WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-1-26 (2/3)

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mark Mellinger. President Donald Trump is backing off of his push to send the National Guard into some of the U.S.'s major cities. World's Travis Kircher has more. President Trump said he's dropping his plans to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, at least for now. He announced that decision in an online statement yesterday. But Trump's statement seemed to suggest that Guard deployment isn't off the table for a He said it's only a matter of time before crime begins to soar again, and when it does, he said the push would resume, but in a different and stronger way, he did not elaborate.

For World, I'm Travis Kircher. One of the Somali-run daycares in Minnesota accused of fraud in a viral video has been broken into. The manager, Nasrallah Mohammed, says thieves made off with important documentation on employees and enrollment. He also says the fraud accusations against his daycare highlighted in the video by independent journalist Nick Shirley are false. We have high quality daycares and this is very sad news that one individual who made a false claim about fraud engaged everyone else to come and do this to us. Several federal agencies are now investigating just how deep the alleged fraud runs and exactly which daycare centers are involved. It was a fourth straight day of protests in the streets of

Iran, the Iranian capital Wednesday. Everyday citizens chanted against the country's regime as Iran struggles with massive inflation. Foreign policy analyst Suzanne Maloney tells CNBC the protests could be a real threat to Iran's dictatorship. What they demand is not just affixed to the economy, but a different regime entirely. Iran's government says it recognizes the protests and will listen patiently. Starting today, children in Virginia, younger than 16, are limited to one hour of social media time per day. That's the requirement of a new state law now in effect. It's up to social media platforms to verify users ages and limit their screen time.

Parents do have the right to allow their kids to have more screen time. Psychiatrist Dr. Ava Gaiman Dooms says she's seen the negative effects of social media on children firsthand, telling WRCTV... Clinically, there was a reason for this law, right? I don't necessarily know that this law is going to be the solution to this, but I think it's a starting point for our conversation. A group that lobbies on behalf of social media companies is suing in federal court to have this law struck down, claiming it violates social media company's First Amendment rights. For World Radio, I'm Mark Mellinger.

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