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Top News Stories for Friday, January 9th 2026
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Trump, Vance, and Noem are trying to Zapruder a video of ICE's cold-blooded Minneapolis killing until you don't believe what you can plainly see. January 8 2026, 5:23 p.m. long at all for from the scene of the fatal shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday. And, just as quickly, the videos became a kind of Zapruder film, weaponized by people desperate ...
Source: theintercept.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Old-school food pyramid returns, but jumbled and upside-down, like a funnel. Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins unveiled the delayed 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for America Wednesday, which is already drawing criticism for its ties to the meat and dairy industry. Headlining with the advice to "eat real food," the new guidelines , which are updated ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Some of Warner Bros Discovery's biggest investors are split on Paramount Skydance's sweetened offer for the storied movie studio owner, giving the smaller media company a fighting chance at winning over shareholders. Investors have until January 21 to accept Paramount's latest $108.4bn proposal, paying them $30 a share, an offer the Warner Bros board says is inferior to its agreement to sell to Netflix. Though the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes A medical issue affecting a Crew-11 astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has forced the agency to postpone Thursday's spacewalk indefinitely and consider bringing the crew home early. In a statement issued Wednesday, NASA said the agency is monitoring a health concern affecting a member of Crew-11 that arose Wednesday afternoon aboard the orbital laboratory. An emailed ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
By Maureen Farrell and Matthew Goldstein President Donald Trump said he wanted Congress to take immediate steps to stop private equity firms and other large investors from buying more single-family homes, embracing a position with populist appeal that has long failed to gain broader traction. Trump's announcement, which he made in a social media post on Wednesday, is aimed at Wall Street-backed firms that for years ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's unprecedented decision to slash the number of recommended vaccines for children opens the door to changes in a program for individuals seeking compensation from drug manufacturers over immunization injuries. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that it will no longer universally recommend childhood vaccines against Covid-19, rotavirus, flu, meningococcal ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
OpenAI's newest feature ties users' health data to AI insights I've said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the time, they are mirrors. They reflect people's habits, shortcuts, fears, and small daily behaviours. Design follows behaviour. Always has. Think about it. You probably know at least one person who already uses ChatGPT for health-related questions. Not ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss are projected to regain their shed pounds within about 1½ years, a review of existing research has found. The paper also found that former users of a wider list of weight-loss drugs regain weight four times more quickly than those who had used behavioral techniques like dieting or exercise. For sustained health benefits after ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes The Trump administration's all-out assault on climate and environmental policy is nothing new—it has been a defining feature of the president's agenda since his first term. And yet, Trump's decision to pull the U.S. from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) still shocked the world on Wednesday. Trump signed a sweeping executive order to effectively withdraw ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
CES 2026 Topics More from TechCrunch TechCrunch Google has unveiled a new AI Inbox for Gmail that's designed to provide a personalized overview of your tasks and keep you informed about important updates. Gmail is also launching AI Overviews in search and a Grammarly-like "Proofread" feature. Additionally, Gmail is bringing to all users several AI features that were previously available only to paid users. The new ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday that he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices. Trump and the White House have been trying to show they are responding to voter concerns about affordability ahead of midterm elections in November. Home ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Blackstone-Led Funding Round Expands R&D and Partnerships to Address AI Threats A data security startup founded by a longtime Israeli Military Intelligence leader raised $400 million to address security challenges related to the growth of agentic AI. The Blackstone-led Series F funding round will help New York-based Cyera evolve from its roots in data discovery and protection into the control plane for managing how ...
Source: databreachtoday.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
executive order Wednesday imposing new restrictions on major defense contractors, accusing parts of the defense industrial base of prioritizing shareholder returns over timely production for the military. Trump said the order is intended to accelerate defense procurement and expand production capacity. It directs the federal government to curb stock buybacks and dividends for contractors found to be ...
Source: meritalk.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Certain canines can learn using cues from people's gaze, gestures, attention and voices, researchers find Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young children overhearing adults – but now researchers have found certain dogs can do something similar. Scientists have discovered canines with the unusual ability to learn the names of myriad objects can pick up such ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago. Picture a hunt in Pleistocene South Africa, roughly 60,000 years ago. The weapon is a delicate bow launching a tiny, quartz-tipped arrow . On its own, this small shard of stone is merely a nuisance to a large antelope. It might cause a scratch, but certainly not a kill. However, the hunter isn't ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study Wednesday. The oldest Homo sapien fossils , dating from over 300,000 years ago, were found at the Jebel Irhoud northwest of Marrakesh. Our cousins the Neanderthals mostly lived in Europe, while more recent additions ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Another Trump administration effort to punish a political opponent is in legal limbo after a federal judge disqualified the US attorney in Albany, New York, investigating state Attorney General Letitia James . John Sarcone , the acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York, wasn't properly appointed and is barred from further investigating whether James violated President Donald Trump 's civil rights by ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Meghan Trainor is weighing in on the mom group drama . The "All About That Bass" singer posted a video to TikTok on Thursday addressing the viral drama surrounding Ashley Tisdale French's essay for The Cut , where the "High School Musical" actor and singer revealed why she left her "toxic" mom group. Trainor wrote "Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama" across her video on TikTok, which showed her ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one rotation in less than two minutes. That makes it the fastest-spinning asteroid with a diameter of more than 500 meters ever found. And it's not alone. The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with the telescope. The ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
A federal judge this week ordered Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump whom he installed as interim U.S. attorney in Virginia, to explain why she continues to say in court filings that she is still in that role despite another judge's ruling that her appointment was unconstitutional. "Ms. Halligan shall further explain why her identification does not constitute a false or misleading ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
, as Democrats press for answers following the raid that captured Nicolás Maduro. to seek Congress's permission before attacking or otherwise using the military against Venezuela. The president did not notify lawmakers before the Saturday raid that saw US special forces assault the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and , where he is facing an array of "narco-terrorism" charges. "After the administration's actions ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Minnesota's investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. attorney's office has prevented it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer's fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good , a 37-year-old mother of three. The announcement came as protestors and law enforcement clashed Thursday morning outside a Minneapolis immigration court, with the ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Ever since my days as a collegiate athlete, I've been drinking premade protein shakes. I treat them as a form of on-the-go fuel, largely because they're a lot more convenient than, say, bringing along a Ziploc bag of protein powder to mix into my water bottle. (The last thing I want to do after an intense workout when I'm completely spent is locate a drinking fountain or chug a chalky concoction.) And so a ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
New research gives us the answer many have been long wondering. Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common planets are bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. They're often called super-Earths and sub-Neptunes , and dominate the statistics. But are these really the most common types of planets? Now, a new Nature study points to an ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Separatist leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi exited Yemen with the help of the United Arab Emirates after he was charged with treason and expelled from Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council. Al-Zubaidi led the Southern Transitional Council in Yemen, which is supported by the UAE, and a Saudi-led coalition said he left the port city of Aden while aboard a boat on Tuesday night, the BBC reported . The ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
By It finally happened. After four seasons, the Miami Dolphins have elected to move on from coach Mike McDaniel on Thursday. Not only does McDaniel become arguably the hottest name for teams in search of a new offensive coordinator, the Dolphins must now begin a coaching search amid their interviews for a new general manager. Despite the very obvious cons of the Dolphins coaching gig, mainly constrained cap space ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a Florida's mother lawsuit alleging that a chatbot prompted her 14-year-old son to kill himself. The two tech companies are named in the suit brought by Megan Garcia of Florida, whose son Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February 2024 after a Character.AI chatbot enticed him into sexualized conversations based on a ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Taxpayers eager to receive their tax refunds should mark Jan. 26, 2026, on their calendars, as the IRS said Thursday it will begin accepting federal income tax filings on that date. Annual tax refunds are typically the largest checks that households receive each year, with last year's average payment amounting to almost $3,200, according to IRS data. This year's refund season could be even larger, with the typical ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed "Cloud-9," that could shed light on dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Dark matter is an enigmatic substance that shapes the cosmos and provides it with structure. While it has never been directly observed, dark matter is believed to make up 85% of the total matter in the universe and can be detected ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Federal agents are generally immune from state prosecution for actions taken as part of their official duties State and local officials have demanded ICE leave Minneapolis after an officer shot and killed a woman during an immigration operation Wednesday. But Homeland Security ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic thriller and Apple's comedy series lead nominations for the renamed Sag awards with an impressive showing for Sinners and Adolescence One Battle After Another and The Studio lead the nominations for this year's Actor awards. The Actor awards were previously known as the Screen Actors Guild (Sag) awards but were renamed last year. The name change was to provide "clearer recognition in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
On Jan. 7, House Speaker Mike Johnson President Donald Trump to deliver his State of the Union address on Feb. 24. Johnson posted a copy of the invitation sent to the president on X . In it, the Speaker praised Trump for his "bold action" and leadership and said the United States "stands stronger, freer, and more prosperous." "Since his return to office, @POTUS has not stopped working for the American people and ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
President Trump said he spoke by phone with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, signaling a possible easing of tensions days after Trump suggested Colombia could face U.S. military action similar to the operation carried out in Venezuela. In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said Petro called him to discuss disagreements over drugs and other issues, adding that he appreciated the Colombian leader's tone and ...
Source: bnonews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
ADP releases private sector jobs data Companies in the private sector added 41,000 jobs in December, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is below economists' estimates of a gain of 47,000 jobs. The prior month's payrolls number was revised to a loss of 29,000 from an initially reported loss of 32,000. "Small establishments recovered from November job losses with positive end-of-year hiring, even ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Former Texas star and NFL receiver Jordan Shipley was in an accident Tuesday on his ranch near his hometown of Burnet, Texas, that left him hospitalized with severe burns. Shipley was operating a machine that caught on fire. He was driven to a local hospital and later taken to Austin on a medical transport flight. He is in critical but stable condition, according to a statement from his family . "The machine he was ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a proclamation on Wednesday calling on the state Legislature to hold a special session for the purpose of redistricting its U.S. House seats. The special session is to occur in April and will last no more than 20 consecutive days, unless extended by a three-fifths vote in each chamber, the proclamation says . "Every Florida resident deserves to be represented fairly ...
Source: upi.com