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Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted "fundamental disagreement" over the future of the Arctic island. Denmark announced it would increase its military presence in Greenland on Wednesday as foreign ministers from Denmark and ...
Source: aol.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 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. The SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft splashed down this morning as four astronauts completed an unprecedented medical evacuation of the International Space Station (ISS). Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join ...
Source: livescience.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 -
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded an immigrant in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, prompting officials to reiterate their demand that federal immigration law enforcement leave the city. Thousands of heavily armed and masked ICE and Department of Homeland Security agents have been deployed to the city for Operation Metro Surge, which began in December, to conduct ...
Source: upi.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 -
Syntes AI outlined why governance, not model performance, is the primary constraint preventing enterprise AI from scaling. While many organizations have adopted AI copilots and analytics tools, most struggle to operationalize AI systems that meet requirements for traceability, oversight, and accountable execution. Syntes AI argues that governance must be embedded directly into how AI reasons, acts, and integrates ...
Source: aithority.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
New federal guidance to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 vaccines down to 11 comes as states already are charting their own courses on vaccine policy. issued by President Donald Trump in December calling to align the U.S. vaccination schedule with "peer" countries, including Denmark, that recommend fewer childhood vaccines - even though those countries provide more robust ...
Source: bradenton.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 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis. Trump made the threat after a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Wednesday after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle. The incident further heightened the sense of fear and ...
Source: apnews.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 US Supreme Court allowed a Republican congressman to challenge an Illinois ballot-counting law in a ruling that could have implications for ballot-related lawsuits in future elections. The 7-2 decision issued Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that found Rep. Mike Bost had no legal authority to sue since it said he suffered no clear harm from a state law allowing the counting of mail-in ballots so long ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
News / Pixabay SCOTUS dispatch: Justices probe limits of state bans on transgender athletes in girls' sports Joshua Villanueva is JURIST's Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. Two groups, two slogans, and one Court. On one side of the plaza, opponents of Idaho's and West Virginia's transgender ...
Source: jurist.org
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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield is due in court for an initial appearance 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 ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump's embattled U.S. attorney pick filed a furious response to a judge's question about why she's still calling herself a U.S. attorney after a court ruled her appointment was illegal. The president's own appointee, Judge David Novak, issued an order earlier this month demanding that Lindsey Halligan "explain why her identification does not constitute a false or misleading statement." In response ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! At first glance, data from Maine's 2025 real estate market seems to tell a story that has been on repeat for years: A record high annual sale price and too few homes for sale ...
Source: pressherald.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
China reported strong trade numbers for 2025 on Wednesday, as its surplus rose year-on-year to a record $1.2 trillion despite a slump in exports to the United States after President Donald Trump hiked tariffs. Last year's bruising trade war between Washington and Beijing — which at one point saw reciprocal tariffs in the triple digits — led to a 20 percent plunge year-on-year in China's exports to the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia's second most powerful AI chip, putting in place a rule that is likely to kickstart shipments of the H200 despite deep concerns among China hawks in Washington. According to the regulations, the chips will be reviewed by a third-party testing lab to confirm their technical AI capabilities before they can ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Judges uphold redrawing to offset Texas gerrymandering as Newsom attacks lawsuit as 'weak attempt to silence voters' A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld the California ballot initiative that allows temporary changes to congressional district maps designed to benefit Democrats in upcoming elections. The measure, known as Proposition 50 , emerged in response to actions taken in Texas, where Republican leaders ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration's immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves. Such an action could have far-reaching impacts across the U.S., potentially even in places that aren't particularly friendly to ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
K-pop drum duet between Japan and South Korea's leaders caps off summit talks A surreal drum duet between two East Asian world leaders has set the internet abuzz - and put a spotlight on Japan and South Korea's diplomatic relationship. Decked out in matching blue jackets, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday played drums to the beats of K-pop hits - including ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Kiefer Sutherland was arrested Monday after allegedly assaulting a ride-share driver, Los Angeles police officials said. The incident occurred just after midnight in Hollywood, and the actor, well-known for starring in , has since been released on a $50,000 bail. "This investigation determined that the suspect, later identified as Kiefer Sutherland, entered a ride-share vehicle, physically ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was blocking Louisiana's attempt to extradite a doctor in the Golden State accused of mailing abortion pills. The Democratic governor's announcement comes a day after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, said he sent the extradition paperwork in an effort to bring the physician "to justice." Louisiana has some of the strictest ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans. On Tuesday, Bandcamp announced on Reddit that it will no longer permit AI-generated music on its platform. "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp," the company wrote in a post to the r/bandcamp subreddit. The new policy also prohibits "any use of AI tools to ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Six lawyers from US attorney's office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ's civil rights division A wave of federal prosecutors in Minnesota and Washington DC have resigned in protest over the justice department's decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis . Six lawyers from the US attorney's office in ...
Source: theguardian.com