WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 1-15-26 (3/3)

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Mary Muncie. In Iran, state television aired a mass funeral yesterday for some 100 people. The dead included security force members the state says were killed during nationwide demonstrations. But that number pales in comparison to the 3,400 protesters human rights groups say have died in Iran's crackdown on the demonstrations. Senator Tim Sheehe tells Fox's America's newsroom, he'll support President Donald Trump if he decides to intervene militarily. It's not our job to go and conduct a regime change, but we should help these people take out the trash. It's high time. We finally get rid of this murder's regime. We've been placated them for far too long. And early this morning, Iran issued an order to close its airspace for a little over two hours.

No explanation was given. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, to quell the ongoing demonstrations in Minnesota. Earlier today, Trump promised to invoke the 19th century law if state officials don't stop demonstrations against immigration enforcement actions. The law would allow the president to deploy U.S. military forces to end the protests.

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Fry says there are already too many federal agents in Minnesota. We have ICE agents throughout our city and throughout our state who, along with border control, are creating chaos. But Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoem told Fox's America's newsroom this morning. We are enforcing federal law. If you don't like the laws, go change them. But don't do it by giving place to these protesters and rioters that are perpetuating violence. Noam went on to criticize local leaders for rhetoric, she says,

endangers the lives of ICE officers. Several NCAA players are charged. an alleged scheme that has the feds calling foul. Federal prosecutors say they've charged more than two dozen in the illegal scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games. Among the suspects, 15 NCAA basketball players. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. The defendants would identify a game in which a corrupted player had a team that was favored to lose, and then they would bribe said player to deliberately underperform so that his team would lose by more than they were favored to. Metcalf called the case a significant corruption of the integrity of sports.

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