Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has expressed support for President Donald Trump's call to cap US credit card interest rates at 10% for one year. "I think Trump is wise here and is proposing something that makes a lot of sense," Siemiatkowski told CNBC on Monday. Siemiatkowski said traditional credit cards are designed to push consumers to put most or all of their spending on credit and carry large balances at ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article China, the UAE and India are among Iran's top trading partners has announced that any country trading with Iran will face a 25 per cent tariff on all US business, as Washington weighs its response to Iran's biggest anti-government protests in years . Writing on Truth Social , ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
About 15,000 nurses are staging the largest nurses strike in New York City history on Monday after the deadline passed to a new contract between their union and five hospital systems. , higher wages and increased security at hospitals. major privately operated hospitals in the city: Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, Montefiore Einstein, and New York-Presbyterian. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
After years of AI experiments and pilots that have largely failed to scale, CIOs are feeling the heat to deliver measurable value on AI investments. Here are some of the strategic adjustments they're making to get it done. AI initiatives by and large have fallen short of expectations. That's the conclusion of most research to date, including MIT's The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 , which found a ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Delhi is world's second largest purchaser of Russian crude, which is now cheaper than oil from Middle East Russia is already working to circumvent the latest US sanctions to ensure India can continue to import high levels of cheap Russian crude oil, according to industry analysts. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, India has become the world's second largest purchaser of Russian crude oil , which has been ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Apple has partnered with Google to power AI features including Siri, using Google's Gemini models and cloud technology for future Apple Foundation Models. Apple and Google issued a joint statement: "After careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we're excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users." The ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
A ruling against two athletes in West Virginia and Idaho could have far-reaching implications for civil rights The US supreme court is considering the rights of transgender youth athletes on Tuesday in a major hearing on state laws banning trans girls from girls sports teams. Oral arguments center on two cases of trans students who sued over the Republican-backed laws in Idaho and West Virginia prohibiting them ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
It's the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, a thriving religious center that has served Jackson's small but vibrant Jewish community for more than half a century. Now, the Beth Israel synagogue is indefinitely closed, its historic interiors blackened with ash, after authorities say a man set a fire in the building's library in the early hours of Saturday morning. The FBI says the suspect confessed to attacking the ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
For 38-year-old Joe Montana, it was a 27-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins. For 38-year-old Dan Marino, it was a 62-7 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. For 45-year-old Tom Brady, it was a 31-14 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Those are only three examples of legendary quarterbacks whose careers ended in disappointing playoff defeats. Will 42-year-old Aaron Rodgers be joining them? That's the biggest question after Rodgers ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Police have arrested a 48-year-old man accused of being the driver of a box truck that was driven through a crowd protesting the Iranian government on Sunday in Los Angeles' Westwood neighborhood. Calor Madanescht was arrested Sunday and booked Monday on charges of reckless driving, a misdemeanor offense, according to jail records . His bail was set at $0. The incident occurred Sunday afternoon ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Broadcaster's submission calls on Florida court to throw out defamation case where US president is suing over editing of 6 January 2021 speech The BBC is to attempt to have Donald Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit over the editing of a speech for Panorama thrown out, according to court documents. The broadcaster faced criticism for airing an episode of the investigative documentary series that featured an edited ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Vascular surgeon Michael David McKee, 39 and from Chicago, now faces upgraded charges of premeditated aggravated murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, in Columbus, Ohio. A man accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband in Ohio is now facing upgraded murder charges as authorities prepare to transfer him from Illinois to face prosecution. Michael David McKee, 39, has ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Minnesota and Illinois are suing the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown, asking the courts to halt the surge of immigration law enforcement into the Democratic-led states. Both lawsuits were filed Monday amid growing criticism of the Trump administration's deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
Truth matters more than ever. As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown and lethal patterns emerge, HuffPost reporters are on the story, holding power to account. Support the journalism that documents what's happening — and why it matters. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump 's photo portrait display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has had ...
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Tuesday, Jan 13th, 2026 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities said Tuesday they will take legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its artificial intelligence unit xAI, accusing the companies of failing to ensure the safety of users of its Grok chatbot. The move came just days after Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to block access to Grok, as concerns grow that it is being misused ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
By The British government on Monday launched an investigation into X after its artificial intelligence tool, Grok, was found to be creating sexualized images of women and girls without their consent. Britain's Ofcom, its communications services regulator, announced Monday that it would officially investigate X and whether the company has made appropriate changes for users in the United Kingdom. If the agency finds ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
FOXBOROUGH — Before kickoff Sunday night, Stefon Diggs gathered his teammates together to deliver one of his signature pregame speeches. "Ain't nobody like us," the wide receiver shouted as part of his fiery remarks. "Ain't nobody believe in us. I like us, man. Go lay it out for your brother." Headed into their wild-card matchup against the seventh-seeded Chargers, the Patriots apparently heard all of the ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Kristi Noem quietly restricted lawmakers from visiting detention centers after Renee Good's killing A group of House Democrats suing for access to federal immigration detention centers are demanding a federal judge's urgent intervention after Kristi Noem 's Department of Homeland ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Truth matters more than ever. As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown and lethal patterns emerge, HuffPost reporters are on the story, holding power to account. Support the journalism that documents what's happening — and why it matters. Already a member? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 's bid to censure Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a retired Navy captain, for encouraging service members ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar's military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia's Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. "It is not about esoteric issues of international ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Cuba's leader on Monday reacted defiantly to President Donald Trump's threats to "make a deal" or pay the price in the aftermath of key ally Nicolas Maduro's ouster in a US military raid. Trump has been ramping up pressure on Cuba, one of the few Latin American countries still run by an authoritarian leftist administration after Venezuelan leader Maduro's capture on January 3. "We're talking with Cuba," Trump said ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Security Experts See Coincidental Timing After Leak of Scraped Instagram User Data Social media mainstay Instagram said hackers didn't breach its systems even amid a massive wave of password reset emails sent by its own systems to users traced to malicious activity. Users on Thursday and Friday reported receiving emails from security@mail.instagram.com , sometimes dozens a day, stating that "we got a request to ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Mattel has unveiled its first-ever autistic Barbie doll, and she comes with several technology items, including noise-canceling headphones -- in Barbie pink. Some individuals with autism use headphones to reduce sensory overload and block out background noise. This Barbie doll also features a pink finger-clip fidget spinner that actually spins, serving as a sensory outlet to reduce stress and improve focus. She ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. The grants supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 states, including battery plants, hydrogen technology projects, upgrades to the electric grid and efforts to capture ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount Skydance is taking another step in its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying Monday that it will name its own slate of directors before the next shareholder meeting of the Hollywood studio. Paramount also filed a suit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to compel Warner Bros. to disclose to shareholders how it values its bid ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Command over the International Space Station (ISS) has changed hands. In a ceremony onboard the station on Monday, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke relinquished the charge of the ISS's Expedition 74 over to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Fincke thanked his fellow crew members on the ISS as he handed over command to Kud-Sverchkov, adding that it had been great to serve alongside the Russian cosmonaut before ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new infrastructure division called Meta Compute that will be tasked with overseeing its aggressive data center buildout for artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that Meta plans to deploy new infrastructure that will ultimately consume tens of gigawatts of power this decade and scale to encompass hundreds of gigawatts in the long term. These efforts will now be headed up by ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman will not face charges from an incident between him and a high school wrestling coach from Jan. 3 after video evidence refuted the claim. The South Bend Tribune, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported Jan. 11 that Freeman was accused of battery by New Prairie High School assistant coach Chris Fleeger, according to the Mishawaka Police Department. The prosecutor's office ...
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Monday, Jan 12th, 2026 -
Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Meta has removed more than half a million social media accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16, the company said, as it announced its efforts to comply with the Oceanian nation's new social media age ban. The law, introduced in late 2024, went into effect Dec. 4, requiring social media services to remove accounts held by those under the age of 16 and younger and block the creation of ...
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Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
One Battle After Another and Adolescence won big – and so did actors Wagner Moura and Jessie Buckley Best film – drama Frankenstein Hamnet – WINNER It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Best film – musical or comedy Blue Moon Bugonia Marty Supreme No Other Choice Nouvelle Vague One Battle After Another – WINNER Best male actor in a film – drama Joel ...
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Sunday, Jan 11th, 2026 -
Josh Allen took a pounding, doled out punishment and delivered Buffalo their first road playoff victory in more than three decades, a 27-24 win over Jacksonville in the AFC's wildcard opener on Sunday. With linebacker Devin Lloyd bearing down, Allen found Brandin Cooks for 36 yards just before the two-minute warning and then capped the go-ahead drive with a one-yard touchdown run. On the play before his score, ...
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