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Day: January 6, 2026

What Happened Today – January 5, 2026

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Original Sesame Street cast with Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and human cast members on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street, 1969 promotional photo

The original cast of Sesame Street gathered at 123 Sesame Street in 1969, the year the Corporation for Public Broadcasting brought the show to air; Oscar was still orange. 57 years later, CPB voted to dissolve rather than submit to Trump. (Children's Television Workshop promotional photo)

Authoritarian rule without a plan looks like this. The administration demanded the new head of Venezuela expel Iranians, stop selling oil to our enemies, and crack down on drug flows or face a “second strike.” In Minneapolis, 2,100 federal agents are descending on a Somali community of 84,000, most of them American citizens, because of … Read more