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Top News Stories for Friday, January 16th 2026
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation. Trump put intense pressure on five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week and ultimately prevailed in heading off ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
US president says he has been assured by Tehran 'there's no plan for executions' of protesters Donald Trump has at least temporarily pulled back from threats to strike Iran, saying he has been assured the killing of protesters has been halted and no executions are being planned. Speaking to reporters in the White House on Wednesday night, the US president said: "We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
on the platform on Wednesday. "This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers." The change was announced hours after California's top prosecutor, Rob Bonta, said he launched an investigation into sexualized AI deepfakes, including those of children, generated by Grok. The representative added: "While this is an encouraging development, California DOJ is investigating to determine whether xAI ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
One of the most notable chapters in the history of NASA is coming to something like a close: after calling for an unprecedented medical evacuation of four astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS), these space farers are safely home. The episode has left myriad unanswered questions about what exactly happened to prompt the stunning decision to end their mission early—a first in the history of ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
If the byproduct of Wednesday's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home is to deter probing reporting of government action, the Trump administration could hardly have chosen a more compelling target. Hannah Natanson, nicknamed the "federal government whisperer" at the Post for her reporting on President Donald Trump's , had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized in the search of her Virginia home, the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
United States authorities have said they will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries. The suspension will take effect on January 21 and will affect applicants from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, and several countries in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The change only affects people who want to move to the US permanently. It does not apply to visitors or ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Donald Trump has unveiled a slew of proposals aimed at making life more affordable for everyday Americans, but according to one top economist, there's something that would make a bigger difference than anything the president has floated so far. Trump has laid out plans to tackle everything from mortgage rates credit card debt energy costs . Yet, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman thinks those options pale in ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
Home » » Thousands of federal grants funding mental health and addiction services were suddenly terminated late Tuesday as the Trump administration sent hundreds of notices announcing the discontinuations. The sudden terminations at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) affected over 2700 of the agency's discretionary grants worth nearly $1.9 billion. According ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Mayor urged calm as protesters gathered on the scene, as city continues to reel in aftermath of Renee Nicole Good's killing A federal officer has shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, sparking protests in a city still on edge after the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent last week. The shooting occurred about 7pm local time, according to witnesses. Several hundred ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on the second phase of the United States-led Gaza ceasefire deal , amid a teetering ceasefire that Israel has repeatedly violated as its genocidal war continues. The Palestinian group on Thursday welcomed the establishment of a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee that would operate under the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! F5 has unveiled general availability of F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team, two solutions that secure mission-critical enterprise AI systems. With these releases, F5 is providing a comprehensive end-to-end lifecycle approach to AI runtime security, including enhanced ability to ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Daniel Payne reports on how the health industry and Washington influence and impact each other. He joined STAT in 2025 after covering health care at POLITICO. You can reach Daniel on Signal at danielp.100. WASHINGTON — Last week, the Trump administration unilaterally cut the number of recommended pediatric vaccines , removing shots for diseases like rotavirus, influenza, and hepatitis A from the schedule. ...
Source: statnews.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Just more than a year after the new luxury behemoth was formed, it announced it had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy Every year, the stores down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue dress up their windows at Christmastime. Tourists from all over the world come to gawk at all the glitter, lace, ruffles and bows. Saks's Fifth Avenue location, so iconic that it's embedded in the brand's name, is usually dressed top to bottom ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
– President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's massive immigration crackdown. The president's threat comes a day after a federal immigration officer a Minneapolis man who had attacked the officer with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further heightened radiating ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand — A construction crane collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, killing two people on Thursday, a day after another crane fell on a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand and killed 32 people. The work on an extension of the Rama 2 Road expressway — a major artery leading from Bangkok — has become notorious for construction accidents, some of them fatal. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
, the history of what happened that day is being reconsidered, revised and reassessed by the party in power. The House GOP's new Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack held its first hearing Wednesday, what was billed as an examination of the FBI's that had been found outside the Democratic and Republican party headquarters during the day. The FBI's work dragged on for years until the supporters engaged in mob ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When the Supreme Court heard arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. on Tuesday, it confronted two cases that appear, at first glance, to raise the same question. Both involve state laws that bar transgender girls from participating on girls' school sports teams. Both feature ...
Source: slate.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio — What do Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh have in common? A lot. Both have coached in the AFC North seemingly forever. Harbaugh ended his 18th season in Baltimore with a 26-24 loss to Pittsburgh in the final regular season game. He then was fired. A week later, Tomlin finished his 19th season with Pittsburgh. He decided to "step down" from the head coaching position after a 30-6 loss to Houston ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield made his first court appearance on Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to authorities to face charges of child sex abuse stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico. Busfield was ordered held without bond. He appeared remotely via a video link from jail. Whether he remains in jail will be ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's first choice to serve as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is defending her use of the title despite a judge ruling she was unconstitutionally appointed. Lindsey Halligan's attorneys filed a response to a judge's order on Tuesday, saying the court is wrong in accusing her of misrepresenting herself as a U.S. attorney. U.S. District Judge David Novak ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
There were 1.18 million units available for sale at the end of December, down 18% from November. The median price of a home sold in December was $405,400, up 0.4% from a year earlier. There were 4.06 million existing home sales for the full year, unchanged from 2024. December sales were the strongest in nearly three years after adjusting for seasonal factors. A home with a "Sold" sign from a real estate company in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday reported a record trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion in 2025, led by booming exports to non-U.S. markets as producers looked to build global scale to fend off sustained pressure from the Trump administration. A push by policymakers for Chinese firms to diversify beyond the world's top consumer market by shifting focus to Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin ...
Source: reuters.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Commerce Department eases export controls in exchange for 25% fee paid to US government The Trump administration formally greenlit Nvidia exports Tuesday, allowing the tech giant to ship its artificial intelligence chips to China and other countries. In a new rule set to be published Jan. 15, the Commerce Department is easing U.S. export restrictions on China for Nvidia's H200 chip , a move President Donald Trump ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default. Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive "personal intelligence" in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don't want Gemini to get to know you, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seraphic Security, a browser security startup, marking the cybersecurity giant's fourth acquisition since August and its second in less than a week. While CrowdStrike did not disclose financial terms, Israeli publication Calcalist reported the deal is worth approximately $400 million, to be paid predominantly in cash with a ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
A federal three-judge panel for the U.S. Central District Court of California upheld Prop 50, ruling that Democrats can proceed in using their newly redrawn congressional maps in the state for the 2026 midterm elections. The court found "that the evidence presented reflects that Proposition 50 was exactly what it was billed as: a political gerrymander designed to flip five Republican-held seats to the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Critics call move to cut payments after 1 February for number of Democratic-run states 'unconstitutional' Donald Trump has revived his stalled push to cut federal funding for a number of Democratic-run states, announcing that any with a perceived "sanctuary city" status will not receive payments after 1 February. The president made the statement during a freewheeling address at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good , a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video angles showing exactly what happened. We wrote about how the media called documented murder a "dispute." This week, we're writing about how career Justice ...
Source: techdirt.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in near-weightlessness on the International Space Station (ISS). However, the pace of infection shifts, and both the virus and the bacterium start evolving along different paths than they do on Earth. A team led by Phil Huss at the University of Wisconsin–Madison tracked what happened when the bacteriophage T7 (a classic virus used in ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Tokyo — The leaders of Japan and South Korea have shown an unusual level of harmony, banging out a drum set duet to K-pop hits during a summit on Tuesday. The leaders, whose nations have had tense relations in the past, agreed to deepen cooperation between letting loose for the surprise cultural exchange. The musical performance by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested and accused of assaulting a ride-share driver in Los Angeles, according to police, in the Hollywood star's latest brush with the law. L.A. police said in a statement Wednesday that Sutherland entered the ride-share vehicle and "physically assaulted the driver (the victim), and made criminal threats." Officers arrested Sutherland at the scene, police said. The driver did not ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
FILE PHOTO: Boxes of Mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, are seen at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 9, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Attorney General Liz Murrill has obtained an indictment for a California doctor who she alleges sent abortion pills to Louisiana in violation of state law. Murrill said in a news release Tuesday that Dr. Rémy Coeytaux has ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Billboard , and it's getting harder and harder to distinguish AI music from human-made work, despite the general Uncanny Valley-type vibe of it all. Now, Bandcamp is saying no to AI, and many listeners support the decision. "We believe that the human connection found through music is a vital part of our society and culture," the post continued. "And that music is much more than a product to be consumed. It's the ...
Source: vice.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
[1/2] The Department of Justice (DOJ) building in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 28, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - At least a dozen federal prosecutors have indicated plans to leave the U.S. Justice Department over the Trump administration's handling of the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by a U.S. immigration officer and other civil rights cases, according to three ...
Source: reuters.com