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Top News Stories for Tuesday, January 13th 2026
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article GOP pushback could imperil Trump's efforts to remake the central bank's board in his own image A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor's effort to investigate and bring criminal charges against Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chair Jerome Powell is drawing heated pushback from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
to seize control of Greenland are straining relations with U.S. allies in NATO and have sparked a warning that doing so by force could spell the end of the world's biggest security alliance. Tensions have routinely spiked among some of NATO's members over the decades, notably between neighbors Greece and Turkey. But it would set a dangerous precedent should its most powerful country, the United States, annex the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Iran's theocratic rulers are under the most intense pressure they've felt in years, as President Trump leaves the option of a U.S. military intervention on the table in the face of a fast-mounting death toll amid more than two weeks of anti-government protests across the Islamic Republic . Mr. Trump said Sunday that Iranian officials had called him looking "to negotiate" after his repeated threats to intervene if ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has responded harshly to public warnings issued by U.S. President Donald Trump as tensions between Havana and Washington escalated. Trump issued an ultimatum on his social media platform saying there would be "no more oil or money" from Venezuela for Cuba and suggesting the island should "reach a deal before it is too late" -- a move aimed at pressuring the ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's weekend calls to cap credit card interest rates at 10% would make a major dent in credit card company earnings, and comes at a time when American consumers are carrying more debt than ever. The economic impacts to credit card issuer models would be "quite meaningful," Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts said in a research note. Processing Content KBW estimated that earnings per share for ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
The largest nurses strike in New York City history has started after negotiators for five major hospitals and the state nurses union failed to agree to a new contract by Monday's deadline. The New York State Nurses Association said nearly 15,000 nurses are now walking off their jobs at five privately-run hospitals: Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, Montifiore ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH — Before kickoff Sunday night, Stefon Diggs gathered his teammates together to deliver one of his signature pregame speeches. "Ain't nobody like us," the wide receiver shouted as part of his fiery remarks. "Ain't nobody believe in us. I like us, man. Go lay it out for your brother." Headed into their wild-card matchup against the seventh-seeded Chargers, the Patriots apparently heard all of the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
The man suspected of setting fire to a Mississippi synagogue told law enforcement officers he targeted it because of its "Jewish ties," the FBI said in court documents filed Monday. Authorities have charged Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19, of Madison, with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive, federal investigators said. Pittman confessed to lighting a fire inside the Beth ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Alphabet, Google 's parent company, became the fourth company to reach a $4 trillion value Monday. The company's stock rose 2% Monday after Apple announced it chose Google's Gemini to power its artificial intelligence features. Nvidia and Microsoft breached the $4 trillion mark in July, and Apple crossed it in October. Alphabet passed $3 trillion in September . Since then, Apple and Microsoft have ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Kristi Noem quietly restricted lawmakers from visiting detention centers after Renee Good's killing A group of House Democrats suing for access to federal immigration detention centers are demanding a federal judge's urgent intervention after Kristi Noem 's Department of Homeland ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar's military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia's Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. "It is not about esoteric issues of international ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
against its government. Iran's crackdown on protesters has left hundreds dead and thousands arrested, the Human Rights Activists News Agency said. is expected to rule this week on the legality of the tariffs his administration has imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1970s-era law typically used by the President to impose sanctions. Trump also wrote in a post on Truth ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Instagram stated there has been no security breach, despite some users receiving suspicious-looking password reset requests. A Friday post on Bluesky by antivirus firm Malwarebytes shared a screenshot of an Instagram email notifying users of a password reset request. The post claimed, "Cybercriminals stole the sensitive information of 17.5 million Instagram accounts, including usernames, physical addresses, phone ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The White House shared the new portrait on social media earlier this week The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has swapped out President Donald Trump's portrait and removed accompanying text that referenced his impeachments and the January 6, 2021, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
UK media regulator Ofcom on Monday launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over its AI chatbot Grok's image creation feature. UK media regulator Ofcom on Monday launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over its AI chatbot Grok's image creation feature that has been used to produce sexualised deepfakes. Grok is facing growing international backlash for allowing users to create and share ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona filed a civil lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday seeking to block the Pentagon's efforts to downgrade his retirement rank and pay, which he claims amounts to unconstitutional retaliation against him. In a 46-page complaint , Kelly, a retired Navy captain, argued that he is the target of "extreme rhetoric and punitive retribution" by the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump seeks to shut it down. At the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Senior Judge Royce Lamberth said the government did not explain why it could not take action short of a complete stop to construction on Revolution ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The ex-husband of an Ohio woman charged this weekend with the murders of her and her husband waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday in Illinois. Michael David McKee, 39, a doctor from Chicago, has been charged with premeditated aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of 39-year-old Monique Tepe, whom he divorced in 2017, and Spencer Tepe, 37, in their Columbus home on Dec. 30. ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Mattel has unveiled its first-ever autistic Barbie doll, and she comes with several technology items, including noise-canceling headphones -- in Barbie pink. Some individuals with autism use headphones to reduce sensory overload and block out background noise. This Barbie doll also features a pink finger-clip fidget spinner that actually spins, serving as a sensory outlet to reduce stress and improve focus. She ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police responded Sunday after somebody drove a U-Haul box truck down a street crowded with marchers demonstrating in support of the Iranian people , causing protesters to scramble out of the way and then run after the speeding vehicle to try to attack the driver. The U-Haul truck, with a window and side mirrors shattered, was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by police cars. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
AI's ongoing rise — both as a threat and a means for defense — is reshaping security execs' agendas, which also include added emphasis on resiliency, third-party risk management, and geopolitical threats. Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated, more automated, and more intelligent, as well as harder to detect. At the same time the enterprise attack surface CISOs are tasked to defend ...
Source: csoonline.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
If bans on trans youth athletes are upheld, more girls could face 'invasive sex testing' and trans people could broadly lose civil rights protections The US supreme court will consider state bans on transgender athletes on Tuesday in a major LGBTQ+ rights legal battle that could have far-reaching consequences beyond youth sports. The court is hearing oral arguments in two cases brought by trans students who ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Four astronauts departing the International Space Station were all smiles during a change of command ceremony on Monday, despite a medical issue prompting an early return to Earth set for later this week. Outgoing space station commander Mike Fincke, a member of the returning Crew 11, turned the station over to cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, saying the combined crew had developed deep friendships during ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman will not face charges from an incident between him and a high school wrestling coach from Jan. 3 after video evidence refuted the claim. The South Bend Tribune, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported Jan. 11 that Freeman was accused of battery by New Prairie High School assistant coach Chris Fleeger, according to the Mishawaka Police Department. The prosecutor's office ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
One word—plastics. That was the golden grail that Dustin Hoffman learned about from some well-wisher in the movie The Graduate . I remember watching the film as a farm kid and thinking about the updated version I was being told by my guidance counselors—one word: computers. We are now in the midst of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and the latest mantra is: artificial intelligence . Such free advice, ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming. On Sunday, Google removed some of its health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk by false and misleading information. The removals came after the newspaper found that Google's generative AI feature delivered inaccurate health information at the top of search results, potentially leading seriously ill ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Unfortunately a lot of us are at risk. Sleep can feel like an inconvenient necessity with everything else you've got going on right now. But new research is serving up fresh motivation to put yourself to bed a little earlier: It could extend your life. That's the major takeaway from an analysis of nationwide health data published in Sleep Advances . Given that nearly 37% of American adults don't get the recommended ...
Source: self.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
The 83rd Golden Globe Awards took over the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday night, with comedian Nikki Glaser returning as host. After coming into the ceremony with the most film nominations, Paul Thomas Anderson's paranoid joyride "One Battle After Another" left with Best Comedic Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay while Teyana Taylor was recognized a Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role. One of the evening's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
The narrative started before the NFL playoffs even started: This was a prime chance for Josh Allen to finally make a Super Bowl, and anything short of that would be a personal failure. That's irrational in many ways, but Allen showed again Sunday why it is reasonable to predict him to carry a flawed Buffalo Bills team to Super Bowl LX. There's a good reason he is the reigning NFL MVP. Allen was hit often and hit ...
Source: aol.com