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Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for talks Saturday on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war as Russian attacks Kyrylo Budanov, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, said he arrived in the U.S. to discuss "the details of the peace agreement." Writing on the Telegram messaging app, Budanov said he, together with Ukrainian ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
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: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
NASA will roll a 322-foot-tall rocket out to the launchpad on Saturday, a key step as the agency prepares for a long-awaited mission to send four astronauts around the moon. The Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion capsule, which will carry the astronauts, is set to make the slow, 4-mile journey from NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building — where the rocket's various components were put ...
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 -
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni looks set to secure an overwhelming victory in the presidential election. "I want to confirm that I managed to escape from them," Bobi Wine, a former pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, wrote in a post on X on Saturday. "Currently, I am not at home, although my wife and ...
Source: aljazeera.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
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Kevin Hassett told Fox Business that U.S. banks could voluntarily provide credit cards to underserved Americans. President Donald Trump called for banks to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, an idea that has been roundly rejected by industry executives and their lobbyists this week. A major credit card issuer and a bank lobbyist representing big lenders told CNBC that they haven't yet had any discussions with ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress. Ashley St. Clair, 27, who describes herself as a writer and political strategist, alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York City against xAI that the images have included a photo of her fully ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Education is delaying wage garnishments and involuntary collections for defaulted student loan borrowers, according to a release from the agency on Friday. The Department said its temporary pause was made to continue streamlining the student loan repayment process as it continues to make "major" reforms. "The Department determined that involuntary collection efforts such as Administrative ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
President Donald J. Trump announced a health care framework that he said will lower drug prices and insurance premiums and hold insurance companies accountable by improving price transparency. He called on Congress to pass the framework into law "without delay." "Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket," Trump ...
Source: healio.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 -
A federal judge said Dominion Energy Inc. can restart construction of a wind project off the coast of Virginia while it continues a legal fight over the Trump administration's order to stop the $11 billion development. The ruling marks the third time this week that an offshore wind project was allowed to resume despite a government stop-work order. US District Judge Jamar Walker in Norfolk, Virginia, issued a ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday on some charges related to his imposition of martial law . The verdict is the first against Yoon in the eight criminal trials over the decree he issued in late 2024 and other allegations. The most significant charge against him alleges that he led a rebellion in connection with his martial law ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
By Using the common painkiller acetaminophen during pregnancy is not linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, according to a study published in the Lancet on Friday. Researchers conducted a systematic review of numerous studies that looked at links between use of the pain reliever and autism, intellectual disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. They concluded there was no link ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg News The Trump administration and more than a dozen states are pushing for big tech companies to effectively fund construction of new power plants as a way to prevent data centers from driving up residential utility bills. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum joined 13 governors in outlining a plan urging the nation's biggest ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
After a sharp uptick in flu cases in mid-December 2025 , flu activity across the U.S. and Canada remains high. Although cases are trending downward in Canada as of Jan. 9, 2026, the season has yet to peak in the U.S. , according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As an emergency room pediatrician in central Massachusetts, I'm seeing a tremendous amount of flu over the past few weeks. I'm ...
Source: theconversation.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have unveiled a betting ring involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association game fixing, charging 26 people, including current and former college basketball players. The case involves gamblers placing bets and bribing players with large cash payouts for underperforming during a game, even texting players pictures of stacks of money if they complied. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters , concluding that the government's request was "unprecedented and illegal." The Trump administration's lawsuit, filed last year , contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal cuts to insurance and cancer research could reduce access to therapies and stifle progress when incidence is rising across many common cancers. The American Cancer Society has released its 2026 cancer statistics report, estimating the number of new cancer cases and deaths in the US, with 1 key finding revealing that the most recent 5-year relative survival across all cancers was 70% for diagnoses between ...
Source: cancernetwork.com