads are safer. We’ve been taking action on everything from focused inspection of railroads to making sure that there’s better hazardous material-related regulations to just investing in better railroad infrastructure.” Biden issued an executive order in September instructing FEMA to designate a federal disaster recovery coordinator to “oversee long-term recovery efforts in the affected communities and conduct a comprehensive assessment of unmet needs of the affected communities in recovering from the derailment beyond the cleanup work directed by EPA.” A coordinator‚ Jim McPherson‚ was appointed later that month. But no disaster declaration. Tapper also confronted Buttigieg on why Biden has not visited East Palestine since the derailment in early February of 2023 — a question which has been posed to the White House many times over the past year‚ often answered by statements about how the president was planning to go at some point but did not get around to scheduling it. JAKE TAPPER: "[Biden] still has not visited East Palestine‚ Ohio. I don't know why that is — that doesn't seem to make much sense to me … why wouldn't he just go to East Palestine?" BUTTIGIEG: "I don't have any updates" pic.twitter.com/s7OWEghsI7 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 22‚ 2024 Biden “still has not visited East Palestine‚ Ohio. I don’t know why that is — that doesn’t seem to make much sense to me‚” the CNN anchor said. Tapper asked why Biden would not go to East Palestine and “use the bully pulpit” to get bipartisan legislation from Brown and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to increase railroad safety regulations passed through Congress. “I don’t have any updates on the scheduling front for the White House but what I can tell you is it shouldn’t take anything more than we’ve already seen happen for Congress to act‚” Buttigieg said. “I don’t know why we have to persuade anybody to do something that members in both parties claim to care about‚ which is to make our railroads safer.”