Today is Friday, January 16th. We're talking about more violence and unrest in Minnesota and the

potential of the U.S. military getting involved. Also, more U.S. forces are headed to the Middle East,

and Venezuela's opposition leader has made an extraordinary gesture toward President Trump,

plus why American universities are losing their edge in global research, who is now facing

charges in a widespread

basketball gambling scandal, and how a professional pickleball player is helping to push the sport forward

even off the court. Those stories and even more news to know coming up.

Welcome to The Newsworthy, all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being

here. Let's do this. Chaos and violence in Minnesota seems close to boiling over. And now President

Trump is threatening to send in the U.S. military. He wants to calm protests against the thousands of

federal officers sent to enforce his immigration

crackdown. But critics say that crackdown is actually the problem and that deploying troops

will only make it worse. Specifically, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which is a

rarely used federal law that lets presidents deploy the military for domestic law enforcement.

The last time it was used was in 1992 to end

unrest in Los Angeles. But that time, local authorities asked for the assistance. This time,

local authorities are begging the president not to take this step. Minnesota's attorney general

even promised to challenge any such action in court. And Governor Tim Wall specifically asked President Trump to

turn the temperature down, that, quote, this is not who we are. And he's called on protesters not to,

as he put it, fan the flames of chaos. Some protests yesterday were more restrained, but others have

gotten out of control. And many confrontations between ice agents and the people of Minneapolis

have become increasingly

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