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Top News Stories for Sunday, January 18th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
US president's increasingly bellicose demands for control of the island may force the EU to draw a line in the snow The crisis over Greenland may deliver the moment when Europe must stand up to Donald Trump, as officials have said a US attempt to annex the territory could shatter the Nato transatlantic alliance. European leaders have entertained Trump's demands for nearly a year as he has pushed Nato countries to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
OpenAI plans to test advertisements in coming weeks for free and lower-tier subscribers ahead of anticipated IPO OpenAI said Friday that it would start rolling out ads in ChatGPT to some U.S. users, as the company aims to generate more revenue ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. The company said it plans to start testing ads in the coming weeks in the U.S. for users on its free and lower-priced ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
BEIJING (AP) — Canadian leader Mark Carney met China's Xi Jinping this week. The two statesmen talked. Fractured relationships began to heal. And a third man, though he wasn't in the room, nevertheless made his presence clearly known: Donald Trump. The American president — his policies, his approaches to international relations, his freewheeling and provocative statements about Canada — helped ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has invited the leaders of Egypt and Turkiye to join his "board of peace" to oversee the post-war transition in Gaza, according to authorities in Ankara and Cairo. The board is expected to supervise the temporary governance of the Gaza Strip under the US president's plan to end Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged territory. A Turkish presidential ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been sworn into office as Virginia's first female governor. Spanberger was sworn in at noon Saturday amid a cold drizzle outside the state Capitol after centuries of men holding the state's top office. "The history and the gravity of this moment are not lost on me — I maintain an abiding sense of gratitude to those who worked generation after generation to ensure women could be ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
A U.S. military strike in northwest Syria resulted in the death of a leader affiliated with Al-Qaeda who was linked to an ISIS attack last month that resulted in the death of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter, the U.S. Central Command announced Saturday. U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, conducted the strike on Jan. 16, killing Bilal Hasan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump has advised pregnant women to 'tough it out' rather than take the painkiller Pregnant individuals can safely use paracetamol as directed during pregnancy without an increased risk of autism , ADHD , or intellectual disabilities in their children , a comprehensive new review ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Education Department has delayed plans to seize tax refunds and garnish wages over student loans that are in collection, it announced on Friday. While the delay is in effect , the department will work to revise student loan repayment regulations in accordance with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. "The Trump Administration is committed to helping student and parent borrowers resume regular, ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
is causing alarm across the agency, stoking worries that the plan may run afoul of legal, ethical and scientific standards long used to vet the safety and effectiveness of new medicines. , according to seven current or recently departed staffers. The people spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss confidential agency matters. At the highest levels of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The ruling is the first in relation to multiple criminal charges Yoon Suk Yeol faces over his failed bid to impose martial law, with prosecutors requesting the death penalty in a separate trial. The former president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges relating to his failed martial law declaration. Yoon was found guilty on Friday of mobilising the presidential ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
A new analysis of dozens of peer-reviewed medical studies found no link between the use of Tylenol in pregnancy and diagnoses of autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities in children. The research, published Friday in the journal The Lancet , shows that "the best available human evidence does not support a causal link between prenatal Tylenol exposure and autism, ADHD or intellectual disability," said Dr. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said "the conditions of the mission" warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump's "ongoing efforts to restore law and order." Meanwhile, Trump has at least temporarily National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
As hospitals scramble and country reaches record-breaking rates of illness, officials cast doubt on flu shot's necessity As the US reaches record-breaking rates of illness and hospitals scramble to care for flu patients, officials have stopped fully recommending the flu shot, casting doubt on the necessity and effectiveness of the vaccine . "We are in the midst of a very severe flu season," said Seema Lakdawala, ...
Source: theguardian.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