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Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland to help boost the Arctic island's security after talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted "fundamental disagreement" between the Trump administration and European allies. "The first French military elements are already en route" ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 15th, 2026 -
Iran signaled it would not move ahead with executing protesters and reopened its airspace Thursday, as President Donald Trump left it unclear whether he would take military action over the regime's deadly crackdown. The United States began evacuating key personnel from its largest military base in the Middle East on Wednesday as the prospect of an American strike loomed, and activists said the death toll in Iran ...
Source: aol.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 -
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 -
, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, announced the appointment of Mike Eichsteadt as Vice President of AI Engineering, underscoring the company's continued investment in expanding scalable, practical, and trusted AI capabilities across its platform. In this role, Eichsteadt will continue to advance iManage's AI capabilities by scaling applied AI and data science efforts and ensuring innovation ...
Source: aithority.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 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head. Smoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
on Wednesday revived a Republican challenge to a law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President The high court majority ruled that candidates can sue over voting-counting rules, even if they haven't shown a clear effect on the outcome of the race. "Win or lose, candidates suffer when the process departs from the law," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. The court didn't rule on ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Becky Pepper-Jackson just wanted to be on the girls' middle school cross country team. Now, five years later, she's at the Supreme Court. In 2021, West Virginia enacted a law banning transgender girls from playing on girls' and women's sports teams, from middle school through college, from the top levels of athletics down through intramural sports. But Pepper-Jackson didn't just wake up one morning and decide to ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti was in the middle of a news conference Tuesday when he was informed by a reporter that Mike Tomlin, his longtime rival, was stepping down as coach of the Steelers after 19 seasons. "Holy [expletive]," Bisciotti responded. "Good for Mike. I've admired Mike for [19] years. That's really shocking that he did it that way. Yeah, that's kind of crazy." The same could be said for the Ravens' ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
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 -
Annual sales of all types of existing homes declined by 0.2% in 2025, from the prior year, the fourth year in a row of declines, to 4.06 million homes, the lowest since 1995, with single-family home sales ticking up a hair, and condo and co-op sales dropping further. Monthly sales that closed in December rose by 1.4% year-over-year, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.35 million homes, the best December since ...
Source: wolfstreet.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 -
Can the feature do what Apple Intelligence promised? Here's what it will and won't have access to, and how it'll impact privacy. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The feature is off by default and won't train on sensitive data. It's only available for paid users at first. The Google ecosystem of apps spans everything from the cornerstone of your ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
$420M Deal Enables Web Detection and Response, Secures AI-Driven Browser Activity CrowdStrike plans to purchase an enterprise browser security startup led by the longtime CEO of Walla to secure web-based access in the agentic artificial intelligence era. The Austin, Texas-based platform security vendor said the browser has become the new front door for productivity and risk, said Chief Business Officer Daniel ...
Source: databreachtoday.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 -
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 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Research conducted partly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggests that "microgravity" could help scientists fight drug-resistant superbugs, according to a report from SWNS. Microgravity is the condition in which people or objects appear to be weightless, NASA states. Experiments by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show that viruses and ...
Source: foxnews.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 -
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 anti-abortion laws in the country, ...
Source: cbsnews.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