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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 18th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland — For the first time since President Donald Trump renewed his campaign to take over Greenland, people across the Arctic island braved the freezing temperatures and took to the icy streets on Saturday in coordinated protests. Demonstrators waved Greenlandic flags, as some people openly cried in the rain, at a protest in Nuuk, the capital, when Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen suddenly ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's top trading partners are responding to President Donald Trump's belligerent and unpredictable trade policies by trying to take their business elsewhere. Canada broke with the United States Friday, slashing its 100% import tax on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, particularly canola seeds. "It's a huge declaration of realignment in ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Country says some appointments to the group, which will oversee the administration and reconstruction of Gaza, are 'contrary to its policy' Israel has objected to the White House's pick of world leaders who will join the so-called Gaza "board of peace", meant to temporarily oversee governance and reconstruction in the strip. The White House and other sources announced a flurry of appointments and invitations to the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
KAMPALA — Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he had escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looked set to secure an overwhelming official victory margin in a presidential election. Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) said on Friday night that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in Kampala and "forcibly took him away to an unknown ...
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 -
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
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump a week ago told the credit card industry it had until Jan. 20 to comply with his demand for a 10% cap on interest rates . With just days to go, consumer groups, politicians, and bankers alike remain unclear on what the White House has planned and whether Trump even remains serious about the idea. So far, the White House has not provided any detail about what will happen ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amid a cold drizzle, Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sworn into office Saturday at the state Capitol as Virginia's first female governor after centuries of men holding the state's top office. The inauguration of Spanberger, who defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin, marks a new chapter in Virginia as Democrats pull the levers of power in state government ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Elon Musk is demanding that OpenAI and Microsoft pay him between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages over his claims that he was defrauded. Details of the claim were revealed by Musk's lawyer on Friday in a court filing ahead of a high-stakes jury trial set for April in Oakland, California. The calculation of damages was laid out by the expert witness C. Paul Wazzan, named in the filing as "a financial ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, who officials say had a direct tie to the Islamic State member responsible for last month's ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. U.S. Central Command announced that the strike in northwest Syria on Friday killed Bilal Hasan ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump has advised pregnant women to 'tough it out' rather than take the painkiller Pregnant individuals can safely use paracetamol as directed during pregnancy without an increased risk of autism , ADHD , or intellectual disabilities in their children , a comprehensive new review ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and others cannot use "crowd dispersal tools" against nonviolent protesters while enforcing federal immigration laws, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Court of Minnesota Judge Katherine Menendez said ICE officers cannot use tear gas, pepper spray and other commonly used devices to disperse protesters who are "engaging in peaceful and ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The Department of Education announced Friday it would delay involuntary collections for federal student loans, including wage garnishments. Defaulted borrowers were to be notified beginning the week of Jan. 7 that their wages would be garnished. The department said the delay gives it more time to implement student loan repayment reforms. U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon attends a press briefing with White ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
is causing alarm across the agency, stoking worries that the plan may run afoul of legal, ethical and scientific standards long used to vet the safety and effectiveness of new medicines. , according to seven current or recently departed staffers. The people spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss confidential agency matters. At the highest levels of ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
"Don't take Tylenol. Don't take it. Fight like hell not to take it." That was the message from President Donald Trump when he and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced in September that women should avoid Tylenol during pregnancy due to what they described as a link to autism. The risk had not been substantiated by robust scientific evidence when Trump issued the warning. Now, a group of researchers ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Insurrection Act is a rarely-used federal law allowing the president to deploy military in U.S. cities Leer en Español President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota if state lawmakers fail to stop protesters "from attacking the Patriots ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Amid a fierce flu season, a fifth child in Massachusetts has suffered an influenza-related death, according to the state Department of Public Health. Two of the children died the week of Dec. 21, and two more children died the following week, from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3, according to the state health department's influenza dashboard . The fifth pediatric death was included in data collected through Jan. 10 and published ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The Trump administration, backed by a group of eastern-states' governors, are planning to ask the PJM Interconnection electric grid operator to hold an auction to help boost the power supply strained by data centers and lower prices for consumers. The emergency power auction would offer 15-year contracts for electricity generation from newly built power plants. Normally, auctions offer one-year ...
Source: upi.com