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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 10th 2026
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump finished up a busy week by once again leveling threats against longtime allies over their refusal to hand Greenland over to US control. While taking questions from reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump was asked about a reported plan to win over Greenlanders on joining the US by giving them annual $10,000 payments. "I'm not talking about money for Greenland yet," the president ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) had warned that criminals used Grok to create child sexual abuse imagery. Image editing on X's Grok AI tool has been limited to paid subscribers, according to a message displayed by the chatbot - with the changes described as "insulting" by Downing Street. Users were able to upload a picture and ask Grok to alter the image, but the AI system now replies to requests with this ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The fact that Crew-11 is the first to leave the International Space Station early due to a medical issue is a testament to the safety of NASA's human spaceflight program. Reading time 3 minutes A medical issue affecting one of the Crew-11 astronauts will bring an early end to their mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA confirmed in a Thursday press briefing. Their return will mark the agency's ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
DUBAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new warning to Iran's leaders on Friday as videos showed anti-government protests raging across the country, and authorities blacked out the internet to curb growing unrest . Rights groups have documented dozens of deaths of protesters in nearly two weeks and, with Iranian state TV showing clashes and fires, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The latest jobs report shows the United States added 50,000 jobs in December 2025, and prior months revised down by a combined 76,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remains elevated at 4.4% and is near its highest levels of the past four years. The December report caps a year of sluggish job growth, with the fewest number of jobs added outside of a recession since 2003. Hiring slowed sharply over the course of 2025 as ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump this week has zeroed in on an issue that's at the heart of America's affordability crisis: housing costs. But it's not clear if his latest proposal, which involves instructing his "representatives" to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, will move the needle for the housing market in the long run, economists and analysts told Business Insider. The mortgage-bond purchasing ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an umbrella as he speaks to members of the media while departing the White House en route to Florida in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 9, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from freezing access by five Democratic-led states to more than $10 billion of federal funds for child care and family assistance ...
Source: cnbc.com
Russia just used its new hypersonic missile again in Ukraine. Here's what to know about the Oreshnik
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Russia said Friday it used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv and its Western allies as U.S.-led peace talks have entered a new and crucial stage. The hypersonic Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile hit Ukraine's western Lviv region late Thursday night, although officials there did not mention any casualties. The area is near a ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The new AI Inbox sorts emails into 'Suggested to-dos' and 'Topics to catch up on' for better organization. Google has introduced a new AI Inbox for Gmail that delivers a personalized overview of tasks and important updates. The company also launched AI Overviews in Gmail search and a Proofread feature. Gmail now extends several AI capabilities, previously limited to paid subscribers, to all users. The AI Inbox tab ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
A fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela was interdicted by U.S. forces in the Caribbean, U.S. Southern Command confirmed on Friday. Two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News that the Coast Guard, supported by the Navy, was in the process of seizing the Olina oil tanker. Southern Command said Marines and sailors launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier for the pre-dawn operation to support the Department ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the entire United Nations climate-fighting apparatus takes America's environmental isolation to another level and is likely to damage both the United States and the world as the planet flirts with ecological tipping points, experts say. Leaders from around the world say ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Video appearing to show Renee Nicole Good in her car right before she was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was first posted on social media by the site Alpha News. The video appears to have been taken by a phone held by the ICE agent who fired at Good on Wednesday. The ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross. "Watch this, as hard as it is," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X, as he reposted the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
By Ten notes and thoughts in the aftermath of UM's 31-27 playoff semifinal win against Mississippi, sending the Canes to the national championship game Jan. 19 at Hard Rock Stadium: ▪ Savor the moment, Hurricanes fans. Relish it. You can now confidently say the "U is back" without it eliciting eye rolls or ridicule. Kudos to Mario Cristobal for doing not only what he set out to do by year four, but navigating ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article He's dubbed the project the 'Upper West Wing' After demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make room for his sprawling ballroom , President Donald Trump is now looking to expand the West Wing, according to a new report. In an interview with The New York Times on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. TerraPower , a Bill Gates-backed next-gen nuclear company, on Friday announced a deal with Meta to build up to eight small modular reactors in the U.S. with the first two coming online as soon as 2032. Tech companies have been aggressively pursuing new clean energy solutions as they race to build ...
Source: geekwire.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a plan to provide free child care for 2-year-olds and expand other child care support for thousands more children across the state on Thursday, in one of the first major steps toward fulfilling Mamdani's campaign pledge of universal access. The governor said that the state is fully funding the first two years of a free child care program ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Cloud-9 sits in a universe that rarely stops shining. Telescopes are built to chase that light and record every spark they can find. Yet some of the most important clues about how the universe works come from places that barely register at all. This object does not glow or glitter. It has no stars and almost no visible light. From a distance, it looks like nothing more than a quiet patch of ...
Source: earth.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's litany of conflicts. Fewer than one percent of mountain gorilla pregnancies result in twins, according to scientists, with the DRC recording a previous case in 2020, also in the UNESCO-listed Virunga reserve. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
Jellyfish and sea anemones may have evolved without a brain, but they sleep, similar to humans. A network of interconnected neurons compensates for the lack of a brain in these creatures. But the bigger surprise is that sleep might have nothing to do with the brain. According to a new study published in Nature Communications , sleep may have evolved before even the most primitive brains. Researchers believe that ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
The Israeli military said the strikes, which hit several Hamas fighters and the group's "terror infrastructure", came in response to a failed rocket attack by militants in the Gaza City area. Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 13 people, including four children, health officials have said. Four children were among the dead following the strikes in northern Gaza and east of Gaza City, according to family ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Jan 9th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday that he wants to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, arguing that "people live in homes, not corporations." The proposal is seemingly meant to improve housing affordability, but large institutional investors represent only a small share of the market. Firms that own 100 or more single-family homes control roughly 2% of ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Most dog owners are aware that their pooch is smart enough to know a few choice phrases—"walkies," for instance, or, perhaps more likely, "time for dinner." Some particularly intelligent canines can even identify more than 100 words . And incredibly, a few "genius" doggies may be able to learn words not by being taught but purely by eavesdropping on human conversations. In a new study published in Science on ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
The 2026 tax filing season starts on Jan. 26, which marks the first day the IRS will accept and process individual tax returns for 2025. Most taxpayers must file federal returns and pay taxes owed by April 15 to avoid penalties and interest. Many filers could see a bigger tax refund in 2026 based on changes enacted via President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill." The 2026 tax filing season starts ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
"This is now the fastest-spinning asteroid that we know of, larger than 500 meters [1,640 feet]," astronomer Sarah Greenstreet revealed at the recent American Astronomical Society's winter meeting held in Phoenix. Named 2025 MN45, the asteroid was discovered by the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and it makes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes. It has been declared as the asteroid that rotates faster than ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
The FBI on Thursday informed investigators in Minnesota that it would not be cooperating with them in probing the deadly shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent. Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), said that the probe into Good's death "would now be led solely by the FBI," which would leave his agency without "access to the ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
"Back in 2020," says Anthony Young , CEO at managed security services provider (MSSP) Bridewell, "predictions that AI [artificial intelligence] would reshape defensive strategies seemed optimistic; today, they look understated." Although it is still difficult to quantify the precise extent to which AI is driving real-world cyber attacks, and how serious these attacks actually are, it is hard to argue with the ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 -
Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Thursday disqualified a U.S. attorney in New York and threw out the subpoenas he issued to the state's Attorney General Letitia James . U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield wrote in her opinion that John Sarcone III has been unlawfully serving as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York. "When the Executive branch of government skirts restraints put in place by ...
Source: upi.com