## Trump administration terminates lease for Washington’s 3 public golf courses

Authored by apnews.com

Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended the lease agreement for three public golf courses in Washington, a move that offers President Donald Trump an additional opportunity to put his stamp on another piece of the nation’s capital.

The National Links Trust, the nonprofit that has operated Washington’s three public courses on federal land for the last five years, said Wednesday that the Department of the Interior had terminated its 50-year lease agreement.

The Interior Department said it was terminating the lease because the nonprofit had not implemented required capital improvements and failed to meet the terms of the lease.

While it was unclear what the Trump administration’s plans are for the golf courses, the move gives Trump, whose private company has developed numerous golf courses in the U.S. and abroad, the chance to remake links overlooking the Potomac River and in Rock Creek Park and a site that is part of Black golf history.

Officials for the National Links Trust said in a statement that they were “devastated” by the decision to terminate the lease and defended their management of the courses.

The Department of the Interior’s decision comes as Trump rebrands civic spaces in Washington and deploys National Guard members to the streets for public safety. »

### Teacher wins Guinness World Record for working 61 years at the same school

Authored by cbc.ca

LISTEN | Full interview with Guinness record-holder Glenda Akin: As It Happens 6:40 Teacher wins Guinness World Record for working 61 years at the same school.

Akin, 84, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the longest serving female teacher at the same school .

Akin, centre, poses with her new Guinness World Record and two of her former students, including Westmoreland High School Principal Rick Duffer, left, and school administrator Amber Regan, right. »

### Pakistan authorities send the man who tried to open the country’s first gay club to a mental hospital

Authored by wtfdetective.blog

Same-sex relations are illegal in Pakistan and can result in prison sentences of up to two years.

The application also made clear that in the planned club “there would be no gay (or non-gay) sex (other than kissing).”

Before he was sent to a mental hospital in Peshawar, the man told the publication, “I talk about human rights and I want everyone’s human rights to be defended”. »

### I was CIA's top agent in Moscow - Putin has trained to manipulate men like Trump

Authored by inews.co.uk

Dannenberg remembers meeting the former KGB colonel during the first of his two stints in Moscow in the mid-1990s .

Rob Dannenberg with the statue of Soviet spy Richard Sorge in Moscow, and outside the Kremlin in Red Square (Photos: Rob Dannenberg).

In a following press conference, Zelensky could scarcely contain his bewilderment when Trump declared that Putin “wants Ukraine to succeed”. »

### 'Welcome back to life' — Ukraine's HUR faked death of top anti-Putin Russian commander, claimed Kremlin bounty money

Authored by kyivindependent.com

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) faked the death of Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), and claimed the bounty placed on his head by Russia's intelligence service, HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov revealed on Jan. 1.

In its Jan. 1 statement, HUR said those reports were part of a complex special operation that misled Russian intelligence services.

Russian intelligence services had ordered his assassination and allocated a bounty of $500,000 for the successful completion of the assassination. »

## In pictures

## Also in the news

#### HHS freezing child care payments to all states after Minnesota fraud allegations: Official

#### Luxury Apartments Are Bringing Rent Down in Some Big Cities

#### ‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words

#### Ukraine damages major Russian oil assets in New Year's Eve strikes, military reports

#### Boat Targeted By U.S. Strikes Was Carrying Marijuana, Report Claims