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Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
, said the "sacrifices" of British soldiers during the conflict there "deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect" — a rebuke of President Donald Trump's In an interview Thursday, Trump said troops from non-American NATO countries stayed "a little off the front lines" in Afghanistan. The comments drew fierce criticism across Europe, including from British Prime Minister , who called them ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 million Americans. The social video platform company signed agreements with major investors including Oracle, Silver Lake and the Emirati investment firm MGX to form the new TikTok U.S. joint venture. The new version ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Former United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended his prosecution of President Donald Trump, rejecting Republican claims that the cases were politically motivated. Testifying before lawmakers at the House Judiciary Committee, Smith said the two federal cases, one over Trump's handling of classified documents and the other over efforts to overturn the 2020 election , were based on evidence, not politics. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Vice President JD Vance on Friday said the United States will stop funding any organization working on diversity and transgender issues abroad. Vance called the policy, which has been widely expected, "a historic expansion of the Mexico City Policy," which prevents foreign groups receiving U.S. global health funding from providing or promoting abortion, even if those programs are paid for with other sources of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
on Thursday filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, accusing the lawsuit , filed in Florida state court in Miami, alleges that JP Morgan "debanked" Trump and his businesses after his first term "because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so." Debanking, "once a relatively obscure issue in finance," has "become a politically charged issue in recent ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Home » » Public school district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have taken four students from the Minneapolis suburb in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy heading home from school. According to the lawyer of the 5-year-old's family, the child and his father were both taken to an ICE detention center in Texas. Zena Stenvik, the ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Until very recently, the conventional wisdom about the expiration of stopgap-spending authority on January 30 was that nobody in either party wanted another government shutdown . That's why House and Senate Democratic and Republican negotiators managed to put together 12 more-or-less consensus appropriations bills ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The FBI arrested former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding on Friday in Mexico, scratching off a suspect from the agency's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list, FBI Director Kash Patel said. Patel announced Wedding's arrest in a post on the social media platform X . "Ryan James Wedding was taken into custody in Mexico last night," Patel said. "He is being transported from Mexico to the U.S. ... to face ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing scrutiny over its assertion that federal officers can forcibly enter a home without a judicial warrant – a move constitutional scholars, immigration experts and a federal judge say is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. An internal ICE memo from May 2025 directs agents to use force to enter residences after obtaining administrative warrants, which are ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
London — President Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, called U.K. police last year after seeing a woman being "beat up" on a video call, a court heard this week. "I'm calling from the US, uh I just got a call from a girl, you know, she's getting beat up," Barron Trump, 19, told British emergency services in a phone call made on Jan. 18, 2025, according to a transcript sent to CBS News by the U.K. Crown ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Donald Trump has previously bragged about taking over four times the recommended dose of aspirin Donald Trump says the huge, dark bruise on his left hand seen at Davos was caused by "the big aspirin" as he continues to defy medical advice. The president is often seen with ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Premium AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can now enable the personalization tool Google announced on Thursday that AI Mode, its conversational Search feature, now integrates "Personal Intelligence" to deliver individualized responses by accessing Gmail and Google Photos for eligible U.S. subscribers. Google debuted Personal Intelligence last week within the Gemini app. This feature enables the AI assistant ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Joe Kottke 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slavery exhibit is dismantled in Philadelphia. (Obtained by NBC Philadelphia) The city of Philadelphia sued the Department of the Interior and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city's historic district. The suit, filed in federal ...
Source: yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Ukrainian, Russian, and US negotiators met Friday in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first trilateral talks since the start of the war in Ukraine and signaling a measure of progress in President Trump's efforts to end the conflict. This round of talks, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, could focus on postwar control of territory in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, which has emerged as a major ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Bank of America is weighing whether to launch a new credit card that would comply with President Trump's push to temporarily cap card interest rates at 10% , according to a person familiar with the financial giant's plans. Bank of America already offers credit cards with initial average percentage rates below 10%. For example, its no-frills BankAmericard offers consumers a 0% introductory APR for 18 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
A tanker suspected of being part of Russia's sanctions-busting "shadow fleet" will be escorted to the French port of Marseille-Fos, sources close to the case said Friday, a day after the navy intercepted it. French forces, with the help of allies, boarded the oil tanker called "Grinch" on Thursday between Spain and Morocco, after it started its journey from the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk. The tanker is now ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts Water-related violence has almost doubled since 2022 and little is being done to understand and address the trend and prevent new and escalating risks, experts have said. There were 419 incidents of water-related violence recorded in 2024, up from 235 in 2022, according to the Pacific Institute, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
When models are trained on unverified AI slop, results drift from reality fast. Here's how to stop the spread, according to Gartner. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways According to tech analyst Gartner, AI data is rapidly becoming a classic Garbage In/Garbage Out (GIGO) problem for users. That's because organizations' AI systems and large language models (LLMs) ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Jan 23 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) on Friday urged passengers traveling this weekend to reschedule their flights as a major winter storm threatens to disrupt operations and force widespread cancellations. The storm is disrupting U.S. air travel, prompting airlines to cancel flights, warn of delays and issue travel waivers as ice, snow and strong winds sweep across major hubs and regional airports in the ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
The U.S. military announced Friday it had carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on an alleged drug boat and said there was one person who survived the attack. "On Jan. 23, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations," U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X with a video that it said showed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Five Democratic-controlled states are asking a judge Friday to order President Donald Trump's administration to keep money flowing for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at boosting low-income families with children. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was pausing the funding because it had "reason to believe" the states were granting benefits to people in the country illegally, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
When people hear the word cancer, their mind typically jumps to the worst-case scenario. And, while many types of cancers are on the decline — for example, the CancerNetwork says that brain cancer rates have dropped four percent as of 2025 — there are other types of cancer, like those that affect the colon, that are on the rise. It's not just the rates that are rising, either. Colon cancer is also ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
For decades, scientists have debated a simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: could Australia's extinct giant kangaroos actually hop like the ones alive today? Modern kangaroos are built for efficient movement, using powerful hind legs and spring-like tendons to travel long distances. But when ancient species grew to enormous sizes, some weighing up to 250kg, many researchers suspected their bodies ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
From day one, our newsroom made a commitment: we will not back down. We will not dilute the truth to avoid retaliation. And we will not stop asking hard questions, no matter who is in power or how hard they push back. Already a member? President Donald Trump , Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have donned milk mustaches on social media recently, declaring that " whole milk is back ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Ex- Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Kevin Johnson died of stab wounds and blunt head trauma he sustained while at a Los Angeles homeless encampment, Los Angeles County medical examiner records show. Johnson, 55, died Wednesday. His death was ruled a homicide and remains under investigation. Los Angeles police told ABC 7 News that officers responded at 8 a.m. local time Wednesday to a report of ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
At a recent webinar hosted by Fast Company and Texas A&M University, private-sector executives said colleges and universities must partner with tech companies and embrace AI to remain relevant to students. (TNS) — For all the talk of how artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way we live and work, there are few industries where generative AI has already had a profound impact. Across the education ...
Source: govtech.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Russia-Linked Ransomware Group Dumps Customer Data After Failed Extortion Attempt American sportswear company Under Armour is at the public relations stage of a ransomware attack following the publication of data pertaining to 72.7 million customers by a Russian-speaking cybercrime operation. Ransomware group Everest first listed publicly-traded Under Armour as a victim on its data leak site last November, claiming ...
Source: govinfosecurity.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! To give users peace of mind, Ring has introduced a new content authenticity feature that allows them to verify whether a Ring video has been edited or altered. Ring Verify adds a digital security seal that breaks if the video is changed in any way. "Think of it like the ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 -
Researchers have found a new method to track space junk. This methodology involves the use of seismometers. Typically, these instruments are used to detect earthquakes, but in this case, they will help spot human-made objects in orbit. Findings have been published in the journal Science . Benjamin Fernando, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University, devised this methodology of using existing ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
A few days before the Academy revealed their nominations for the films up for this year's Oscars, actress Amanda Seyfried ( The Testament of Ann Lee ) told that winning an Oscar "isn't necessary" for a successful career in Hollywood. "Do you remember who won in the past ten years?" Seyfried asked. "I've gotten this far without an Oscar. Why would I need one now?" For the most part, Seyfried is spot on. The list of ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Japan has suspended operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant, hours after its restart, its operator has said. An alarm sounded "during reactor-start-up procedures" at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo but the reactor remained "stable", Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) spokesperson Takashi Kobayashi said. Reactor number six restarted on Wednesday a day later than planned due to an alarm ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it's hardly a clean break. The U.S. owes more than $130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven't finished working out ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure remained elevated in November, reinforcing expectations that policymakers are likely to pause further interest rate cuts as they assess the impact of earlier easing and new trade-related pressures. Data released by the US Department of Commerce on Thursday showed that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.8% year-on-year in November, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked higher this week, but remains near its lowest level in more than three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.09% from 6.06% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.96%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
TOLEDO, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance traveled to Ohio and Minnesota on Thursday, delivering remarks at an industrial rail facility in Toledo before heading to Minneapolis to meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials amid tensions over the administration's immigration policies. In Toledo, Vance used the backdrop of Midwest Terminals' Ironville Rail & Transfer facility to promote what he called ...
Source: cleveland.com