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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 18th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation sought to reassure Denmark and Greenland of their support amid President Trump's push to take control of the strategic Arctic island. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said that Greenland needs to be viewed as a U.S. ally, "not as an asset," while Sen. Chris Coons said they want to de-escalate the situation. "I hope that the people of the Kingdom of Denmark do not ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
ChatGPT's Ads era is here This doesn't just change OpenAI's business model, it shifts the rules of the game OpenAI's decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 "Go" tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI's short history. It's not a simple business tweak. It's a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial ...
Source: thenextweb.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- NASA early Saturday morning started the slow roll of the 322-foot-tall Artemis II rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B for final preparations before its launch to the moon. The rocket -- now fully assembled with the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket -- started it's 1-mile-per-hour journey from the VAB to the launch pad on the ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's top trading partners are responding to President Donald Trump's belligerent and unpredictable trade policies by trying to take their business elsewhere. Canada broke with the United States Friday, slashing its 100% import tax on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, particularly canola seeds. "It's a huge declaration of realignment in ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
LONDON — Since stepping down as British prime minister in 2007, Tony Blair has pushed back on war crime accusations stemming from his role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, apologized for its consequences, and struggled to escape the conflict's shadow across the Middle East . He remains a divisive figure in Britain, but on Friday, the White House named him among the founding members of a " Board of Peace " for ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
KAMPALA — Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he had escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looked set to secure an overwhelming official victory margin in a presidential election. Wine's National Unity Platform (NUP) said on Friday night that an army helicopter had landed in his compound in Kampala and "forcibly took him away to an unknown ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
As President Trump prepares to nominate a new Federal Reserve chair in the coming months, he hasn't been shy about his goal for the powerful economic posting: lower interest rates. "I want somebody that when the market is doing great, interest rates can go down because our country becomes stronger," the president said during a speech in Detroit on Tuesday. He's long pushed for lower rates, which could boost ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Emergency call logs and reports detailing last week's fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer reveal a greater sense of the organizational chaos and heightened emotion surrounding her final moments. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents "just shot a lady," one 911 caller said soon after the agent shot Good in her vehicle on January 7, according to emergency call transcripts CNN obtained ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump a week ago told the credit card industry it had until Jan. 20 to comply with his demand for a 10% cap on interest rates . With just days to go, consumer groups, politicians, and bankers alike remain unclear on what the White House has planned and whether Trump even remains serious about the idea. So far, the White House has not provided any detail about what will happen ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amid a cold drizzle, Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sworn into office Saturday at the state Capitol as Virginia's first female governor after centuries of men holding the state's top office. The inauguration of Spanberger, who defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin , marks a new chapter in Virginia as Democrats pull the levers of power in state government ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Elon Musk wants OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that the generative AI company defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with the software giant. Musk's lawyer detailed the damages request in a court filing Friday, a day after a federal judge rejected a final bid by OpenAI and Microsoft to avoid a jury trial set for late ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Central Command carried out an airstrike that killed alleged al-Qaeda terrorist leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim in Syria on Friday in retaliation for the deaths of two service members and their interpreter. Al-Jasim was affiliated with al-Qaeda and "directly connected" to the ISIS gunman who ambushed two U.S. service members and their civilian interpreter on Dec. 13 in Palmyra, Syria, CENTCOM said ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
The US president warned pregnant women to "tough it out" and avoid paracetamol last year, highlighting a "meteoric rise" in cases of autism. Scientists have dismissed warnings from Donald Trump linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism. The US president made the allegation in September as he claimed there had been a "meteoric rise" in cases of autism. Identifying the medication - known as Tylenol in the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and others cannot use "crowd dispersal tools" against nonviolent protesters while enforcing federal immigration laws, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Court of Minnesota Judge Katherine Menendez said ICE officers cannot use tear gas, pepper spray and other commonly used devices to disperse protesters who are "engaging in peaceful and ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
By If you're behind on paying your student loans, the federal government might soon come for your paycheck. After an almost six-year hiatus, the Department of Education told the Washington Post that on Jan. 7 it would resume garnishing wages of those in default on their federal student loans. That means the federal government can seize up to 15% of your post-tax paycheck if you're more than 270 days behind on ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
ADHD or intellectual disabilities – adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the , telling pregnant women: "Don't take Tylenol." The latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on charges that included the obstruction of investigators' attempt to detain him last year. The Seoul Central District Court delivered the verdict in the first ruling on charges stemming from Yoon's short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024. The sentence was half of what special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team had requested last ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
When President Donald Trump claimed last year that taking Tylenol during pregnancy can be linked with an increased risk of autism, ob-gyn Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola's office had an influx of questions and confusion – but only for a few days. "Then, after a week, it had kind of gone away as a hot-button topic," said DeNicola, based in Newport Beach, California, who helped author the guidance on the use of ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Several Republican lawmakers are looking to talk President Donald Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis as the city sees demonstrations over the fatal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-involved shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The Insurrection Act, which was passed in 1807, was last invoked in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots over the ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Amid a fierce flu season, a fifth child in Massachusetts has suffered an influenza-related death, according to the state Department of Public Health. Two of the children died the week of Dec. 21, and two more children died the following week, from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3, according to the state health department's influenza dashboard . The fifth pediatric death was included in data collected through Jan. 10 and published ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Tech firms would reportedly bid on 15-year power contracts from newly constructed plants under a proposal The Trump administration is pressing the nation's largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power costs. The White House has urged PJM Interconnection, which supplies electricity to roughly 67 million customers ...
Source: foxbusiness.com