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Top News Stories for Friday, January 23rd 2026
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Nine Muslim-majority countries across the Middle East and Asia have announced their acceptance of President Donald Trump 's invitation to join the U.S.-led Board of Peace intergovernmental organization, as they seek a permanent cease-fire to end the fighting in Gaza . In a joint statement Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar and the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
testified Thursday about his investigation of efforts to overturn the 2020 election, detailing how the defeated president "sought to prey" on his supporters and "looked for ways to stay in power," culminating in the It was Smith's since he left the department last year, and the nearly five-hour session at the House Judiciary Committee delved into far-flung details — from former before the Jan. 6 committee to ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
From day one, our newsroom made a commitment: we will not back down. We will not dilute the truth to avoid retaliation. And we will not stop asking hard questions, no matter who is in power or how hard they push back. Already a member? Michael B. Jordan in "Sinners" The are in — and there are a handful of films and performances that shockingly didn't make the list. But a few surprising nominations did pop up ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Embracing AI is a strategic imperative for companies across the life sciences value chain, with the technology now a prerequisite for innovation, efficiency and future-readiness. The overwhelming consensus from our survey respondents highlights the imminence of this change. Two thirds (66 percent) say AI's impact on life sciences in the next 24 months will be transformational. This sentiment is strongest in human ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The Supreme Court appeared likely to reject President Donald Trump's bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook during oral arguments on Wednesday, finally marking an outer limit of what the court's conservative members would stomach from Trump's authoritarian second term. There did not appear to be five votes among the justices to embrace Trump's radical assertion of executive power over the nation's central ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — All but one House lawmaker from New England joined most of their Democratic colleagues in voting against funding for the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, a protest vote aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement as it deploys forceful tactics in Maine, Minnesota, and across the country. Only Representative Jared Golden of Maine, one of the most centrist Democrats in the House, voted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5bn, accusing JPMorgan of debanking him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Miami-Dade County court in Florida. It alleges that JPMorgan abruptly closed multiple accounts in February 2021 with just 60 days' notice and no explanation. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Bank of America and Citigroup are reportedly considering offering credit cards with a 10% interest rate in response to President Donald Trump's demand for a cap on rates. This is one of multiple options that banks are considering, separately, after Trump made that demand, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Jan. 22), citing unnamed sources. Neither Bank of America nor Citigroup ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Vance Defends ICE Memo Telling Agents They Can Raid Homes Without A Judge's Warrant without a judicial warrant, as critics slam what they say are the memo's perceived violations of search and seizure protections enshrined in the Fourth Amendment. Vice President JD Vance gives remarks following a roundtable discussion with local leaders and community members amid a surge of federal immigration authorities in the ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The world's oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia . The find, along with others recently made in the Southeast Asian nation, helps scientists trying to determine when and where early humans first learned to make art, and at what point their art became more complex. The reddish hand stencils, though faded and barely ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The restart of a reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day after the process began, its operator, which also manages the wrecked Fukushima plant, said. But the reactor remains "stable". The No 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in north-central Japan – closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster – reactivated on Wednesday as plant workers started removing ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family's lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks. Federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car while it was in the ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Deployment of the 5,408-satellite constellation begins in late 2027 using the heavy-lift New Glenn reusable rocket system. Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a satellite internet network offering data speeds up to 6 Tbps, targeting enterprise, data center, and government sectors. The TeraWave constellation will comprise 5,280 satellites in low-Earth orbit and 128 in medium-Earth orbit. Blue Origin plans to deploy the ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
This moment demands a press that cannot be bullied, bought, or silenced. It demands journalism backed by people who believe the truth is worth defending. Join HuffPost and support our mission of holding power to account. Already a member? Barron Trump faced some friction last year in an emergency call he made to London police about witnessing a friend's assault live on video, according to a transcript of the call ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Maine's Democratic governor challenged federal immigration officials Thursday to provide arrest warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in her state, saying residents have been left largely in the dark as fear spreads through immigrant communities. "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The world is facing irreversible water "bankruptcy," with billions of people struggling to cope with the consequences of decades of overuse as well as shrinking supplies from lakes, rivers, glaciers and wetlands, U.N. researchers said on Tuesday. Nearly three-quarters of the global population live in countries classified as "water insecure" or "critically water insecure," and 4 billion people face severe water ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With the acquittal in the first Texas trial over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting , prosecutors must now decide how to try their case against the only other officer who was charged. Adrian Gonzales' trial was a rare prosecution of an officer accused ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
With the spring homebuying season approaching, lower mortgage rates are a welcome development for households looking to buy a home. That's the sentiment of some industry mortgage watchers as rates have hit recent record lows and applications for home purchases have seen solid increases over the past two weeks. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie Mac Thursday, shows ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
A cameraman and CBS News contributor was among three journalists killed Wednesday by Israeli forces while working in Gaza , prompting some observers to ask when—or if—Bari Weiss, the network's pro-Israel editor-in-chief, would condemn the attack. Anas Ghneim, Mohammed Salah Qashta, and Abdul Raouf Shaat were using a drone to record aid distribution by the Egyptian Relief Committee in al-Zahra in central ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed. Measles cases in the United States reached their highest level in more than 30 years in 2025, with 2,242 confirmed infections. A particularly bad outbreak in West Texas that began in January of last year was a significant driver of those cases. Now, a surge of measles in South ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. Google believes AI is the future of search, and it's not shy about saying it . After adding account-level personalization to Gemini earlier this month, it's now updating AI Mode with so-called "Personal Intelligence." According to Google, this makes the bot's answers more useful because they are tailored to your personal ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
AI models looks, at first glance, like an admission of failure. After years of promising breakthroughs, Apple is reportedly paying Google roughly $1 billion a year to keep its digital assistant relevant. Top tech reporter Mark Gurman wrote this week that Apple's revamped Siri, codenamed Campos, will launch later this year as a full-fledged chatbot embedded across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The underlying ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
( NewsNation ) — President Donald Trump wants to make it harder for large institutional investors to buy single-family homes, but the effort may not deliver the affordability relief many are hoping for. Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to issue guidance aimed at stopping Wall Street from competing with Main Street for homes. But key details — including how "large ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Lawmakers have proposed a bill to curb chip exports as Trump backs Nvidia sales to China. Lawmakers are split between security risks and the preservation of U.S. tech dominance. Chinese regulators are still blocking Nvidia chips despite U.S. approval. In this article U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to grant Nvidia licenses to ship some of its more powerful artificial intelligence chips to China is ruffling the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
TOLEDO, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance traveled to Ohio and Minnesota on Thursday, delivering remarks at an industrial rail facility in Toledo before heading to Minneapolis to meet with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials amid tensions over the administration's immigration policies. In Toledo, Vance used the backdrop of Midwest Terminals' Ironville Rail & Transfer facility to promote what he called ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure remained elevated in November, reinforcing expectations that policymakers are likely to pause further interest rate cuts as they assess the impact of earlier easing and new trade-related pressures. Data released by the US Department of Commerce on Thursday showed that the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.8% year-on-year in November, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay Bhattacharya said in a statement on Thursday that the decision was motivated both by a need to cut costs and the "increasing availability of validated alternative technologies." The NIH currently has a nearly $48-billion budget, and in 2025 it spent $53 million on 77 projects that involved human fetal ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
CEO Neal Mohan confirms creators can now utilize their own digital twins to produce high-volume Shorts content. YouTube will soon enable creators to produce Shorts featuring their own artificial intelligence likenesses, CEO Neal Mohan announced Wednesday. Mohan stated in his annual letter that creators will be able to make a Short using their likeness, develop games from text prompts, and experiment with music this ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Home » » Several off-duty police officers in Minnesota's Twin Cities have been stopped by immigration officers demanding proof of U.S. Citizenship, this according to Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley. In a press conference at the Minnesota Capitol, Chief Bruley, alongside several local police chiefs, expressed his concern over the Trump Administration's Operation Metro Surge, suggesting that it is ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
Singing legend heralds 'new tools in service of expression', on compilation that also features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backing Liza Minnelli has released her first new music in 13 years, adding vocals to an AI-created dance track. The track, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This – also the title of her upcoming memoir – is an unexpected foray into deep house for the 79-year-old Minnelli, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026 -
This moment demands a press that cannot be bullied, bought, or silenced. It demands journalism backed by people who believe the truth is worth defending. Join HuffPost and support our mission of holding power to account. Already a member? WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that daytime and late-night TV talk shows featuring interviews with political candidates ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke A federal judge issued a ruling Wednesday blocking the Trump administration from searching electronic devices that were seized from the home of Washington Post staff reporter Hannah Natanson . On Jan. 14, Natanson's home in Virginia was searched by FBI agents pursuant to a search warrant related to an investigation into into Aurelio Perez-Lugones , a Maryland-based system ...
Source: mediaite.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A New York judge ruled on Wednesday that Republican U.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis' district - New York City's only Republican-held congressional district - violates the state's constitution and should be redrawn by February 6. Republicans are expected to appeal the decision by New York state Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Pearlman, who concluded in the order ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
NASA astronaut and Needham native Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired. The space agency announced the news Tuesday, saying her retirement took effect at the end of December. Williams' crewmate on Boeing's ill-fated capsule test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer. The pair launched to the space station in 2024, the first ...
Source: wbur.org
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Lindsey Halligan has stepped aside from the U.S. attorney role, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday night, after a judge ordered her to stop "masquerading" as the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. Bondi praised Halligan for her service to the Justice Department while blaming Democrats for President Donald Trump 's former lawyer's inability to continue on in her position. ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 -
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he was blocked from speaking at a World Economic Forum event in Davos and blamed the Trump administration. Newsom's office said on X that USA House, the official US pavilion at the global event, denied his entry to speak there on Wednesday despite being invited as part of an event by media partner Fortune. , wrote on X: "California was just denied at the USA House. Last we ...
Source: bbc.com