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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 17th 2026
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Washington — President Trump said Friday he may hike tariffs on countries that decline to "go along with" his administration's efforts to acquire Greenland, as Denmark, Greenland and other NATO allies remain staunchly opposed to his plans to acquire it. "I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security," the president said during a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
It's been less than a week since President Donald Trump called for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates, but new products that can draw consumers away from bank-issued cards are already on the way. Processing Content Fintech Bilt, which offers credit cards that feature incentive marketing for rent and mortgage payments, this week debuted three new cards with a 10% cap on interest rates for one year — ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
OpenAI has announced that it's testing ads for its free tier and new $8-per-month Go memberships, and the ads will be based on a user's current conversation. OpenAI says the ads will be clearly marked and appear at the bottom of ChatGPT answers "when there's a relevant sponsored product or service based on your current conversation." Meanwhile, the company says the new Go tier enables 10 times as many messages, ...
Source: cnet.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 -
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Education Department has delayed plans to seize tax refunds and garnish wages over student loans that are in collection, it announced on Friday. While the delay is in effect , the department will work to revise student loan repayment regulations in accordance with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. "The Trump Administration is committed to helping student and parent borrowers resume regular, ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Canadian PM Mark Carney have announced lower tariffs, signalling a reset in their countries' relationship after a key meeting in Beijing. China is expected to lower levies on Canadian canola oil from 85% to 15% by 1 March, while Ottawa has agreed to tax Chinese electric vehicles at the most-favoured-nation rate, 6.1%, Carney told reporters. The deal is a breakthrough after years of ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
It's the ultimate AI paradox, but it doesn't have to be that way. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI giveth, and AI taketh away, especially when it comes to productivity. That's the lesson being learned among employees and executives responding to a new survey by Workday. While AI is delivering productivity gains, those gains are being partially washed away when ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The protest movement in Iran has subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors said Friday, one week after the start of the biggest protests in years challenging the Islamic republic's theocratic system. The threat of new military action by the United States against Iran has also appeared to have receded for the time being, with a Saudi official saying Gulf allies have ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
A federal judge in California this week struck down the Justice Department's demand for the state to hand over sensitive voter roll data, ruling that it would trample on residents' privacy rights and potentially disenfranchise voters. "The taking of democracy does not occur in one fell swoop; it is chipped away piece-by-piece until there is nothing left," said David Carter, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
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 -
A federal judge said Dominion Energy Inc. can restart construction of a wind project off the coast of Virginia while it continues a legal fight over the Trump administration's order to stop the $11 billion development. The ruling marks the third time this week that an offshore wind project was allowed to resume despite a government stop-work order. US District Judge Jamar Walker in Norfolk, Virginia, issued a ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. "I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth," Trump said at a White House event, when he saw Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, in ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Google Fast Pair makes pairing easy, but a flawed implementation has created a serious security risk. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers have disclosed WhisperPair, a family of vulnerabilities that impact a protocol commonly used to pair headphones, earbuds, and other audio products with Bluetooth devices. What is WhisperPair? As first reported by ...
Source: zdnet.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 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! People who have received a cancer diagnosis are living longer than ever, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Decades of cancer research have led to more effective treatment of the disease, so that cancer is "becoming less of a death sentence and more of a treatable chronic disease," the 75th annual Cancer Statistics Report stated. The five-year ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Tyrannosaurus rex has long been portrayed as a monster that rocketed to adulthood, hitting peak size in its twenties. A new analysis paints a different picture. It suggests these predators kept growing for roughly four decades, taking far longer to reach their full bulk than scientists once thought. The study reexamines growth evidence from 17 tyrannosaur leg-bone fossils, from small ...
Source: earth.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
President Yoweri Museveni was reported to hold a commanding lead as officials conducted a vote count in Uganda's elections. Based on tallies from nearly half of polling stations, Uganda's Electoral Commission reported on Friday that the longstanding ruler of the Central African nation had taken 76.25 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, Museveni's main challenger, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine , had gained ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The startup aims to bypass invasive skull surgery by using ultrasound and molecular engineering to connect neurons directly to digital models. OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup founded by Sam Altman, its CEO. The company emerged from stealth on Thursday, announcing an undisclosed seed round. A source familiar with the matter confirmed OpenAI provided the largest single check in ...
Source: techbriefly.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 Coalition of lawmakers is asking the FTC to reply to a series of questions about Trump Mobile by mid-February A group of Democratic lawmakers is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Trump Mobile, the cellphone network provider branded by the Trump Organization , for ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons. Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than a month after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week. The early homecoming culminated in an ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a judge had no jurisdiction to order Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention last summer, a decision that could lead to his re-arrest. Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, was released from ICE custody last June following his arrest by ICE agents in New York City in ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Verizon said late Wednesday that it has resolved a major service outage on Wednesday that reportedly affected more than 2 million customers , rendering them unable to use their devices. In a comment to CNET sent late Wednesday, a Verizon spokesperson said that the problem appears to be fixed and the company will contact customers who were affected. "The outage has been resolved. If customers are still having ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Governor Maura Healey released new guidance on childhood vaccinations Wednesday, countering Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent overhaul of the schedule. On Jan. 5 , the Trump administration reduced the number of vaccinations it recommends for all children, framing the decision as a way to increase public trust by backing only the most important shots. Unlike the federal government, Massachusetts ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
U.S. forces seized a sixth oil tanker Thursday in an early morning operation, according to U.S. Southern Command. The tanker was seized as part of a quarantine on sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela. "In another pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in support of the Department of Homeland Security, launched from USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and apprehended ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Company says pricing updates reflect value delivered to users Spotify is hiking the price of its Premium subscription plan in the U.S. beginning next month. In a notice sent to users Thursday, the streaming giant said the cost of its Premium Individual plan will increase from $11.99 to $12.99 per month, starting with users' February billing cycles. "Occasional updates to pricing across our markets reflect the ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction and mental health programs nationwide that it was immediately terminating almost $2 billion of their funding, the administration reversed course and reinstated the money. An administration official confirmed Wednesday night that the money was being restored, but declined to say why. The decision followed furious lobbying by ...
Source: bostonglobe.com