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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 -
Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down early Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, ending a weeklong effort to get an unnamed crew member home to evaluate a medical issue. "NASA was ready. The team responded quickly and professionally, as did the teams across the agency, working closely with our commercial partners and executed a very safe return," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a ...
Source: aol.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 -
, 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 -
Let's be clear: The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide at least against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering nerve pain and other nasty long-term consequences. The most important reason for older adults to be vaccinated against the respiratory infection RSV is that their by almost 70% in the year ...
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 -
Lawsuit from Mike Bost was viewed by Trump-aligned conservatives as route to continue attacks on mail-in voting The US supreme court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit by a Republican congressman in Illinois that challenges a state law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are received after election day. The lawsuit from Mike Bost was viewed by Donald Trump-aligned conservatives as an avenue to continue ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 -
There were 1.18 million units available for sale at the end of December, down 18% from November. The median price of a home sold in December was $405,400, up 0.4% from a year earlier. There were 4.06 million existing home sales for the full year, unchanged from 2024. December sales were the strongest in nearly three years after adjusting for seasonal factors. A home with a "Sold" sign from a real estate company in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
HONG KONG — China had its biggest trade surplus ever last year at almost $1.2 trillion, according to data released Wednesday, defying tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on the world's second-largest economy. China is sending more exports to other parts of the world, even as it struggles with domestic economic troubles. China's foreign trade in goods last year totaled 45.47 trillion yuan ($6.51 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHELLE CHAPMAN The Trump administration placed new security requirements on Nividia's semiconductor sales to China, but essentially greenlighted the export of its powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to Chinese buyers. Nvidia must ensure that there is an adequate supply in the U.S., and the H200 chips must undergo a third-party review before being exported to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits. The musical performance between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung followed Tuesday's summit in Nara, Japan, Takaichi's hometown. Wearing personalized athletic ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 -
Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested Monday after he was alleged to have physically assaulted and threatened a ride-share driver, police said. Sutherland, 59, was arrested at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Hollywood after officers responded to a report of an assault around 12:15 a.m., Los Angeles Police Officer Kevin Terzes said by email Tuesday. "The investigation determined that the suspect, later ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 -
At least three prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota have resigned over their concerns with the direction of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a person familiar with the resignations told NBC News on Tuesday. The person confirmed the resignations of Joseph Thompson, Melinda Williams and another attorney. The two named ...
Source: nbcnews.com