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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 17th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
US president's increasingly bellicose demands for control of the island may force the EU to draw a line in the snow The crisis over Greenland may deliver the moment when Europe must stand up to Donald Trump, as officials have said a US attempt to annex the territory could shatter the Nato transatlantic alliance. European leaders have entertained Trump's demands for nearly a year as he has pushed Nato countries to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
ChatGPT's Ads era is here This doesn't just change OpenAI's business model, it shifts the rules of the game OpenAI's decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 "Go" tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI's short history. It's not a simple business tweak. It's a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
BEIJING (AP) — Canadian leader Mark Carney met China's Xi Jinping this week. The two statesmen talked. Fractured relationships began to heal. And a third man, though he wasn't in the room, nevertheless made his presence clearly known: Donald Trump. The American president — his policies, his approaches to international relations, his freewheeling and provocative statements about Canada — helped ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
NASA will roll a 322-foot-tall rocket out to the launchpad on Saturday, a key step as the agency prepares for a long-awaited mission to send four astronauts around the moon. The Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion capsule, which will carry the astronauts, is set to make the slow, 4-mile journey from NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building — where the rocket's various components were put ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
As President Trump prepares to nominate a new Federal Reserve chair in the coming months, he hasn't been shy about his goal for the powerful economic posting: lower interest rates. "I want somebody that when the market is doing great, interest rates can go down because our country becomes stronger," the president said during a speech in Detroit on Tuesday. He's long pushed for lower rates, which could boost ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looks set to secure an overwhelming victory in the presidential election. "I want to confirm that I managed to escape from them," Bobi Wine, a former pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, wrote in a post on X on Saturday. "Currently, I am not at home, although my wife and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Emergency call logs and reports detailing last week's fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer reveal a greater sense of the organizational chaos and heightened emotion surrounding her final moments. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents "just shot a lady," one 911 caller said soon after the agent shot Good in her vehicle on January 7, according to emergency call transcripts CNN obtained ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Mortgage interest rates may not be nearly as advantageous at the start of 2026 as they were at the beginning of the decade. But they're materially improved from where they were a few years ago. And that could be more than enough to justify taking action again. Home sales already improved in the final months of 2025 and that could easily continue this year. With multiple mortgage interest rate options currently ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress. Ashley St. Clair, 27, who describes herself as a writer and political strategist, alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York City against xAI that the images have included a photo of her fully ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Education is delaying wage garnishments and involuntary collections for defaulted student loan borrowers, according to a release from the agency on Friday. The Department said its temporary pause was made to continue streamlining the student loan repayment process as it continues to make "major" reforms. "The Department determined that involuntary collection efforts such as Administrative ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
President Donald J. Trump announced a health care framework that he said will lower drug prices and insurance premiums and hold insurance companies accountable by improving price transparency. He called on Congress to pass the framework into law "without delay." "Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket," Trump ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
ADHD or intellectual disabilities – adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the , telling pregnant women: "Don't take Tylenol." The latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled Friday that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume, the third project this week to successfully challenge the Trump administration in court. The administration announced last month it was suspending leases for at least 90 days on five East Coast offshore wind projects because of national security concerns. Its announcement did not reveal specifics about those concerns. ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has received a five-year jail sentence after being found guilty of multiple charges, including attempts to block his arrest after his failed move to impose martial law on the country in December 2024. Yoon was sentenced at the Seoul Central District Court on Friday in televised proceedings of one of the country's most sensitive political trials in recent history. But this ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
By Using the common painkiller acetaminophen during pregnancy is not linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, according to a study published in the Lancet on Friday. Researchers conducted a systematic review of numerous studies that looked at links between use of the pain reliever and autism, intellectual disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. They concluded there was no link ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has also led to explosive growth in electricity demand. Infrastructure is straining under the weight of that demand, and nowhere is the strain more visible than in the PJM Interconnection region . Data centers supporting AI workloads are driving unprecedented power needs, colliding with grid limitations and pushing the cost of backup generation sharply higher. ...
Source: pymnts.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
After a sharp uptick in flu cases in mid-December 2025 , flu activity across the U.S. and Canada remains high. Although cases are trending downward in Canada as of Jan. 9, 2026, the season has yet to peak in the U.S. , according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As an emergency room pediatrician in central Massachusetts, I'm seeing a tremendous amount of flu over the past few weeks. I'm ...
Source: theconversation.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have unveiled a betting ring involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association game fixing, charging 26 people, including current and former college basketball players. The case involves gamblers placing bets and bribing players with large cash payouts for underperforming during a game, even texting players pictures of stacks of money if they complied. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters , concluding that the government's request was "unprecedented and illegal." The Trump administration's lawsuit, filed last year , contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal cuts to insurance and cancer research could reduce access to therapies and stifle progress when incidence is rising across many common cancers. The American Cancer Society has released its 2026 cancer statistics report, estimating the number of new cancer cases and deaths in the US, with 1 key finding revealing that the most recent 5-year relative survival across all cancers was 70% for diagnoses between ...
Source: cancernetwork.com