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Top News Stories for Saturday, January 17th 2026
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation on Saturday sought to reassure Denmark and Greenland of their support following President Donald Trump's threat to punish countries with tariffs if they don't back the U.S. taking over the strategic Arctic island. Delegation leader Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said the current rhetoric around Greenland is causing concern across ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's top trading partners are responding to President Donald Trump's belligerent and unpredictable trade policies by trying to take their business elsewhere. Canada broke with the United States Friday, slashing its 100% import tax on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, particularly canola seeds. "It's a huge declaration of realignment in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Jan 17th, 2026 -
(Bloomberg) -- NASA will roll out a costly rocket to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, a milestone in a lunar space race between the US and China. The 4-mile trip to move the Boeing Co. Space Launch System rocket and Lockheed Martin Corp. Orion spacecraft from the assembly building to the launch site will take the team as long as 12 hours, according to a NASA news release. Once the ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
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 -
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
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Mortgage interest rates may not be nearly as advantageous at the start of 2026 as they were at the beginning of the decade. But they're materially improved from where they were a few years ago. And that could be more than enough to justify taking action again. Home sales already improved in the final months of 2025 and that could easily continue this year. With multiple mortgage interest rate options currently ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
The mother of one of Musk's children alleges that Grok continued to produce sexually explicit deepfakes of her despite direct assurances from the company. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, filed a lawsuit against xAI on Thursday. The suit accuses the company of negligence and inflicting emotional distress through its AI tool Grok. St. Clair claims Grok allowed users to generate deepfake ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Trump administration was preparing to move forward with wage garnishment notices earlier this month The Department of Education on Friday announced a delay in its plans to garnish the wages of defaulted student loan borrowers while the Trump administration works on major reforms to repayment programs. The agency said delaying wage garnishment will allow more time for reforms that seek to simplify repayment options ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
President Donald J. Trump announced a health care framework that he said will lower drug prices and insurance premiums and hold insurance companies accountable by improving price transparency. He called on Congress to pass the framework into law "without delay." "Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket," Trump ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner's effort to drastically shorten the review of drugs favored by President Donald Trump's administration is causing alarm across the agency, stoking worries that the plan may run afoul of legal, ethical and scientific ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
A federal judge said Dominion Energy Inc. can restart construction of a wind project off the coast of Virginia while it continues a legal fight over the Trump administration's order to stop the $11 billion development. The ruling marks the third time this week that an offshore wind project was allowed to resume despite a government stop-work order. US District Judge Jamar Walker in Norfolk, Virginia, issued a ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Yoon Suk Yeol's conviction for obstructing own arrest separate from main trial that could lead to death penalty A South Korean court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison for mobilising presidential security forces to block his own arrest and abusing his powers. It is the first judicial ruling linked to the events surrounding his failed martial law declaration in December 2024. The ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
When President Donald Trump claimed last year that taking Tylenol during pregnancy can be linked with an increased risk of autism, ob-gyn Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola's office had an influx of questions and confusion – but only for a few days. "Then, after a week, it had kind of gone away as a hot-button topic," said DeNicola, based in Newport Beach, California, who helped author the guidance on the use of ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg News The Trump administration and more than a dozen states are pushing for big tech companies to effectively fund construction of new power plants as a way to prevent data centers from driving up residential utility bills. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum joined 13 governors in outlining a plan urging the nation's biggest ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
After a sharp uptick in flu cases in mid-December 2025 , flu activity across the U.S. and Canada remains high. Although cases are trending downward in Canada as of Jan. 9, 2026, the season has yet to peak in the U.S. , according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As an emergency room pediatrician in central Massachusetts, I'm seeing a tremendous amount of flu over the past few weeks. I'm ...
Source: theconversation.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors have unveiled a betting ring involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association game fixing, charging 26 people, including current and former college basketball players. The case involves gamblers placing bets and bribing players with large cash payouts for underperforming during a game, even texting players pictures of stacks of money if they complied. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration attempting to force the state of California to turn over sensitive voter data. The decision , issued by the U.S. Central District Court of Southern California, is a major setback to the federal government's massive data collection effort on American voters, and its argument that existing civil rights laws permit it to demand that ...
Source: cyberscoop.com
Friday, Jan 16th, 2026 -
Federal cuts to insurance and cancer research could reduce access to therapies and stifle progress when incidence is rising across many common cancers. The American Cancer Society has released its 2026 cancer statistics report, estimating the number of new cancer cases and deaths in the US, with 1 key finding revealing that the most recent 5-year relative survival across all cancers was 70% for diagnoses between ...
Source: cancernetwork.com